Unique design for each faction
Many players liked the fact that each faction has their own unique drone design. How do you look at the unique-factional design of other items? How do you feel about the unique design of the interface (or at least a change in the color scheme) for each faction?
Even if we take from the point of view of the plot, then we use different technologies and different frequencies for painting portals.
And what if the portals for each faction are made different?
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By the way, it would be very nice if items of one faction could not work for agents of another faction, this would exclude wintrade, as well as the sale of items and would make it unprofitable for many cheaters to use accounts of both factions!
Cheaters gonna cheat, no matter what.
What I would like is different design for portals instead of just colors.
How would different designs work for portals? It seems universal to have them display its control by the faction colors.
Now if you went with quality of life improvements for how they're displayed then I would be on board.
I think we can get the new design of portals when @NianticBrian and rest of the Ingress Prime team implant from portal Scanning with the new 3D map.
Hope soon they can view very early screenshot how it looks in Ingress Prime with new 3D map.
It can help for who have colorblindness.
A small change can help improve that. Like one being more cilindrical, or squared, and the other keeping the piramidal shape it currently is. Other possibility is changing the outter layer (current like a fog) to have like a electrical circuit like thing (for RES) and like fire or sparks for ENL (think supersayans).
Maybe how the resonators connect to the portal centre is enough. I don't know you guys, but to me RES always seemed to be more tech and squared, so their connection could look more solid, while ENL keeps a more "spiritual" connection. Or just make one curved down and the other up (convex and concave).
Found this picture from a beta. The resonators are curved down and it looks gorgeous.
This is true with color blindness. It would also help when items group on the scanner view.
And where is the answer of the developer's company representative? What do they think about this?
Until we get a Community Manager, Niantic staff can't answer every post.
As for a change in the color scheme, I would most emphatically oppose any attempt to change the team colors at this point, largely because there's been 8 years of people aligning with their team color, and many players admit they chose their team because of the color, rather than any storyline aspect.
In terms of story and appearance, the portals are not RES or ENL constructs. The portals are the outpouring of XM into our world. When we add resonators of one faction or the other, that modifies the resonance of the XM, but otherwise, it'd be like trying to decorate a geyser. You could put stuff around it, but it's not something you can craft over.
Additionally, there's already enough complaints about the heavy graphical nature of the game field. Any new changes would have to include reducing the general 'business' of the map to not be immediately excoriated by the player base.
Ahhh flying links. One of the worst examples of 'not understanding how to use the game'. I'm glad we got that squashed in the Prime Beta. It was horrible.
I was only mentioning the resonators format from this picture. The line is curved, instead of the straigh of final result. Those links are really terrible and I really enjoy the links at ground level from prime.
In terms of story and appearance, the portals are not RES or ENL constructs. The portals are the outpouring of XM into our world. When we add resonators of one faction or the other, (...)
That part is what I mentioned. It will be just a minor diference, not a priority but would be nice to have