u clearly have no idea why the drones were made. its for those that dont have a portal from their scanner circle. in many places its not allowed to go out like u would normally do and this is where drones come in....
It can be useful if, say, you are on holiday somewhere 10km from the nearest portal.
You're probably not going to walk there and back every day. So now you can go there once, deploy your drone and hack it every day to keep your sojourner.
So...just go for a walk? Some of us are in complete lock-down, self-isolating or high-risk groups at this time of Covid-19. If you do not have home portals this is useful for the Sojourner medal.
Niantic have made quite a few changes to Wizards Unite so that people can enjoy the game safely & some feature, like the Knight Bus, will stay, some won't.
There's less that they can do so that people can continue to enjoy Ingress but the drone is a step. They may increase it's usefulness so we can deploy etc. but I can't see them keeping that type of feature forever as it rather defeats the object of this game. It's a decent first step, albeit rather late in the day compared to what they've done in W.U. from very early on.
I don't remember WU or PGO being able to (over 80m): spin pokestop or visit inn, placing a Pokemon in a gym, capturing pokemon/obstructs, hatching eggs/porkeys without moving.
Pokemon got 2 tweaks: extra range and distance raid pass (paid item).
Harry Potter got also 2: the bus and energy on the ground, so you don't need visit Inns.
Both game still require you to walk arround if you want arround to properly play it. Why the hell Ingress need to have every single action done by drone? Linking, attacking, collect gear, trade gear, seriously? Being able to hack any portal is already a big advantage and change to the game. We will never be out of gear anymore, just need to jump the drone until find a lv7/lv8 portal (preferably an enemy's one) and enjoy about 12 hacks a day.
Dronenet is a far better change that the one made in Pokemon and Harry Potter (basically giving stuff free) since it still require player action and strategy. Also, were still don't have our "raids", but they will came up soon, and maybe that can be done by dronenet.
Let me just state my opinion one more time: linking, attacking and collect key are the 3 things drone should NEVER do.
The drone is an interesting idea I am sill messing with it trying to learn. But I do have a few questions.
1- does a drone hack count towards your explorer badge? (Hack unique portals; I have a couple which I can’t easily visit and sending a drone across chasm or across international border or to island seems good)
2- how is drone distance/ km calculated? My drone is far away right now but scanner still displays 0km. Is it the recall flight that logs distance? Or is it hops (moves) and my scanner has a bug?
3- I think ingress should put some skin in this. Make drones require power (or other resources) for flight (eg at L8 can fly further but more cubes to recharge)
4- also what seems to be a bug; if I send my drone to a dense portal area I can only hack the portal I moved to even though other portals are well within range
I like the drone, but we need medals as well. total distance flown, unique portals drone hacked.
Not that I need medals for the next few levels. Not before 15 or 16. But still want them. And I am actually happy about the drone. Key hacking would be nice. And if it is an attractive portal on an island, then taking portal out would return drone. Would add something else to gameplay. Not sure what cooldown is not ? 24 hours ? Would not give many keys. 1 a day if hack mods do not apply.
I have my favorite anchor portal, requires 500m walk on good gravel road in forrest. Sometimes I go there and hack 20 keys with hackmods, so in 10-15 minutes. Still way faster than anything with drone.
Now I use my many Quantum capsules for keys as well. I have 9 QC - That is almost 900 items in capsules. Good island keys are there, and primary anchor keys. So there are already ways that does not involve visiting more than once to hack keys. Maybe say you can only keyhack portals where you already do have a key, basicly helping the QC a bit.
Today I can not charge drone portals. Not sure why ? Maybe because hack is sufficient to keep sojourner ? So they are phasing recharge out ?
In the 2nd link, it says "When moving a Drone, if it hasn’t been recalled or returned, DRONE FOOTAGE will orient on the Target Portal where Drone Mark I is currently located, even if the player is no longer in the area."
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Actually really like this new feature.
I can go deploy the Drone at a P8 and go home and just casually hack it throughout the day.
Oh an yes like M42 said a Drone hacks badge would be cool.
I'm more interested in a longest distance badge. It'd be the new ungriefable Guardian.
I've gotten mine from Tokyo Bay almost all the way to the northern metropolitan border already.
Furthest drone flight is the straight-line distance from the start portal to the last portal.
This has just been implimented so they can turn off the hack mods on portals and reduce the 2x8, 2x7 Reso deploys.
u clearly have no idea why the drones were made. its for those that dont have a portal from their scanner circle. in many places its not allowed to go out like u would normally do and this is where drones come in....
It can be useful if, say, you are on holiday somewhere 10km from the nearest portal.
You're probably not going to walk there and back every day. So now you can go there once, deploy your drone and hack it every day to keep your sojourner.
This would be true if it updated your Soujourner, but currently (either by mistake or by design) it does not!
