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Re: CONFIRMED: Increasing Hack Cool Down Horrible For Environment, Negatively Affects Health
Increased usage of fossil fuels - As before the pandemic, many agents that cargress will idle longer at portals, which will lead to an increase in harmful environment-damaging green house gases.
False.
Idling cars emit more damaging greenhouse gasses, and prior to the pandemic Agents would move to the next portal and come back instead of idling. The reduced time between hacks encourages agents to idle instead of making use of the 5 minute cooldown to go to other portals.
Wrong.
Some of us don't live and play in urban areas and many of my summer home portals are 15+ minutes apart. Our loops in the desert can take hours and this change will add even longer. This is simply unacceptable.
Discourages healthy lifestyle - For the health-conscientious player (runners, cyclists, etc.), encouraging players to stand for nearly 4 more minutes is anti-productive to exercise. This is a horrible message to send to our children!
False.
Standing at a portal for 5 minutes was far rarer than you ****, because it was better to go to another portal and come back, especially for players in an environment where walking was feasible. The reduced cooldown encourages people to stand still and wait because it's not long enough to justify continuing to walk
Incorrect.
I don't know if you've looked around at the general player base fitness, but most players are going to walk to a portal and try to hack it several times to get keys. This is especially true when exercising for portals that are NOT in a loop. Spending several extra minutes at one spot is NOT encouraging a healthy lifestyle.
Decrease in agent interest - Not only will these changes lead to a negative game experience, I fear many agents will quit the game entirely due to boredom of waiting.
False.
The game was more popular when we had a 5 minute cooldown than when we had a 90s cooldown.
Wrong again.
The game was more popular prior to the 2020 changes due to the loss of Ingress Redacted. Many players quit due to Ingress Prime's horrific rollout, parity, and clunky interface.
There's zero evidence proving that the shorter cooldown increased engagement for new players or casual players, except for your own 'assumptions'.
Absolutely incorrect (again). Many players, especially here in Riverside County, as well as this forum have cancelled their Prime subscriptions and/or quit the game entirely. I'd be happy to PM you a list of our own local players, as well as forum links and PM's from players providing this information and frustration.
Damaging to our natural food resources - Complimenting #1, increased green house gases will potentially contaminate this winter's brussel sprout crop and Asiago cheese production (due to the contaminated/lower quality alfalfa).
False... and wut?
Absolutely incorrect (again, sigh). I've worked in agriculture. Please do your research before blatantly claiming something is false without any supporting evidence.
The responses across ALL this past week's posts speak VOLUMES in support of not only this post's valid points, but other valid points not covered here.
Increasing the portal cool down is WRONG.
Re: This is not what we want!
Between the cooldown going up and CORE losing APEX, I've decided to cancel my CORE subscription. Looking forward to picking it up in the future, but for now these changes suggest Ingress is going in another direction than the one I enjoy. Time to free up 500 inventory space :/
Re: Ukrainian Agents who lost their lives due to russian invasion
Real heroes!
Slava Ukraini
Re: [Discussion] Updates to Temporary In-game Changes
27sec cd with vrhs is not silly.
i don't get how people enjoy more standing on portal for farming than actually walking and fielding . Less CD more fields ! (unless your unemplyed and have no time restriction)
Khatre
Re: CONFIRMED: Increasing Hack Cool Down Horrible For Environment, Negatively Affects Health
BREAKING: Niantic does not listen to you players generally regarding gaming policy changes
Re: Levels 17-24
More levels will never happen. That's why they added the recursion option. It's a nice feature too. With the game being so much easier getting to 16 is no longer difficult. So recursing and starting over adds a little bit of difficulty. It's the only reason I still play for now.
Re: This is not what we want!
Every time Ingress has died a little, ie lost more players than joined and sticked around.
It’s extremely noticeable over the last 18 months, although the year before that was rough as well. They have to see this in what little monitoring they have, and they don’t seem to care one bit.
At this rate, there won’t be any players left to finally enjoy irl FS and anomalies.
Jo0Lz
Re: This is not what we want!
@CuddlyT3ddyBear Not everyone has "at least 8 of your Ingress playing buddies" available within a reasonable distance. Or even two buddies.
@Grogyan writes: "Not the least of which is to encourage players to find alternative means to farm gear. With which, we have a plethora. Even conservative estimates show that there is no degradation to game play."
You may have "a plethora" and "alternative means to farm gear" but that is not true for everyone. I live in a large urban area with many active players so I certainly have no shortage of gear available to me, but not everyone has the same abundance of riches. There are people who play in smaller towns where there may only be one or two players within a 20km radius. or 50km...
As for conservative estimates, please show your work.
Hosette
Re: Ukrainian Agents who lost their lives due to russian invasion
The shameless troll who clicked 'disagree' on the opening post is a complete idiot.
Utterly disgraceful to disagree with a post highlighting those who lost their lives in this nasty war.
MJ78