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Re: Bounty Suggestions NOT ABOUT MISSIONS
Daily Bounties should not include completing Kinetics,
Instead should be Walk 2km
Hack n different Portals within x hours
Make n Control Fields
Bounty Suggestions NOT ABOUT MISSIONS
To discuss the bounty requiring a mission, see https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/22383/the-single-mission-bounty-is-not-a-very-good-task#latest
This post is for other stuff.
Niantic, please DON'T ADD A BOUNTY STREAK MEDAL! Agents have physical disabilities, dyslexia, jobs, families. Some are in an area with no Machina or opposing faction, sparce portals, only enemy portals, etc. It may be dark when they get off work. Bounties, abilities, game board, and play style situations are much more varied than hack streak (Sojourner badge).
A badge for total bounties completed would be great.
This morning I had to restart Ingress to get today's challenges. The drone hack I did before restarting didn't count on today's bounty.
Niantic should keep totals, and make adjustments. Remove unpopular tasks, or assign them less frequently and give them bigger awards. Maybe some should never be assigned together in the same day. (IMO this analysis would be fun.)
As often requested: an option to shuffle and re-draw at least one task per day. See situations listed above.
With those adjustments, could add some more things for bountying:
Scan task - only ever assign to agents using phones that support scanning. If your phone is old, you should never see this task. (I could have written code to check device type 10 years ago - surely Niantic can now.)
Overclock task - only ever assign to phones that support scanning. And only if there's an activated portal within... 5k? ...when you open your bounty list for the day. Better: when someone gets this bounty, Niantic automatically looks for things to VPS activate in a 5k radius. (Or, if nothing's overclock-enabled nearby, you can shuffle.)
"Trek 1 kilometer" - if physically unable, hopefully we'll have the shuffle option
Re: Research Bounties activated
Year 3 ingress players union (YTIPU) do you have a manifesto (or just any cool GIFs)
I would like to see the YTIPU take on the IFU in a meme debate
Re: The single mission bounty is not a very good task.
I know someone who refuses to glyph... if he gets a glyph task then I'm sure he will just skip it. I think that's a good general principle... if you get a task you don't want to do then just don't do it. All of the rewards I've seen so far have been quite small so skipping a task costs very little.
2024 Q1 ingress events - remote badge?
Hello,
the lack of a North America site for the 2024Q1 series is quite problematic, given the relative little time left to book a trip, and let's face it, the only viable option is Porto.
I'm wondering if this series will have a way to obtain its badge via remote challenges, just like Discoverie did. That will help greatly, in particular if we could get an answer soon - @NianticBrian @NianticOfficial @NianticThia can you provide some input here? thanks!
Re: The single mission bounty is not a very good task.
If keeping banner display is a priority for anyone. They have the choice of either skipping the task entirely or doing 6 single missions so the banner display is unchanged. Ingress allows a player to do many things, some of which take effort and/or planning. But nobody is required to do everything available in the game. It's a choice the player makes. It depends on what's the most important to each player. You want banners displayed just so, you can, you want to complete every available task, you can. You just need to decide how to go about it and if it's worth the effort to maintain your personal choices. I think it's wrong to try to force the game to change to accommodate personal choices.
And I too have to deal with it. I choose not to glyph, it slows my walk down and costs me exercise. But yesterday I had to make a choice of either a half dozen glyph points or to not complete the daily task. I chose to force myself to glyph. Today I have a task to get 24 glyph points. And this time I will likely not complete it because I choose exercise. But I'm not going to advocate for glyphs to be excluded from the tasks.
We are adults, we make choices, choices have consequences. Even in a game.
Re: The single mission bounty is not a very good task.
Which is why Machina was brought into the game
Re: The single mission bounty is not a very good task.
My first thought about the mission thing was that a lot of players - especially women - would not feel safe doing a mission after work on a dark winter night. I stopped my mission last first Saturday because I had messed up and taken too long and the next part would've involved walking inside a park in the dark. So even if there are enough missions in your area - and for the majority of players there won't be - there is also a safety issue with doing them and I don't think anything should be put in the game which pushes people to do something unsafe.
