About time to go back to 3 Agents for P7?

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  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2022

    problem is niantic has yet presented how portal scans will benefit anything to ingress, will it ever ? as it is now its just boring chores waving your phone in public and getting weird looks from strangers not understanding what u are doing exactly...

    most ppl turns off ar since its just drains battery more and isnt really fun, how would ar help in ingress ? u want a fast paced game without any AR that doesnt bring any fun to it.. I did some scanning for the fingerprint badge but wow it was so boring cant believe those that scan fulltime how they find this fun is beyond me..

  • ShottixShottix ✭✭✭✭

    I wrote this a year ago now, glad we are back to 3 agents for p7.

  • starwortstarwort ✭✭✭✭✭

    Scanning is a totally OPTIONAL part of the game. So don't do it if you don't want to!

  • MoogModularMoogModular ✭✭✭✭✭

    Exploration has always been forefront for me. It's really odd to be surprised that people play the game different - something that has been encouraged from the start. I wouldn't have known of the area around me without exploring.

  • MargariteDVilleMargariteDVille ✭✭✭✭

    Niantic DOES hire "surveyors" to scan portals in select cities. The "six key launch cities" with surveyors are: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, London, and Tokyo. That list is being expanded with: Anaheim, Santa Ana, Chicago, DC, Seattle, Nagoya, Kyoto, Singapore, Paris. Developers from Atlanta and Copenhagen asked if they could be included - Niantic said they, and others, are in the works for their next wave.

    They don't "contract out future projects to a third party." They sell access to Lightship.

    I understand the rest of your sentiments.

  • Otrera35Otrera35 ✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2022

    Until Niantic implemented the manpower reduction by 8%. I could have sworn I also saw an ad that Niantic was hiring a contractor for their future games in Zip recruiter a few months ago (must be for the Transformers game). I guess that job has been taken off...

  • HosetteHosette ✭✭✭✭✭

    @KarM3L Certainly chicken and the egg for portal scanning but if Niantic wants me to do a lot of wholly uninteresting labor then they're going to have to show me the benefit. If they are planning to use scans in Ingress then they can send the employees out to scan everything within a quarter mile of their HQ a hundred times and use that to demonstrate the benefits of AR in Ingress. The Vaillancourt Fountain is just across the street from their Ferry Building office and it would be an awesome demo vehicle for immersive AR-- you can actually walk all around it including catwalks over the water between the pipes and a walkway that goes underneath the flowing water.

    To save people a click, here's an image taken from Wikipedia, originally by Bill.



  • MargariteDVilleMargariteDVille ✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2022

    EDIT: I copied the below to its own post. Buried too deep here for most to see.


    They DID send people out to scan around their building - all around San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, London, and Tokyo, with more in the works.

    You can download Niantic's app ARVoyage.

    Also, see the Lightship-powered demos for The Cannes Lions Festival here: https://nianticlabs.com/blog/niantic-canneslions-2022/?hl=en

    • Go on a WebAR scavenger hunt with Captain Doty
    • See Cannes like never before with the Niantic Viewfinder
    • Fly the Niantic ARship around the Cannes Lions Festival
    • Bring an NFT art exhibit into the real world using WebAR
    • Challenge fellow delegates to an AR game of Tic-Tac-Toe
    • Share your experience at Cannes by sending an AR postcard

    See how other companies are using the Lightship platform: https://lightship.dev/partners/?hl=en

    • Coachella
    • PGA
    • Historic Royal Places
    • Science Museum
    • Tripp
    • Superblue
    • Shueisha (Manga)
    • Warner Music Group
  • HosetteHosette ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MargariteDVille Thanks!

    However, my point stands. If they want me to do things in Ingress they can show me in Ingress what the benefits will be.

  • MoogModularMoogModular ✭✭✭✭✭
  • Otrera35Otrera35 ✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2022

    Are other companies paying Niantic for the data gathered from the portal scans? I think so because there is no such thing as "free lunch." Niantic needs to FAIRLY COMPENSATE its players who want to do those portal scans. FAIR COMPENSATION does not mean a measly battle beacon after numerous scans.

  • GrogyanGrogyan ✭✭✭✭✭

    They built up the portal network with free labour

    Just don't complain about your areas with no scan data when the new features roll out in q4.


    Without us in the beta program, we just don't know what the new gameplay mechanics will be.


    At the moment, I can do it, so I will.

    Sometimes, if I am not where I am normally, I'll scan wayspots as a 2FLA mechanism

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