Goodbye scanning, goodbye CORE
I was a scanning addict. I confess. Ingress was becoming stale for me after I achieved onyx pioneer and explorer, but scout controller got me back out there, visiting new and old places to scan everything. As far as I'm aware I was the first resistance player in the UK to get to onyx scout controller, and until recently I still had the highest number in the UK. There are whole towns which don't have a single Ingress scan except for mine. It was a game feature which kept me engaged with Ingress, and was a major part of how I played the game.
This summer I bought a new phone. Not a high end flagship phone, but a comfortably middle of the road phone. Soon afterwards scanning was unavailable on it, and it was only after a considerable delay that we were even told why this happened. Suddenly, one of the major factors that kept me exploring was taken away from me, with no warning and no explanation. When we finally were told about the changes to the hardware requirements my first thought was simply to quit Ingress. Instead I decided to end my CORE membership which I had maintained since the beginning, and was an advocate for in my chats.
This was quite a sad decision to make because I have always said that we players should support the continuation of the game we love and play so much. We spend far more money on things like travel and swag, so I argued we ought to be willing to give a bit to Niantic. However, the removal of a major game feature was too much for me, and I am no longer willing to give Niantic my cash.
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Ingress uses Lightship ARDK V2, and the new scanning method is different from previous iterations.
Lightship ARDK V3 addresses the issues with the low number of devices capable of scanning.
Just have to keep pestering Brian to upgrade their ARDK to version 3
Thank you for all your free work for building out niantic's lightship database!
Is there a clause somewhere that every time someone posts about scanning, it's required to make the same irrelevant (and misguided) comment about free work?
If you play Ingress, you are doing free work for Niantic. I'm surprised how few people know that Ingress was originally created to collect data on the movement of people. They gamified it a bit, expected to collect data for a year or two, and were surprised with how popular it became.
It's actually a clause for Joe's special Ingress Founders Union (IFU).
He has to post a snarky response about Niantic while providing nothing of value to the discussion.
Moog is right - it's in the contract.
IMHO there's a *huge* difference between "playing ingress" and scanning.
@MoogModular Thank you for your contribution to the discussion.
I don't know if that was sarcasm or not
Let me make the same Karen-esque topic to see if Niantic's 8-ball points to yes.
Be sure to drop your play store rating and explain why
I agree with you, there is no scanning, there is not money to Niantic. NIA broken your word when promise a scanning technology for al phone . I use Lightship for scanning and 3 months ago after a update the scanning function was surprised for my compatible phone.
every resistance player quitting is a small victory. keep doing that 🐸
Having to win by hoping the other team quits. Toads gonna toad.
you cannot quit without conceding defeat 🐸
Involving factions here is so dumb
Y'all realize both sides are losing players right? It's down to just a handful of players in most areas. What fun is it when there's nobody to take down your fields? We are seeing that now.
and yet here you are
If you like scanning go play pokemon go, there you still should be able to to it since they did not changed it there.
You mean if you like scanning the ground near the poi, then go play Pokemon go and scan the ground some more.
A quick update on my situation: