[Feature Request] Yet another way to implement Machina: The Infection

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Machina is currently moving slow. We know it's new and expect several updates to it over the next year and beyond. That said, here's a possible cool new twist to the "game" we all love.

The Mission: Have ADA give us missions to go into enemy territory (a random enemy portal in an s(X) cell where the enemy faction controls Y% of the portals). Our mission would be to perform some sort of stealthy action that could be time/labor intensive. I was initially thinking this could be something like "scan the target 5 times" but there could be other options (scanning in enemy territory could give cool "spy" vibes and give Niantic their valuable scan data on specific targets).

The Infection: Once the mission is complete, a notification could be sent in the activity feed (similar to a scheduled Battle Beacon) that the target portal has been infected. The infected target could still be the faction's color, but with red crystals floating around it. Once the portal is infected, a 6/12/24 hr timer would start. During the countdown, the infected portal's faction can come by and XMP the infection away* to "cleanse" the portal, everything proceeds like nothing even happened and the timer goes away. If the timer concludes, the infected target is flipped red, and the red infection can spread to other portals of the initial infected faction.

Rewards: Rewards for completing a mission (just the scanning portion) could be anything, a few X8s, a handful of decent mods, CMU, etc. But if the infection concludes, you could get a part (or a whole) craftable weapon that could instantly infect any enemy portal. Honestly, a tiered gameplay badge would be enough to engage most agents in participating.

This isn't super well thought out, but could be a cool direction. Seems like a TON of work to implement, but we can dream.


OH ****, CMU is Dark XM, Machina seems to be some sort of Dark XM (at least in the anime)!!! Could the future of Machina hold some way for us to earn CMU in game?!?!

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