Portal clusters
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Based on this thread: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/11236/unpopular-but-necessary#latest and some more thoughts.
Given:
- There is a huge portal density in some places (big cities) making some people bored.
- 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:
- 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).
- If you hash cluster portal you'll get more AP\items than for the individual portal hack, but still less than for multiple portals.
- 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.
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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.