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Re: Portal Decay
It was a responsible decision by Niantic. This will reduce the amount of time many agents will be out farming for cubes.
Re: As Predicted with Pogo participation
Bad portals are nothing new to PoGo. The only downside to PoGo nominations is
1) way more nominations than reviewers,
2) duplicates because they had to learn to use intel (or haven't)
3) s2 cell spacing giving a reason to gimmick the system
4) massive amount of noob mistakes with nominating, which should settle over time
Trash/Bogus portals are not a new thing to the system. We once had a portal/gym here called Big Shovel that was nothing more than a CAT Excavator 🙄.
Re: Portal Photo upvote abuse?
As a PoGo/Ingress player, I actually HATE the system of likes being used for gyms and wish we had area liasons who could indicate stops as good/bad for future gym conversion. The problem inherent with such a function is personal bias superceding safety/nuisance considerations.
That said, there may only be a couple ACTIVE players there, but any PoGo player or inactive player can get on and like something easily. In our area, this is only done by a small group who care enough to bother, and is primarily done to make sure gyms we create aren't in awful places (e.g. the portal along the park's parking lot rather than the sign at the street).
Re: Portal Scanning?
The Scanning badge is a bit off old ingress style but it's awesome! No need to redesign anything.
Re: Time to look into those that skirt the rules
Niantic will not be aware of the level of restrictions put in place of each and every country, district or community. Also, even under complete lockdown people are still allowed out to get groceries, medical care, etc and may play on the way to or from those places. Some are designated essential workers, and could play to and from work, or even at work if they have portals within range.
You're basically asking Niantic to police a local community on a global scale. That's simply not feasible. I would suggest that you yourself adhere to your local restrictions and stop worrying about what other players are doing. They are responsible for their own actions.
Azhreia
Free NL1331 Meetup Badge
I know the chance is low and you most probably won't remove the badge but please consider that there are agents that connect certain stories and events to their badges.
Some are great stories, some are sad stories, stories of great operations/events/anomalies and so on. But for me at least every badge reminds me of doing something.
Sadly for me this badge will only remind me of sitting at home and doing nothing. Yes we should all stay at home under the current circumstances still some agents don't like the badge for different reasons.
Some for the reason i mentioned above, others for the reason they choose their badges themself and concenctrate on getting them all black or many other reasons.
Since I'm kinda sure you won't remove the badge from agent's profiles please consider at least announcing it next time before you just push it to everyone who did an action and is confused how he got it...
(Or find a way to opt out of/remove it)
Re: Time to look into those that skirt the rules
Niantic isn't the lockdown police. If you suspect these agents to be spoofing, report them. If you suspect they are ignoring the lockdown order, well, that's up to the local authorities to enforce, isn't it.
Azhreia
Portal Decay
I play in an area with no opposition. By slowing decay, you have just slowed any further fielding by agents in my community because there is nobody to destroy the fields currently standing. Many of us play for exercise or alone in a car- maintaining social distance rules. Please reconsider this decision. My community is dwindling as is - this is not a welcome change.
Re: So NIA's solution is "Make Ingress like PoGo"?
I don't belive this item will damage the game this much (if its undropable and paid only).
As long as they don't decide to create their own pokemons to pop in the map, there's acctualy a lot a good features there that could be useful and help Ingress.
Examples: friendlist, giftcard trade, daily and week tasks, unique/explorer marks on map, portals being dominated by dark xm(team rocket), etc.
