Ingress Year Eight: Resonance - Discussion

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  • HydracyanHydracyan ✭✭✭✭✭

    Would be a differential, but I would really enjoy more the event format, with ranks based on whole year activity. Lv+AP, like black would require lv16 plus 10 million AP in that year period. Something like that, is relatively easy to get for most players, and if they didn't reach this amount it is really easy to complete it on the anniversary week with free 2x AP.

    Give bronze to everyone who made 1ap+, and leave the other badges ranked with larger amounts of AP and lv.

  • RostwoldRostwold ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wings for the year 4 badge?

  • PangarbanPangarban ✭✭✭✭✭

    It is for "contributions during Ingress year" X. So it would make sense for the level to be based on the level of contribution during that year. If that were done it would no longer be a useless badge, but an actual gameplay badge. Wouldn't we all prefer gameplay badges over badges that just get handed out?

  • ToxoplasmollyToxoplasmolly ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wouldn't we all prefer gameplay badges over badges that just get handed out?

    No? I mean, I don't want to get in the business of defining "contributions" too harshly or too specifically, especially at the scale of the entire player base. There are so many scenarios in which one gives up some individual glory for the sake of others, and those "contributions" are not easily quantified.

    For example, suggestions so far have been based on AP. But then, what about the agent who sits at home at the intel map helping run an op. Does that not count for anything? Or, how much AP should that be worth, and how does Niantic find out? Or, how about the agent who gives up AP opportunities so that they can help newer players level up? Same questions.

  • The badge has been the same way for seven years now. Why change it?

  • HydracyanHydracyan ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would instantly agree on one change: including recursion. Either by just giving the wings for those on the second lv16 (2 recursions) or by actually changing the onyx rank to be exclusive for recursed agents.

  • I could accept that.

    Though not "on second recursion", but anyone who's returned to level 16 after the first recursion. You only have to recurse once to get wings, and the recursion starts the process, not ends it. Best would be giving wings on the levels you've re-reached the second time.

    e.g. If you were level 12 for the second time, You'd get Onyx, but have wings on Bronze and Silver but not Gold+. And if you were level 1 on your second recursion (i.e. You'd gotten to 16 twice already), then you'd get wings on everything because you have achieved 16 twice.

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