This innovation will only help single agents. Such agents do not interact with other agents and are not members of a community.
Single agents do not want to be in the community, they do not know about events, they do not participate in the organization of the FS, do not collect the faction on the anomalies, hexatlons, Sabbath days, etc. Such agents don't create pretty banners. In fact, they are just a disparate number of people who are unable and unwilling to travel and communicate with other agents. Such agents have always only gotten in the way of team play, and bring nothing good or financial to Ingress. :))) Such agents don't need a subscription, such an agent doesn't need to buy a combat beacon, such agents don't need extra key pods. Such agents will not go to a paid anomaly in another city and will not buy a ticket for it (because they are too lazy to go even to the next district to destroy the fields, and here in another city have to!).
Think about it, who buys subscriptions, combat beacons, key capsules, and the like?
Most people who create large fields with a team to facilitate their work buy them. Organizers and active team members are the very people who need the extra paid items and whom you drive away from the community.
And those same big-field organizers communicate with other agents, actively get to know them, actively help them and call them into the community, prepare for better joint participation in anomalies, etc. And just these agents need beacons, extra space for game items (paid subscription gives +500), capsules for keys and other things. My opinion - these are just the people who bring money to Ingress, buying themselves the necessary game stuff for themselves, as well as improving the quality of the game for other people. These agents play for the sake of the community and maintain its integrity, helping people interact with each other successfully and enjoyably.
The same agents who play alone and complain about the fields will not do the above. They are not capable of communication, since they were not able to agree with people from their faction. Accordingly, they are incapable of organizing a team event.
For as long as I can remember, in the area where I live, the community has always helped new players get used to the game. If large fields were built, priority was given to those without a MU medal. Stuff, keys, and experience were shared with newcomers, farms were set up to get to know each other, and new agents were always supported.
I myself have organized large fields or participated in large fields from other agents on numerous occasions. And all the game items that I bought for money were aimed precisely at improving the quality of team play, in a single game they are just not needed.
Such "innovations" make the game profitable for single agents, for spoofers and multi-accounts, and lead to the departure of experienced agents with organizational talent, hence to the termination of their useful activities for maintaining communities, and hence lead to the collapse of the community as a whole.
Hey I'm not able to play in ops my team coordinates ... Family circumstances. I'm active in my local chats but can't play at night or weekends ... So .... Single player.
I've run a recharge room, a couple of fs, organised some field art.
Yet field ops participation is not something I can do a lot.
Have found the linking under fields to be a hard concept to get my head around .... 500 is very tiny and a causal bit of microfielding is now possible for time poor players.
Hope Ingress is back in Russia soon and you can tell us whether 500m links make a significant difference for your community.
I find 500 m a very nice distance limit, because you can link all the portals you see in the scanner. Good for spontaneous micro-fielding in areas with high portal density, and I can cover my micro-fielding playground with larger fields if I want.
Unfortunately, rural players with lower portal density are at a disadvantage, as usual.
@VaskinCall I play with my spouse all the time. And we have faction friends in the area. BUT we are covered by fields maintained by 2 or 3 people who do nothing else. Unlike them, Ingress is not our whole life. We might take out an anchor twice a week, but they put it back within an hour. Sure, we COULD quit our jobs, get up every day, drive to an anchor, and take it out. Farm bursters like crazy, and take out their spine. But that does not sound like fun. It sounds miserable. I don't want to play that game.
Now if we want to play at a park, we can go play at a park. We don't have to first spend an hour travel + tons of bursters, to do something I don't find fun - before I am able to do something that I do find fun.
Or if I want to go out scanning portals, and claim/link as I go. Granted any linking would have to be, say, at a church with multiple portals close together. It would be very rare to find 2 unrelated portals, closer together than 500m.
It is frustrating when I can see a portal on my scanner, but it is 501 meters, so I can't link to it. I hope Niantic extends it to 750 meters.
And then you'll be 'frustrated' when the portal is 751 meters away and want it expanded to 1km... then 2km... then 10kms... then "Why do we have limits?"
And then I know someone is going to start the campaign to "Remove crosslink checking!"
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Don't want players making links under your field?
Allow me to introduce you to the XMP. You need to meet them out there though, agent.
It's time to move, gatekeepers!
Why did Niantic not instead implement previous idea of: stop key dupe in caps and destabilise large fields after X days?
I think because they want people to play after the tutorial and for people who play casually.
Many of us long term players can wait for days for a overfield takedown and have networks to co-ordinate ops with.
A casual or new player wants to play now.
The dumbening. Its turning into an Idiocracy movie game.
This innovation will only help single agents. Such agents do not interact with other agents and are not members of a community.
Single agents do not want to be in the community, they do not know about events, they do not participate in the organization of the FS, do not collect the faction on the anomalies, hexatlons, Sabbath days, etc. Such agents don't create pretty banners. In fact, they are just a disparate number of people who are unable and unwilling to travel and communicate with other agents. Such agents have always only gotten in the way of team play, and bring nothing good or financial to Ingress. :))) Such agents don't need a subscription, such an agent doesn't need to buy a combat beacon, such agents don't need extra key pods. Such agents will not go to a paid anomaly in another city and will not buy a ticket for it (because they are too lazy to go even to the next district to destroy the fields, and here in another city have to!).
