Maverick Medal
Finally there is a medal for drone hacks, great!, but the design... I don't know.
First point the world lines looks good on bronze and gold categories, but on silver, platinium and onyx will be better a gray scale.
Second point, what exactly is the object on drak color?, is it a butterfly? cause looks like it, is something flying like a plane... in that case maybe will be better don't put the blank line between the wings neither the white dot in the plane head.
Third point, maybe the icon can have the old drone design.
Here are some ideas:
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I think it IS the old design, but in the creepiest angle possible.
It kinda looks like a aircraft going north, or a maggot flying south...
The current medal reminds me of a Texas Longhorn, with its horns going in an odd direction.
Problem solved, guys!
lol Green Goblin's hover board is the best!
Is it just me or does platinum look like plain silver?
Lol
I love the design, it's cartoonish and different, but nice and clean. The only thing... this drone flies around the globe, why? It should move between two portals and grind 10K hacks. In other words, this medal would look better with "hack unique portals" milestones. (The long distance is interesting too, but lots of places do not provide good opportunity).
I honestly thought the platinum was silver at first glance. It's missing the ornamentation and color accents that make platinum and onyx stand out.
Also, the border design changes are weird. In the epoch badge they are wider and have a gradient, in Maverick they are thin. And I don't think that the white line above the badge is intentional lol
I’m perplexed/frustrated by the choice to have the drone in the badge look vastly closer to one faction’s drone than the other’s. Granted, there are some minor differences in appearance between the badge and a Resistance drone, but the overall shape is quite similar, and it definitively doesn’t look at all like an Enlightened drone.
I’m not one to go down a rabbit-hole of claiming that Niantic has a bias toward one faction over another*, nor am I someone who will refuse to earn a badge or do a mission set that is “too green,” or “too blue” for my own faction alignment. But given that there are agents out there who do care deeply about these things, these kinds of design choices really feel like unforced errors from Niantic.
*In the game as a whole, I don’t think there is meaningful faction bias on Niantic’s part, but choices like this, the original app icon and default faction choice being blue, and leaving the “Resistance gain all victory Osiris” glyph sequence in the game two whole years after the event? That’s how those kinds of perceptions get started. It wouldn’t be that hard to avoid perpetuating or providing more “evidence” for this viewpoint.
Back in anomaly days, there were bonuses when RES gained an anomaly series while there was nothing or even penalizations when ENL was the winner. Is not a perception.
Also, let it be stated that Ingress may be the only game where "Resistance" is "majority".
The badge has the neutral drone design.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/Ingress/comments/n0gire/renderings_of_drone_mark_2_added_in_2701/
Which kinda comes back to the OP - why is the neutral drone design so similar to the RES drone compared to the ENL one? I do not look at the renders and see 3 completely different drones. I see 2 with side wings and some relatively minor shape differences, and one that seems totally out there different. While the differences are more pronounced in the renders, at the scale of the scanner, and more so in the badge, those differences are indiscernable at a glance and require attentive study.
It would perhaps have been better to have a single shape for both factions, and no need for a neutral version, but differently coloured in the Dronenet view.
I am of the opposite mind. Rather than worry about intention... I just don't see this as being something that affects me. I'm not trying to paper over people's concerns... It is perhaps cynicism that keeps me from joining in on this critique. More on that later.
I don't look at the badge and think that my team has been slighted.
I don't look at the colors of the Nemesis badges and concern myself with whether or not they're blue or green.... or whether the right shades of blue or green have been employed. I used to...
I'm all for people having preferences in shades of color and character of drones... But if anyone thinks that these things are illustrating a preference for a faction I just don't believe it. And if I don't believe that I'm writing it off as less than genius level design... Which is how I would characterize just about everything past the first badge designs. And I think it's notable to point to the fact that they haven't changed really anything in relation to our criticisms of the badges so I do not expect them to change anything about the badge... Or the drones themselves.
The mission Day badge is still a dude pointing off in the distance much to the chagrin of quite a few folks...
There is no homogeneity to the border of a lot of the higher level badges...i.e. founders level doesn't have those gray teeth. some of the Platinum badges and onyx badges do not follow the design language from start to finish either... Some of the anomaly badges are also out of character like for instance the look of the persepolis badge (arguably).
And on... And on... And on...
There are a lot of things on the profile screen that I would like addressed but in the grand scheme of things they are all less than minuscule importance compared to things that would be really nice to have that will apparently take forever to implement... Like organization of paid badges versus earned badges... And hiding certain badges. If I thought the drone design illustrated an actual preference of any kind I might join in.
I actually like that the enlightened version looks quite a bit different. I like that it's design is a little isolated... Perhaps even a little evolved, inspired. In my head Cannon I might even appreciate that the resistance design is closer to the neutral design on the badge... As they are resistant to change. I could certainly be deluded and coming up with my own justifications but the function of the badge is fair so I placate myself.
There was a time when I thought that they were going to redesign the entire profile and all the badges when prime came into existence you could imagine my disappointment when everything was left pretty much the same. Since then I don't really expect much when it comes to design... The profile screen itself is still working off of a patchwork of old design languages which have been sewn together like Frankenstein. None of the rough spots were sanded... I am remiss to think that they will ever be without a complete rework.
Comparing the art design of badges that span about 8 years (bio pages didn't appear until September 2013) will show various people have been involved. I think it's expected that consistency will not show.
The medal always looks like a horse saddle to me. I can’t unsee it. 🤣🤣🤣
The drone medal always looked like a Klingon bird of prey to me . 😬