Unique Drone Hacks
I thought it would have been great if the drone layer could put a coloured circle around portals you've drone hacked before. I really thought that was what the new layer was gonna show. Don't get me wrong, I love the new drone feature and badges, but I can't see why this feature wasn't added.
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It's actually unique drone visits (no need to hack) but I'm totally with you in this.
Same question here. Would really like to have wich portal i have visited
A question was asked last night on the twitter spaces thing with Brian. They asked specifically about the location of drones on the intel map. It seemed like Brian misheard the question as a unique layer, but also, I'm not sure. He did mention it wouldn't be tough to add, so hopefully it's regarding drone uniques. We definitely don't want drone locations on the intel map....
Maybe @NianticBrian can jump in here and clarify a little...
But the Maverick medal/badge is purely drone hacks, not visited without hacking and also not uniques only. It's identical to the regular 'Hacker" badge but than drones only 🙂
I do hope they will also create a second badge for uniques, like the "Pioneer" or "Explorer" medal/badge (unique visits).
This is what I was expecting the DroneNet layer to do, to be honest. Just like the other 3 states toggle your own info, I thought DroneNet would toggle your own drone visit history, not show other faction drones.
To me this is far more useful and interesting data, and I would have preferred a drone-explorer type of badge rather than the current implementation of Maverick, which could be earned with literally just revisiting the same 2 portals over & over again.
Actually just one is necessary. If you have one close to you, just drop it, hack and then recall it, giving zero chance of it being forced recalled.
That way you can get onyx with zero forced recall status.
Yeah minded, we already have 5 drone stats in profile:
1. Unique Portal Drone Visited
2. Furthest Drone Distance
3. Drone Hack
4. Forced Drone Recall
5. Drones Sent Home
and now that we have the Maverick (Drone Hack) medal, hope more will be added in the future. I think the Medal for the Unique Portal Drone Visited will come first and we'll need a new layer for that.
and also get ready if the increment will be retroactive too
No need for a new layer, just shove it on current drone layer.
It's a bit more crazy with that stat being predominantly displayed as the second stat on your profile. I understand the grouping but makes me wonder if they should group drone stats as one and then physical actions as another.
I think they should be all together.
exactly
Drone distance will be a pita medal/badge for most agents 😅 I'm not saying that it should be easy, but if they do it... please don't make it 1000km for black 😑
Where is the layer visited by the drone because the Portal history does not work as it should?
That is not currently an implemented layer. The implemented layers work as they should, but this thread is to ask for an additional layer.
I have tried to get distance (just hjumping as far as possible each time in same gernal direction), and so far I've made it 50km before i get to a point where the drone gets locked and cant go any further. Its due toleaving the edges of the city and getting into areas where there just isnt any portals. And where we live, to get 1000km from where you first drop it is just not gonna happen as we might go 20-50km in some direction with no valid POI to be made into portals. I'm more interested in unique drone hacks, and like OP, I was disappointed to see that this layer wasn't showing that, unlike the other 3 layers. Every time I redeploy i try to send it somewhere I havent done before, but its getting hard to remember where it has or hasn't been.
I am very thankful for our maverick badge, and that the first drone badge doesn't rely on uniques, making it more acheiveable for those in less populated areas to repeat hack the same portal. I'm looking forweard to the uniques badge to come 😁 My drone has visited almost half as many uniques in one year as i have in person in over 3, as i dont go to new places all that often.
I was disappointed to see that this layer wasn't showing that, unlike the other 3 layers.
So do I. Would make lot more sense to be that way. The actual drones could both be mixed on that layer or just always show to everyone.
A second Unique Drone Hack badge would be great.
Maverick is just a straight hacker badge. Looking at a lot of stats and so many have gold or platnium maverick but less than 200 uniques. Not particularly hard to fly around in a big circle/farm all day - wheres the exploration aspect of ingress?
Easy to send drones home to - pick the level 7/8 farms and knock em down - send 5 or 6 drones home.
I don't get where the idea is coming from that an additional layer would need to be added to show uniques. That would seem unnecessary. What is it about the existing layer for Dronenet that would preclude it from being able to display uniques? The scout layer is able to handle two functions simultaneously (uniques and volatiles) so why not Dronenet, as well?