Think about it, who buys subscriptions, combat beacons, key capsules, and the like?
Most people who create large fields with a team to facilitate their work buy them. Organizers and active team members are the very people who need the extra paid items and whom you drive away from the community.
And those same big-field organizers communicate with other agents, actively get to know them, actively help them and call them into the community, prepare for better joint participation in anomalies, etc. And just these agents need beacons, extra space for game items (paid subscription gives +500), capsules for keys and other things. My opinion - these are just the people who bring money to Ingress, buying themselves the necessary game stuff for themselves, as well as improving the quality of the game for other people. These agents play for the sake of the community and maintain its integrity, helping people interact with each other successfully and enjoyably.
The same agents who play alone and complain about the fields will not do the above. They are not capable of communication, since they were not able to agree with people from their faction. Accordingly, they are incapable of organizing a team event.
For as long as I can remember, in the area where I live, the community has always helped new players get used to the game. If large fields were built, priority was given to those without a MU medal. Stuff, keys, and experience were shared with newcomers, farms were set up to get to know each other, and new agents were always supported.
I myself have organized large fields or participated in large fields from other agents on numerous occasions. And all the game items that I bought for money were aimed precisely at improving the quality of team play, in a single game they are just not needed.
Such "innovations" make the game profitable for single agents, for spoofers and multi-accounts, and lead to the departure of experienced agents with organizational talent, hence to the termination of their useful activities for maintaining communities, and hence lead to the collapse of the community as a whole.
Easier does not mean better.
VaskinCall - perfect response.
Congratulations to Salt Lake City, Utah. suddenly nobody is maintaining the BAFs and there's a flurry of activity. Weird how that works out.
This was my #1 example of the change being needed. You can see where they used to keep the fields up over the city.
Hey I'm not able to play in ops my team coordinates ... Family circumstances. I'm active in my local chats but can't play at night or weekends ... So .... Single player.
I've run a recharge room, a couple of fs, organised some field art.
Yet field ops participation is not something I can do a lot.
Have found the linking under fields to be a hard concept to get my head around .... 500 is very tiny and a causal bit of microfielding is now possible for time poor players.
Hope Ingress is back in Russia soon and you can tell us whether 500m links make a significant difference for your community.
Because the loud voices would be angry and make them feel bad.
Full weekend of play, the world has not ended in my area. Hum... Weird.
I find 500 m a very nice distance limit, because you can link all the portals you see in the scanner. Good for spontaneous micro-fielding in areas with high portal density, and I can cover my micro-fielding playground with larger fields if I want.
Unfortunately, rural players with lower portal density are at a disadvantage, as usual.
And if you **** up your microfielding you can now go fix it without virus. Lame.
If you missed a link, you can fix it. If you made the links in the wrong order, you can't.
That only depends on the distance...
I love linking under fields!!!!!
worst feature ever.
already cost me several virus because dumb players just link everything possible.
so boring to get blocked while fielding because this dumb feature.
example : 4 layers done and .. blocked.. (fields removed for visibility)
I think I stuffed up a H4 during Comic sans ... Not sure how but one little triangle was only 3 layers ...
I think the agents under it would disagree. Time to start sharing the map. 👍
@Khatre Those links are WAY longer than 500m.
@VaskinCall I play with my spouse all the time. And we have faction friends in the area. BUT we are covered by fields maintained by 2 or 3 people who do nothing else. Unlike them, Ingress is not our whole life. We might take out an anchor twice a week, but they put it back within an hour. Sure, we COULD quit our jobs, get up every day, drive to an anchor, and take it out. Farm bursters like crazy, and take out their spine. But that does not sound like fun. It sounds miserable. I don't want to play that game.
Now if we want to play at a park, we can go play at a park. We don't have to first spend an hour travel + tons of bursters, to do something I don't find fun - before I am able to do something that I do find fun.
Or if I want to go out scanning portals, and claim/link as I go. Granted any linking would have to be, say, at a church with multiple portals close together. It would be very rare to find 2 unrelated portals, closer together than 500m.
It is frustrating when I can see a portal on my scanner, but it is 501 meters, so I can't link to it. I hope Niantic extends it to 750 meters.
Those links are WAY longer than 500m.
They're really not. Red circle represents 500m.
I hope Niantic extends it to 750 meters.
And then you'll be 'frustrated' when the portal is 751 meters away and want it expanded to 1km... then 2km... then 10kms... then "Why do we have limits?"
And then I know someone is going to start the campaign to "Remove crosslink checking!"
Crosslinks yes? please where do I sign up! Lol . There's some techniques in homogeneous fielding that use crosslinks .... Lololol
That neat 500 meter circle, did you make that with a drawing program, or can you do that with IITC? If yes, how?
I wrote myself a plugin that puts down a 500m semi transparent circle around whatever portal I select. 😁
Just draw circle and drag to 500m?
Considering there are a lot of links coming from a portal outside the shaded region...
Also, are you sure that portal isn't leftover gameplay from Comic Sans?
Ask @Khatre who was the one building the fields.
nope just tourist playing on buses 😅