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Re: Ingress: The Animation Character Badges revealed
The anime is beyond dead, I’m afraid. While I would love to see a sequel, I think this is just Niantic trying to sell kits with a low effort. It doesn’t even look they tried too much on working on a design.
Re: Portal nomination and approval
@Bstrngr8 You're sort of right, but there's both a solid rationale and some issues around that.
Niantic needs their games to be playable in all sorts of locations. For years there were complaints that Niantic games were unplayable in smaller towns, suburbs, and rural areas because there weren't enough wayspots. Niantic revamped the Wayfarer rules to make games more playable around the world, and that means that some things that wouldn't have been eligible before are now. I see both sides of it but I come down on the side of inclusivity... and I say that as someone who lives in an area that's dense enough that she has three couch portals.
The issues are players not respecting the Wayfarer rules in multiple ways. The first is deliberate abuse. One example is a large botnet that was active in the Netherlands that would approve everything. Once these things get into the games it's often difficult to convince Niantic to remove them.
There are also tons of fakes, and it's pretty easy to submit fakes that are convincing enough to be accepted. Sometimes it's stuff where the location can't be confirmed, and photos from other wayspots get reused. If the "Squirrels and Robins Nature Sign" is submitted in a park under some tree cover there's a pretty good chance it will get accepted. I've reviewed a ridiculous number of Photoshop fakes, many of which were caught by my well-trained eye but some have been done so well that they got past me for a while. I've spent a lot of time researching and documenting fakes and have gotten hundreds of them removed... but that's just a drop in the bucket.
Another problem is Bad-Wayspot Contagion. People often based their assessment of what's acceptable on what they see in their game(s) rather than reading and understanding the eligibility criteria. This leads to people submitting a bunch of stuff that isn't really eligible and other people approving it because they've seen similar stuff in their games. I've seen places where "fountains" are everywhere, but those fountains are actually aerators in the middle of ponds and thus don't have safe pedestrian access.
Re: Ingress: The Animation Character Badges revealed
Yeah I wonder if they’re hoping for (or maybe already have) a second season and that’s why.
Re: Portal nomination and approval
It seems anything can become a portal anymore. Almost every requirement they ask is ignored. Rocks, telephone poles, gas stations, temporary construction signs, all get accepted. Ingress staff have nothing to do with it either. Kinda sad how bad it's gotten.
Re: nobody asked for bounties
I think they mean that complaining about Bounties like @GorillaSapiens has, is a bad take.
Ingress: The Animation Character Badges revealed
From 16 February 2024 to 31 March 2024
- Limited-time Cryptic Memories Loadout Kit with Makoto Midorikawa 2024 medal (30,800 CMU)
- Limited-time Cryptic Memories Loadout Kit with Zion Kunikida 2024 medal (30,800 CMU)
- Limited-time Cryptic Memories Supporter Medal Kit with Cryptic Memories: Supporter medal (30,800 CMU)
Re: Bounty Suggestions NOT ABOUT MISSIONS
Missions were fun when you'd go to a new town and there would be 1-5 missions that would basically take you to all of the portals in that town. IE you'd get all of the uniques fairly easily. Now its about murals and the fastest 6 hacks for each part. My first probably 100+ missions were singles for different areas. They were fun. Most murals are just hammering them out as fast as possible. And if you get lucky, you traveled to do some fun mural, and it ended up being a horribly designed one, that makes you frequently backtrack and other cruddy things. Or those other murals where stuff is inaccessible but you didn't know it before you started.
What would be really nice at some point, if there were a public API we had access to, to view missions. Heck, make it a paid API. People would pay for it. Would be nice to be able to view my missions through a web browser instead of painfully waiting for the scroll via the profile page.
