Prime Portal Submissions/Nominations rough in Low Signal Areas
Ingress Prime Build 2.29.2-ecc17158
iPhone 8 Regular model MQ7X2LL/A running iOS 12.4.1 on Verizon
Location: Iowa, USA
Portal submissions in lower-signal-quality areas are really, really painful. And I'm not talking 1-bar, hinterlands of Iowa signal -- I'm just talking anything less than metro holy-cow fast cellular. Even for submissions in solid data areas, it takes multiple dozens of seconds to submit. Tonight in a 4-bar area, it took over 8 tries waiting up to a minute+ each try before it would time out.
We can do better, Niantic!
A) Please find a way to optimize this process. We rural players need OPR more than anyone else, I wager, because we're trying to raise density, and we can't put up our own cellphone towers, so please optimize traffic as much as possible. This goes for other operations, too -- making systems that work around oddities in bad connections, bad GPS conditions, etc....gets and keeps more players. I promise.
B) I would love to see a REAL progress bar and possibly status messages vs. the infinite squeezy triangle pulse which means nothing to me and doesn't show actual progress, so I have no idea if it's trying to upload something, or it is computing pi to the 300th decimal.
I'd love to see real status messages during, like:
"Contacting servers....CONNECTED"
"Uploading portal photo.....DONE."
"Uploading supplemental photo.....DONE."
"Uploading portal details and location.....DONE."
"Submission complete!"
C) If you could make it so I could save and complete a portal-submission-in-progress, I'd completely send you a box of donuts. Donuts For Developers! Draft submissions. If I hit a bad area and I'm going to not get to submit until later, let me save it as a draft and complete on wifi, etc. That'd be super-awesome in a frosting covered with rainbows sprinkles kind of way.
Many thanks for consideration!