A possible solution for paid remote anomaly participation
Many agents complain that remote anomaly participation should not cost any money (so do I) as it consumes little Niantic's resource compared to onsite participation. Now Niantic decide to charge remote participation. Provided that Niantic has made its determination that anomaly should be paid, I would like to raise a possible solution for remote participation in the future:
An agent still needs to pay for anomaly remote participation. However, such paid agent will receive a set of temporary key of the portals in such anomaly site before the anomaly starts. It can only recharge but not link using these keys. After the anomaly, these keys will disappear from its inventory.
Then at least the agent can get service (temporary keys) in return instead of just paying to get a "chance for getting a badge". Way better.
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Another solution I prefer:
Make remote participation free again. But remote participants only receive an anomaly badge designated for remote participantion. Onsite paid participants will get an anomaly badge only for onsite participation.
Here's a player-directed solution.
Don't buy the badge, that's all you're paying for. Get your warm and fuzzies by helping your team.
Have your local community record and credit participants within the community.
You don't need Niantic's report to track the stats either, just upload to Agent Stats before the Anomaly starts, and again at the end.
...but as their scores might not get included in their faction's totals, will just attending the anomaly without registering even be counted for the success?
This is talking about Recharge Room, you never have a direct impact on the scores anyway. You'll just be doing the same as always, keeping more portals alive in your own faction's colour. The scores go to the on site actions and outcomes.
have they announced the amount remote participants need to pay yet? i seemed to miss it. :/
$15 + any local taxes, same as onsite participants.