Ingress Prime app features sugguestions

xxxvodnikxxxxxxvodnikxxx ✭✭
edited February 2022 in Ingress Community Feedback

Hello players, dear Niantic,

unfortunatelly, Niantic is not so much active regarding the improving the app . not even the functions available, not even the UI, time from time I have a discussion with the another players and sometimes we get really nice ideas for improvements.

I wroted the list and tried to create some sketches, how that could be implemented, find it below

Feedback, or a votes will be appriciated.

Hopefully, the Niantic will step in and consider the changes, due I really believe the suggested features could improve even existing players experience, even the new players game accessbility.

For some features, the current overlay system maybe could be used

  • - but this can cause discomfort with using the layer system for other purposees and infinity swapping the layers mode will be possibly needed, better will be really some "hard" inmplementation directly in-app, well, in ideal case with possibility of turning on/off within the settings (as many other games allows to customize many things visible for the players, unfortunatelly , ingress not , what a pity)

Allow system language override

As it will never be, localization isn't perfect or not even accurate regarding the terms used, but thats not all, due the language localization, support center doesnt work properly and also longer strings are causing the text overflowing or overlapping, which makes partial information unreadable.

Ingress redacted simply supported option to change app language as needed, that was great, from some reason Prime is having hardcoded system language, what a pity

This also, could be improved by using some community tools for translations like crowdin or other one and dynamic font size / labels placeholders adjustments

ingress- profile- text overflown.png


Portal cooldown / burnout indicator/ timer

Idea is quite simple, to find ANYWHERE, timer / indiciator for burnout portals, there are basically two possibilities:

  • - directly within the scanner for portals in range
  • (can cause a big issues in case of big density of portals at same place)
  • - in the portal details window
  • (better place I am guessing)

Indicator could be:

  • - really timer with the countdown
  • - at least some icon, that would indicate portal is on cooldown or burnout-ed

Problem here is that, eg. once you try to hack enemy portal at cooldown, you could get a hit as result of its defense

Burnout highlighter

ingress - portal burnout, scanner.png
ingress - portal burnout, portal detail.png


(hack) Cooldown highlighter

ingress - portal cooldown , scanner.png
ingress - portal cooldown , portal detail.png

Linking mode

Have possibility of :

  • - allow the keys from keylockers
  • - possibility of filtering by the name or allowing keys only in some desired distance (text field, or maybe map view with the perimeter adjustment for a instant feedback of the distance allowed visible at map)
  • - ordering keys by distance or portal name
  • - possibility of showing available links (portal keys) as list or some other compact design

Keylocker hidden keys enable/disable

linking- enable keylockers- unchecked.png
linking- enable keylockers- checked.png

Ordering / sorting

linking- order name.png

Show keys as list / some other compact design

Please be aware there could be an issue on the smaller displays/ bigger fingers than usual

linking- show portal keys as list.png

"hot" action menu improvements

Currently hot menu which appears after holding a tap on the scanner window contains only the hack (with or without key) option - honestly there is probably no logical reason behind

(again, this hot menu could be configurable within the settings, and why not even with possibility of custom button positioning ?)

hot action menu deploy link.png

Show missing APs for next level directly instead of progress

Simple as heading say, there are possibly two locations (probably should be composed in better way than on pictures below):

  • - agent profile
  • - progress bar at the top of scanner
AP missing to the level- scanner.png
AP missing- profile.png

Another ideas:

Badges ordering- sticklers like me would like to have possibility of badges ordering (date or acquiring, by the type - anomalies badges , useless cosmetic badges , game action progress badges /linker, destroyer, engineer , etc/) , or even the manual order designed by the player

Definitely, this should be possible even for a missions badges with higher priority- especilaly due the mosaics

That reminds me, there is NO official portal for mosaics missions or any option, how to track set of the missions as a mosaic

Compact design of keys recycle manager- similarly, as mentioned at the linking suggestion, have some more compact view

item hack blacklist- temporary blacklist for items which can be acquired by hack (or automated recycle) - this could apply for each resonators , each level of XMP bursters, or whatever

Popup window for faction change improvement / double confirmation / more secure way confirm

- once you reach level 4 or 5 , there is popup window for final faction choosing, this is quite dangerous, because popup usually appears in the most un-needed situation, That happened to many players they changed faction by accident... so there should be some double confirmation, maybe even some kind of captcha / slider, but simply confirm button is simply NOT sufficient and leads to the unwanted incidents

Moving of bonus code field - currently, probabl from obvious reasons, field for entering the passcode is at the bottom of the store page, simply this sucks , please consider moving on top or possibly to some other in-app location


Thank you

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