Perpetua Hexathlon event detail updates
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Agents,
We are aware that this announcement was released on another social channel earlier today. Below you’ll find the most up to date and accurate information. We apologize for the confusion.
We’d like to share confirmed details regarding the upcoming Perpetua Hexathlon on Saturday, February 29th.
You will have 30 minutes to hack the check-in portal to receive your instructions, followed by 90 minutes to complete six individual challenges. Agents who complete all six challenges will receive the Perpetua medal; those who complete the Hexathlon and place in the top 10% in their city for any challenge will also receive the Elite version of the Hexathlon medal. Additionally, any Agents who have earned an Elite Hexathlon medal from the previous Field Test event but do not reach Elite at the Perpetua Hexathlon, your scanner will maintain its Elite medal.
Registration through the in-app ticketing system will open next Thursday, January 16th 9AM PST. Registration will not be limited by site, meaning tickets will not run out.
All sites will be run in local time, using the following schedule:
- 2020-02-29 13:30: Check-in portal active
- 2020-02-29 14:00: Check-in portal inactive
- 2020-02-29 14:00: Hexathlon starts
- 2020-02-29 15:30: Hexathlon ends
- Afterwards: up to your local community!
Individual Challenges:
- Collect at least 6 Media Artifacts
- Make at least 36 successful portal hacks
- Deploy at least 30 Resonators
- Deploy at least 12 Mods
- Gain at least 30 Glyph Points
- Destroy at least 6 Resonators
We will also be adding new researcher character medals and Digital Readiness Kits for purchase. These will include new medal versions of the Osiris universe researchers Hank Johnson, Yuri Nagassa, and Roland Jarvis. We will announce the availability of the Digital Readiness Kits when they are added to the in-app store.
While the gameplay is similar to the Field Test from September 2019, this event is a Hexathlon, a new type of event developed through Field Test experimentation. Hexathlon will remain as a competitive event focused on individual achievement, while Field Test will continue testing new gaming mechanics which may potentially evolve into new events, just like Hexathlon.
While Hexathlon events do not have a physical venue, Agents are encouraged to organize community meet-ups and share photos using the #Ingress and #PerpetuaHexathlon hashtags.
We currently do not have plans to have additional events, such as GORUCK, OCF, or OPR Live. However, we will prioritize any applications for Mission Days for these cities to make it a fun-filled weekend.
We will continue to release information about this event as details are confirmed. We appreciate your patience and hope you are looking forward to these events!
Comments
So unfortunate that this event doesn't have ANY team-based components.
"Agents who complete all six challenges will receive the Perpetua medal; those who complete the Hexathlon and place in the top 10% in their city for any challenge will also receive the Elite version of the Hexathlon medal."
If I read this correctly, if you make it to elite, you'll get two separate medals, one "Perpetua" medal and "the elite version of the 'Hexathlon' medal"?
If that's the case, what happens with the Field Test elite medal? Will it get split up into two medals?
What will happen to agents that we already have the elite medal from field test? It will be tiered?
That medal is awesome! Definitely going to have to roadtrip it to Adelaide now
I'm excited! And I love the Perpetua medal, kudos to your designer for making a nice badge!
Shame there's none that I can travel to easily. Ah well.
When will we know where the start locations will be? Just wondering because I would like to assess how safe the area where the Tijuana MX location is before deciding to drive down or fly elsewhere.
This whole Hexathlon stuff is utterly ridiculous. Give us our anomalies back!
@NianticOfficial In a clarification announcement https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/7702/2020-event-schedule-jan-may/p1 it was stated "All of these events will have free onsite and offsite participation tickets" none of the challenges listed have an off-site component. How will this be implemented?
Second that question. The previous field test is same medal but two ranks. Are going to be this way?
That's confusing. By earning elite (all events with same badge) we lost the standard unique badge...
Or will this be the same medal for perpetua anomaly?
@NianticBrian no off-site participation option?
My understanding was there will be off-site.
More information about all of these events will be coming in the following weeks and months ahead. We plan to release the February Perpetua Hexathlon cities next week. All of these events will have free onsite and offsite participation tickets with medals awarded for ticketed participants. Stay tuned for more!
Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/7702/2020-event-schedule-jan-may/p1
Are we able to abstain from participating in a Hexatholon, if there is a concurrent Mission Day?
This really isn’t clear with how the badge works. I completed the Field Test: Hexalathon last September and earned the Elite Medal.
Is this Perpetua like an Anomaly badge and the Field Test badge separate? It it a tiered badge, or will we collect a different ‘base’ badge for each series?
I’m worried that a.) there will be a lot of FOMO, and pressure to travel as there is, presumably, no off-site option, and that b.) our scanners will be filled up with more colourful badges, like the character badges, that dilute our agent profiles from the core gameplay badges, i.e. Builder, Purifier, Connector, Illuminator etc.
Any clarifications about this would be awesome, cheers 👍
Really? looks like any FS. What disappointment...
This is how it sounds to me: Everyone earns the Perpetua badge for participating in the February Hexathlon series as long as they meet the minimum requirements. It is similar to an anomaly badge (but not an anomaly badge, cause Hexathlons are not anomalies). If you are in the top 10%, you also get the Elite badge. We don't know if this is tiered or not yet. It sounds like the green/blue Field Test badge is now not related to Hexathlon or they would have put it in the picture, so my guess is that it will just stay on your profile as the Field Test badge. Basically Perpetua is now equal to the blue/green Field Test badge, but a separate new badge, if that makes sense, and then we'll have Lexicon badge for the April series.
You can go to any event you like, participation is never required
I'd like to second this - for those of us who earned the elite medal at field test, how will this be differentiated from those who now earn exactly the same medal at any hexathlon?
