Here are some suggestions that NIA can implement to make Ingress easier to use for people with disabilities while keeping the Pride Month theme:
Allow Agents to control the saturation of colors of the XM. This will also allow folks who prefer high contrast colors to increase the color saturation.
Rainbow NL Theme. The NL 1331 cursor is rainbow colored, and the XM is NL purple.
Have XM show as one color at a time. The XM can slowly cycle through colors of the rainbow.
Allow Agents to choose other Pride-related XM color palettes. For example: Trans flag colors or bisexual flag colors. Have a CMU option to have Agents choose to have these palettes all year long.
Ironically, Rainbow XM is taking away visibility for almost all players.
Portals are hidden by the 7 colors of XM.
Also, and this is a problem we have had since the Prime scanner was launched, the Prime scanner has very poor visibility.
The low contrast and minuscule size of the portals and mission descriptions, in particular, discourages people from exploring the real world through the portals and missions.
This in turn detracts from the most important goal of Ingress, which is to go to interesting places.
Frankly, I wish Ingress' UX designers would pay more attention to this kind of visibility in the first place, rather than worrying about subtle differences in button placement.
It's hard to see it as futuristically oriented now, but the REDACTED scanner fully achieved Ingress' most important goal in terms of visibility.
Please design a UX for the scanner that is visible to all.
This. XM is currently bugged and useless (you can't see realtime xm changes anymore, so you can't see people move through the area anyway). The duplication bug makes the game impossible to play, because the colors are too bright. The visibility options are no help, unfortunately.
Please make this a toggle, a month of this is way too much. I'm all for the intention, but since last time around (when I actually reported the bugs regarding XM) they have not been addressed, so it won't be resolved during the event (or the next one, probably).
I mean, this is ridiculous. Dead center there are 5 portals, and this way you can maybe **** two.
This is also due to the fact that the XM layer is drawn multiple times in the image. Restarting fixes it, but it’s been like this for more than a year.
As others have said, it would have been better to show support for LGBTQ-related social movements with player energy gauges, player icons, beacons, etc., rather than XM floating on the field.
For example, as Niantic distributed BLM beacons for free in social movements involving BLM.
Also, and this may be unfortunate, but the fact is that Niantic's other game apps have not made any changes on the field in the LGBTQ social movements that are overtly LGBTQ-related.
I believe that Nintendo and The Pokémon Company also support this social movement, as do Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, and Takara Tomy and Hasbro for the upcoming Transformers launch.
However, I don't recall any avatars or other changes being distributed or made on the field in any of the previous social movements involving BLM.
It is already too late this year, but we think it would be good to show our support for the LGBTQ social movement in a way that does not impair the visibility of the field in the coming year and beyond.
Also, since there are good advisors such as XM Ambassadors and Van Gart, I hope that you will have meetings with them and conduct closed beta tests to build a better Ingress Prime app, including the visibility issue of the Prime scanner that exists from the beginning. I hope that you will have a meeting with them and conduct closed beta testing to build a better Ingress Prime app.
Yeah. Noticed we can no longer track agents via XM vanishing even before Rainbow XM. It's valuable for a number of reasons to see XM vanish and now this seems broken as well.
Well personally I like the rainbow XM (irrespective of any social or political implications). Sure there are display bugs, but those aren't specific to what colour the XM is.
There's a bunch of bugs sure, but rainbow xm creates new problems. You can't see green portals on green xm, or blue on blue, you can't see which portals are being attacked on red xm, empty portals are hard to ****, link webs get confusing to follow, I'm sure people could point out more, but tbh that's enough to make me give up of an evening.
If Niantic want to do some kind of pride month recognition, they could a have rainbow energy bar, rainbow beacons, have a link directing people to Apple TV+ or how about just turning down the contrast of the rainbow XM hue?!????
That’s not a bug. It’s a UX problem. The bugs are xm duplicated, not being updated in real-time and disappearing. Poor visibility due to the color is a design issue, not a bug.
Sure that's probably right, but it doesn't change the fact the rainbow XM is making things worse and making new issues through it. I think we basically agree, I'm just leaning more into the rainbow XM😅
Yeah, unfortunately it’s not new; it was the exact same a year ago; nothing has been done to resolve the issues in the meantime. Ah well, maybe next year!
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Would love it was activated on the 1st of June for once 😛 The last years it sadly always took a few days up to weeks.
@NianticThia ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Summon Rainbow XM and finally banish the Orange XM
Please no. It's obnoxious.
Perfect time for Niantic to introduce XM skins and profit....
it's liveeeeee
Not again.
Please at least let core member a choice to remove that.
Green xm under Green field (or blue under blue) is just plain stupid
The whole month?! That's gonna get real old. Why do we need to raise awareness about LGBTQ anyway? It's literally everywhere.
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Summoned best XM color
Clown XM is back!
I wish NIA could have an accessibility option for any time they change the XM colors.
As a Queer person, I like NIA’s intentions.
As a person with disabilities, all these different bright colors make it hard for me to play the game.
