Scenarios for the Portal Scan Meter?
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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Yeah can't see the point in scheduling Beacon, maybe for the increased output.... idk..
Ps you currently have the counts flipped (7=beacon)
it's 7 for rBB and 13 for fracker.
the rBB will be auto deploy on scanned portal at the end of cycle you don't receive any.
No, it says you are able to schedule them
"to schedule a Rare Battle Beacon on the scanned Portal after the Septicycle ends"
7 scans => auto schedule a rBB just after the end of the septicycle.
if it's on the scanned portal it can not be a rBB given or else you could keep it.
it doesn't says the agent will schedule whenever they want. it says at the end of the cycle.
I wish they could explain and give us some more info.
PS. Perhaps some battle beacon deployed medal? It has been suggested on the forum before and would encourage people to scan more, I think. (Don't **** me, please)
I agree it would be nice if they shared some details on this, but any sort of communication isn’t something Niantic is into, so you’ll have to figure it out like everyone else, including trying to decipher their use of words (schedule specifically).
And no, we don’t need another scanning medal. We have two, yet, scanning up to this point still doesn’t really have anything to do with the game. Ya know what medal I think is long overdue though, is a new drone medal. Sign me up for that if anything…
maverick is enough for a couch medal.
Ingress is about to move. the long due one is mu / fields destroyed 😅
Well, that's why it's long overdue, we needed it two years ago. But Niantic is only about moving, when they want to be about moving.
I think it's a good effort by Niantic to make it a little more appealing than what's been done in PoGo world.
With the battle beacons, I don't quite, get it.... I can't think of any scenarios where this would be of any interest, especially since the cycle doesn't always end at a convenient time, but even then, outside of this anomaly deal, I don't see any reason to have these be a part of my game. I've used the other BBs to level up, which is fun. But, still don't quite understand BBs. I suppose if they add a medal it'll force me to try and integrate them into my game, I guess...
The frackers, I suppose I can see those being a thing. I don't think farming parties are as much of a thing as they used to be. With how plentiful gear is, definitely not happening in my area. I could see it as a great way to farm keys though and I do a fair share of that, unfortunately, with how heavy scans usually are, you're talking up to a gig of data and the wait time to upload that data before you can enjoy the benefits, so, yeah, probably not something I'll even think about while scanning.
And actually, that brings up a good point. If an ENL agent scans a portal....4 times and I come along and scan it 3 times, will that trigger a fracker? If so, I'll be less inclined to scan in opposite faction strongholds. On the other hand, I might be more inclined to go scan strongholds and then upload scans in the middle of the night and take away their ability to get free frackers for the cycle (only one per cycle)....
With how plentiful gear is, definitely not happening in my area.
This is definitely not the case in much of the world. However, at the same time, frack parties aren't as common either, because people can't find 8 players in the region at all. Everyone has just learnt to live off P7s over time.
Everyone has a drone, easy to farm L8 gear.
Fracker parties were common before the pandemic.
Since the pandemic, frackers have next to no value.
And no one is going to waste up to 1.3GB of their monthly data plan, for a single fracker.
We can loading upp all portal scanings on wifi.
But i think not help give free fracker get all agents dont use portal scaning start use portal scaning.
Again, working of the logic that there's a P8 in a location that a player can get to.
That's great if there Is wifi near portal, if not it's a long way back to portal ...
lol i will i have nearly unlimited data.
awesome for anchors key farming
If i scan 13 times i get fracker before time ran out or i get 1 fracker after checkpoint complete and time ran out?
The fracker will be deployed immediately after the 13th scan has finish uploading, you'll not have to wait for it.
Can we only scan same portal 13 times 1 time under 1 cycle?
You can scan any portal, any number of times. Each portal will only get a single BB and a single fracker for your scanning efforts though, per cycle. A single agent can do all the scans or 13 unique agents can do the scans.
This topic is before any announcement was made and before it was added earlier today. Part of the surprise is figuring out how it works to your benefit 😉
Part of the surprise is figuring out how it works to your benefit
However, it would be nice to fully know how it works at times though. The 'to your benefit' is fun. The 'what is this even?' part is not fun for many.
Is that not how people figured out anything with the game mechanics? The stickyness with shields. The link mitigation. The deployment of resos.
Players have gone above and beyond what Niantic wants them to do, because Niantic is being vague. Half the early tools that worked out all this stuff were bannable offences to Niantic, like BrootMod.
To add another example:
Part of the surprise is figuring out how it works to your benefit
That's what I was trying to do - asking people to think about how it works to your benefit, and share ideas.