[Functionality request] No dropping links when the portal is moved

Dear Niantic,

could you please resolve the issue of breaking links when the portal gets moved? More and more often the portal location edits are unjustifiable to false locations and the link dropping because of that has become a constant everyday nuisance. Thank you for your time and your hard work to make Ingress fun for us.

Comments

  • grsmhikergrsmhiker ✭✭✭

    I agree that portals being moved minute distances is a nuisance. However this would cause other problems, notably that it could cause links to cross other links.

    One possible solution could be to move the POI in other games immediately, but not move the portal until all links are gone.

  • DSktrDSktr ✭✭✭✭

    At one side,if somebody successfully moved your anchor 1-2 meters and all links can be redone automatically that would be great,and prevent "movement war" (if somebody cannot take a Portal down he can try to remove/move it).

    At other side,if somebody succesfully moved your anchor for example few kilometers,keeped links potentially WILL make a mess,that's why i doubt Nia will implement a feature like this one because it will create problems.

  • panfolekpanfolek ✭✭✭
    edited April 2020

    It would suffice to stop sharing the same POI database across Niantic games. I am not talking here with the problem pertaining to Ingress per se. I just didn’t want to be blunt.

  • 1valdis1valdis ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 2020

    @DSkatauri it shouldn't be hard to implement checking if the potentially replicated links cross the other links. If they do, don't keep them. If they don't, keep them on the moved portal. Or you could keep the ones which don't cross and discard the ones which cross. Multiple options.

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