Currently the badge states "Field Test - Hexathlon"
Ironically by achieving Elite we didn't get the standard field test blue / green badge.
Now that the same exact same badge is being reused we've lost our unique achievement.
@NianticBrian @NianticOfficial does this mean field test elite achievers will get the blue/green retrospectively to have a permanent badge for completing field test? Or will the Elite badge remain as Field test in scanner? or do we lose that if we achieve Elite in the Perpetua series now?
Some clarification would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance
The field test last September included a live stat-tracker that allowed the player to keep track of their progress for each category. I found this to be most useful. Can you confirm if this will also be available for this and future hexathlon events?
My guess is that they will give two medals, the perpetua and the same of previous field test, if you reach elite. The green/blue is possibly most valuable than elite now...
Thanks for fulfilling your promise for more info on Hexathalon event by this week @NianticOfficial
Next it is critical that agents get information about the registration or general play area as soon as possible, So that travel plans and such can be made.
Kudos on the Perpetua medal design, but instead of the same elite medal used during field test, would it not be possible for Elite scoring players to get an alternative colour or differentiated version of the Perpetua medal instead? food for thought, perhaps?!
The "test badge" just be "test badge", please given us "activity badge" and "hexathlon counting badge"
It would be nice to know the EXACT start and end location so that we can plan Mission Day accordingly. I know the cities will be given priority in MD planning, but our city is large with a lot of options. Wynwood, Little Haiti, Little Havana, Bayside, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, downtown Miami, etc are all parts of Miami. Narrowing it down for the people coming in from out of town would be great. It would also be helpful in trying to make hotel arrangements. There is less than two months for us to plan this. Please let us know. Thank you.
Thank you for saying what we’re thinking down here!
So.....
Those points above pretty much seal the fact that there's no way in heck that I am, for instance, flying a long distance away for a long, extended weekend, because there's no way I can justify to my wife (or myself) that a mere 90 minutes of individual running around a city on a Saturday is worth 2-3 days off work and $1000 in travel and hotel costs. It's not like I have to be there early to strategically key farm or collaborate or anything.
I agree with one of the above commenters -- if you want to go this way, then have TONS of them on the same day, and introduce some sort of team aspect. Else I feel this will really fade events away as they turn hyperlocal and hyperindividual and not global/team. Or I can hope that the community itself finds a way to bootstrap additional events (MDs etc) to make it a long, glorious weekend of fun and participation and camaraderie. Else....
Glad we're having events. Sad this is all they are.
While not ideal, they have recently opened up MD applications and have indicated that Hexathalon sites would get a priority on MD applications so that potentially it could be 2 events in the same city. https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/8361/new-year-new-mission-day-process
from the original post above,
While the gameplay is similar to the Field Test from September 2019, this event is a Hexathlon, a new type of event developed through Field Test experimentation. Hexathlon will remain as a competitive event focused on individual achievement, while Field Test will continue testing new gaming mechanics which may potentially evolve into new events, just like Hexathlon.So it sounds like future Field test events are still on the cards, just that these Feb (and April) events aren't designated Field Tests so it won't award the base/regular Field test (green/blue) medal
TO quote someone in the Houston ENL Community - "Niantic is really good and giving players things they DID NOT want and taking away things they really do want, then fixing things after an enormous amount of griping and flailing around"
The ONE thing that makes Ingress different than Niantic's other sticker collecting games ( Harry Potter / Pogo ) is the great team play.
We have a whole box of stuff, outfits, and gear for Anomolies but can't afford to travel to freaking Munich for the ONE Anomoly that they offer.
If this is the future of Ingress , I see a fade to distant memories for Ingress.......sad too because such relationships and bonds are built by Ingressers.
Step up Niantic. If it is just about MONEY tell us. If it is about CORPORATE greed, tell us. If it is about LIABILITY tell us. Just explain what in the HECK you guys are thinking by taking away the BEST part about the game.
......soap box kicked over......
PLEASE bring back the old school anomalies.
Not just ONE per 6 months that few can attend.
These Hexathalons are NOT a suitable replacement!!!
That's still confusing. If it's a new thing, why give the elite field test badge for hexatlons? And will it override the perpetua the same way it did with the crossbadge from the field test, or player will get 2 badges?
@ModularModular I am concerned that Mission Day will coincide with the Hexathalon and the MD portals might include the Check in portal for the Hexathalon. Niantic has chosen not to have POC's, so it is more likely that there will be mistakes, with no check and balances. When organizing an anomaly, there are usually many people checking the viability of what Niantic has chosen to do for an anomaly. Niantic often adjusts many details leading up to the Anomaly, based on feedback from local agents. That's why POC'S are an important facet to any event.
I am choosing to go be with my faction to support an event in their area. However, I strongly disagree with the Hexathalon format. Therefore, I want to be reassured that I won't get a badge, if I don't hack the sign in portal for the Hexathalon and/or that Niantic doesn't use the same portal to sign in for Mission Day or that one of the missions includes the sign in portal for a Hexathalon. I mean, I would just show up and hope for the best when I get there, but I really want to do a MD and I don't want the disappointment that I would be unable to do it, on the day the event arrives.
I am fortunate that I am close to the border and can easily go to Tijuana for Feb 29. However, I don't cross very often. I have had my phone stolen out of my hands in a very touristic area. I have not stopped in Tijuana, since that event about 3 years ago. However, the agents in Tijuana are very excited to host this event. I want to support them, because they have always supported San Diego. You can understand , however that I might have several questions and concerns about attending an event there. I am hoping to do MD by vehicle in TJ, if one is accepted.