Friends & Gift Giving - Possible feature discussion

PkmnTrainerJPkmnTrainerJ ✭✭✭✭✭

It seems from the break down that a feature from other Niantic games may be coming to Ingress at some point, where you can add friends and send them gifts.

How do you feel about this? Do you play any of the games where you can send gifts? If we get this on Ingress, how would you want it to be different? Do you want it just to stay the same?

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  • Neku69Neku69 ✭✭✭✭

    I don't think is going to work the way e everyone is expecting. Please, be patient and wait until further notice.

  • GrogyanGrogyan ✭✭✭✭✭

    Adding friends seems like a quality of life improvement, to entice new plays to stay by way of gifting, when many new players are aware of how popular gifting is in Wizards Unite and PoGo.


    I am concerned as to what these gifts might entail, as this will change the general game balance.


    Remember when Niantic, for the longest time, as part of Ingress's Game Mechanic of hacking an Opposing Faction Portal would provide substantially less gear. While this has been alleviated, it is fairly balanced, but may go unbalanced depending on what gifts might be.


    I welcome it cautiously.

    But if I find that it really unbalances the game, i'll be sure to make my opinions expressed here.

  • ArtilectZedArtilectZed ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't get yourself hyped up for what it could be. That way usually leads to disappointment.

  • HydracyanHydracyan ✭✭✭✭✭

    If the gifts will be turned into current gear, I hope that we wont get any VR stuff from it. It could be xmp and resosonator from lv1 to 4 (common) and lv 5-7 being very rare, with ocasionals mods, but never a VR or lv8 gear. Also a bit o XM to refill the energy tank.

    Just something to help fill out inventory in emergencies, not a main source of gear.

  • ZeroHecksGivenZeroHecksGiven ✭✭✭✭✭

    One could speculate that this would be perfect timing with the kinetic capsules. That one of the pieces to the recipe will be something you can only get from a friend. Similar to the 7km egg in PoGo.

  • HosetteHosette ✭✭✭✭✭

    I honestly don't mind if someone gets two R8s and one X8 from a gift as long as the total number of gifts per day has a low limit.

    This isn't really a mechanism I want. However, if it shows up I sincerely hope that the mechanics of giving and receiving gifts are better than in the other two games. Going through your friends list and sending/opening gifts is just a huge time sink and there's no value to the extra time-- it's just seeing the same animations over and over again. Give me a list of my friends, let me select up to as many as I have gifts to send, and just "send gifts to all". The same for receiving... let me multi-select those and then get a list of the spoils.

  • jontebulajontebula ✭✭✭✭✭

    I hope we dont get lower out put from portals when we can send gift to friends. Way we need send gift in Ingress when we get more items from portals? I only hear of add friends comming to Ingress not about gift system. It is clear from Niantic gift system comming to ingress? I think we only can send gift to your faction not your enemy faction.

  • They shouldn't provide AP, or generate a reason to have 'spurious friends'

  • jontebulajontebula ✭✭✭✭✭

    Way gift when we soon have Kinetic Capsule and we get lots of items from portals on glyph hacks? I dont here Niantic think add gift system only here about add friends.

  • PkmnTrainerJPkmnTrainerJ ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2020

    Nothing to see.

    Post edited by PkmnTrainerJ on
  • Multiaccount feature (if it works like Pokemon Go). There's no real friendship, or maybe 10 friends and 90 unknown people in your list to trade XP.

    And will be worst than never to caught spoofers whom will get a lot of AP with no stats/locked medals.

    If someone wants gear, just gliph and you will can get more than 20 items per hack.

    Anyway, I hope that bring something really really special to Ingress, nothing alike PGo or HP.

  • EvilSuperHerosEvilSuperHeros ✭✭✭✭✭

    Seeing how Niantic / Ingress doesn't exactly like this sort of thing, I'd be wary about posting it on the forums. Could lead to warnings or inability to post on here. Just tossing it out there.

  • MoogModularMoogModular ✭✭✭✭✭

    This whole topic falls under that umbrella as well.

    This topic is a good example of why you should avoid making topics about speculation. It was specifically noted that gifts weren't in the code - just the friends feature for the Niantic social profile.

  • ZeroHecksGivenZeroHecksGiven ✭✭✭✭✭

    This is the problem with speculating about every last thing, especially when it comes to a company that more or less refuses to share anything.

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