Add "Prime Era Sojourner" Medal to motivate agents to use Prime regularly after Redacted is gone.

HopeaKotkaHopeaKotka ✭✭✭✭
edited September 2019 in App Feedback (Archive)

Add a new "Prime Era Sojourner" Medal to motivate (veteran) agents to use Prime regularly after Redacted is gone.


- Works as the current Sojourner Medal but only hacks after Monday, September 30, 2019, UTC 17:00 are counted.

Bronze: 15 days

Silver: 30 days

Gold: 60 days

Platinum: 180 days

Black: 360 days


- Current Sojourner Medal is not affected


Hopefully also Niantic can comment if this is reasonable and doable so agents can prepare for this.


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Comments

  • edited September 2019

    Running time portals (Guardian, Sojourner etc) are badly designed medals, because they are a binary result.

    A new badge without history tracking (like Engineer was) is an alternate idea.

  • MorganzaMorganza ✭✭✭✭✭

    I know a fair number of players who have quit Ingress the day they lost Sojourner, from level 6 to 16.

    Perhaps a better way to do this new loyalty medal would be to give points for consecutive days, one point a day for the first month, two points a day for the second month, three points a day for the third and fourth months, and so on. This way if you miss a day it's a big setback but you're not starting from scratch.


    (This would also be a way to bring back a version of Guardian -- one point a day for fully deployed portals over 40 days old, two points a day over 80 days old, three points a day over 120, etc. Give players a reason to go after those adventurous remote portals and make hard field anchors for their teams, but with no feasible way to cheat and play the badge denial game.)

  • HopeaKotkaHopeaKotka ✭✭✭✭

    Makes sense @Perringaiden


    A plain and simple "Prime Era Daily Hacks" Medal would be great.


    - Only hacks after Monday, September 30, 2019, UTC 17:00 are counted

    - Hack break (> ~24 hours) does not zero the count

    - Hack after a break resumes the count progress

    - Otherwise technically similar than the current Sojourner


    Perhaps Medal requirements could be doubled as everybody can get this eventually.


    Bronze:  30 days

    Silver:  60 days

    Gold:   120 days

    Platinum: 360 days

    Black:  720 days

    Black with Recursion effect: 1440 days (recursed agents only)

  • A plain and simple "Prime Era Daily Hacks" Medal would be great.

    That's a great idea, because you can progress it, even if you're imperfect in your play. It might take two years to get Platinum, but you can still do it. As a point of note, most of the time Niantic aims to have badges progress to Black in 1-1.5 years for an average active player, so your values are probably pretty close.

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