A better compromise on 2+ level 8 resos

This has been suggested before: give CORE subscribers who recursed an extra level 8 resos *per recursion*.

Reasons:

1. Monetary $$$$ for Brian's next Tesla. This would encourage many of the currently recursed CORE holdouts to sign up.

2. Cost effective: The feature is already implemented server side and hasn't seemed to affect game play negatively when it's been enabled for special events.

3. Player retention: This alone would probably get a few old rural players I know back, and encourage existing ones to play more.

4. Less backpack accounts: The inventory increase helps with this. But not having to force my 10 year old to hand over their phone so I can upgrade my portal with their account would be much less tedious.

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Comments

  • MirthmakerMirthmaker ✭✭✭✭

    In my market that would be really scary. It makes the magic number 280 to 320mAP for instant 8s. I know several agents at that level who are still maniac players. That would be the sort of op that some people would dig, but, I don't think self sufficient only needing a second player to mod is where ingress wants to go.

  • HydracyanHydracyan ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2021

    This will also destroy the game balance, since one person will be able to full deploy a p8 everyday.

    You want a better version of your idea? A premium item, call it DUPLEX, and it will grant you double resonator deploy for 10 minutes. it does'nt stack, so using it 2 times, even in different days, would not return over than 2 r8.

    If a special event is active already allowing 2r8, then it will allow 4r8 (or not, just make the rule add +1 to the limit).

    Price: an eye.

    If this exist, one player could build a portall made of 88776666 under standar rules. Doesn't look much, right? But 4 players would be able to build a p8, using 4 duplex, and 2 a p7 using only one duplex.

    Players happy, Niantic even more.

  • HosetteHosette ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think a second R8 deploy would be an excellent recursion bonus but in order to keep the game balanced it should probably be capped at one additional R8 per portal. One of my locals has recursed six times so far, and that's just way too much power for mere mortals to handle... even though it's not clear that he's a mere mortal. (-:

  • I think double deploying level 8 resonators should only be for special events, like the Anniversary event, but I think double deploying level 7 resonators would be a great recursion benefit (assuming we revert to deploying one level 7 resonator at some point in the future).

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