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Re: Should scanning Portals somehow boost them?
If scans will give extra gear this WILL be used as a "free-endless-fracker" alternative,so i vote against.
Re: What do you think should be ingress prime to earn 5 stars in app stores from google and apple?
When not only product,but even support page has own errors(eg try to change nickname via site not) - product can't be rated 5*.When after each update i have a message "rate us" it's annoying.Also we have connection lags for some month.And laggy store which is unfortunately used when passcode arrives. And no language switch(which could help while main translation is bad). And no notification sound but sfx_notify is in assets. And most bugfixes in previous releases are mostly damaging not helping,but we need to update to worst one or we can't even connect.And so on...
Sorry,but for me 5* means standalone working product with priority to stability and balance/bug fixes,not laggy one used to betatest all features for other projects.
Re: 2022 - The Return of Live Events?(!)
When I decide to participate in events, I mentally do a calculation - will the cost of the event (in money, time, etc.) be worth the reward?
One way to make events more appealing is to group them into one weekend experiences. Not all of the events are meant to be stand-alone events.
For example, the Murrieta NL 1331 visit + Mission Day was awesome because I got to experience an NL visit and complete Missions at the same time.
Another example - Chicago 2019. I went for GoRuck on Friday, the Anomaly on Saturday, and Mission Day on Sunday. This meant that I had lots of opportunities for fun in the same place in the same weekend.
A Hexathlon would be great as a supporting event to an Anomaly. For example, folks can go to the Anomaly on Saturday and the Hexalthlon on Sunday. Many Agents, me included, travel more to support our teammates than to prove that we're "the best, like no one ever was". Just as I wouldn't put a GoRuck Stealth as a standalone event, I would not put a Hexathlon as a standalone event either.
Here's an example of a schedule that would invite me to attend the event:
Friday 6pm-12am GoRuck
Saturday 12pm-4pm Anomaly
Saturday 5pm-7pm Ingress XFac Afterparty / Character Meet-And-Greet
Sunday 9am-12pm Operation Clear Field
Sunday 12:30pm-2:30pm Hexathlon
Sunday 9am-5pm Mission Day
Bihotz
Getting out ahead of the next complaint: Adventure Sync + Trekker badge
Before we officially get adventure sync, can we give feedback to Niantic to create a new badge that tracks adventure sync distance as a new medal instead of cheapening the old Trekker medal? Keep trekker for in-game km gained and have this be something new please.
Pokemon has already done the research as to what's going to happen with adventure sync.
Yes, you're going to be able to get close to 1km per 10 minutes of sitting your phone in a rocker. Sleep for 8 hours? You're good, free 48 kilometers! That's only about 52 nights of sleep to get onyx trekker if Niantic just dumps the km into the trekker badge.
Drone Visited Layer
Anyone else would like a layer to show which portals you have already hacked by drone?
It doesn't even need to be an extra layer, just add that to current drone layer.
RES Agents Needed | IFS Houston TX
Psst!
I heard there's an awesome IFS in Houston, TX that would love more RES Agents:
Bihotz
Re: What happened to Ofer2?
You're going to complain regardless of getting an answer or not, please tell me what is going to be productive out of this communication you want?
Re: IngressFS Opinion Collection
I'd love more of a hybrid model than we currently have - but since many of our participants are from a ways away, I'd prefer a simple reinstatement of the Restock portal that would give everyone a reason to get together physically if they wish. I've hosted since we went to Virtual-only and have spent quite a few months collecting prize swag for stat winners, but without a physical meeting point all I can award is fame and glory.
Most of the organizational tasks for these events fall to me and I'm not looking forward to making reservations, planning convenient venues, etc. but if it got people together, I'd consider the effort worthwhile! Of course our events are small (I'm not blessed with promotional skills at all, and our area has a lot of cross-faction contention) but I do miss those post-event meetups most of all.
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Re: What happened to Ofer2?
Hi everyone, sorry to be absent for so long. I just want to clear a few things up.
I've been on the Ingress team for a few years and and there was a good stretch of time where we hadnt had a community manager and the very passionate community was left with silence from us. Being a long time gamer myself, I know how frustrating that can be and have had the thought: "OMG ITS SO OBVIOUS, WHY CANT THEY DO TOTALLY SIMPLE THING" wayyy too many times. Once I actually started working in the industry, I've seen how often TOTALLY SIMPLE THING isnt actually simple at all. We're all adults here and can understand if things seem simple but are actually complicated, but we need someone to tell us about it. Which is why silence has always really bothered me. (Yes, I see the irony in this thread XD...sorry about that...again)
That time was different than now, though, as we do have a community manager: Thia. We have different communication styles, but our goals and our passion towards the community and trying to communicate with players is the same. That being said, as I've said previously I've been a part of this team for a few years and so I have already gotten a deeper understanding of how things work. This enables me to answer questions fairly quickly, but at the same time it doesnt let Thia learn about the topic to help answer the question in the future. When yall ask questions, Thia will ask us internally to gain that understanding and will then bring that back to you, but that process takes longer. As she keeps doing it, I expect that there will be fewer questions that Thia cannot answer directly, but it takes time. The team has full faith and confidence in Thia, but we just need to give her time to get to the same place as the rest of us.
ofer2