[Discussion] New Item: Rare Kinetic Capsule
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.
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Exciting.
And it may help with the bottom line if the devs decide decide to make it purchasable
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 others 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 have a doubt about point 2.
With a single Rare Kinetic Capsule, may I run 7 programs? Or do I need 7 Capsules to activate the 7 programs?
(And one of the programs may be with the old Common Capsule)
A single rare KC can be used 3 times.
You can have a maximum of 7 rare KCs running at the same time.
So yes, you will need 7 rare KCs to run 7 programs simultaneously
As a slight adjustment, you'll need 6 Rare KCs and your Common KC, to run 7 programs at once. You can run 7 rare KCs at once, but it would mean your Common (which is identical in all but limited charges) is sitting idle.
To be fair it creates a flip card in exchange of another flip card.
I don't think it devalues flip cards too much, because it doesn't change rarity in hacking them. If instead it would create flip card from "nothing" then I would agree it would be broken and undesirable.
Now cheaters will have even more very rare items. One script will receive materials and such capsules from portals, and the other script will fly and make very rare items. Have you ever seen how in a city where more than 200 thousand people live, in almost every portal there are 2-4 very rare shields?
Looks better than common one imo