Drone Hacks Cool down Should be Level based-Shottix
Hello all and thanks for reading,
I am proposing the idea that now with the new maverick medal that requires 10,000 Drone Hacks for an onyx badge, that the cool down timer for Drone Hacks should have a bit more depth and strategy about it.
My idea is that you are not penalised the same for hacking a P8 portal the same as a P1 portal, as there is obvious benefits for the higher portals.
My proposal would be something like
Level 1 portal - 10 minute cool down
Level 2-4 - 20 minute cooldown
Level 5-6- 30 minute cool down
Level 7- 45 minute cooldown
And level 8 - 1 hour cool down
This would add some benefits and strategy for people badge hunting and people kit hunting. As I think one hour blanket cool down is far to long.
Thoughts please? 😊
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Cant I hunt for low lv gear?
This is the best suggestion I've seen in a long time.
Thanks wulf, I hope others feel the same as it makes travellers hit their badges faster than people who sit on level 8 portals with their Drone. And would encourage more people to use their Drone with thought and strategy rather than just plonking them on P8s. 👍👍
thats a good suggestion. for those hunting the onyx it will be a pain with only 1 hour hack.
Also on top of what I mentioned, this would encourage people to go out and smash an area of the opposite faction to clear the way for their Drone to sit on P1 portals and therefore get your hack cool down lower. I can only see benefits to this.
yeah, at least it will make the player to open the scanner more often, run the drone, see the surroundings and it will lure players to take action
I think this is a great idea. I anticipate that a few people will say, "This will discourage people from building higher level portals", but really this should have almost no effect on what people build.
It also creates a metagame around leveling up portals to slow down drone travel. Players can easily zip through neutral territory, but other players could set up "barriers" of level 5-6 portals to keep other players from moving as quickly.
Find out that your opponent is trying to use low-level portals to quickly finish medals? Go build high-level portals in their neighborhood!
I really like this idea.
I just want to say, whoever disagreed with this without commenting for why they disagree is a coward because this is a brilliant idea.
Disagree
Because, the rate of how long it takes to go from L1 to L8, is on average, a day.
So it makes no sense to have reduced cool downs based on level.
Hacking l1 portal to rush a medal ?
I don't get why low level portal should be better.
Being penalised because you play ingress and upgrade portals is a really bad idea.
Disagree.
Just faster way to get to the Onyx for new Maverick Badge.
Drone hacking isn't meant to replace normal hacking by any means.
If this were enabled, people could easily get upwards of 100+ hacks towards the Marvrick badge, not to mention all the mods & vr items that will drop from that many glyphs...
If anything, this idea promotes not upgrading portals or even capturing them for that matter.
If you want to hack a bunch, go out and play. If you are content with hacking once per hour, use your Drone. Pretty simple.
I didn't disagree on the post (but see who did), but not a fan of the idea for no real reason other than finding shortcuts for these medals seems cheap. There are events where the cooldown is much lower, so take advantage of those events, otherwise, reap the rewards of hacking L8 portals :)
Low cooldown on a low level portal would encourage agents to keep exploring new areas with their drones. It's not so much of a "penalty" than it is "keep exploring new places with your drone". If the cooldown is set to 1 hour for every level portal then it makes sense to leave your drones at L7-8 portals to constantly ensure you get high level gears.
I do wonder about a few things about the drone since it has been implemented:
it is a neat proposal, but Maverick would become a really easy couch medal with 10-minute cooldown.
A compromise would be separating travel cooldown and hack cooldown, with lower-level Portals having lower travel cooldowns while still maintaining the once-an-hour hacking cooldown.
Instead of one-move-one-hack, players can jump through multiple lower-level Portals or one or two higher-level Portals between hacks.
A medal based on unique portals visited would encourage exploration of new areas. Otherwise, setting a low cooldown on low-level portals means you'd just leave your drone on a small cluster of low-level portals if all you care about is the Maverick medal.
cheat code initiated... ;)
Portal level not agent level
It would take 1 hour to do 6 Hacks if you managed to hack every 10 minutes, so at my calculations it would take 1666 hours to get onyx on 10 minute Hacks..correct me if I'm wrong. Its still not quick 😂
Thanks for the input, but I disagree, even with 10 minute Hacks it's still upward of 1500 hours of hacking for the onyx badge. It would encourage people to use their drones in places other than p8 farms. You'd see more drones in different places and also use your Drone for unique hunting more than kit farming. As the kit farming would take you alot longer. Most people use their Drone for farming and then also farm in person. It would make people like me think before I jumped my Drone to the next portal, to see which one I can go to to decrease the cooldown. If you wanted to jump between 2 P1 portals then yeah you could but you'd get no unique Drone Hacks for it. And 6 Hacks an hour towards a 10,000 hack medal is nothing IMO.
This was also my thinking. Create a big area of higher level portals to stop them hopping quickly
That would make it even worse.
What would be the point of going outside if it happened?
Sorry, it is a big no, from me
Instead of portal level, it could have a punishment for repeating the same portals all over again, while giving a bonus if you only hack uniques.
It could be a new status track under streaks. Even fit a badge, drone hacking unique streak, with a high number like 1000 at least for onyx, so hacking the same p8 farms will never up you towards the badge, and will incentive drone destruction.
A drone for recon, faster and maybe not allowed to hack can be interested too, so the players will choose their gameplay style between mavericks, unique streak and force recalling, while the team could be reconning to find out where the enemies are going.
So, if you could hack P1s quickly, you'd never leave the house? Weird.
Go outside and hack P1s with Heatsinks. by being physically there, not a problem.
with a drone, ie spo of. No!
There is a limit to the sanctioned spo ofing with the drone that I am willing to accept.
I don't even agree that the drone should allow glyph hacking
I don't even agree that the drone should allow glyph hacking
Agreed with this.
I think 10 minutes is probably too low. 1666 hours is 69.4 calendar days. Granted, people can't hack 24 hours a day everyday, but I think this would make onyx fairly easy to attain in less than half a year. Onyx badges should be hard and take time.