Portal clusters

AkceptorUAAkceptorUA ✭✭✭✭

Based on this thread: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/11236/unpopular-but-necessary#latest and some more thoughts.

Given:

  1. There is a huge portal density in some places (big cities) making some people bored.
  2. There are portals that represent in the essence parts of something bigger (e.g. temple + sculptures on its ground, playground site and individual structures, parts of long murals located on the long fences, museums + individual things inside)

Ideas:

  1. Portals that can be considered as parts of the single bigger object\location should be grouped into a `portal clusters` and represented as a single object (players still should be able to see what every cluster includes).
  2. If you hash cluster portal you'll get more AP\items than for the individual portal hack, but still less than for multiple portals.
  3. Wayfarer should allow marking portals as a part of cluster. The same about portal submission. This should be based on location info (certain distance to the existing portal) and portal kind.


Comments

  • GoblinGranateGoblinGranate ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm afraid that solves no problem at all, how do you prevent the abuse there?

    Cluster give extra AP/Items, abusers will try to cluster the cluster portals.

    Too hard? No problem, you can still do the normal abuse by clustering regular portals since a cluster portal gives less items than multiple regular portals.

    The solution must start with bad actors being erased, otherwise this will just never end.

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