You can do the MZFPK Anomaly from anywhere
Thia has been answering some tweets. Some community engagement. Huzzah.
But also no extra events in Q1
Thanks to @tp235 for asking these. Oh, Q2 is also being finalised
Getting these updates on the forums would be appreciated too though
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Yes, the March Anomaly will not have a physical primary or satellite site.
Which I reckon is really weird
Pretty much now confirms that a task system is upcoming, presumably before 2nd week of February, so sometime in the next 4 weeks.
@NianticThia thanks for sharing this info, as there are a lot of people worried about whether they can get to an Anomaly site. Ie need to plan 2 months ahead for their travel plans.
This does mean, that, there will have to be a really big marketing campaign to get new players involved with Ingress. Many of those players weren't interested in Ingress solely because it did not have a task system.
But what does this mean for future Anomaly events? it is imperitive that large Anomaly sites occur around the world. While still enabling those who cannot afford to travel the option to participate.
There is also the next update at the end of January which will remove the Quantum Capsules
This is very, very, risky.
2 big changes in a short space of time
If only this were posted in the "official" locations like the blog or ... here...
The original announcement literally says "the MZFPK Anomaly medal will be obtainable globally." Why was this a question?
Reading Comprehension obviously. 😉
Because Niantic is notorious for failing to tell people everything, and everyone was waiting for the "specific locations" announcement that never came and was only discounted in a Twitter reply.
Past performance does indicate future results.
Obscure as much as possible.
I refuse to use Twitter now, (not that I was ever hyper active on it).
I asked her. LOL.
I asked them just in case because in the past there has never been a single anomaly without a single physical location.
Even last year, when you could get anomaly medals everywhere with RBB, there was a physical location.
And even Pokémon Go Fest brought back a physical location, so there was some question as to whether Ingress would do an anomaly without a physical location.
I'm glad I did because I learned that if there's a point battle between camps on a certain day, it's probably going to be an anomaly.
See you at the next anomaly.
Apologies. Updated that.
I had seen other Agents hoping for there to be some physical locations announced too.
Previously the Anomaly medal for the last few was available globally and at the physical locations such as LA/Munich so I can see the confusion.
Dont like this :/ do from anywhere ? i hope its not just somethin with drones... shame we must wait for march for that event....
You can't never fully guess.
Q2 roadmap when?
Because definition of "globally" means drastically different things to different people.
HexQuest : do 6 fields 6 times in less than 6 minutes 🤣
soon
No problem.
I am not offended.
The tweets are useful, just the topic title, leads us to believe it was ever not known
Thia's tweet indicates that the Ingress team is currently working on an anomaly for the Q2 season.
So what we are asking of Brian and Thia on the Ingress team is to ask them to announce physical locations at least three months in advance instead of at least two months.
What would you suggest next time Ingress folks tweet something worth sharing? I don’t want to mislead people.
Yes but to me feels so weird they skipped the entire Q1 events just because they focus on Q2 which is still long away...
Wait until you find out they’re skipping on Q2 to focus on Q3 😆
I don't understand the confusion. The initial announcement of Q1 being global was provided - no physical sites. What we are waiting for is the announcement of Q2 sites which are hopefully to be 2 months in advance.
Q2 is April 1 to June 30. May 15 in the middle.
Best case: February 1st.
Worst case: April 30th.
Best of both worlds: March 15th.
The confusion is, that last year's Anomaly events had a Primary site to meet up, while there was the option to get the Anomaly medal anywhere in the world.
With the plan to not have a primary Anomaly site sets a bad precident, as many players, such as myself, tend to plan their holidays/vacations to line up with these on-site events.