New Feature: Battle Beacon - Discussion Thread

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  • AkceptorUAAkceptorUA ✭✭✭✭

    They should be cheap enough to be usable during FS. Maybe $1 will work or include into the time-limited FS bundle

  • you remove the competition, you change the basis of the game and the reason we play. might as well make a whole new game completely. there will always be cheating as agents are people with different morals and values. there will always be rule breakers. To make money, you need to provide your customers with what they want, without a product wanted, you are not in business.

    My suggestion would be to listen to your customers. find out what they want, reach out to the ones who left (as you have their emails) and ask, why they stopped playing, what would entice then to come back.

  • jontebulajontebula ✭✭✭✭✭

    When Niantic listen on agents and remove Battle Beacon from Prime when lots of agents dont like to have it in Prime? @NianticBrian

  • But we like the BB. Maybe you should see what other players want? You want to make 100% of the players happy? An illusion, cause that ain't happening, ever!

  • There's no reason to remove it now the work is done. Otherwise you're wasting the development time twice.

  • GreenVamGreenVam ✭✭✭✭✭

    A beacon is a paid item that is a fracker with a small battle for the portal going on before getting valuable items. This item does not cause any mini anomalies, it is just a battle for the portal, which often happens in cities and without launching such beacons. Such a battle does not bring any advantage for the faction, and can be won by the trivial number of helicopters that have flown together or the number of account bags with a full inventory available in the cheater's inventory. Therefore, the honesty of such a battle is undeniably highly questionable.


    And this fracker is also useless for obtaining items, since before receiving there is a battle on which you need to spend items several times or even tens of times more.


    That's why I'm against beacons. They are not tied to the plot, they do not act as full-fledged raids (like in Pokemon Go). The lighthouse is essentially a battle for a portal with a fracker that lights up after the battle. What prevents agents from arranging the same battles without a beacon ??? Nothing. In our city, go to any home portal and you will see regular battles in the same spirit, with a bunch of helicopters, using bags, remote recharging of the portal, etc.

  • My point was not that they're "good".

    But rather, now that the work has been done there's no point removing them from the store where someone somewhere might like to purchase them. They've been written and done, and while they have some known issues, none are so desperately critical that they break the game. For now free BLM beacons protect from a Battle flip for 4x as long as an inoculation does, and so there's no point in not having them available.

    Leave them in the store, where no-one is likely to buy them, and then get on to more worthwhile development.

  • MirthmakerMirthmaker ✭✭✭✭

    I think it's another strategic decision that needs to be figured into the calculus. Yes some players would use it as an excuse to play heads I win tails you lose on a BAF, others would go let's have our own game where we determine winner by anomaly style factors ( this would be better in a Covid free world).

  • HydracyanHydracyan ✭✭✭✭✭

    In this scenario, BB it's a fracker that the rival faction have a chance of prevent it.

    Thinking this way, BBs should have a bigger waiting period before it starts (like 15 minutes at least, with a warning to nearby agents), be cheaper than frackers, and have better output. This way you don't even have to combine or ask rival faction to join, they will on their own. And if they don't, you can enjoy a fracker portal.

  • what has that got to do with wanting the XFAC events to stop, and serious competition between factions to return?

  • LynoocsLynoocs ✭✭✭

    do you even read posts? it's literally an explanation why we're not getting competitive events. spoofers have too much of an impact in those, and since it apparently can't be controlled we're getting non-competitive events which are less harmed by them (at least both factions are equally disadvantaged by it)

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