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Bounty Suggestions NOT ABOUT MISSIONS
To discuss the bounty requiring a mission, see https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/22383/the-single-mission-bounty-is-not-a-very-good-task#latest
This post is for other stuff.
Niantic, please DON'T ADD A BOUNTY STREAK MEDAL! Agents have physical disabilities, dyslexia, jobs, families. Some are in an area with no Machina or opposing faction, sparce portals, only enemy portals, etc. It may be dark when they get off work. Bounties, abilities, game board, and play style situations are much more varied than hack streak (Sojourner badge).
A badge for total bounties completed would be great.
This morning I had to restart Ingress to get today's challenges. The drone hack I did before restarting didn't count on today's bounty.
Niantic should keep totals, and make adjustments. Remove unpopular tasks, or assign them less frequently and give them bigger awards. Maybe some should never be assigned together in the same day. (IMO this analysis would be fun.)
As often requested: an option to shuffle and re-draw at least one task per day. See situations listed above.
With those adjustments, could add some more things for bountying:
Scan task - only ever assign to agents using phones that support scanning. If your phone is old, you should never see this task. (I could have written code to check device type 10 years ago - surely Niantic can now.)
Overclock task - only ever assign to phones that support scanning. And only if there's an activated portal within... 5k? ...when you open your bounty list for the day. Better: when someone gets this bounty, Niantic automatically looks for things to VPS activate in a 5k radius. (Or, if nothing's overclock-enabled nearby, you can shuffle.)
"Trek 1 kilometer" - if physically unable, hopefully we'll have the shuffle option
Re: The single mission bounty is not a very good task.
I agree that a mission is out of the scope for the bounty spirit.
Re: Samsung S24 Crash Issues
it's a problem of the underlying Unity engine on devices with the Snapdragon 8 gen 3 (e.g. S24 ultra. Oneplus 12), s. https://niantic.helpshift.com/hc/en/6-pokemon-go/faq/4398-certain-android-devices-may-experience-crashes/
Re: Samsung S24 Crash Issues
Hello, this has already been recommended and does not assist, but thank you anyway
The issue still occurs and the anomaly event is less than 2 weeks away. Feeling a little let down
Re: The single mission bounty is not a very good task.
There's also a make-a-field task which is challenging for people who live in an area that's so dominated by one faction that the playfield is static.
To me it seems perfectly OK to have tasks that some people can't or aren't willing to complete. We functioned just fine without them for ages, and they're not mandatory now.
Re: The single mission bounty is not a very good task.
Spoilers: no one outside of yourself cares about how your mission banners look or line up. It's all just narcissistic macaroni art. I bet most players never even look at other players mission badges. I like that it tells a story of where you've played, places you've visited, but mission banners rarely do that anymore. I'll still do banners if it's convenient but I really don't like ones that are longer than six missions, and I always try to do filler missions between them as a buffer.
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Re: The single mission bounty is not a very good task.
Yep, I got the single mission task for today and... not even going to bother. We all know for a lot of people, this means having to do 6 missions on a dime. If you are local and not traveling when the task pops up, there's a good chance you'll have to do missions you've already done before (which to me is not desirable). I like to plan out missions. Not jump when Niantic says jump. I like the idea of being able to trade it for a different task, but in the meantime these will just go as uncompleted tasks for me unless it's already in my plans.
Re: Research Bounties activated
Will echo sentiments that I'm not a fan of the "1 Mission", maybe a re-roll option would be good (can only do it once a day).
But a "6 mission" bounty for a weekly or monthly research would be a better fit instead.
Re: Research Bounties activated
Joining others in saying that the Bounties are great! As a really casual player in regards to actually opening the scanner I can already see that it'll kick me in the behind to get out and to complete the 4 dailies. The current set of tasks and it's rewards also feel well balanced and having an explanation for each task is great for new players and the entire Bounties screen feels "high quality", if that makes sense.
Mirroring some sentiments however that there should be some changes and improvements made to the system. I know that "officially", Ingress doesn't know what banners are and is built on single missions, but the fact is that Agents have developed a huge community around banners and the sets of 6. Having a "Complete 1 Mission" task that has to be completed within the day will **** over a lot of people.
Similarly, the "Complete 1 Kinetic Capsule Program" is by no means hard, but if starting from zero, casual players will have trouble getting the 8km within a day in. Especially compared to the other tasks which all can be completed within 5 minutes, walking 8km can take like an hour just... walking.
An improvement I've seen suggested is a "Replace" button which can be used to replace one of the four tasks per day. People that have a problem with the above tasks can replace them while the people that are fine with them can just do them.
I'd also love to see some other, harder types of Bounties such as "Capture X MU" or "Reclaim X Portals from Machina". The current set of tasks is great for the start, but will probably get stale quickly. They could be categorised into "basic" and "advanced" Bounties with one of the dailies always being advanced and having better rewards.
The German translation for Ingress was always... questionable. Since the introduction of Head Tracking, the translation has taken a nose dive, but the translation for the Bounties is atrocious. god please ask some agents to take a look over them, there are a lot of people that would do that for free
Lastly, I'd love to see other types of Bounties as well, such as weekly, monthly or even seasonal tasks you can chip away at over longer time.
But still, overall, I think it is a great feature! Please do keep working on it though.