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Re: 4 years of the forums, what do you think of them?
If niantic had just one person on the ingress team who would consistently interact and respond to questions, these forums would be 1000% better.
Re: Machina is just killing player engagement.
Ingress is a game of strategy and planning, not a game of racking up as much AP as possible. Considering a Level 8 agent is fully capable of doing everything, AP is the least important thing in the game.
Re: C.O.R.E. Subscription Price Change [Discussion]
Well its hard for some the increase with all issues not like lag will be ever fixed so what are users paying for a broken pre beta game? imagine if someone payed for netflix and its buffering all the time nobody in their right mind would continue give the company money for a broken service that is not fixed. We have less events now eventho brian promised we would get more so again i fail see how the higher price will benefit us
Re: You are losing control over the red link part 2
People have complained. Maybe not here, but in chat groups they have. Fighting an AI beastie that basically spoofs into any portals they want (closed locations, ect) and spams links gets annoying. At least when you are playing against a human, there are limitations. Even humans have to sleep. Machina doesn't. Machina isn't limited by flooded locations, by fences, **** security guards, closed parks, ect.
Re: Masa Kawashima joins product lead, we will get new lore again ?
While Masa worked on the Ingress story during the early days, we are looking forward to the person that was blanked out. While we only have two to three strokes to go by which escape the black marker, they fit perfectly to the name of one of the people that have been responsible for the majority of the lore.
Masa Kawashima joins product lead, we will get new lore again ?
Niantic Vice President Masa Kawashima returned to Japan last week and performed a Dead Drop (DD). This is the message we got from the DD (https://twitter.com/irk_osaka/status/1682903517420474368?s=46&t=dZTOghoXILy1JfuR0yX25Q)
#CapturedByRES
According to the message, Masa, who was also a member of the initial Ingress development team, has been appointed as the Ingress product lead. Additionally, it appears that members who worked on the initial Ingress story and game design will be returning. This move is expected to help the Ingress lore live on again.
Re: New item suggestion: Machina Antidote
I like the thinking here, but let me propose an even simpler idea:
If a portal has a rare link amp or better (So RLA, SBUL, VRLA), agent links break Machina links.
This would have the following effects:
* RLA would actually have a use other than KC fodder
* The worst aspect of Machina would be undone (blocking ops in empty or even inaccessible areas)
* Still preserve Machina as a source of AP and a modest hazard to burn through hoards of mods.
Re: C.O.R.E. Subscription Price Change [Discussion]
I am trying to give Niantic every benefit of the doubt which is why I used Feature Items, and took the 15000 for 10Apex and divided it by 10 to give my per unit cost of 1500.
I agree I hate doing the fake money to real money conversions usually. which is why I did everything in CMU first then gave a CMU per penny at the end. to show that in now way can their 4X statement be true.
The Character badge purchase would be difficult to argue and I'd love to see Niantic put a value on it to argue they are giving 4X value because of that for only a 1.6X price increase.
I see many Arguing the 4X value is tied to the CMU increase. But that isn't how they have actually typed it.
Niantic Wrote
C.O.R.E. will now provide a 4X value for its $7.99 (USD or equivalent) monthly price, with a 4X increase in CMU rewards from 2,500 to 10,000 CMU.
Would be accept the following.
Honda will now provide 4X value for its $79,900 Ridgeline (USD or equivalent, former Price $49,900) Purchase price, with a 4X increase in fuel tank capacity from 25L to 100L
By looking at the statement like this we can see how ridiculously phrased Niantic has put it. To some people getting an increased fuel tank brings value but to the vast majority the fuel tank size isn't what is making them buy the Ridgeline. And the same can be said for C.O.R.E, the Monthly CMU disbursement is not the reason for buying C.O.R.E. for the vast majority, it is an added bonus.
So Niantic is practicing false/deceptive marketing in their promotion of the price increase.
I actually don't have a problem with the price increase, I get the value for my actual money with the increased storage space, and the Intel inventory looking, I have a problem with businesses who use dishonest business practices, and hope people are bad at math.
Re: Machina is just killing player engagement.
I like taking down fields so machina can grow. Makes for easy ap later. It's just a new way to play the game.
Re: Machina is just killing player engagement.
I really believe Niantic is trying to chase off as many agents before they shut down the game. In my area they may as well have shut it down. Machina is so thick no one wants to spend the gas trying to clear an area to field.