According to https://niantic.helpshift.com/a/ingress/?s=top-articles&f=how-do-i-deploy-drone-mark-i&p=web
It does
"Deploying Drones will also contribute to Agents’ stats, incrementing metrics for Hacks, Glyph Hack Points, and Longest Hacking Streak"
Try it. It doesn't!
You know - it could be like recharging - the further away you are, the less "hack output" is generated from portals.
I like this. Actually it could be already -50% of the output, reducing 1% per km.
So...just go for a walk? Some of us are in complete lock-down, self-isolating or high-risk groups at this time of Covid-19. If you do not have home portals this is useful for the Sojourner medal.
Niantic have made quite a few changes to Wizards Unite so that people can enjoy the game safely & some feature, like the Knight Bus, will stay, some won't.
There's less that they can do so that people can continue to enjoy Ingress but the drone is a step. They may increase it's usefulness so we can deploy etc. but I can't see them keeping that type of feature forever as it rather defeats the object of this game. It's a decent first step, albeit rather late in the day compared to what they've done in W.U. from very early on.
anyone knows if u can pickup items from the ground via drone, like keys or a capsule ??
You can't
ok weird agents said lastnight it was possible.. not sure why they claimed it...
I can test it out today if needed, but it's not possible. The button to acquire is active, but clicking on it comes up with "Out of range"
Then you haven't earned Sojourner and have cheapened the badge for those who did actually earn it.
I don't remember WU or PGO being able to (over 80m): spin pokestop or visit inn, placing a Pokemon in a gym, capturing pokemon/obstructs, hatching eggs/porkeys without moving.
Pokemon got 2 tweaks: extra range and distance raid pass (paid item).
Harry Potter got also 2: the bus and energy on the ground, so you don't need visit Inns.
Both game still require you to walk arround if you want arround to properly play it. Why the hell Ingress need to have every single action done by drone? Linking, attacking, collect gear, trade gear, seriously? Being able to hack any portal is already a big advantage and change to the game. We will never be out of gear anymore, just need to jump the drone until find a lv7/lv8 portal (preferably an enemy's one) and enjoy about 12 hacks a day.
Dronenet is a far better change that the one made in Pokemon and Harry Potter (basically giving stuff free) since it still require player action and strategy. Also, were still don't have our "raids", but they will came up soon, and maybe that can be done by dronenet.
Let me just state my opinion one more time: linking, attacking and collect key are the 3 things drone should NEVER do.
The Dronenet feature might be of use to the talked about battle feature that Fevgames has uncovered.
The drone is an interesting idea I am sill messing with it trying to learn. But I do have a few questions.
1- does a drone hack count towards your explorer badge? (Hack unique portals; I have a couple which I can’t easily visit and sending a drone across chasm or across international border or to island seems good)
2- how is drone distance/ km calculated? My drone is far away right now but scanner still displays 0km. Is it the recall flight that logs distance? Or is it hops (moves) and my scanner has a bug?
3- I think ingress should put some skin in this. Make drones require power (or other resources) for flight (eg at L8 can fly further but more cubes to recharge)
4- also what seems to be a bug; if I send my drone to a dense portal area I can only hack the portal I moved to even though other portals are well within range
1. No, you need to physically visit the portal to count for unique visits (explained in the help pages on support.ingress.com
2. Distance is calculated from the first portal you deploy it on to the furthest portal without recalling it
3....
4. That is the point.
Can we please have that wonderful drone model in game?
I like the drone, but we need medals as well. total distance flown, unique portals drone hacked.
Not that I need medals for the next few levels. Not before 15 or 16. But still want them. And I am actually happy about the drone. Key hacking would be nice. And if it is an attractive portal on an island, then taking portal out would return drone. Would add something else to gameplay. Not sure what cooldown is not ? 24 hours ? Would not give many keys. 1 a day if hack mods do not apply.
I have my favorite anchor portal, requires 500m walk on good gravel road in forrest. Sometimes I go there and hack 20 keys with hackmods, so in 10-15 minutes. Still way faster than anything with drone.
Now I use my many Quantum capsules for keys as well. I have 9 QC - That is almost 900 items in capsules. Good island keys are there, and primary anchor keys. So there are already ways that does not involve visiting more than once to hack keys. Maybe say you can only keyhack portals where you already do have a key, basicly helping the QC a bit.
Today I can not charge drone portals. Not sure why ? Maybe because hack is sufficient to keep sojourner ? So they are phasing recharge out ?
What will happen if I close ingress when my drone is at distance? Will it lost? or will it back to my location? or will it stay at the same portal?
It will stay where you left it (unless that portal is taken down).
You already can, since recharging currently counts towards Sojourner.
In the 2nd link, it says "When moving a Drone, if it hasn’t been recalled or returned, DRONE FOOTAGE will orient on the Target Portal where Drone Mark I is currently located, even if the player is no longer in the area."
Has anyone seen DRONE FOOTAGE on portals yet?
Maybe they were in real physical range but looking at the drone view
It is useless for now