Resonators and Power Cubes at your Access Level
NianticBrian
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I've added two new loadout kits to the Store that include Level 7 or Level 8 gear, specifically to aid in building high-level Portals:
- 10 Resonators (at your Access Level, up to L8), 1,000 CMU
- 10 Power Cubes (at your Access Level, up to L8), 1,000 CMU
Unlike L8 XMPs or defensive items like the Aegis Shield, I believe these Resonator and Power Cube kits can help Agents build high-level Portals and encourage more gameplay in ways that don't unbalance the game.
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Thank you for adding this to the store. The cubes being available will help a lot of people through this.
Great way to help the rurals
Thanks @NianticBrian!
This is good timing, especially on the power cube front. Many thanks! On a semi-related note, are the Niantic offices currently operating WFH?
All of California is under a soft lockdown. The only businesses open are those involved in the food chain, shelter (i.e. plumbers can still work), and the bare necessities to support telecommuting.
It is still legal to take a walk or run for exercise as long as you stay 6 feet away from other people.
Nothing like profiteering off of people being on lockdown. Way to go Niantic
Given that we've got tons of people asking for this and they've been considering it for long before the current crisis, this is a great help to people trying to stay inside and maintain sojourner.
Nothing like kneejerking the worst interpretation when someone's trying to help. Way to go.
I would like to echo my thanks to Niantic. Appreciate you hearing your base and giving us a way to stay safe.
@MewtwosTrainer we're working from home, and here in LA we're still able to go for walks and hack Portals, while practicing common sense and social distancing (https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2020-03-18/coronavirus-safe-walk-run-hike-bike-outside).
Thank you for doing this. I agree with you that it is a reasonable and useful move that doesn't unbalance the game.
Thank you.
They could just suspended the sojourner, instead they make a double deploy event and add (more) power cubes to the store. Possibly you could pull you nose out of Niantic's behind long enough to see that this doesn't help the current situation in the world.
They made it so you can maintain sojourner while sitting on the couch. That's very much helping the situation.
Ehhh.. if u reach a portal from home then u have no worries keeping up sojourner? how does this help all others that are not close to a portal? u ever thought about those people? guess not.... i dont know who takes for granted everyone has a portal they reach from home...
What would really help everyone is daily 10 cubes of your lvl in store to claim or something and freeze the sojourner so ppl at least could recharge some portals and not worry their hacking streak will go reset ... not throw bonus to encourage go out and play thats wrong imo in corona times now.
Did you read what they did? They made it so that a single tap recharge of a portal advances one’s sojourner badge. No couch portal needed. Seems like a perfect solution to me.
yes that was good, but the double r8 and decrease hack output and increase hacks before burned out was not needed.....
Agreed. The recharging for sojourner is appropriate and appreciated. The double deploy and increased hack rates doesn't make sense. Agents are now running around to deploy as much as they can before the double deploy goes away. If we are told to stay at home, the recharging sojourner makes sense. The double deploy and 90 second hack time only encourages people to go out and do more which is opposite of the recharge / sojourner intent.
Not everyone is on total lock down. Many are still able to go out and exercise with common sense judgement and still play. The Sojourner recharge was for those who were on complete lock down. Its really not that difficult to understand.
Stop with L8 gear in store. I dont like it. @NianticBrian
Way we dont get it for free when we hack for Sojouner free when we dont have corona in the world.
Please fix it for free
And if they had nothing to do with Sojourner? You can buy cubes and recharge from home to keep Sojourner going. That's most assuredly helping.
No, you're looking at it wrong. In many areas people are allowed to go out to get a reasonable about of exercise provided they keep away from other people.
double deploy of r8 -> you don't have to invite all your mates around to upgrade the portal
decreased cooldown time -> you spend less time stopping at the portal, so you are less likely to meet others there.
Hi. Long after your post, I know.
Is there a reason that one can't buy, say, 10 R4 or 10 R5 or 10 R6 or 10 R7 whenever they need them? Sorta like a supermarket?
Search for the "Builder Bundle (Common)".
Don't like this.
Again Brian show's he doesn't understand the game.
Deploying an R8 seems innocuous enough at first glance, until you go to **** the portal and find an R8 takes more firepower to remove than a R7.
Everything is Yin and Yang in the game. Adding one thing without balance just advantages/disadvantages someone else.
Again Brian show's he doesn't understand the game.
Brian's Post Date: March 2020.
Meh :)
Brian, 2020: I'm adding resonators to the store. We think it will encourage more gameplay in ways that don't unbalance the game, unlike with L8 XMPs.
The store, two years later: Get your L8 XMPs and Hypercubes here!
You are showing that you can't read.
So, the company nerfed double deploys of R7 and/or R8s, making it difficult to farm resonators and XMPs, but making it easy for Niantic to sell L8 resonators and XMPs. Practically, making the Ito Ens and other farming mods useless nowadays. Those moves just reflect; the ship is sinking....
Nice to know that s-c-r-e-a-m is also a censored word here.