New group

for the new year, can you give us a third group, peacekeepers.

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  • PkmnTrainerJPkmnTrainerJ ✭✭✭✭✭

    People have been asking for a third faction for ages. Variants of a Dark XM team, a red team or similar

    Of course, some do play as the “grey” faction, just blowing up stuff and leaving it empty.

    I can see why people do ask given that the other Niantic games have more than two teams/specialisms (Pokémon GO - Mystic, Instinct & Valor, HP Wizards Unite - Magizoologist, Auror, Professor (not counting the houses as they don’t change anything gameplay wise) and Catan: World Explorers has Golden Eagles, Blue Bears and Red Wolves). However I don’t see it happening.

    We will soon have a new sect of players amongst the teams anyways, of those who pay for the subscription and those who don’t.

  • GrogyanGrogyan ✭✭✭✭✭

    A 3rd faction has been requested for over 8 years.


    There is an inherent balance already with 2 factions, a 3rd player faction wouldn't work, especially with the low plaer base.


    An AI 3rd faction might be viable

  • RostwoldRostwold ✭✭✭✭✭

    A 'red team' AI that takes portals that have seen no activity for a long time (maybe a year?) and links them up very slowly might provide an interesting antidote to stagnation and give players in low activity areas more to do.

  • HydracyanHydracyan ✭✭✭✭✭

    A year won't change much. A month of inactivity is enough. It just need to have a distance restriction on link, to prevent large ones.

  • RostwoldRostwold ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm sure Niantic would have data to fine tune it with. Maybe something like 1 month makes a level 1 red portal, 2 months for level 2, etc. That way long links wouldn't be too much of a problem initially, but there would be an increasing incentive to clear up red infections (beyond just AP). The rate of link formation could be limited too - perhaps something like 1 per L14 cell that contains a red portal, per day?

  • MoogModularMoogModular ✭✭✭✭✭

    It would give a bit of PvE in Ingress which would be nice to have or at the minimum, see how it would work. The dark XM event could have easily been this.

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