Retirement of Quantum Capsules
in General
Niantic,
First you **** the quantum's ability to replicate anything including very rare items. Now you are killing the capsules? You really don't care about this game and rural players... Its very hard to maintain stocks of l8 resonators bursters and powercubes. To get 8 level 8 players together is a nightmare, not to mention trying to maintain it with the other team around... with Pokémon you could at least buy additional storage for 1 time fees not this monthly ****. Ingress has become a **** red headed step child. We did all the work for you discovering the portals for all your other games, and this is how you continually pay us back by making the game worse. Fix this issue and others and give us back the game that was great.
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Lower level gear works too. I'll agree making a level 8 portal is difficult. But that's the way the game was intended. If you're opposition has a farm then use it and burn it. They'll keep rebuilding it for you.
Ingress was awesome before MUFGs/Quantums
Crafting items was a player wishlist item for nearly 10 years.
No, hacking enemy portals doesn't return as many items. And it's longer between hacks.
"Its very hard to maintain stocks of l8 resonators bursters and powercubes"
????? What exactly are you doing at your place - with how many accounts?
First of all: Nobody needs powercubes anymore. Hypercube program provides infinite numbers. Furthermore : An active account can barely support more than 10 QC. Whats the output - 10 R8 and 10 X8 a day? Is it that what you need: the output of 2 Dronehacks? Just glyph 40x a Level 6 portal and you have more than that. attach some Ito and 20 glyphs make it.
I'm also questioning your Intention: if your area has just a few active players left: why do you need L8 stuff? That Resonator just drop required agents from 4 to 3 to build L7. L6 require 2 agents, regardless of R8. The R8 is only a big change in hard fights at L6 portals with heavy recharge, because R6 is not rechargeable unless 10+ links attached - so the R8 is required to hold the links and therefore hold the portal.
And the difference between X8 and X7 is minor. Its literally all about a higher action range. If you walk on top of resonators its almost equal. Instead of the max. 20 X8 Burster you get a day, you could simply **** with 25 X7.
If it is a silent area you don't need the stuff anyway. If it is about hard battles you can't hold the L8 farms anyway, so dont blame missing agents to build L8. If it is something between... just flip it up.
Say what you want you will anyway.
I have 1 account only not like many of the opposing team. I also don't have bot chargers like the other team. I am a rural player who occasionally goes Into the city however I have younger kids who play sports I have limited time and cannot play for hours a day like I use to. My home portals are miles away from each other. I can make a big field and I get very little mu. Sorry it's nice to have better gear because when you consider shields and charging it takes lots of l8 bursters to take out a portal. I have a limited supply
The closest l8 portal to me is approx 18 + miles from my house. City players don't get it when you are a rural player who gets visits by power players from the opposing team who seem to have limitless time and resources.
You are angry, I assume you spend money for fuel...you don't need that QC items and you don't need to drive for farming - save that money and spend some of it in the ingame shop - frackers. You do your trip to the town, strike out mods of a L8 portal, flip it, put VRHS and RMH inside and frack it. That is the gear you need to strike back. .. not the few items you get per day.
If you really play only 1 account... take into consideration that your enemy is cheating with QC items out of an enormous amount of multiaccounts. I fought opponents with a black recruiter badge... the one for "hiring" 100 "agents".
just putt your drone on some l8 portal somewhere like everyone.
quantums are getting retired thanks to all backpack accounts and bots so blaim anyone blaim those... 😕
I originally thought what if they catch all the people backpacking because they dump them all into their account to get the kinetic capsules at 2000mu each in store They would definitely end up being a lot of money. It would definitely be super easy to ban some accounts and it's the only thing that might make me be in support of removing the quantums.
I use quantums to make keys. Seems like they're trying to get people to spend money in game. And they're considering quantums being able to make bursters and keys. Ifeel like the keys would be an awesome feature since quantums are random what they multiply. It doesn't really promote the in-game events Niantic wants to promote like first Saturday.
Sorry to burst your bubble not angry (it is just a game after all) just disappointed in Niantic. And you really shouldn't make assumptions.. I don't spend money to fuel my game other than real gasoline.. well, wait a sec, I did ages ago 1 time before it became pay to win back when frackers first came out. I bought a huge pile of them and the same time I bought the key lockers. As I said I would have paid 1 time fees for extra gear space but not for re-occurring monthly charges. I have a house to run... not worth it. I don't buy gear, and I feel you should go out and hack it. Since then the only thing I have bought are some emblems from the Niantic store nothing that would impact in game play. Enjoy fanning the flames and fueling the fires... I am done from my past where I stayed up all night and was out for hours every day, and drove all over heck... Kids and work do that to you... Be well and just remember to have fun and don't be so grumpy. Life is too short. I will play as I have opportunity and that is it.