[Suggestion] Validation of Passcodes
Dear Ingress Team,
Recently, agents around me struggling to manage passcode on Character Cards.
Meaning, once agent get duplicated character cards, they don't have way to confirm its passcode is still valid or already redeemed. Due to this, agents needs to do some gamble and sometimes valid passcodes are wasted.
To solve such situation, let meI suggest you some ideas.
1) Add confirmation dialog between passcode input and passcode apply
Currently, passcode will be applied immediately when passcode input and fuxed. If there is a confirmation dialog, agent can know if this passcode is still valid or not. If passcode is still valid and agent does not have this medal, then agent will proceed to apply it.
2) Add new feature to validate passcode
If it is difficult to add confirmation dialog, it's also beneficial that agent can validate passcode on intel map. I believe that good agents will never perform brute-force attack to find unknown passcodes....
How about my ideas?
I hope you can kindly consider it.
Thank you!
Comments
believe that good agents will never perform brute-force attack to find unknown passcodes....
^^^
You believe wrong.....
It could certainly come with a fairly low rate limit. If I want to check the validity of a passcode there's no reason I would need to do more than one or two per day.
I was just going to mention that. Rate limit them to a few a day. Maybe even make it available only to L8 and up.
At this point, they could even sell access to such a checking service. Give everyone 1 per day, and the option to purchase a few more checks, maybe a 5 or 10 pack of checks with some of that cmu stuff. 😉
Passcodes already have a limit. So you'd just put the limit in before the validation, since the validation already represents a round trip to the server.
@Perringaiden
Hello,
Thank you for your comment. Let me confirm because I'm not sure if I got your point correctly...
This indicates that my idea can be realized? or?
Oh it definitely can. The issue of "brute force attacks" is already handled.
Yeah its frustrating not knowing which are redeemed or not. (Yes i could have managed them better).
I know the status of a stack of mine but there's another stack of known unknowns...
I have roughly 17 kajillion loadout cards, some of which are redeemed and some aren't. I have no idea which are which.
If I have a physical card, I cross out the code as it's used.
*Horror*