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Re: Concerning future of First Saturdays & Second Sundays.
Several years ago we had demo'd that for an Auckland FS, and while I liked the idea, everyone else did not. As well as creating a tonne of lag
Arguably, it has been quite a while and I've been to Anomaly sites with nearly every, single, portal, having a battle Beacon all at once and several hundred players.
No appreciable lag was noticed.
So perhaps it is something for the Ingress team and Fevgames to decide if it is something worth discussing about again?
Re: "Claim 1 Kinetic Capsule Program" is a horrible bounty
New task: complete a KC or a mission
Edit: plus “or walk 5 km”
Re: "Claim 1 Kinetic Capsule Program" is a horrible bounty
The time commitment is a personal issue and varies widely among players. The 'ableist' is an argument you can apply to many aspects of the game. A personal physical ability will always apply to the person. Does that mean portals requiring hiking rough trails are not appropriate? Or those along beaches? This game is about getting out and about, moving, going to where you need to in order to accomplish things. A distance related task is totally appropriate.
Re: Please support filing proof-of-presence data in game to discourage unfair gameplay
A novice that I brought to the game won't enable Adventure Sync because if enabled, it tracks your location in background. I believe they would delete this game immediately upon installation if it asked them to access mic/camera/etc with a statement that it's "to prevent unfair gameplay".
Re: "Claim 1 Kinetic Capsule Program" is a horrible bounty
Nah, he can ban someone from his precious chat but his powers are useless here.
"Claim 1 Kinetic Capsule Program" is a horrible bounty
There was a lot of discussion earlier about the bounty for doing a mission being too difficult, and that bounty was removed. A single mission can often be completed in 5-10 minutes, although there are certainly variations on that based on what missions are available around you.
By comparison, the effort required for the kcap bounty is heavily dependent on whether you have a cap that is near harvest. If you've just started your cap(s) then you could have to walk up to 8km/5mi in order to complete the bounty. Based on a 2020 study the average walking speed for someone under 30 is roughly 3 mph, or about 5 km/h. By the age of 65, though, that drops to 2.1 mph, approximately 3.4 km/h. If an able-bodied young person had to complete a kcap from ground zero it would take them around 1.7 hours to do so. For an older person that would be more than 2.3 hours. Not all Ingress players are healthy and able-bodied, though, and for some it would be impossible to walk that far in one day. I understand that real-world AR games have an ableist bias to them by necessity since they require players to move around in the world. This one seems excessive, though.
The effort is also out of line with the other bounties, since everything else I've encountered can typically be completed in a couple of minutes. Niantic, please retire this bounty.
Re: Google Pixel 8 Pro - not in Niantic approved list for portal scans
I've lost the scan button again on the pixel 8 pro ..🙄