Unfortunately the visibility options in Ingress don’t allow me to dim the colors so that I can actually tell the portals from the XM.
Here are some suggestions that NIA can implement to make Ingress easier to use for people with disabilities while keeping the Pride Month theme:
I support LGBTQ-related social movements.
On that basis, let me say a few words.
Ironically, Rainbow XM is taking away visibility for almost all players.
Portals are hidden by the 7 colors of XM.
Also, and this is a problem we have had since the Prime scanner was launched, the Prime scanner has very poor visibility.
The low contrast and minuscule size of the portals and mission descriptions, in particular, discourages people from exploring the real world through the portals and missions.
This in turn detracts from the most important goal of Ingress, which is to go to interesting places.
Frankly, I wish Ingress' UX designers would pay more attention to this kind of visibility in the first place, rather than worrying about subtle differences in button placement.
It's hard to see it as futuristically oriented now, but the REDACTED scanner fully achieved Ingress' most important goal in terms of visibility.
Please design a UX for the scanner that is visible to all.
@NianticBrian @NianticThia
It's better than the 'yellow' masquerading as 'white'. I miss my purple XM.
This. XM is currently bugged and useless (you can't see realtime xm changes anymore, so you can't see people move through the area anyway). The duplication bug makes the game impossible to play, because the colors are too bright. The visibility options are no help, unfortunately.
Please make this a toggle, a month of this is way too much. I'm all for the intention, but since last time around (when I actually reported the bugs regarding XM) they have not been addressed, so it won't be resolved during the event (or the next one, probably).
I mean, this is ridiculous. Dead center there are 5 portals, and this way you can maybe **** two.
I like the rainbow XM, but it's definitely true that it makes portal visibility more difficult.
On another note the word filters here seriously need work "****" being censored in Jo0Lz's post (and probably mine) is a bit much.
yes at cluster areas with many poi its a mess, u cant see anything like in the image above....
This is also due to the fact that the XM layer is drawn multiple times in the image. Restarting fixes it, but it’s been like this for more than a year.
Ah well.
lol, they censor M a k e o u t? Why?
lol, they censor M a k e o u t? Why?
Because the block list was written by an overexcited pre-teen?
As others have said, it would have been better to show support for LGBTQ-related social movements with player energy gauges, player icons, beacons, etc., rather than XM floating on the field.
For example, as Niantic distributed BLM beacons for free in social movements involving BLM.
Also, and this may be unfortunate, but the fact is that Niantic's other game apps have not made any changes on the field in the LGBTQ social movements that are overtly LGBTQ-related.
I believe that Nintendo and The Pokémon Company also support this social movement, as do Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, and Takara Tomy and Hasbro for the upcoming Transformers launch.
However, I don't recall any avatars or other changes being distributed or made on the field in any of the previous social movements involving BLM.
It is already too late this year, but we think it would be good to show our support for the LGBTQ social movement in a way that does not impair the visibility of the field in the coming year and beyond.
Also, since there are good advisors such as XM Ambassadors and Van Gart, I hope that you will have meetings with them and conduct closed beta tests to build a better Ingress Prime app, including the visibility issue of the Prime scanner that exists from the beginning. I hope that you will have a meeting with them and conduct closed beta testing to build a better Ingress Prime app.
I agree that a Pride Avatar for Ingress, and a Pride tee for Pokémon GO would be nice. Maybe next year.
Yeah. Noticed we can no longer track agents via XM vanishing even before Rainbow XM. It's valuable for a number of reasons to see XM vanish and now this seems broken as well.
It has been broken for at least 18 months. I don't know exactly when, but I made a post about the XM bugs a year ago; no reply.
Its too bright, way too bright
If those xm colours were darker, would be better
Well personally I like the rainbow XM (irrespective of any social or political implications). Sure there are display bugs, but those aren't specific to what colour the XM is.
The bugs are not specific to the color of the XM, but are hugely amplified by it.
There's a bunch of bugs sure, but rainbow xm creates new problems. You can't see green portals on green xm, or blue on blue, you can't see which portals are being attacked on red xm, empty portals are hard to ****, link webs get confusing to follow, I'm sure people could point out more, but tbh that's enough to make me give up of an evening.
If Niantic want to do some kind of pride month recognition, they could a have rainbow energy bar, rainbow beacons, have a link directing people to Apple TV+ or how about just turning down the contrast of the rainbow XM hue?!????
Why is m AKE OU t starred out?!
I thought the point of pride is anything goes?!?! 😅
That’s not a bug. It’s a UX problem. The bugs are xm duplicated, not being updated in real-time and disappearing. Poor visibility due to the color is a design issue, not a bug.
Sure that's probably right, but it doesn't change the fact the rainbow XM is making things worse and making new issues through it. I think we basically agree, I'm just leaning more into the rainbow XM😅
Yeah, unfortunately it’s not new; it was the exact same a year ago; nothing has been done to resolve the issues in the meantime. Ah well, maybe next year!