Scenarios for the Portal Scan Meter?

MargariteDVilleMargariteDVille ✭✭✭✭
edited March 2022 in General

From the upgrade notes:

After all Agents have upgraded to 2.90, we’ll enable the Portal Scan Meter: Agents can collectively contribute 7 Portal Scans per Septicycle to schedule a Rare Battle Beacon on the scanned Portal after the Septicycle ends. If Agents contribute 13 Portal Scans, a Portal Fracker will be deployed on that Portal immediately after the 13th successful upload in that Septicycle.

So, the "Portal Scan Meter" will be a new icon on each portal, with a counter for how many scans done since the Septicycle started. (A Septicycle is 7 days + 7 hours.)


How do you see using this? (when pandemic safe)

Like: At an L8 farm (or L7s if you can't make 8s)... do 13 scans (cooperatively or by yourself)... make a free fracker... A week later, if it's still around, another person or group can scan another 13x for another fracker.


But I haven't thought of a good scenario to plan, do 7 scans, then get and use the Rare Battle Beacon.

  • Find a Septicycle that ends when you'd be available. (Most Septicycles change when you're asleep or working.)
  • Pick a portal (or a group) to scan 7x... of an opposing faction? Of a place that flips a lot?
  • Then use the beacon to... ? Bump your profile beacon stat? Encourage others to come destroy the portal?

Maybe Niantic has a plan for the Battle Beacon that we do not yet know? Like... maybe they're adding Battle Beacons to the regional Score page?

EDIT to fix accidental number swap

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