[Discussion] Peace is Possible
From Thursday 15 September, 16:00 UTC to Monday 26 September, 16:00 UTC, a single-tier medal Peace Link Challenge 2022 will be awarded to Agents creating 200 Links and thus building connections between minds.
A new metric Peace Links Created will be added to your Agent Profile for the duration of Ingress Peace Week to help you monitor the number of qualified Links you have created.
Superposition Winning Faction Bonus
By winning the Superposition Anomaly Series, all Agents in Resistance have earned a boost during this event. Each Link they create will be taken as 1.25 Links in the event metric. Please note that Faction status is counted at the time of Link creation when calculating an event bonus, so Faction changes before or after Link creation will not change the Peace Links Created metric.
During this period, the Ingress Scanner is expected to exhibit the following behaviors:
- Kinetic energy distance for Very Rare Heat Sink reduced from 8km to 4km
- Links shorter than 8km in length can be created under Fields (all other preconditions still apply)
- Portal Hacks will yield more Portal Keys
- 8-minute Drone cooldown
- New Glyph Sequences related to Peace
In addition to the earned medal, the NIA would take this opportunity to introduce a brand new Beacon - Peace. Light it up to send a message of Peace to Agents around you.
Also available during the event period in the Ingress Store:
- Free Peace Week Bundle (0 CMU; single redeem; for accounts older than 30 days)1 Peace Beacon; 9 Rare Heat Sink
- Peace Beacon (1,000 CMU)
Comments
**** Peace. Bring me Dark XM and the red faction.
(but I will take a beacon and get the peace badge)
I happen to know a country where people advocating for peace still got banned from Niantic games based solely on their location. Feels hypocritical.
Niantic could create a medal like the peace beacon and sell it for 2500 cmu
War week when?
Easy peasy.
Glad there is an option to earn a medal or buy one. Thankfully the earned one is much better looking as well...Ooooops, thought there was two medals. Got it :)
There is only one medal you can get, the other thing is a new beacon you can deploy on portals. Would love for it to be a medal as well though, potentially as a "charity" medals with all proceeds donated.
Oh, they flipped the original Dark XM onyx badge art (that they didn't actually give us), and now we get to re-earn it again. 🙄
Edit: The original Dark XM
onyxgold tier that they promised us:Woah, I'm surprised they didn't added an store exclusive medal. Nice.
And my drone medal needs some boosting, so this looks fine.
Again 8km under field(why 8 all the time). Again drone timer changed(annoying,but can be useful).And yes,"almost DarkXM" badge(memories of that event will remain a nightmare for me)
But that beacon is a good idea imo
Niantic et al, please note that peace is indeed possible - only after a decisive Ukrainian victory. Anything else is going to be 10 years timer before the next "round". I strongly suggest using "victory for Ukraine" in place of "peace for Ukraine".
And today, when you made this announcement, I saw another "announcement". A Resistance agent @AlistarDONO has lost his life on August 25 while defending my country.
There are still his resonators on portals in his hometown Kremenchuk. I remember times when he used to take down my anchors during our fielding OPs...
That said, I'm still very grateful for the event theme and the beacon.
"Вічна слава Героям" is a really good choice of a attached POI in that case.
For those who don't know Ukrainian, it says "Eternal Glory to Heroes"...
Peace Not War
All Peace Together Begin New
There are instances when peaceful citizens or countries need to stand up and defend themselves from bullies and tyrants to maintain their independence and the state of peace.
I redeemed the free “Peace Week” Bundle but did not receive the promised 9 heat sinks. I did receive the Peace Beacon.
I want to offer my support for the peace beacon to be offered as a medal. Kind of a forehead ****, did nobody in marketing show up? It's a thing lots of people would want on their profile and would pay. Love the game but sometimes it boggles
the mind. Can you say missed opportunity?
Lol, forehead good, slap.per bad. Who made up the bad word list? The church lady from SNL comes to mind.
Apparently I'm not a resistance agent. NIA you are really a bunch of arse-clowns.
Points are not links.
Go woke go broke.
If "points" is not equal to "links",what do that "points" mean?
An ENL agent gets 1 Point per link, a RES agent gets 1.25 points per link. Both factions still need to reach 200 points, but for the RES for every 4 links they do, they get a "bonus point".
For me as ENL medal was recieved at 200 points accurately.
Oh by the way yesterday medal was the same orientation as DarkXM,and now it's in diffirent side xD
Then report it to proper authorities and quit complaining about it on the forums. Forums can't do anything. YOU can do something by reporting to the proper/correct authorities
I’m only a few links away from my badge. It’s been a nice little event with the Rare KCaps being active too, as I’m walking around more for links anyways.
Q4 events schedule now then please?
Don't worry I will. It is not going to be swept under the rug easily this time :)
yeah always report to police those **** hopefully they will stop doing