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Re: "Claim 1 Kinetic Capsule Program" is a horrible bounty
I like that it is a mix of easy and harder tasks. Bounties as a new feature is great. It is kind of sad to see all the efforts to remove the more difficult or inconvenient ones. If this happens, bounties will be boring, open the app, do things you always do, get bounties. Boring! There are bounties I have to routinely skip because of my personal situation. That's not a reason to change the bounties. Don't dumb down the bounties, keep the bar high enough to take some effort, or just shut it down if it is just going to be a pointless handing out of gear.
Re: [Suggestion] Showing Battle Beacon Victories
All Battle Beacons?
Could be a way to encourage more scanning. (Seven scans make a beacon at septicycle change.) Scoring could outweigh people's disappointment that there's no way to Overclock enable portals they've scanned. But maybe not.
When a beacon goes off on a portal I own, and no one is there (like when septicycle change is in the middle of the night) - I don't get personal credit for a battle beacon BUT the portal gets a victory beacon in my faction's color, with my faction winning all the points.
Re: "Claim 1 Kinetic Capsule Program" is a horrible bounty
First it was missions was too hard, now k caps? You know that whole glyph thing takes to long. How about we just get bounties for opening the app?
Re: 2024 niantic still sucks / Let spoofers
How do You think about MFA to be enabled? Scans which currently are disabled for more than a half agents? It will just cut out players,cheaters will happily scan feet/beer/etc. It's a loong road to the time when full AR models of each PoI will be ready,and making scan work for less devices won't make that road shorter.
Overclocking? Yes,it works on more of Ingress-capable phones but how overclock can help at all? EG i tried overclocking two times and even couldn't do successful hack of L6 portal xD
And afaik ingress team have no access to scanned data.
In my opinion nia algorithm should at bare minimum start reacting to "too fast movement between poi,from center to center",or drop CAL to zero if such movement was detected with closed scanner,at least for some time to see if that account is moving like human or like spacecraft. Last spoofer i've faced was active 3 hours,just smashing and smashing.
Re: "Claim 1 Kinetic Capsule Program" is a horrible bounty
I would like to see at least one more harder bounty to complete to get the daylie tick. Its kinda boring getting all completed before leaving the house. Its nice to see them listening to the Community and I like the new bounty system. Don‘t remove the bounties you need to work for! <3
Re: "Claim 1 Kinetic Capsule Program" is a horrible bounty
It's infrequent for me too.
I was thinking of ways to get kcaps.
- You always have your Common kcap (infinite uses).
- You might have some rares (3 uses each) left that were converted from qcaps a year or so ago.
- You get two rares for leveling up L9+ (should be fore every level IMO).
- If you go to First Saturday, you get a passcode for 2 rares (and L8 PCs).
- Occasionally a kcap is in a global passcode.
- Theoretically you could hack one, but I don't think anyone has in over a year.
- C.O.R.E comes with two rares per month.
- And lastly, you could buy some in the store.
Re: "Claim 1 Kinetic Capsule Program" is a horrible bounty
If you have extra kinetic capsules, which many agents do receive after the retirement of quantum capsules, then you can afford to always keep several completed kinetic programs ready to claim. Not only does this help in checking the bounty, but it also serves as an emergency reserve for items (such as 40 level 1 resonators) beyond the storage limit.
Re: Ingress website gets a cosmetic makeover
IMHO it isn't the software. Niantic could convert this to vbulletin, phpbb, mybb, or whatever else. It won't improve until niantic decides to get engaged and active with their own community.
Re: Ingress website gets a cosmetic makeover
The forum software is fine. Niantic has simply abandoned them.
Re: "Claim 1 Kinetic Capsule Program" is a horrible bounty
@MoogModular Thank you for the kind words and your thoughtful and insightful contribution to the discussion.
No, I did not * about the kinetic challenge because that happened over the space of more than one day. I stand by my assertion that expecting people to walk up to five miles in one day for a bounty is out of line with the rest of the program.