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Re: January - March 2024 Schedule [Discussion]
I really hope Operation Chronos is not scanning
Looks like agent ops will not come anytime soon atleast not before q1 ugh so besides chronos nothing really to look forward
Re: Ingress in 2024
@MoogModular Grouping banners would also make life much easier for people like me who mainly do individual missions. I treat missions as travel souvenirs and trying to find single missions among the huge list of banner segments is like trying to find a needle in a haystack explosion. Rolling banners up is a win for people who enjoy banners and want to see the whole banner in a single view and it's also a win for people who don't enjoy banners and would like the mission list to be easier for us to consume.
Re: Ingress in 2024
But the API needs to be updated to also establish banners - grouping the banners would be such an improvement in the app for missions. It would be like using the Bannergress website.
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It's funny because even if I think you have a point about improving graphics in order to appeal to new players, I really like the "simple" graphics that makes me really feel like an agent of an intelligence agency which uses the Scanner just as a tool. I'm one of those boring people who actually thinks that the old Redacted look was really cool
Re: Ingress in 2024
I would like to see a new anomaly format, one that isn't primarily driven by nose count. I have a lot of ideas for different types of in-person competitions but they would all require significant software development effort so it isn't likely to happen.
I want the Missions interface to be reworked so that banner missions are all rolled up and nested under the first mission in the series. Trying to find individual missions in areas with lots of banners can be really frustrating. I know Niantic doesn't currently have a concept of banner missions but I know how I would implement it:
- New missions: The mission authoring tool UI would have an interface that allows missions to be grouped into a banner.
- Existing missions: Almost all banners are geographically grouped and named in a way that demonstrates their relationships. Niantic could scan for this and create banner roll-ups automatically. Mission authors could also roll their old missions up if the automatic tool didn't pick them up, or unroll them if it rolled them erroneously.
- The scanner would show the first mission only, with a plus sign to expand it into its individual missions. It could also provide the option to start mission N+1 in the banner once you finish mission N.
I would like quite a few quality-of-life improvements in the scanner, things that remove tedium so that people can spend more time on interesting gameplay and less time on boring repetitive stuff. For example, it would be nice to be able to recharge keys without taking them out of capsules. I would also like to just drop N (cubes/hypercubes) into my inventory as it is currently sorted and for Ingress to go down the list and top off every key until it either runs out of keys to recharge or it has exhausted the cubes that I allocated. I would like to be able to set simple/complex and key/no-key as defaults for glyph hacking so I don't have to repeat them with every single hack.
Re: [2.129.1] Chinese translation error (CMU -> Carnegie Mellon University (which is a real university))
Thank you; this should be fixed in Ingress 2.130.
Re: Ingress in 2024
They could do hexathlons again, i never did one but it sounded fun. Mix that with agent ops
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I think being able to scan as an alternative to the required action would be good. So if you wanted to, you could scan the portal instead of hacking or linking etc.

