I understand that, but the OP was asking for a medal for being a founder, of which a medal was already granted.... If you have a founder medal, then why get a medal for the same exact thing, 10 years later?
I like the yearly medals, easy way to see when an agent started and their progress until they hit onyx.
Wishful thinking but I'd finally like to see some actual recursion benefits and not just the one VR battle beacon we get as part of the C.O.R.E subscription.
Because control fields are exactly that - your faction controls that area.
Under-field linking takes away the "control" aspect, which has been a core aspect of gameplay from the beginning. Now there isn't much of an incentive to use tactics to drop fields.
If someone things a change is bad, they have an obligation to make that known as feedback. All these people saying "You just don't like change" are using a bad argument because they don't have a good one.
Good point, I was trying to get at the reason for why they didn’t like this change specifically, beyond “it wasn’t like this back in my day” and if a lore addition as to why would change how they felt.
Most seem happy with the linking under fields, I don’t see the issue. It’s clear they were testing it with having it in events previously.
Linking under fields reduces the effect of factional competition. The argument of "But new players can't level" might be valid if there were any new players, but in reality all it does is means that people who are only in it for points can ignore pretty much everything except their own little patch.
Ingress already has enough 'regional isolation' and removing a key driver of coordination has simply reduced the cooperative spirit and desire to expand the social fabric of the game which has always been the reason why it was successful.
If you can continue playing while ignoring fields, you never have to reach out to any one else to discuss how to block fields or take them down.
I just started playing a few months ago, so I don't have a lot of historical perspective on the game at all yet, but, maybe introducing a third faction would be interesting.
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I don't have one but :(
For Year 10 - I'd like a new Ingress management team.
careful what you wish for ;-)
I understand that, but the OP was asking for a medal for being a founder, of which a medal was already granted.... If you have a founder medal, then why get a medal for the same exact thing, 10 years later?
I like the yearly medals, easy way to see when an agent started and their progress until they hit onyx.
Oh, founders getting another free badge.
Yeah I'll wait for them to send me my 10 year statue of Captain Doty, like Blizzard did for WoW :-P
I wonder if this is the big shock for Year 10.
Not when it's posted again and again before Niantic gets a chance to reveal it 😜
Haha, I’m sure they have more than one trick up their sleeve
What I want to see is winning in a wager if Ingress Prime will survive on or beyond Year 10. ;-)
Wishful thinking but I'd finally like to see some actual recursion benefits and not just the one VR battle beacon we get as part of the C.O.R.E subscription.
@Naruwasher, what? one measly VR battle beacon only??? Que Horror!
Any further thoughts from folks as we will soon be seeing what Niantic have planned?
It ain't the same thing. Founders are Founders. Anniversary medals are just that.
Until they give the option to buy Founders badge for Y10
"Brought to you by the same morons who came up with under-field linking!"
I’m happy with that. Opens it up to new players to actually play a little if they’re under a massive field and don’t understand the game fully yet.
Soon? I doubt anything until November 1st. Otherwise, zip it.
Founders are literally the 1st anniversary.
New players can capture, resonate, mod, glyph, mission, even SCAN portals under fields.
I thought we might see something in the Q4 events announcements and I would anticipate that relatively soon.
What’s the issue with them linking as well then? 🤷
Because control fields are exactly that - your faction controls that area.
Under-field linking takes away the "control" aspect, which has been a core aspect of gameplay from the beginning. Now there isn't much of an incentive to use tactics to drop fields.
Would you be happy with it if there was a lore explanation as to why? Or just generally don’t like change?
Change is not inherently good.
Good change is good. Bad change is bad.
If someone things a change is bad, they have an obligation to make that known as feedback. All these people saying "You just don't like change" are using a bad argument because they don't have a good one.
To expand ad absurdum.
"Lets shut the servers down, that's a change."
"No!"
"You just don't like change".
Good point, I was trying to get at the reason for why they didn’t like this change specifically, beyond “it wasn’t like this back in my day” and if a lore addition as to why would change how they felt.
Most seem happy with the linking under fields, I don’t see the issue. It’s clear they were testing it with having it in events previously.
Simply put the "old timers" have a good point.
Linking under fields reduces the effect of factional competition. The argument of "But new players can't level" might be valid if there were any new players, but in reality all it does is means that people who are only in it for points can ignore pretty much everything except their own little patch.
Ingress already has enough 'regional isolation' and removing a key driver of coordination has simply reduced the cooperative spirit and desire to expand the social fabric of the game which has always been the reason why it was successful.
If you can continue playing while ignoring fields, you never have to reach out to any one else to discuss how to block fields or take them down.
I just started playing a few months ago, so I don't have a lot of historical perspective on the game at all yet, but, maybe introducing a third faction would be interesting.
Yes, if I were eloquent I'd have written that.
I don't get much practice typing since those coward vowel chat mods banned me without so much as a reason. But that's my problem.
Less complaints about everything Niantic does and more meaningful critics.
The definition of eristic.