☃️ Santa's Wishlist- Ingress Style ☃️
Pinched from the Transformers: Heavy Metal Community Manager (https://community.tfheavymetal.com/discussion/248/%EF%B8%8F-santas-wishlist-heavy-metal-style-%EF%B8%8F#latest) and adjusted for Ingress.
Greetings Guardians!
With the holidays almost upon us, it would be great to make sure that our elves keep busy in the workshop. I need your help in making sure that Santa gets a letter with everyones wish list on it. This is the perfect opportunity to let me know your thoughts and help shape the future of the game as we head into 2022.
What are the top three (3) improvements (features, etc) that you would like to see happen to Ingress?
If you could make one thing in the game disappear (doesn't matter what it is), what would that be?
@NianticThia , may be a good one to browse through.
Comments
1) Latency - Surprised this is still a thing coming into December, but here we are... Rarely can I defend portals these days, deploying a full set of resonators is hit and miss and curious if COMMs is still struggling because of this.
2) Fixed Drone Layer - We need to see which portals have been visited by our drones. I don't really care about drone hunting and I get especially annoyed when my drone gets sent home from a cool place by my own damn faction. This needs to be reworked, very sloppy all around in my opinion. I know some people are enjoying hunting drones, I imagine more people want the unique layer than what we have now.
3) Scout Controller Notifications - Toggle to turn these off or rate limit them.
4) Changing this to a real recursion benefit (it was something about missions). I honestly don’t know what that looks like, but something. Maybe on your second recursion you can re-arrange missions or maybe you can change the color of the wings from red to something else. I dunno. I’ve recursed once and now that im back to 16, kinda…not sure what to do next besides work on a few medals I don’t want gold anymore..
Not sure what I'd remove honestly...
1) More badges in store.
2) Store should have more badges.
3) I love badges, and I know a lot of people do. So, they should sell more badges in store.
Some people would say, "Nay! Me no like buying badges, me an elite agent who like challenge to earn my badges! Rawr!" They are boomers. Most younger agent who recently pick up the game love buying badges.
Niantic needs money to make Ingress business a float, no?
Because CORE is clearly a joke.
Improvements:
Most of those call back to Niantic rather than Ingress. Goes to show the game is okay itself, it's just poorly managed by Niantic.
One thing to disappear: Get rid of the massive "Join CORE" banner at the top of the store if you are already a CORE subscriber. I want to quickly be able to buy the items I want, not look at pointless things.
A CORE subscriber is a supporter of the game with a few advantages. It's an option, so i dont understand the critics
1) bring back all the deleted effects.
2) new story arc
3) having 200 start and stick to the game
4) global live events
fix latency.
give recursed players the new ability the recurse text promised.
Here we go, my wishlist:
improvement 1) any change of rules to combat "permanent big fields". (fields decay, matrioska, global MUs counting, etc.. etc..).
improvement 2) new story. i am sure CORE subscribers wants to help with it.
improvement 3) new mods, new kinetic capsule. why not having a roulette kinetic capsule that could give us a random rare item?
what i want to remove of the game, the reasons of surrender of agents leaving . i am sure agents will keep playing if:
- rules let them link, if not, being able to do something about it.
- something that motivate people to do the same thing again and again. that could be a story, getting something they are not expecting, etc..
Wishlist:
Remove:
Wishlist:
Remove:
wishlist:
remove:
1. Media Lockers
2. Chaotic Matter Lockers
3. Unique Drone Hacked Portals visible in Done Later.
1. Fix latency issues
2. Improve drone layers to show visited portals
3. Ability to hide/show & rearrange medals....
Yeah, a letter to Santa? Try opening a ticket to support, it's pretty much the same and you can do it the whole year! :D
Dear Satan: please, fix spoofing.
To disappear: The lag on all game actions that appeared this summer, and that has stayed in the game since then.
1. Improve of the missions Tool with Fields for Source and extra comment.
2. Improve of the possible Missions to submit. Probably for each 100 missions you Completed you get 6 more or 30 for each Recursion.
3. Human support, no answers like from a bot. Most of the time you get only a copy/paste of an earlier Email.
1. More players.
2. More players.
3. More players.
Thanks in advance Santa.
1. Improvements to drone exploration. This starts with showing us our unique visits in the drone layer. I have visited about 4,000 portals with my drone and know several other players who have visited more. A badge for Unique Drone visits would be nice. Additionally, I like the idea of being able to launch your drone from a key. If this were to be enabled, it would make sense have higher tiers for a unique drone badge than if it were not enabled.
