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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: nobody asked for bounties
Most players asked for it,
It has been very well received by the wider player base.
Encourages new players to stick with the game.
Only a few bugs and small issues.
Bounties/tasks/quests are not exclusive to Pogo, in fact they've been a staple of mobile gaming for many years.
If you don't want to do Bounties, that's fine, just don't do them
Re: nobody asked for bounties
A task system has been on my wish list for years. I initially thought thats what mission would be when first announced.
Re: Instant bans
One account per agent, just because you don't play an account in game doesn't mean it won't give you an unfair advantage, you can use it for 2000 free inventory spaces or to claim free codes for instance. You really should read the rules.
@Olorus bot raging for days and not being banned
Hello guys. The bot **** has been raging in my region for days now. Regardless of weather, distance, time of day, it always starts working after me tirelessly. It doesnt stop when im not playng - keeps doing his thing. Vanguards are not doing their job, support as well.
I have reported it many times, fastracked many times.
I know whose bot this is. Hes been banned for spoofing before.
Just wanted to let you know that such lame support killed ingress years ago and keeps killing whats left of the player base.
Re: The single mission bounty is not a very good task.
Bounties like "Destroy 2 Enemy Links" are tough for those small town players who have no opponents, but nobody's mentioned that because banner players only think about themselves.
Not everything in Ingress has to be about you, gang.
Niantic, stop being allergic to L8 gear!
While this mostly applies to the new bounty program, it's also relevant to the Kinetic capsule program.
Regarding bounties, please just let it give level 8, it's already not that many items per day, it won't be game breaking, it's just sad looking at L7 gear.
And on KC programs, just do it, let us make X8's (at the same rate as X7's, but give the X7 program a bump up too). While I think the whole systems needs a bit of an overhaul, like letting us chose which items to sacrifice (instead of needing to capsule them up) and also just being way more flexible in how we can craft items/use KC's, just let us make X8s.
(I have more thoughts on the KC program, but that deserves it own post and would be a big change, while this would be a quick fix)
Oh, and please add
~Weekly Bounties
~Monthly Bounties
~Special bounties that can only be found as "drops" from random portals
:)
Daily Research Bounties not progressing.
Daily Research Bounties on 2024/02/12 will not proceed.
I am performing the specified tasks.
I have tried using the RESYNC button, changing terminals, etc. but no solution.



