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Re: 2024 niantic still sucks / Let spoofers
How do You think about MFA to be enabled? Scans which currently are disabled for more than a half agents? It will just cut out players,cheaters will happily scan feet/beer/etc. It's a loong road to the time when full AR models of each PoI will be ready,and making scan work for less devices won't make that road shorter.
Overclocking? Yes,it works on more of Ingress-capable phones but how overclock can help at all? EG i tried overclocking two times and even couldn't do successful hack of L6 portal xD
And afaik ingress team have no access to scanned data.
In my opinion nia algorithm should at bare minimum start reacting to "too fast movement between poi,from center to center",or drop CAL to zero if such movement was detected with closed scanner,at least for some time to see if that account is moving like human or like spacecraft. Last spoofer i've faced was active 3 hours,just smashing and smashing.
Re: "Claim 1 Kinetic Capsule Program" is a horrible bounty
You know what we could have instead?
FitRep rewards for brewing a certain amount of KCaps or walking a certain amount within the week.
But I enjoy this one personally. I usually brew up a few whilst doing my daily walk.
Re: "Claim 1 Kinetic Capsule Program" is a horrible bounty
I think it's dumb that every bounty can be completed in no more than a few minutes except one that can take hours.
Difficulty varies by location and faction. For instance, almost every portal within 2km of my house is the correct colour, so if I get the "destroy 2 links" task on a work-from-home day then that's going to take more than just a few minutes (might as well walk off a K-cap on my way out...).
"Claim 1 Kinetic Capsule Program" is a horrible bounty
There was a lot of discussion earlier about the bounty for doing a mission being too difficult, and that bounty was removed. A single mission can often be completed in 5-10 minutes, although there are certainly variations on that based on what missions are available around you.
By comparison, the effort required for the kcap bounty is heavily dependent on whether you have a cap that is near harvest. If you've just started your cap(s) then you could have to walk up to 8km/5mi in order to complete the bounty. Based on a 2020 study the average walking speed for someone under 30 is roughly 3 mph, or about 5 km/h. By the age of 65, though, that drops to 2.1 mph, approximately 3.4 km/h. If an able-bodied young person had to complete a kcap from ground zero it would take them around 1.7 hours to do so. For an older person that would be more than 2.3 hours. Not all Ingress players are healthy and able-bodied, though, and for some it would be impossible to walk that far in one day. I understand that real-world AR games have an ableist bias to them by necessity since they require players to move around in the world. This one seems excessive, though.
The effort is also out of line with the other bounties, since everything else I've encountered can typically be completed in a couple of minutes. Niantic, please retire this bounty.
Re: "Claim 1 Kinetic Capsule Program" is a horrible bounty
I do agree with making some of the programs easier.
R1, R4, R5, X5 = 4km
Peace Beacon = 2km
Introduce X8 program for 10km (30 X7 = 20 X8)
Re: Ingress website gets a cosmetic makeover
I really think this forum software is awful.
I miss G+ :(
Re: Ingress website gets a cosmetic makeover
A makeover for the forums? I’m sure @NianticThia said she was going to do one any day now
Re: “Buried Memories” is the name for the Q2 2024 Anomaly series
Maybe they want us to exhume these buried memories.
Re: Ingress website gets a cosmetic makeover
Not clear enough. Need one say community. But it also needs a makeover too
Why Twitter/X not listed along with TG yet FB, YT & Insta is shoen...
Re: Ingress website gets a cosmetic makeover
I was incorrect. This goes to the forums. But to the section that is never updated.
