Retired vs Temporarily Suspended Badges
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I understand that the Guardian badge seemed to cause some issues and was confirmed to be Retired.
However there are badges that are “temporarily suspended/on pause” such as Seer and Recruiter.
I can see there was a discussion in 2020 about this too.
Is there any Niantic update on these medals coming back, or being fully retired rather than being on suspension? Does the community want them back? Or even, do they want other medals retired?
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Seer is technically still counting. If you're unlucky enough to still have a submission from before the portal submissions were cut off in 2015 (I think), once it gets accepted, you'll still recieve a Seer Point.
With Wayfarer, I honestly dont see a big problem with reactivating it again. Sure, there will be more trash submitted, but that increase will probably neligable in comparison to when PoGo opened their submissions ^^'
Recruiter would need a massive rework for it to work. People hate when people suggest taking something from PoGo, but it has a decently solid recruiting system, with a unique code that you can share and enter up to 48 hours after you joined.
At this point, asking for Seer to come back should be considered trolling.
At this point, there are more than a few medals that need a good rethink:
https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/13754/agent-profiles-are-a-complete-and-utter-mess/p1
Anyone with with Onyx Recruiter is cheating, and spinning up fake accounts. Prove me wrong.
It was a dumb badge, and really should not exist.
Recruiter was always a dumb badge and never understood it.
Andrew stated it was on pause but he no longer works with Niantic. It could be something that Thia can ask Niantic.
I want Seer back, I'd be over Platinum by now.
linked thread is a bit dated. for example, NL-1331 HAS come back, so should not be SSPB.
that said, i agree some badges need a rethink, and i also agree there should be better badge sorting (anomalies, then characters, then challenges, then achievements (not sure where to put year badges in that mess) ) I've said this in past threads [me, too lazy to go look up a link for you, sorry]
i would also add that there needs to be a bit of a VISUAL reboot. I'd LOVE to be able to look at the outer border of a badge and instantly know if it was an anomaly, a character, a challange, an achievement, etc...
Seer isn't needed. Wayfarer is already filled with too many nomination, even more since the bad idea to give 40 nomination on ingress and pogo and not making people review for them.
Recruiter was useless mostly fake account creation.
I started ingress after playing Pokémon. I invited like 7 people that were also playing Pokémon at the time.
Eventually two of them got me a credit, even though all 7 created an account because of my invite.
I’d love the option to just remove it from my profile. Useless.
The recruiter badge had a bug that many web site sign-ins still have... Requiring a capitalization match for email address (even tho the email service doesn't care about capitals). So if the email account was drjohnsmith@whatever.com, and you sent an invitation to DrJohnSmith@whatever.com... even if they built an account and leveled up, DrJohnSmith does not equal drjohnsmith, so you wouldn't get credit.
Technically, that's not a bug. But for all intents and purposes, it is behavior that is uselessly pedantic.
The portion before the "@" in an email address is allowed to be case-sensitive. It just happens that any "email service" that doesn't actively hate people treats it as case-insensitive, presumably because people don't expect capitalization to matter and are bad at being consistent about it anyway.
Wasn't there a college professor who forced all of his students to play ingress for extra credit or something and got recruiter onyx that way?