Battle Beacon way to expensive!
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Almost 5 Dollar/ Euro for a "Battle Beacon"??? Do you ever cosider that people worldwide dont have that much to waste for your game? Its just weird how you act. Why not make it a " 1 Dollar / Euro" and sell them al lot, instead now only sell one and see sales dropping to zero after everybody tried it once.
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The rewards would have to be worth the expense... but they didn't even bother to explain the rewards.
boosted hack output and a beacon.... That's all I'm seeing at least...
boosted hack output is totally unimportant at all. just hack 3 more portals and you got the same...and dont need to pay 5€/$ for it. lol
Host a competitive event anytime, anywhere with Battle BeaconsUmmm, only if you are near a portal. So not ANYWHERE
Waste of development time, IMO. But they need to recoup that money somehow. Would have been better to focus on making the game more playable so that they can bring more players back.
In the current state, the high price of battle beacons is only one of their disadvantages. They can effectively destroy enemy support portals for large operations, even with viruses, which is much more expensive than 5,000 CMU.
If the Niantic is reading this, please make sure that the game does not start without the confirmation of the other faction. For example, to start the competition, the agents of both factions should install half of the battle beacon in the portal. Yes, there are cheaters that use two accounts of both factions, but it will be very easy to prove it.
I tested an didn’t need the other faction, Jarvis kicked in when I won. Even broadcast it on comms.
battle beacons should award a badge to stimulate more purchases....
We do NOT need a pay-to-win badge!
Battle Beacons are over priced, I agree.
Maybe the Battle Beacon could be further improved on in the future.
Being so high in cost would mean discouraging them for Anomalies to flip inoculated portals
Um.. too late? Anomalies much?
ok, we do not need another a pay-to-win badge :-)
I see you didn't bother to read the bottom line where it states the price is high to avoid potential abuse.
what abuse? cheater have enough inventrory anyway... :) they dont get their own game
Offering up a discounted "pack" of these might be good for future IFS meetups when we can all do it safely as a group, in person again. Could bring in a bit of money each month potentially, but that's dependent on the current state of your local play area. Say, $15 for 5 or such.
Just a thought. Granted we still have to go back to that place where we can meet up in person again.
*Edit due to being out of touch with the price of CMU. Oops. Been a while since I bought any.
Not everything needs badges. Come on.
This whole feature is a problem.
We've already seen what the Wayfarer level 10 limit has done to increase Spoofing and Multi-Accounting for vote skewing on waypoints. This is a design decision that in turn hurts the gameplay of others.
Now we see a new feature, that they already know is a target for abuse be ushered in when there is little reason for it. I'm in an urban area, and we don't have the community for this toy. Maybe on First Saturdays, but that could be something as part of a FS event.
The price is fine for the abuse reason. The 40M account limit will now incentivize account dealers to bot the game more, to sell more accounts to people who want to abuse use this feature. The cheaper this perk gets, the more people will want accounts capable of purchasing it.
I'm not sure what they are thinking.
For someone in a rural area, it seems somewhat pointless?
This is a badge collecting game last i checked. I love aquire new badges.
So essentially this is a pay to.use jarvis or ada and you get extra hacks, that seems really unfair if you use it out in a remote portal thats used for anchors
Did it restore the fields and links the portal previously had?
I hope Niantic relese somthing better with very cheap price. Please remove Battle Beacon from Ingress when lots of agents here on community dont like it. @NianticBrian
I collect Onyx Badges. Glad Battle Beacons don't get their own tiered badge. Sounds like it would be expensive to obtain.
Don´t buy it.No one is forcing you to buy it.
Its not expensive if you consider that it's meant to a lot of people, but to use it as 1x1 or a small group it it totally not worth the money. I bet the total amount of gear used in battle will be a lot higher than what you will get in the farm.