Ideas for new medals
Given some of the reactions to the ‘Scout Controller’, it shows how so many people are very passionate about their scanners.
Since Niantic don’t have a crystal ball and sometimes make mistakes, let’s give them some ideas of what we want to see / not see and how these things could be implemented, and suggestions for possible tiers.
With the new drone feature, a badge for “Unique Portals Drone Hacked” could be great, especially as the stat is already tracked.
B: 250
S: 500
G: 1,000
P: 2,500
O: 5,000
Total Drone hacks made seems silly as we all can only hack once per hour, drone distance could work but getting a good distance ~50km is only attainable in some areas and the ability for one to publish a route of getting XYZ distance takes away the individual challenge.
My second idea is for some kind of anti-BAF medal, a new stat that counts the MU fields you destroy. I think this could be really good for gameplay. My city has been BAF’d twice by the opposing faction and I drove about for 40mins to take it out fields worth ~6/8mil MU each time.
Yes - there is already an incentive to take out a field you’re under, as you can’t link under a field, and help your faction out on the cell score, but a badge would help give that incentive, and could create an interesting opportunity cost - Agent A is badge locked and this field could help them to level up, so you could have them take the big fields out, but if the fields are up during the next Checkpoint, it adds the Mu to the opposing faction’s cell score.
Finding a name for such a badge has me undecided, the description could be something like “liberated Mind Unit via Control Fields over populated areas”, the ideas I have are: Saviour, Discharger, Releaser. I’m sure others could think of better names!
For badge requirements, I’d suggest keeping it the same as Illuminator:
B: 5,000
S: 50,000
G 250,000
P 1,000,000
O 4,000,000
I’d love to hear other ideas!
Comments
I think there should be a badge called "Wanderer" that tracks each unique scoring cell you've played in. The badge image would either be a Map or a Wizard with a walking stick. The tiers would be
3 Bronze
9 Silver
25 Gold
49 Plarinum
81 Onyx
Like that! Could be for making a field in that cell, some lore behind it could be a contribution to that cell. I especially like how (almost) all the badge tiers are square numbers.
My next idea is "Wrecker" which would have a wrecking ball badge and would be the cumulative added score for all four combat stats: Resonators Destroyed, Portals Neutralized, Enemy Links Destroyed, Enemy Fields Destroyed.
100,000
200,000
500,000
1,000,000
3,000,000
I figured the badge by starting with three cells in a single row, then adding the three cells on top and on the bottom.each tier after that is adding a single layer square all around the perimeter. You would definitely have to travel to achieve this. Like I would have to leave Florida to get Silver.
I want the Drone flight badge to be called Falconeer.
And the Battle Badge should be called Excalibur.
A medal for portal discovery should be a thing.
I've advocated for this as well. They should re-tier the Seer Medal to make it realistically attainable and give anyone who achieved to 5000 original Onyx tier a special one-time only "Portal Genesis" badge.
Why did they remove the seer badge in the first place?
This ^^, not as demanding as Seer as 5,000 is absolutely bonkers. I think the requirements could be something along the lines of:
Bronze: 5
Silver: 25
Gold: 50
Platinum: 100
Onyx: 200
These might seem a bit low, but nowadays, especially with PoGo players as well there’s less and less to sub, and really anyone that’s added 400 valid portals to the network and dealt with the stress of Wayfarer and OPR has earned those wings, imo.
Some thought has gone into those numbers! There are 34 different cells that cover the UK so I could get well on my way to Platinum without even having to travel abroad.
This medal encourages exploration, but could even be done quite casually to someone who travels a lot
If the requirement is to make a field and contribute a MU to the cell score, that’s very intertwined with the core gameplay.
I could see this working really well 👍
Only if the badge is Miley Cyrus on the wrecking ball 😂
I like this idea.
I had a similar idea I posted (I think) on Reddit when they were asking for game feedback. I called it "Cell Master" or something like that. The idea is that to "master" a cell you need to have hacked a certain percentage of the portals in the cell. The problem with that concept now is that it is a constantly changing thing. Instead, I would suggest Cell Master should be based on hacking a certain number of portals within a cell. Suggested badge levels:
Bronze: 200 unique portal visits (UPVs) within 1 cell
Silver: 500 UPVs in 1 cell, 200 UPVs in a second cell
Gold: 1000 UPVs in 1 cell, 500 UPVs in a second cell, 200 UPVs in a third cell.
Platinum: 1000 UPVs each in three cells, 500 UPVs each in two more cells and 200 UPVs in one more cell (6 cells total)
Onyx: 1500 UPVs each in six cells, 1000 UPVs each in three more cells, and 500 UPVs each in three more cells (12 cells in total)
I think this would compliment the Wanderer idea. Wanderer would be about visiting more cells, Cell Master would be about visiting more within the cells.
This contribute more with portal community than scanning already existing ones in my opinion. Seer could just come back, but with a more realistic onyx tier. Onyx seer have the same problem as scout controller (3 times worse actually), since it would require 13 years to achieve now. It should changed to 1000 to became equally insanely hard as scout, or 500 to be reasonable achieved.
They could scale it down to 500, and create a new "wings" to everyone who achieved 10x in any badge. The red for 2x and maybe Gold for 10x.
My favorite idea so far
No lie. I created a mission badge using that image.
I I was to re-tier Seer it would be 3- 25-100- 250- 1000
How about giving the option to permanently disabling the ability to his your stats and awarding a medal for doing it. "Agent Unmasked" a one time only medal similar to verified.