Ingress 2.90.1 Release Notes
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What’s New
• Dynamic Links: Agents can share dynamic links to a specific Portal from the Portal Details screen in the Scanner app. Opening the link will open the Scanner app to Remote Portal View, even if you don’t have a Portal Key to that Portal. Please note that if Ingress is already running and open to another screen, like Inventory management, then the dynamic link will open after you finish your current task and close the Inventory screen.
• After all Agents have upgraded to 2.90, we’ll enable the Portal Scan Meter: Agents can collectively contribute 7 Portal Scans per Septicycle to schedule a Rare Battle Beacon on the scanned Portal after the Septicycle ends. If Agents contribute 13 Portal Scans, a Portal Fracker will be deployed on that Portal immediately after the 13th successful upload in that Septicycle.
Bug Fixes
• Fixed: Sorting Portal Keys by name retains its alphabetical order.
• Fixed: FITREP screen is displayed once per week.
• Fixed: Recently approved and accepted Portal nominations will be added to the Scanner app once per day.
thia Notes
- If, during an event with Battle Beacon participation, a Rare Battle Beacon spawned at the end of a Septicycle as a result of Portal Scan Meter will count as a Player-deployed BB for the event.
- We are aware that some of Portals are affected by the discrepancy in the
Portals Discoveredstat. The team is aware but I do not have an ETA for this at this time. - 17 March: As of today, all Agents will be on 2.90 and as such, the Portal Scan Meter has been activated! I've included some additional screenshots below.
- 17 March: A single Agent can do all the scans required for the rewards or do it with other people. When, collectively, everyone has contributed the total needed scans, the reward will be triggered. The Portal Scan Meter shows ALL scans contributed by Agents during the Septicycle.
Comments
''After all Agents have upgraded to 2.90, we’ll enable the Portal Scan Meter: Agents can collectively contribute 7 Portal Scans per Septicycle to schedule a Rare Battle Beacon on the scanned Portal after the Septicycle ends. If Agents contribute 13 Portal Scans, a Portal Fracker will be deployed on that Portal immediately after the 13th successful upload in that Septicycle.''
What a waste, stupid, pointless, visual & data hogging feature refering to BB that is. Fracker after 13th hmmmmmm unsure about it
This is awesome! Guess it's finally time for me to start scanning. Super stoked for the portal sharing too!
• Fixed: Recently approved and accepted Portal nominations will be added to the Scanner app once per day.
It seems like newly accepted portals are once again only syncing into Ingress if they are not within ~20 meters of an existing portal. Is that intended? @NianticThia
Seems like it... the no distance limit between all portals was a good unintended change which had people looking and submitting more quality portals for the map that were never attempted to be submitted. It also made submissions that could never make into into any game in the past worth reviewing. Hopefully the change is reverted and all wayspots can be synced in!
@AisforAndis Correct, 20 meter rule is intended.
Will there be proper enforcement of people not just scanning their feet 13 times? This seems to be the only abusable aspect of the feature.
Otherwise, it's a good encouragement for people to scan, and the 'once per cycle' means it's worth scanning a chunk but also go to different portals if you want more.
• Dynamic Links: Agents can share dynamic links to a specific Portal from the Portal Details screen in the Scanner app. Opening the link will open the Scanner app to Remote Portal View, even if you don’t have a Portal Key to that Portal. Please note that if Ingress is already running and open to another screen, like Inventory management, then the dynamic link will open after you finish your current task and close the Inventory screen.
Is there any chance of getting dynamic links to share to the scanner from the intel map?
The link is simply a constructed string, so it shouldn't be a hard thing to implement. Just depends if they're willing to do it. Otherwise it's back to IITC.
Cool, I figured as much and understand why, but just wanted to make sure. Although it's a sad day for many potentially interesting POIs that will now never see the light of day in any game.
The lack of a 20 meter minimum really maximized the ability to submit valid POIs. I have so many that have been accepted but can't be brought online due to the 20 meter rule. It's just not realistic.
That is a shame and Niantic’s loss. Lightship got thousands of new very high quality PoIs over the past few months solely because the 20 m rule was in abeyance. Many future wayspots will now simply not be submitted. I just withdrew two < 20 m submissions in queue, because I fear that Lightship-only wayspots are potentially a huge liability.
Which leads me to a question: Do you know if the system is (properly!) coded such that Lightship-only wayspots are converted into portals if the blocking portal(s) is/are removed? If not, it means that any <20 m submission is dangerous, because that PoI will never see the light of day in Ingress if the blocker is removed, leaving an unnecessary hole in the game board.
This is a real possible issue in a few places where I play a lot and I’m quite concerned that I might have inadvertently messed things up for others in the future
Totally agree. The biggest benefit was that when I found something cool, I no longer had to check the intel map to see if it was too close to something else to be worth submitting. For a time, everything was worth submitting, because everything would at least appear in Ingress, even if it didn't appear in other Niantic games. It made things much simpler and it made Ingress and Wayfarer more fun.
I understand that piles of portals on top of each other gets messy and that's why the 20m rule existed, but honestly the extended break from it being in effect showed that the rule has more downsides than upsides. And notably, unlike any other Niantic game, the Ingress UI has the means to deal with piles of portals. The worst part is, people who abuse Wayfarer will still abuse the system to create piles of portals and Niantic will do nothing about it, so piles of portals will still continue to get made, just in the worst way possible.
