Mission Drone

cheatchcheatch ✭✭✭

Really cool idea with the drones!

It would be really cool if there was another drone with more forgiving cool down (5 min).

Idea would make the hacks from this drone acquire no items at all, it just completes a hack step in a mission.

I've been not able to complete some banners recently because areas being closed due to covid and this would be a cool solution.

Even before covid, I been in situations before where the portal is in a restricted area (usually construction).

Keep up the awesome work!

Comments

  • HydracyanHydracyan ✭✭✭✭✭

    I do not agree of this faster delay.

    I don't mind drones being able to do mission, but at the current restrictions: 1hack/hour.

    The drone might have a range of action from the player, so if it's on sight of the agent, the hack can be counted to the mission. This alone will prevent missions to be done from home and help your scenario of inaccessible locations.

  • cheatchcheatch ✭✭✭

    I might be mistaken however, I thought you can only send drones to portals that are on your screen. Therefore, doing missions from your home would not work..

    My other understanding is that the current drone hacks will no count towards mission step hacks.

    5 min delay would be fair because if you get to a part of a banner that is restricted.

    Let me give you a recent example, I was doing the Yellow Springs, Ohio 18 mission banner, it was all over town.

    Got to mission 7/18, and found out the next 3 missions are in Glen Helen Perserve (https://www.glenhelen.org/) is closed due to covid until further notice.

    Even if there was a DIFFERENT mission drone with 5 min delay, still looking at an hour of drone hacks.

  • If it's hack cooldown is still 1hr what can it do even it has a 5min move cooldown?

    You know drone MARK I do can reach whatever portal in its 500km range so if can make mission hacks it may like a mission cheat tool.

  • cheatchcheatch ✭✭✭

    Correct, that's why a different drone is needed just for missions.

    MARK 1 hacks do not count towards missions.

    In this mission drone, once the hack is done, it should do a 'recall', also not allow an additional 'Move' after deploying from your location.

    There's a ton of banners right now that you can not do because random areas are closed due to covid.

  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭

    i think we will get a mission drone only for doing missions for those that cant due to covid-19.... maybe even global optima will start that was put on hold a few months ago.

  • HydracyanHydracyan ✭✭✭✭✭

    Instead of making the drone be able to do missions, they should add in the mission creator tool the mission challenge of "hack a portal with the drone".

  • grendelwulfgrendelwulf ✭✭✭✭✭

    This still wouldn't solve the problem of having to capture, mod, or throw a link from an inaccessible portal.

  • cheatchcheatch ✭✭✭

    99% of the banners are hack only

    All of the mission day missions are hack only

    The mission drone would also help with completing mission day missions

    I've done mission days where all of a sudden an area is inaccessible and some portals are within the 500 meter range

  • This would also help if you don’t know where a portal is and don’t want to get lost.

  • HydracyanHydracyan ✭✭✭✭✭

    99% of the banners are hack only

    Because people are lazy and don't like the challenge.

  • cheatchcheatch ✭✭✭

    You're right, that's why the mission drone should just do a hack.

    The 1% non hack only banners are designed to be more challenging and a mission drone shouldn't rob you of that experience.

    I've done all my local banners, so in order to do a banner, I would have to drive at least hour out, and not being able to start / finish a banner after that much travel is not worth it just because some area was closed off.

  • RostwoldRostwold ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd support this idea with one minor change... it should have it's own 'drone mission' badge instead of counting towards the existing one. The thresholds for medals would need to be a lot higher than for the real-world one too.

  • cheatchcheatch ✭✭✭

    Ya, I like that.

    Where if you use the mission drone hack at least 1 of the mission portals, then put a drone symbol on the description box when you click the badge on your profile.

  • HydracyanHydracyan ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2020

    Just make the drone hack work if you're at certain range of the portal, like 1km. This will both help those with inaccessible portals in a bad day and prevent people for doing missions from the couch.

    Have more than 1 inaccessible portal? Wait a hour or maybe hope for a mod or item to reset drone cooldown.

  • That would be great if a significant fraction of mission creators weren't currently locked out of the mission creator tool. That bug has been unfixed for months...

  • cheatchcheatch ✭✭✭

    Mission tool still working for me.

    I think that is too much work where you have to start messing with the backend / database.

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