New Feature: Battle Beacon - Discussion Thread

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  • RostwoldRostwold ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pretty incomprehensible, no idea what the rewards are, looks quite like win-trading, expensive and I need 4m more XP before I can do it.

    ... so that's a no from me.

  • PkmnTrainerJPkmnTrainerJ ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thinking on it, I could see this used by Niantic to show off what it does.

    Say that one day (maybe for the anniversary) there’s a blip in the XM or whatever lore reason you want to give, and every portal worldwide has a Battle Beacon activated at a certain time and agents can then utilise them, and maybe they get a small CMU gift towards being able to get their own one if they win.

  • I'll just wait for the Battle Beacon Badge then you can have my money. 🥱🥱🥱

  • LlamazapLlamazap ✭✭✭
    edited September 2020

    I've read the description and I'm asking myself what I could possibly need this for - unless its sole purpose is to actually be a massive pay-to-win Flipcard...?

  • jontebulajontebula ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2020

    Extreme high CMU for Battle Beacon now. Please fix mutch cheeper price and give us 1 free every day. In Pokémon GO we get 1 free Battle Pass every day. For me no buy i spend more time on hack more. In Pokémon GO we can buy it for free when we earn free Pokémon money and mutch lower price if we have 0 Pokémon money. Time to look on Pokémon Go and under 5000 CMU is very bad and to high Price. @NianticBrian

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  • jontebulajontebula ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2020

    But 5000 CMU is a joke for 1 Battle Beacon. I hope Niantic fix mutch cheaper price and give us 1 free every time we use 1 Battle Beacon.

  • No, I would rather not have them give out free Flipcards every day. Especially not those that ignore immunity. I would honestly prefer not have them in the game at all.

  • Definitely still wish we could see our explored uniques as perringaiden suggested, but I can guarantee that people will buy these and enjoy them. Communities can use them for their own events.

    There will of course be troll usage and other utility for them but I'm sure there is a market of players who will enjoy them as intended.

  • DizzyBumDizzyBum ✭✭✭
    edited September 2020

    The biggest problem I have with this feature is the pay-to-win potential. Instead of deciding whether to use a naturally scarce item to flip a strategic portal, or use a lot of gear to try to neutralize something heavily guarded, you can now pay a few dollars to flip whatever you want with no consequences. The only way to prevent this is to use another beacon on the portal to take up the beacon slot, which turns what was previously a fun cosmetic effect into potential metagaming.

    If battles could only be started on neutral portals, I'd be fine with them. But even then, I still wouldn't be interested due to the relatively high price for little return, and the lack of free CMU. If I wanted to pay for more items, I'd buy a fracker pack. If I want competition, I'll go help my team in the MU cycle.

    edit: One other thought I had is this feature is worthless for rural players, and players with few or no local agents on the opposing faction.

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  • jontebulajontebula ✭✭✭✭✭

    More agents on telegram say 5000 CMU is a joke from Niantic and extreme high price. I hope Niantic listen and relese mutch cheaper price soon. Please help us! @NianticBrian

  • GreenVamGreenVam ✭✭✭✭✭

    What will happen next? Remote viewing in which you can see dancing green or blue pikachu around the portals of your faction? Or a paid regular shield that launches a faction symbol over the portal? Or an ultrastrike that will **** fireworks on impact ???

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  • RostwoldRostwold ✭✭✭✭✭

    We need to know exactly what the rewards are.

    If an uncontested beacon isn't significantly better than a fracker, then you can guarantee a 'win' by simply ignoring enemy beacons, resulting in the enemy having paid 5k for something with less than 5k value.

  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2020

    We want global challenges back Brian.

    Also battle beacons should have a badge based on number of battles similar to how First Saturday badge works.

  • i realize that anomalies are on hold and rightfully so during this time. but maybe a global mu, portal control, shards are just some ideas off the top of my head and i am sure that others can come up with more. i know that at this time is not good to have the events, but the planning can be started. We are losing players which is very sad. when this is over, we need a large global event that will bring everyone back out playing and include everyone, not just a few agents.

    Also, i have not looked at the store lately, but smaller items that do not cost much individually that can be given out as prizes at events or meetups. keyrings, lanyards, badges, etc which can be bought and produced in bulk from a supplier for pennies. A lot miss the physical anomaly packs.

    i am available to discuss this further anytime.

  • PkmnTrainerJPkmnTrainerJ ✭✭✭✭✭

    I mentioned about having badges available from profile which would be great - https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/11959/physical-medals-badges#latest

    Smaller items being offered would be nice too.

  • BurliBurli ✭✭✭

    Yes, we want global challenges back... Maybe with drone or so...

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