IUENG Q&A with Brian!

ZeroHecksGivenZeroHecksGiven ✭✭✭✭✭
edited October 2020 in General

Only about 1/4 of the way in. Figured I would share for anyone who hadn't caught it yet.


  • 0:00 Intro
  • 1:20 Balance changes and decision making
  • 3:44 Map Avatars and Archetypes
  • 8:22 Interview goes off the rails
  • 9:25 Passcode on request for Community Events
  • 17:05 Mission Authoring Tool, Missions evaluation backlog
  • 18:45 Brian's best memories of Ingress' early days,
  • 25:27 Communication issues, weird scanner error messages
  • 34:54 Ishira blanks out
  • 35:14 Vanguard Program and plans for expansion, Ingress beta build, PoCs
  • 44:51 Pandemic, virtual events, the return and evolution of live events.
  • 57:39 What's next?
  • 1:07:16 Outro

Comments

  • InvestigateXMInvestigateXM ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thank you @NianticBrian once again for joining us! Hope we'll be able to repeat this sometime.

  • GreenVamGreenVam ✭✭✭✭✭

    the dialogue did not contain any specific information, only general phrases and slogans like those of politicians.

  • Quick question. What were your expections?

    Personally I gained a lot from this communication and am grateful that @NianticBrian took the time to do it.

    After listening to the whole conversation it's clear that he has ingress's best interest at heart and really wants it to succeed.

    Yes there are issues in the client which were acknowledged and the team are working on.

    As a community we can help with that rather than going "comms is effed" say "when I Select 5km it jumps to the oldest message, if I change to 20k it works fine" or something similar, give more colour to the problem.

    There is a recharging bug right now, when you select a single resonator it surrounds it in a yellow box but if you click the plus sign to add a cube the box disappears but the resonator is still selected, in the scheme if things this is P5 S5. Yep it's annoying but it's not game breaking.

  • InerasIneras ✭✭✭

    It was a fun watch. Thank you all for doing this. I learned a lot and gained a much better understanding of what Brian's job is.

    The video is just over an hour and for those who'd prefer a condensed text version can read the thread linked below:


  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2020

    yes watched this last night, thanks to Brian himself and the IUENG crew who made this possible <3 hope too see more like this in the future from Brian himself its so importalt and nice we get some input from the producer himself. Like i would think many including me would want new avatars but if this means putting less resources by not fixing bugs like comm / link issues then it should wait i think. I hope they can pull of a global event soon this is what the community needs and would show that ingress can still do events otherwise we feel abit forgotten compared to pogo many oldtimers quit because if no events they have nothing to hunt but lets hope it all be good soon.

  • GreenVamGreenVam ✭✭✭✭✭


    I expected not communication on general topics of several agents with Brian, but answers to specific questions posed by users. Certain questions from me and many other agents were not raised. Basically, the dialogue was on general topics that are convenient for nia. Nobody tried to figure out why our community is decreasing, and to draw specific conclusions on the air. There was not an ounce of analytics, analysis of the needs of ordinary users, and so on. But there was a conversation in the spirit, "niantik, you are so cute" or "we plan to develop the game, make it even better" ... I see how they have already done "better", in my country more than half of active players have stopped playing. They just say so the game is dead.

  • i haven't seen any evidence that form letters have gone away, that people who have been banned have been given any consideration or open communication from Niantic or even told why, that there's been any attempt made to tell people clearly why a portal edit or nomination is being rejected. All I see are the same form letters and lack of communication that there was before John made his post promising to be more involved.

    I'm disappointed.

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