Idea: allow double R7 on second Sundays
There are good arguments for and against double R7 deploy:
For: isolated players can build level 6 portals alone, and level 7 with a friend - giving access to decent gear.
Against: building P6 and P7 is too easy, and there is no incentive to upgrade a portal that is already level 7.
My idea is to allow a single level 7 resonator only, but allow double R7 deploy on second Sundays. That way, isolated and rural players can have decent portals, and probably keep them for a long time, but in areas with active gameplay they get destroyed quickly, and players have to wait for the next second Sunday or get help from the community to upgrade to P6/7.
And why not allow double P8 on first Saturdays? This would make it possible to have P8 in areas with less than 8 active players of a faction.
Could this work? Any thoughts?
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Every area is different for game balance. I would hate a monthly double deploy 8. It would just create long standing p8 farms around here. I only have so much time to destroy things.
its a good idea in theory but i still think it should be focused more on try recruit more agents, if they turn off double r7 it takes only 3 agents build a p7.
That's a horrible idea for Second Sunday because Second Sunday is a Mission Day.
Mission Days encourage agents to visit new places, and agents visiting new places like to run up their unique capture numbers. (Portals at normal Mission Days are flipping constantly.)
Making it easier to build stronger portals on a Mission Day is encouraging the exact opposite of what Niantic should encourage on Mission Days.
Double L7 sounds like something you would want on First Saturdays based on the provided arguments.