Suggestion - Decrease AP needed to level
This post is to Niantic for the players that are left.
Suggestion: Reduce AP needed to level at higher levels (14, 15, 16).
Reasons:
1. I attended the Sacramento anomaly. It's apparent the user base is quitting and/or the game is dying. Easing the end game goal of recursing may keep a few of the lowbies around to spend more money to fund Brian's next Tesla.
2. For those of us living in rural areas - not all of us trot around the bay where portals flip constantly - some of these portals are waited out weekly to die. Reducing AP may help cut back on people creating opposite faction alts to take out the portals.
3. Niantic may have given up on the Ingress player base (see Wayfarer and countless other examples this past year), but that doesn't mean the players have given up on Niantic. Reducing AP may help keep a few old timers around to recruit newcomers to keep this sinking boat afloat.
4. This has been done before, so theoretically shouldn't take much to adjust level requirements again (cost effective).
Just a few ideas to toss into the void while waiting for last weekend's medals to appear.
Comments
Sorry man. There have been ways added to earn more AP, not to mention tons and tons more portals that can be captured and fielded. All of that is ap.
Bish plz. Whole lot of nope all over that. They could retain agents by expanding levels. However, I don't see that happening
How condescending can you be?
AP is probably the easiest of the requirements that are required for levels 9 and up.
My apologies, my suggestion did actually come from a good place. I'll play nice :)
Is it the general consensus to sit back and whatever or use the community forums to provide feedback for Niantic?
You have provided feedback, and we are giving our opinions. That's how it works.
Thank you for gracing me with your opinions ;)
No, please dont "nerf" the levels of AP.
Things are easier with prime. I toss links and fields so much faster. Also glyphing goes faster as well. I've gained several thousand AP in the last hour just glyphing level 8 portals.
I would say just the opposite. I got the badge requirements for L16 shortly after hitting L12, but there's absolutely no chance I'd ever grind to 40 million AP. If anything the badge reqs for the final levels needs increased. Even 4 Onyx is easy with Recharger, Translator, Recon, and Sojourner.
Sure, why not?
All these other sudden and unnecessary changes have gone over so well.
It's funny how people think Niantic wants to **** Ingress. This discussion on Reddit is already three years old...
By using 26 portals and a few flipcards I did 1 million in half a day.
You just need to farm the necessary items, and learn how to play.
LV and AP are almost useless after 10, but if really want to level up that hard, you can plan a trip to a big city and spend the weekend playing. I believe there will be a lot of local players of your faction willing to help you with keys and item donations.
If I recall well, not even RedSoloCup reached lv16 yet.
The only benefit from leveling past 8 is a larger xm bar and longer recharge distance. The AP is part of the challenge of the game. Seriously you newbies have it easy. Try hitting 16 without all the new badges that have been added, the key lockers, being able to glyph extra keys, better low level burster strength.... This game is supposed to be challenging. Yes, Prime is not great, but it's still a free game that you either choose to play or don't.
I'm newer to the game and am 7.5 million AP with two gold. Close to Illuminator and Mind Controller though. I also don't find Prime any worse than Redacted. I started in June, but made my account years ago.
AP is easy. Medals aren't if you're as rural as me. My playstyle is definitely Cargress as the nearest portal to my farm is 15km away. I just make outings of playing Ingress in the evening. Making AP easier is going to leave me medal bound even worse than I am now.
No, no and no.
I think they need increase the required medals to level up, but Pokemon Go players wouldn't like that.
No. AP is easy. Seriously. I recursed Sunday night and have been playing casually and am level 7 already.
I am enjoying watching the AP tick up to the next level though.
Yeah, it's always "the end is nigh!" by someone. As long as I've been playing it's been like that.
Requesting AP reduction is just lazy and senseless...oh the finish line is too far away can you move it closer, maybe you would like them to reduce some of the requirements for Onyx badges while they are at it?
They have a number of ways to get AP the most common of which is FS. Find your local(ish) spot each mth and you can make several hundred thousand in those 2hrs. If your area doesn't have one, start talking and asking around and see if you can get enough agents interested.
We are like 30days away from the anniversary double AP event which can be with millions.
They won't (or seems unlikely) be adding anymore levels now they have introduced Resursing.
I hope that new levels are in the works. I'm currently on my 3rd recursion (purposefully flipped factions to make myself not rage quit Prime before I can flip back 😂) . Really the only benefit to recursing is the VR gear that no longer dupes in quantum caps and bragging rights. Not much of an incentive for the casual player base..
Perhaps new levels with perks like a bigger circle of play, increased inventory space by as little at 5-20 items per level?
I would definitely like some more inventory space. But you recurse because there is only a tiny downside to it so you may as well.
I would rather perks, so instead of AP you unlocked a perk if you have say 5 platinum badges etc. That way instead of people just going after AP it would encourage people to work on different badges
Geez they have some odd words that get your comment pending approval, needed to reword that 3 times
Krug has attained enlightenment and quit.
I don't think Recursion was ever supposed to an "incentive for the casual player." It's a pat-on-the-head for the committed lunatics.
Honestly, I fee like the lack of an actual “End Game” goal would make it so that players that achieve level 16 will quit out of the lack of other things to do. So by making the level requirements lower, people will finish quicker and therefore find nothing else to strive for other than quitting; which is the issue your argument is trying to end.
The high AP levels encourage players to participate in events such as anomalies and First Saturday events because of their need for AP. I know many players who hit level 16 and no longer participate in FS events because they see no point (unless they’ve recursed but we can go on about the lack of incentives to recurse).
I don’t see how they can increase the levels now that there is recursion. Truth be told, I think new levels is now a dead idea as a result.
Lowering the AP just diminishes all the work the rest of us have done for 16, and don’t make this about Prime. I’ve done well over 40 million AP since Primes release. In addition, Prime is actually faster to use if you know how to use it. Learn the slide functions, for starters, and just get used to it. You don’t get to beg out of the race just because you don’t like the new UI. Think of it as a challenge.
I ve got over 136 million lifetime ap. Grind grind grind. It's good fun 👍
If the OPs goal is to make the game more playable in areas of low activity where you have to wait a week for decay and then re-field then making things decay faster seems to me to be a better solution than lowering AP to level.
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You absolutely get it. I use frackers to take down my own BAF anchors lol