Edit: I know that wayspots that don't appear in any current game may appear in future games, but considering that Niantic's latest games are using even fewer POIs than Pokemon Go, it doesn't give me hope that they will ever become useful.
Ah, well. I submitted about a dozen Portals that were inside the 20m rule just before the syncing stopped. A week earlier and they probably would have made it before the cutoff.
I'm closing in on 750 approved Portals, and it really was freeing to be able to submit without needing to check Intel location, use the ruler in Google Maps, and have to guesstimate if my work would pay off. Hopefully Wayfarer improves, there eventually becomes a way to better curate how PoI are distributed on the gameboard.
MewtwosTraner You've always been able to get a dynamic link from the intel map browser view. Click on a portal or mission, then click "Link" upper right, and it will drop down.
People are just going to scan their feet (or most likely the inside of their cars) at flash farm portals.
And if you intend to upload your scans later...you are gonna get scre.wed on that fracker heh
One that opens the scanner right to remove view, as per this feature?? Please show me how??
There is no point for a fracker and/or battle Beacon to pop up at the end of a Septicycle.
This feature is meaningless
Probably not going to get an answer, but is there a reason now for the 20m? The last couple of months have shown that portals can work fine within 20m with the option to pick the portal you want. In fact, I bet the amount of submissions increased a fair bit as people were submitting things without worrying about it anymore. If the rule stays then I can live with it again, but it seems like a loss for niantic as well as us
Fracker happens immediately, not the end of the septicycle.
I was hoping for something else after so long wait ☹️
From historical explanations, it was in place before disambiguation was added to the Classic Ingress client to avoid making groups of portals impossible to use, and PoGo kept the S2 rules to avoid having to include that disambiguation (it wasn't written until we demanded it in Prime).
Since Ingress Prime has the disambiguation... these days, no idea why it's still relevant.
Like everyone else in the thread so far, I disagree with the enforcement of the limit. The 20 meter rule feels restricting and preventing portals on top of each other would be possible with a smaller range, exempli gratia 5, 7, 10 meters.
that's really lame to change rules without warning.
you are just now telleing me i just wasted my 10 last ypgrades for nothing because there were accepted should have shown.
10 upgrades for nothing !!! thanks for so much time lost for nothing ......
and my next upgrade will be useless too.
YOU just want us to stop reviewing POI .....
so messed up to change that without warning. you just treat us as slaves...
5k agreements so nearly 7-8k reviews just for NOTHING. thank you nia. won't do any wayfarer soon again.....
and 75 now useless nominations left in wayfarer queue. Always the worst decisions with nia.
So a fracker can be activated manually or only with 13 scan completely uploaded?
Now home-portals gonna be scanned alot xD
I disagree with the enforcement of the 20m rule. This change will only have negative results for Niantic and their Lightship Database.
While this rule was not being applied players were able to submit anything interesting which they came across in its correct place and without having to check whether it was too close. This made submitting a lot easier and enjoyable for the players and made for an accurate database for Niantic.
By applying this rule, the amount of decent submissions will reduce as players will only want to take time to submit something that will appear in the game, or fudge the location. Both scenarios will be a negative for Niantic and their database.
As a reviewer I also noticed an uptick of interesting submissions (which would probably have been proxies and therefore ignored or not submitted in the past) amongst the normal dross which we normally have to review during the period where the 20m rule didn't apply. If interesting points of interest are no longer being submitted for review the wayfarer process is going to be unappealing and the number of reviewers or the time undertaking reviews will no doubt drop.
In addition, I can't really see why having a no minimum distance rule would be bad for the game. Ingress Prime has a disambiguation feature in place which works, so there is no disadvantage to the player.
I think Niantic requires better communication of why they feel this rule needs to be in place. There may be a good reason, however, currently it seems to only have negative implications and potential to upset the playerbase.
Useless scanning features again... how about core gameplay huh??
The Battle Beacons/Frackers for scans sound interesting. Will the Septicycle line up with an upcoming BB Anomaly?
Also, what about ones were I’ve already done 13 or 7 scans? Will they get the bonus right away?
As for the 20m rule, I’ve been submitting interesting things that I wouldn’t have done before because I knew they’d go online in at least one game. Now I’m disappointed it’s been reverted. I don’t see the harm in having it, you may get the other game players complaining that Ingress gets more Wayspots, but certain sects of them will complain about everything anyways.
Question on: @NianticBrian @NianticThia
What if the "YXZ" portal already has 5 scans, you only need to make 2 or 8 scans, respectively, or it has to be sent 7-13 at a time?
And if the portal already has 20 scans, will Fracker be launched automatically? and will he turn it on all the time because "there are a lot of scans"?
It would like to write clearly how it will work ...
And one more question ... you're still doing nothing with latency, and you're still stuck on "great scans"?
1, probably not, septicycles are long and crazy times, your likely bettee to just purchase..these as per relase notes will count as 'player deployed
2. Doubtful, given the stat isn't visable and possibly not even recorded
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@NianticBrian @NianticThia We've lost the portal scan ornaments again with this update.
Seriously, guys...come on. 😠