[Suggestion] Battle Beacon Bounty Rewards
This is a separate discussion while also part of the other discussion about revisiting the scoreboard for Ingress
Daily Bounties
Daily Bounty rewards are rather lacklustre in my opinion
While AP gain for completion of Bounties is a great step and not much can go wrong with it, there should be greater rewards for completing ALL daily Bounties.
My suggestion, reward players with a Rare Battle Beacon.
Weekly Bounties
Weekly Bounty rewards should award players with a Very Rare Battle Beacon upon completion of the Weekly Bounties (Weekly Bounties are not yet implemented).
As these require significantly more effort than Daily Bounties.
Why Battle Beacons?
Many will say, Battle Beacons have no real purpose outside of events, adding their scores to the scoreboard, sharing out the multiplier rewards atfter the first Checkpoint of the new Septicycle.
Many on the Ingress team want Battle Beacons to be more meaningful to players.
By incorporating Battle Beacon scores to the scoreboard may make the game more meaningful to local players, especially those that don't drive.
Pay2Win
While Ingress needs money to keep going, having Battle Beacons as rewards fills the gap of not buying Battle Beacons.
Though if people really want to, they can buy Battle Beacons.
However, they will be up against people who will just scan portals (if they can or want to).
So no, I do not believe it will be a pay 2 win feature.
Comments
Would be cool but Niantic wouldn't do anything to harm the little income they make from ingress, the same reason they won't let us get any L8 kit from bounties or let us earn any free CMU. I agree bounties is a good step but it shouldn't be something you can get done so easily. Would of been interesting to have some larger bounties thrown into the mix (deploy 50 mods - 10 hyper cubes) or something...but usually with Niantic it's a badly executed good idea.
Dude, we get it. You really love battle beacons.
All of your ideas are a waste of time, because nobody else loves them that much.
I currently have 32 VRBBs hogging my inventory and nothing to do with them*... nah, I don't want more just from completing bounties. At least I can recycle the L7 gear that bounties give me.
[*] Yes I know they can be used in field engines. I don't do field engines.
Battle beacons is something Niantic did as a way to ease back into the anomalies. The BBs on their own are just limiting and it seems better when they are NIA deployed versus people deploying.
I'm unsure about BBs as the reward but any apex (of any percentage between 1 to 2) could make monthly themed boundaries worthwhile. (just hopefully not doing 30 days in a row because they would be annoying)
As I stated, this is due to the Ingress team moving too quickly in the next feature and not finishing off the feature they are working on.
It is just one of dozens of features that aren't fully realized to their full potential.
I love what Battle Beacons can do, and because there is nothing on the scoreboard for the Battle Beacons, I don't have much interest in them either outside of events.
Please refer to the other discussion about that.
This thread is just throwing out the idea for players to get more Battle Beacons ONCE the scoreboard has been updated, without paying a tonne amount of money.
@starwort you're not alone in this, this is something that a lot of players face. Myself included, and while I can easily set up an AP engine, most of the time I don't bother as I really don't have time or desire to do them all the time.
If however the scoreboard gets updated with Battle Beacon points and those points have a direct impact on the MU score, then my playstyle will change.