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Re: Goodbye scanning, goodbye CORE
Having to win by hoping the other team quits. Toads gonna toad.
Re: Would GPS-less play work in Ingress?
I’m speaking for myself, but I’m going to assume it’s a similar feeling as others. But Ingress is probably like your favorite sports team having a few rough years, but you keep watching because you’re invested in them, have memories and genuinely hope they’ll return to their glory days. Now, is Ingress going to make a comeback or be someone like the Mariners and basically just be lame forever (Mariners fan here) and give you very brief glimpses of fun.
I dunno, but you can’t fault people for being annoyed with how things have changed with this and not just walking away completely. We’re all invested in one way or another
Re: ToS - Violation or not
Nobody should ever get banned for trespassing. Niantic cannot know who is allowed and who isn't so they can't do anything about it. It's against the rules but it's not enforced in any way. It's just not possible to enforce it.
Re: ToS - Violation or not
No thats not a violation those that have access outside open hours
Re: Would GPS-less play work in Ingress?
On the other hand Niantic provides us with the game Ingress free of charge. You paid nothing to join the game. The only money flowing to them is that which we of our own free choice decide to spend on it. And many do not spend anything, they choose to just play the game and enjoy it for free. Now please tell me why Niantic should not be getting something out of it that does not rely on our donations? The fact that they are providing a free fun game and in the process gain value that they can capitalize on makes perfect sense. What does not make sense is expecting to get something for nothing. Has the game changed in the 10 years I have been playing, of course it has, and will continue to do so. And as long as it stays fun for me, I'll keep playing and will continue to choose to send them money to enhance my experience and to also keep the game going. When it stops being fun for me, I'll bow out and find another enjoyable activity to participate in. That is something certain others should really consider.
Re: Would GPS-less play work in Ingress?
mini games and gps-less play don't support Niantics bottom line. How can they make money from you if you're sitting on the couch moving drones around? They need you to be scanning wayspots, creating wayspots, generating gps data, or beta testing features that will be fine tuned for other Niantic games, etc
I assume Hanke or whoever is steering the ship, is asking for Brian and the Ingress team to focus on features that bring value to Ingress. Unfortunately, value to them and value to us is completely different.
Re: Would GPS-less play work in Ingress?
a mini-game with the drones maybe ? then u can be home and play somehow..
Re: Allowing Links Shorter than 2000m Under Fields [Discussion]
Quite frankly the Ingress Founders Union can get stuffed.
If they had their way, we wouldn't have power cubes, 70% less portals, no level 9 -16, no recursion, no Apex, no Battle Beacons, no Kinetic Capsules, no x2 AP events, no C.O.R.E, etc, etc.
They generally want to game to remain as it was in 2012.
Talk about a (rather small) group of people stuck in the past.
Re: [Discussion] Ingress 2.133.1 Release Notes
The APIs are the functions that get called when you perform an action in-game.
So hacking is one, deploying, etc...
What and how they improved the APIs (and which ones) is unknown, but there is hope it will decrease the time it takes to perform actions. (Reduce the "lag")
So let's just hope they improved the gameplay ones and not the scanning or Niantic social ones.
Re: Allowing Links Shorter than 2000m Under Fields [Discussion]
If you want to go back to the beginning then you lose a lot of things like capsules, power cubes, glyphing. The game has evolved. Linking under fields hasn't been a game changer at all. If anything it allows more gameplay.