What do you think should be ingress prime to earn 5 stars in app stores from google and apple?

GreenVamGreenVam ✭✭✭✭✭

Since the developers don't want to consult with us about what we really need, let's at least discuss it among ourselves. And let each of you answer in this thread.

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  • MirthmakerMirthmaker ✭✭✭✭

    Big stuff is missing at the moment. My box has enough stuff going on so that I only notice big stuff is missing during down time. Covid makes big stuff very difficult to pull off right now.

    Otherwise, for 5* the tech needs to catch up with the play value. Lag, airplane mode tricks, multi-accounting, and spoofing need to go away or become so blatant that it's the equivalent of an alkali in an acid pool during a litmus test.

  • ZeroHecksGivenZeroHecksGiven ✭✭✭✭✭

    At this point, I have no idea what brings improvement. I thought signing up for CORE would bring improvement, it hasn't (for the most part, we did have the big layer/intel map upgrade). They read all reviews, yet the forums are quiet. We ask for updates about bugs, the forums are quiet.

    Like, how long do you give them what THEY want before getting what WE want? Little has changed over the past year and in some ways, things have gotten worse. Comms, slightly better. Latency, way worse. Drones, no changes. Missions, no changes. Scanning, improvements (funny this is something that helps Niantic, but has no in-game value). AMAs, more or less missing. Communication, some improvement. First Saturdays, no changes besides less quantum caps. Second Sundays, watered down mission days that appear like events.

  • ZeroHecksGivenZeroHecksGiven ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great response, thank you! Definitely some things I'd spaced on like the maverick badge. Though I'd argue that adding the "drone" layer is mostly a useless feature when I'm guessing a majority of agents would have preferred the layer feature would match how the others work AKA we want to see where our drone has been.

    So maybe not quite as stagnant as I implied, thank you. In my opinion, the Ingress app/service, is not at a 5 star level.

  • DSktrDSktr ✭✭✭✭

    One more thing. It's also bypassable but will give bad actors a pain. Currently all Niantic products have SafetyNet defence,but it can be bypassed. How about magisk memory leak detection as Ukrainian digital passport "Дiя" app does?

  • GoblinGranateGoblinGranate ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm actually OK with current app in general terms, but the reason I 1* rated it was because support. When you rate the product, you have to rate it as a whole and the whole is 1* just because support is a 0.

    Until support gets real attention, I don't think anything else will improve strongly enough to raise the game again.

  • Please add a language selection or an easier switch for English on Android devices. I like Ingress in English (but I prefer all google apps in German) and it would make it better to share screenshots international on events and more. Also should there an access to all done missions for core players in intel and then I would rate 5 of 5.

  • RostwoldRostwold ✭✭✭✭✭

    Reliability.

  • Ingress ratings has an albatross hung around it's neck by old players ratings who were angry about the transition to prime. Most people hate change and the UI update was radical. Worse it took many months really stabilize causing old players to cling to redacted and rally against prime.

    All that said, in the here and now, prime is 5 stars.

    But it needs some significant things to rejuvenate activity in most areas. The game needs to be altered to break the current area control game most old schoolers play.


    Should be incentives to build tiny triangles instead of massive ones. And to generate action the score board should measure more than just MU. And winning team of each cycle should be incented, although you have to be cautious about game balance.

  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2021

    Fix the lag its been going on for so long dont be suprised when people rate low due to that, nothing worse when something happens out of our control..

    Also we need a new plot/story to get ppl excited again , ingame missions from jarvis or ada could be a thing if live actors like before is not an option for obvious reasons. Maybe a new tesselation inside the scanner could be fun ?

  • Rating from older versions of an app count less towards the current score than newer versions. So every 1* rating it got when Prime was released means nothing in todays score.

    If you really want to up Ingress' app rating, you need to rate it 5* every new release instead of a one and done approach.

  • SSSputnikSSSputnik ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd also deduct points due to lack of feedback on these forums.

  • MirthmakerMirthmaker ✭✭✭✭

    If you want 5* fix the following. Spoofer/Multiaccounter removal (Permabanning, or fruit of the poisoned tree - all actions done by agent in question undone ), Taking TOS violations seriously, Laggy play only happening when something truly is broken or under scheduled downtime.

    Strategy side is NOT the problem. Techside, "we are not amused" is the best way to describe the situation.

  • gazzas89gazzas89 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Improve the communication from noantic to the players (that's something something should do for all games, seriously, I've never seen a company so bad at dealing with uts customers and so out of touch with what it's player bases wants)

  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2021

    Yeah i agree, i wish niantic would communicate a bit more here in the general thread overall its very little activity most threads ever gets a reply from niantic and now that we have a community manager i thought things would look different then before but feels not much has changed on this matter all we hear is that they read everything but how do we even know that for sure when they reply so few threads...

  • 1valdis1valdis ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2021

    I had been putting 5* monthly until I saw no communication from the new Community Specialist (for example, there was exactly ONE her comment on these forums for the past two weeks). This was a deal breaker because I had a glimpse of hope that with the new Community Specialist will come good communication. It didn't. So 1* and never looked back since then.

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