[Ideas] Things people would buy in the Ingress Store

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  • GrogyanGrogyan ✭✭✭✭✭

    The SBUL/ULA is already a shield, of sorts, with allowing more links, allows for increased portal mitigation.


    The Very Rare items are already OP, in my opinion, there is however a lot that can be done in the Rare (uncommon) area.

    Many talks prior to Prime suggests that other Boosts are possible, once the server backend is done. And App version 2.41 suggests there is action in this area

  • starwortstarwort ✭✭✭✭✭

    The SBUL/ULA is already a shield, of sorts, with allowing more links, allows for increased portal mitigation.

    That is true, but it has no stickiness so it pops off if someone sneezes near it - hence putting a shield on is better for defence in the long run.

  • Just want to fix a mistake in timing here.

    AP was removed from applying mods, after the ZipCar Apocalypse. You could continue to add and remove all 4 mods until they changed it to restore the AP and only allow us to add 1 mod. At which the general outcry moved it to adding 2 mods.

  • That is true, but it has no stickiness so it pops off if someone sneezes near it

    It has the stickiness of a Rare Shield actually, +15%. Less than Turrets, more than Force Amps, Common Shields and all Hack Mods.

  • I had another idea for a paid item.

    Pre-charge Mod

    • Mod that is applied to a portal.
    • Contains a 'bucket' of XM equal to the maximum energy of the portal
    • Costs 10,000XM to apply (so Level 8+ only)
    • As the portal decays (only 15% decay and Fracker decay, not attacks) the mod's energy is used to refill the portal.
    • When recharging the portal, any excess over the portal's maximum, is put into the Pre-charge Mod's bucket, up to it's own maximum.

    The idea would be that you could set a portal up to work without recharging, for up to 2 weeks, and that you could over-recharge the portal when you had excess XM and let it drain the bucket when you were low. Add this to more special portals that you want to survive longer between recharges etc.

  • starwortstarwort ✭✭✭✭✭

    Source for that number? They certainly had zero stickiness when introduced, as there's at least one teardown online showing it.

  • Intel map. It's delivered in Portal Details.

     "REMOVAL_STICKINESS": "150000"
    

    https://intel.ingress.com/?pll=34.240814,-118.529973

    Portal details:

    {
      "team": "E",
      "latE6": 34240814,
      "lngE6": -118529973,
      "level": 1,
      "health": 100,
      "resCount": 8,
      "image": "http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/LEuOxZFvjxrgJl9TWVpUJgIn1Q_ZY0Ytfh4OLIsiu6Ha7lTjF6qH6q4_gok85lb1-5xRqmKUu0OES9U9ZDsmsN5YMP-m",
      "title": "Toadstool Fixtures",
      "ornaments": [],
      "mission": true,
      "mission50plus": true,
      "artifactBrief": null,
      "timestamp": 1583520180650,
      "mods": [
        {
          "owner": "Perringaiden",
          "name": "Portal Shield",
          "rarity": "COMMON",
          "stats": {
            "REMOVAL_STICKINESS": "0",
            "MITIGATION": "30"
          }
        },
        null,
        {
          "owner": "Perringaiden",
          "name": "SoftBank Ultra Link",
          "rarity": "VERY_RARE",
          "stats": {
            "REMOVAL_STICKINESS": "150000",
            "LINK_DEFENSE_BOOST": "1500",
            "OUTGOING_LINKS_BONUS": "8",
            "LINK_RANGE_MULTIPLIER": "5000"
          }
        },
        null
      ],
      "resonators": [
        {
          "owner": "Perringaiden",
          "level": 1,
          "energy": 1000
        },
        {
          "owner": "Perringaiden",
          "level": 1,
          "energy": 1000
        },
        {
          "owner": "Perringaiden",
          "level": 1,
          "energy": 1000
        },
        {
          "owner": "Perringaiden",
          "level": 1,
          "energy": 1000
        },
        {
          "owner": "Perringaiden",
          "level": 1,
          "energy": 1000
        },
        {
          "owner": "Perringaiden",
          "level": 1,
          "energy": 1000
        },
        {
          "owner": "Perringaiden",
          "level": 1,
          "energy": 1000
        },
        {
          "owner": "Perringaiden",
          "level": 1,
          "energy": 1000
        }
      ],
      "owner": "Perringaiden",
      "artifactDetail": null
    }
    


  • starwortstarwort ✭✭✭✭✭

    Verified. I wonder when that was changed, then?

    But anyway, a VR shield has +45 so it's still rather better than an SBUL.

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