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Re: Concerning future of First Saturdays & Second Sundays.
It isn't dead.
You can't find a way to pull the plug and find something else that brings beauty and value to your life.
Re: Official answer from Lightship - Why Overclock can not be activated
I think they probably mean it's a global limit. So if N agents or Lightship developers worldwide have already pressed the button recently then it will give you an error and you'll have to wait until some of those N requests have completed (and hope that the vacated activation slots haven't been immediately filled by other agents pressing the button). That's why their solution is to try another time, but no one can say what time is best without access to the statistics on their servers.
Re: Extra key capsules
I agree. Making it posible to store more keys will make for more relaxed and more Creative playing. There is a limited amount of time agents are able to play the game, so the fields that are difficult to make (but posible) , are often never made, because you have to choose which key to keep and which to let go of. You will likely keep the ones you're pretty sure of to use in the future. I would gladly buy an extra pack of key lockers if it became posible.
Re: Extra key capsules
Your observation about the growth of portal count is excellent, and it makes a compelling argument.
Re: [Suggestion] Showing Battle Beacon Victories
That's true, the scoreboard just shows who has the most gas money and time on their hands. Nobody really cares about making fields anymore. There are only a few players left and it's just used as a driving game. The desire to continue playing leaves most people. It's extremely monotonous. If you don't have a car then you can't compete on the scoreboard. So why even look at it? The scoreboard needs to change.
[Suggestion] Battle Beacon Bounty Rewards
This is a separate discussion while also part of the other discussion about revisiting the scoreboard for Ingress
Daily Bounties
Daily Bounty rewards are rather lacklustre in my opinion
While AP gain for completion of Bounties is a great step and not much can go wrong with it, there should be greater rewards for completing ALL daily Bounties.
My suggestion, reward players with a Rare Battle Beacon.
Weekly Bounties
Weekly Bounty rewards should award players with a Very Rare Battle Beacon upon completion of the Weekly Bounties (Weekly Bounties are not yet implemented).
As these require significantly more effort than Daily Bounties.
Why Battle Beacons?
Many will say, Battle Beacons have no real purpose outside of events, adding their scores to the scoreboard, sharing out the multiplier rewards atfter the first Checkpoint of the new Septicycle.
Many on the Ingress team want Battle Beacons to be more meaningful to players.
By incorporating Battle Beacon scores to the scoreboard may make the game more meaningful to local players, especially those that don't drive.
Pay2Win
While Ingress needs money to keep going, having Battle Beacons as rewards fills the gap of not buying Battle Beacons.
Though if people really want to, they can buy Battle Beacons.
However, they will be up against people who will just scan portals (if they can or want to).
So no, I do not believe it will be a pay 2 win feature.
Re: Free Faction change not offered (End of Tutorial and 40,000 AP)
Correct me if i'm wrong,player at L4 can recurse?:)
As i understand that case,it's beginner account. I think that should be solved via support with "account maitenance -> request faction change" but this will remove all AP to zero(anyway,LVL4 isn't to hard to be taken). From the other side,there is a field "describe your problem" in that support form,so i'd posted link to this topic and probably described what happened.
Another idea: go to settings,find "Agent primer / additional resources", press view and restart training.
And another: try to contact support via settings - report a problem.
Re: Free Faction change not offered (End of Tutorial and 40,000 AP)
go to your profil .
at the bottom use the recurse button. wait 4h and then you will be able.
Re: Research Bounties activated
Now i feel the balance are nice and good. Only i hope we can get 1 free fracker for do something more hard 1 every month or only 1 fracker every other month. Hope @NianticBrian listen and relese it soon. Good and new agents can test fracker and if they like them they can start buy frackers.
Re: [Suggestion] Showing Battle Beacon Victories
Also in all that blank space in the scores - I thought they'd put Scout Controller.
I think Niantic expected it to be a point of pride. "What? You took my Scout Controller? Oh no you don't get to do that" {Runs to portal to re-scan enough times to re-take Controller.}
But without it on the scoreboard, nobody cares.
Instead, when I get a Comm message that my Scout Controller was lost - I think it's great! Hey look, AgentX is at the welcome center! or AgentY seems to be doing that mission we did last summer!