Niantic, Please stop with the huge Anomaly kits in the shop
I understand that you want everyone to be able to attend Anomaly's.
And that you have realized that we as players spend a lot of gear at those events.
But what you are doing with these massive packages of gear is flooding reigons where people have multiple accounts with massive amounts of shields.
This shifts Ingress from a enjoyable game where effort pays of to a pay to win game.
There are already aspects of this in the game with core etc.
But please stop with this or at the very least limit it to players as an option when you purchase your anomaly ticket as it were before.
I don't mind being able to purchase in game items like characters.
But instead of making money on items perhaps you can create visual changes like skins.
And also. If you resolve the lagg issues. It will be easier for people to hack and spend the items they already have.
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Agree
I do think it would be beneficial to stop the purchase of shields outside of anomaly cities.
Disagree - it helps keep the fun of the anomaly going for those who ran out of kit without being an expectation.
I don’t mind Niantic trying to make some money for Ingress and this is a way to do it. I doubt they’d have carried on having the packs if it wasn’t bringing in something.
Agree
Even when shields have been nerfed to hell and back?
I understand niantic needs money ,but not this way and its each month until december this year vr shields.... a bit crazy imo
I totally agree. The theme of Ingress is moving, getting outside and playing, not staying inside and shopping. Anybody can make vr shields by using a kinetic capsule and everyone has a permanent one so get out and *use* it
Agree, and as someone who buys the kits because they are insane value. They should be locked to anomaly event attenders
Please for the love of god please do the same for viruses its getting so old watching one dude buy 400+ of them every anomaly weekend and removed all interaction from the game as he just drives around flip carding every portal with 2 pinks on it. Bright side is I feel no urgency to recharge when alerted as hes flipped the portal 99% of the time. Goes thru a hundred viruses a week.
Hard to validate any anomaly attenders. This is the last one with Echo so hopefully something is more thought out for the packs for the next series.
We asked Niantic for years to make swag more available.
We asked Niantic to make anomaly face medals available to those who couldn't attend.
We asked Niantic to provide us with other ways to buy useful things, so we could support the game.
The problem in the OP is not the anomaly packs.
where people have multiple accounts
This is the problem.
If Niantic focused resources on fixing the multi-accounting, spoofing, and backpack accounts, all these legitimate revenue generation tactics wouldn't be an issue. People would welcome periodic 'gear dump' options, especially in regions with insufficient communities to make P8s.
The problem is not the gear in the store. It's multi-accounting allowing 'single purchase' packs to be purchased multiple times by a person.
As for the item kit, it should only be offered to those who have purchased the Anomaly Ticket for the optional pack.
Also, purchases should be made until the day before the event. (The kits will disappear from the store on the day of the event.)
Otherwise, we will be **** each other with endless money.
Again, how can anomaly attendance be verified with also validating the store?
We know how many of the AGs who purchased the anomaly ticket option in advance did not actually attend the anomaly.
However, there is no way to verify that.
But at least by not selling them on the day of the event, we can avoid the PtW battle as much as possible.
The winners, of course, don't want to be insulted that they won because they PtW'd, and the losers don't want to be told that they lost because they didn't have the money.
Gosh, if only there was a was to use geofencing in a location based game. 🤔
If Niantic needs help with Geofencing there are a ton of companies that know how to do it. Even companies that aren't tech companies.
Gosh, if it didn't involve new coding in something to also tie to the store 🤔
You want Niantic staff to code new things for something so minor even if it would require time away from the Ingress app?
Oh wait, it's all based on S2 so even if you restrict something it's still a rough approximate.
They could further implement it for IFS as well...so the IFS codes can be redeemed in person and not be all redeemed before your event is done when you do in person. I suggested that long ago. Too bad they base it on S2 instead of something better. Like a 1 km radius of a poi, what else do things use a radius of POI....hmmm...gosh, errr, umm, hmmm
But that's OK, local ENL can keep buying 150 VR shields per anomaly. We will just continue to nuke them as he consistently deploys them.
They geofence for Go Fest all the time lol.
You're gonna fight an uphill battle trying to get niantic to sell less gear packs...
there hasn't been anomaly ticket since before covid 😅
But not anything with purchasing items. We know anomalies do involve actions from outside the anomaly box.
Niantic can already detect activity in Geofenced areas, look at Russia.
Ask people that live close to Russia. Some are also geofenced because it's based on S2 cells...