Increase in nomination range for Ingress Agents
Hi community!
Taking into account the current pandemic situation we are all in, Ingress agents could help to improve the portal network and help rural areas, where normally players have to travel a long distance to reach a group of portals to advance in their gameplay. In these places, there are not high level players of any Niantic games making almost impossible to nominate POIs. Those players have been contacting high level players to travel to their towns and we have helped to add some wayspots (specially with Ingress since you can use Photos stored in your galery), but currently it is against public health to make this kind of tours. So I was wondering if it could be possible to double the nomination range temporarily (25 to 50 km), so we could help players in need, specially when remote gameplay is being implemented in Niantic games and interaction distances with elements is being increased, but these rural towns don´t have anything near them...
Doubling the nomination distance would allow rural area players to send High Quality main and support photos of an eligible Wayspot according to Niantic Guidelines so Ingress Agents could nominate them in the correct spot according to satellite view, for example for rural parks, churches, community buildings, etc.
I appreciate any feedback in this matter. @NianticCasey
Thanks for the chance to share our ideas to improve gameplay ;)
Comments
You know this will be abused right?
It would be temporary. It is just to adapt to the current situation, we can't go out to scout POIs anymore for rural towns. And it won't be abused if country has a good set of reviewers.
If you can't go out, where will you get the picture of the Point of Interest from?
We can't go out from our towns, but people from rural towns can still go out to shopping etc, so they could take HQ pictures, so agents with enough level would be able to nominate
The photo of a portal you submit should be taken by you.