Niantic should charge for all medals
The financial viability of Ingress (and especially of anomalies!) for the future is important to us all. Charging for anomaly medals does not, in my view, go far enough.
As soon as possible, Niantic should enact a charge to receive ALL in-game medals: $5 per tier, per badge, all previous tiers required to unlock the next one.
If you've caused 200,000 reso deploys worth of server usage, you can stump up the $25 for the onyx medal in order to show the world your achievement. Seems reasonable, no?
Perhaps Explorer, Pioneer and Mission Day could have a higher fee with some of the additional revenue invested in carbon offsetting, to mitigate the travel required to earn these badges at the highest tier.
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It occurs to me that people might think this is a serious suggestion, so I'll leave this here: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe's_Law
Text, lacking body language, facial expressions and tone of voice, is always a poor medium for communicating complex interactions. A smiley here or there might have helped, hence we have emoji 😊
I would have hoped a sufficiently surreal suggestion wouldn't need them, but here we are 🙂
The sarcasm is quite obvious to me, but then this is the internet.
This was an obviously sarcastic post. But people who don't get sarcasm might not get it at first glance
The "carbon offset" was the clincher.
You joke, but there are already several Pay for badges, some costing well over $500 (for Onyx):
That's a cheap excuse for people who are bad at reading. Satire and sarcasm existed for millenium without emoticons.