2. Overhaul just about everything with missions. Clearly the Mission Authoring tool desperately needs an update. Increasing the limit would be great but being able to organize missions in the MA tool so it isn't a jumbled mess would be quite helpful. This extends to support and the intel map/scanner. Give us more clarity in rejection emails. The intel map and scanner are an utter mess at displaying missions. If I go into a city downtown where there are hundreds of missions, I could be scrolling several pages to find a mission that starts right where I'm standing. A search function would help filter everything else out. I would also love to be able to queue missions when I'm working on a banner so that I finish a mission, the next one in the queue starts automatically.
3. Better organization of badges/medals on profile. I would like to separate character/store medals from core badges. Keep them chronological but in their own sections.
Yeah, I took the liberty to pack multiple issues under one umbrella category. I didn't include latency or other bugs because that should go without saying. I'll echo that latency is a big problem that needs fixing.
Remove: the 65 AP recharging bonus. I would like to see this reduced back to 10.
I like that the "Join C.O.R.E." thing was brought up. Not in my top 3, but it is super annoying that the "manage" member benefits thing pops up while trying to scroll further down in the store.
I want Susanna Moyer to come back somehow would be cool🤪 oh and while at it fix the lag pls its super annoying!
Ingress Prime will get more players if some players/agents or even backpack accounts don't scare newbies to the point of quitting.
Things I would improve
1) complete overhaul of the way MU is counted toward the cell cycles, to deter what is currently happening (create perminant fields from the hardest possible anchors)
2) recursed agents to be rewarded with Wings on their end of year badges. (currently recursed agents receive the same badge as level 16 un recursed.
3) new item (similar to the rare candy on pokemon go) use the item on an item you currently hold to create 1 more of the item, suggested rarity the same as a virus from hack. This would give someone the option to create 1 extra anchor key or 1 extra item they could really use but don't have.
What I would remove. The "Join core" graphic from the store for people who already purchased core. I must have missclicked the manage button 10 times now.
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How about badges for recursion.
Like tiers perhaps. The recursion badge should have levels. 1, 3, 5, 7, 11 or something. Prime numbers, and achievable without being easy
Dear Ingress Hero Nicholas:
All I want in the ingress Scanner:
1. Get rid of lag 30 sec to 2 minutes to drop a reso is obscene.
2. Take TOS far more seriously than it has been.
3. Find a compromise that allows for SAFE anomalies to happen with build up to anomalies in whatever form it takes and IG fallout for what happens.
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Summon Year 9 medal
Dear Santa.I behaved bad,probably the worst agent worldwide.I never asked for such a things as ultrastrike nerf/droprate or shields uprate.
So,dear Santa,give them another minievent,may that people be happy too
The number one thing I would like to see happen in the future is a complete overhaul of the Mission Creator. It has no sorting function, everything lives randomly distributed. There is no in house image slicing tool. In game and on Intel there is no way to search for the missions you are currently working on. In cities with many missions, this can make finding your next one difficult. If it was a more attractive system that was updated for this decade, more agents may discover the huge amount of fun that can be had creating and doing missions.
Secondly, keeping the pandemic in mind, socially distant and safe gameplay still has to be considered. The introduction of a Challenge Tasks system that could award in game items and/or occasionally Badges. These could bring back some faction vs. faction feeling if say, as an example for a timed Challenge(10 days) You have to complete the tasks of 1)Throw 500kms of links 2)Create 100 fields 3)Destroy 500 Resonators 4)Deploy 100 mods 5)Scan and Upload 25 Portal Scans 6)Complete 6 Missions in the allotted time. The faction with the most agents that have completed all of their tasks receive possibly a scalable Challenge badge or a team type badge specifically for that task list event. The team that does not win would still maybe get item rewards for completing tasks. (This is all completely off the top of my head and I would love to discuss the concept if anyone has ideas on it.)
Third, I would love to see a Uniques Drone badge and layer.
I'm not sure what I would remove from game but I would echo what a lot of people have said about the CORE advertisement being removed if you are already paying for CORE.
Top 3?
1) More global events that have an impact on the overall story/lore
2) URLAs in Kinetic Capsules
3) The return of some (not all) retired badges (Gaurdian, Recruiter, etc)
I want to know whatever is coming that caused the layout of scanner to change. Why that big open corner of the scanner (when on screen to make a nomination, see settings, etc )?