Discussion - Allowing Links Shorter than 500m Under Fields
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Don't disagree with me, I just wanted a discussion thread. Don't sh.oot the messenger D:
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500m seems short. Maybe it could be 1 or 2 kilometers.
This pretty much breaks the game logic - it was a fun thing for events, as a temporary... anomaly. 👎
Hope Niantic remove now and only accept link under fields on evets.
Most bad thing Niantic do now always allow link under filds! 😡
Now we cant field in enemys and they cant link. The most fun with Ingress Prime. So bad game now. Not fun play more when Niantic make block with filds no mening. Time to listen when more agents disagree now when Niantic always allow link under fields.
@NianticBrian @NianticThia @NianticCasey
Thid is by far the worst change ever made in Ingress.
I like it, as a rural player who doesn’t drive, I can’t always get to the anchors of big fields, so I can get some links and fields done regardless. Some other players don’t seem to like it though.
I think the bug that doesn't record MU for links under fields should be permanent as well.
It's a good trade off to allowing links under fields.
500m is a good compromise. Maybe tiny but short, perhaps 800m, keeping the '8' thing.
It achieves multiple goals
1) players under permaBAFs can micro field
2) encourages players to organize taking down BAFs
3) still enables players to play the BAF game (including myself)
@NianticThia I do wonder how much talk went into this? You only have to review the Green Marble, which involved fielding the entire Northern Hemisphere, sometimes with needle point accuracy to enable links of thousands of kilometres.
Wow, Niantic finally does something useful for new agents or perma-fielded areas and people are disliking it.
Now, we will have new agents who can link somethings, but not all things under fields. It will further confuse them. And some will think that only allowing some and not all is stupid/hard, and still quit. Also, can't capture mu under fields, so I'm sure that won't cause any further confusion.
On the plus side I guess, now when I scr3w up when I'm micro fielding, I will be ale to fix it without wasting a flip card (ADA or JARVIS). Which breaks the basic bits of the game...
Love the idea. I know it's controversial but should help agents under a permafield. Promote microfields over big BAF and this is the spirit.
However, Agent should get the MUs, as this is likely a very personal effort, and nothing towards the faction score for the cell, so that it doesn't impact the existing scoring.
This breaks the tactic of creating a field to prevent new blocking links during OPs.
It's only for links less than 500 meters. Blocking links as lanes will still function the same.
I think you think too much as former players, already having a high level. you forget the new players who like me start the game under a permanent field so without any possibility of creating the slightest link or fields, and not at all the level to break the anchors which are often l7/l8 and keep well… the game is therefore extremely boring and long at my beginning, no other player of my faction has miles around to help me … and a very aggressive opposing player in his game. I hung on but I saw a lot of early game that really didn't go far .. because no fun just earning xp through refills or waiting to find a neutral poi.
Hope @NianticBrian can locked it and we cant link under fileds if we are L8. Mutch better for all agents.
It's only going to help agents if they have portals that are within 500 meters of each other.
I see lots of link snakes going to be happening (portal to portal to portal, but never gonna make a field, because 500 meters).
personally I hope it will be resrzra for all the agents, because the permanent field, I always have it... 7 years of solitary play allowed the only opposing player to freeze the zone very effectively and very difficult to attack alone... this that I'm in my region ... so I'll have a little more fun in my game .. and also opportunities to advance the medals related to links er field ...
I admit that I have proposed a lot for 3 years, and add several hundred poi in my corner and this work pays off because I have enough to do lots of mini fields .. but already links even without fields will be more fun than nothing at all
I've been playing since 2015 and my city was completely blue with Aegis and VR. I leveled up to level 6 by hacking blue portals and cacoturing everything that was gray.
With level 6 I could then finally, with a lot of patience, many US and Burster, destroy fields and build themselves.
What is this b*lls*it about "making it easier for new players"? You can make it if you want to.
I fought my way up so other new players can too.
Big fields? So what? Go there, destroy, link and lock, don't slack off. And who now says that the fuel is so expensive: I drive since the beginning exclusively by bike. Annually between 15k and 20k kilometers. Events that are too far away by train or carpool.
There was something about "It's time to move" ...
So the complete logic of the game is destroyed. S*it
Alredy start it here 7.45
Please write here instead.
500 m may work for portal-dense urban areas, but is does not really help rural players.
Even in my urban area, 500 m is too short for 23-layer fields, but I can just build 7 or 15-layer fields and save my sbuls for another occasion.
your patience honors you... but giving motivation to newcomers much less obstinate than you is not a bad thing, because it can only increase the communities which seem to be impoverished in numbers
Hope @NianticBrian remove it soon. I dont like it.
We already have a topic about this
fields of the opposite faction can be disposed of. when you are covered by a field of your own faction, it gets tricky.
Time for new changes in this game.
I think this feature is good compromise, allowing agents to link up to 500m under BAF’s, and adding interest to micro fielding, a nice addition to Ingress
Either you want something or you don't. Making something easier for someone just because #mimimi is shouted.... Well if you think that's good for the game.... I don't think it's good. And it absolutely doesn't fit the story.
Then talk to your community and look for solutions.
Now we must link lots of blocking links to get same as fild in one location.
I will play the roleplay card here;
Mind Units should be controlled only by one faction. Now agents of opposing faction can field within a bigger field. Who controls the mind units then...
Quite unhappy about this change as this breaks the roleplay.