[Discussion] New Item: Rare Kinetic Capsule
A Kinetic Capsule is a unique type of Capsule that refines items through a combination of XM, Materials (items), and kinetic energy charged by walking a predetermined distance. Agents can channel kinetic energy to their Kinetic Capsule even without the Ingress Scanner open, thanks to Adventure Sync.
Since the introduction of Common Kinetic Capsule, Agents have been able to craft or refine Very Rare XM Constructs and thereby enhance the XM Network and support the research around it. Visur Technology, Inc. has recently received a blueprint from an anonymous Researcher for a Rare Kinetic Capsule.
Unlike the existing Common Kinetic Capsule, this Rare variant can be obtained through Portal or Drone hacks, but is less stable and is destroyed after 3 uses:
- While the Common Kinetic Capsule requires Access Level 4 to claim, the Rare Kinetic Capsule will be hackable from the Portal Network by Agents of any Access Level.
- While only one Common Kinetic Capsule can be activated at a time, up to 7 total Kinetic Capsule Programs can be activated in parallel, across both Common and Rare Kinetic Capsules.
- In Visur laboratory, Rare Kinetic Capsules will meltdown after 3 cycles of Kinetic Program conversions.
The NIA has decided to incorporate this blueprint to the Ingress Scanner by September to facilitate Agents in crafting Very Rare XM Constructs. To assist Agents in studying the behavior of Rare Kinetic Capsules, the NIA will reactivate the ADA Refactor, Jarvis Virus, and L8 Resonator Kinetic Programs.
Report sightings of the Rare Kinetic Capsule on Twitter/Instagram/Facebook with the hashtags #Ingress #RareKineticCapsule. Share with us via the Ingress Community Forum any new Kinetic Programs or Kinetic Capsule features that you would like to see.
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Niantic finally did the thing we asked for?
HackGlyph. Walk. Craft. Repeat.Now get rid of quantum capsules
I honestly expected the Rare ones to be like Pokémon GO where you have to buy them so I’m glad.
I wonder if we will get Very Rare ones.
Share with us via the Ingress Community Forum any new Kinetic Programs or Kinetic Capsule features that you would like to see.
Wish list:
VRLA
Kinetic craftable items
Medal for Kinetic capsules walked
I know, I know, people don't like to see it, but why not sell them on the store as well? People that want to pay for them are free to do so to get more items out of them, and if they don't like to pay, they can still hack them from portals.
After all the complaining about wanting to grow the revenue stream, they make extra kcaps free? lol
Completely lost that revenue stream.
I'd of bought 7 of them today if they were paid items.
If they decide to try to make it pay after the fact, and remove the free hacked ones, it WILL NOT turn out like they think it will.
As Niantic will presumably be checking this thread can I quickly ram in a related thing?
Or give them out during events and stuff.
Meanwhile will need to see the drop rate of those capsules.
I think if the reaction to this is positive we will see Very Rare Kinetic Capsules that are premium/special event only.
For a brand new item, I'd rather they give it some time in the wild before they even thought about selling it. Could you imagine if they introduced it as a premium item and then discovered it had some kind of game-breaking bug after people had already paid for it?
Edit: also obligatory mention that this is the first hackable item introduced since 2016, if I'm not mistaken.
Looking forward to havcking some! Totally agree about having them in the store.
Programs I'd like to see :
- 3 CHS and 4 km makes 1 RHS (same for MH). Would be nice to be able to craft the whole chain, C -> R -> VR
- 2000 LA and 100km makes 1 VRLA 😎
I'd love to see a temporary Boost program during events for Beacons and Fireworks! Both of them don't interfere with the basic gameplay (except for the maybe four persons that are using BBs 😜), and it's fun to see the network lit up. For example, during the upcoming Peace Week event, the new Peace Beacon could be a temporary addition to the programs.
An Aegis programm will be nice. One Aegis for 10 green shilds and maybe 12km walk
They could do like VRBB. Give you a free one, then an option to buy them in the store, or get one free if Recursed and CORE member per month. Either way, revenue stream lost. I don't wanna hear Brian preaching about how they need to work on their financials in future mentions of anything Ingress related for a while.
Well unless Niantic takes a stance again Defit or rockers, its the same thing to backpacks
Very Rare Turret and Very Rare Force Amp programs when?
Does anyone know if the capsules can be given to another player or if they are account bound (which would be better to avoid duping issues)?
Also if anyone gets the new capsule please post a screenshot, thanks!
Rucksack-Accounts \ Multi-Accounter werden noch mehr ehrliche Spieler traktieren. Ich brauche die Kinetische nicht wirklich. Als Alleinspieler 6er Portale bauen können, hilft mehr.
According to an XMA on Reddit, you can recycle them, but you can't drop them.
From @NianticThia
Kinetics Capsules are not like POGO Eggs; the closest equivalent would be POGO Incubators.
I didn’t think people really needed it spelling out?
Thank you, good to know.
Also;
I would also not consider Kinetic Capsules "loot boxes" - you know exactly what you'll get out of it.
So...the programs are the eggs?
I need everything in ingress to be explained in pogo terms.
Changing something from free to paid often requires quite a bit of finesse to avoid upsetting people.
If the concern is buggy software and paid items… well, Niantic let iOS C.O.R.E renewal issues fester for months. It'd be hard to do worse than that.
Reposting in this thread too, as I don't know why there are two threads on thus
Though, I believe it would be better, to have these as a Purchase only item.
With a max of 3 that can be bought in a week.
Reason being that, it otherwise significantly devalues to an absurdly low level such a powerful item that is the flip card.
With the conceivable addition to have A single Rare Kinetic Capsule issued out at the end of the septicycle to players on the faction that won either the most MU/Battle Beacon victories
I doubt you’ll be using them anyways so don’t worry about it 🤷
The Pokémon GO equivalents are only purchasable with premium currency (and in some special events) but there’s a way of easily and freely earning premium currency in that game.
We don’t have an easy way to do that, so it needs to balance out somehow
Maybe we will get Very Rare KCaps that are premium purchase only and are the only way of getting certain items but they need to see if this works firstly and how people use it I guess
I have suggested that maybe have them issued out as a reward for the faction winning a Septicycle and/or Battle Beacon victories.
And of course as a reward from events
Brosef I have completed 27 whole kcaps. Read em and weep.