Global Wayfarer Challenge
Can we have properly advertised Global Wayfarer Challenge? Where we can nominate certain amount of POIs and after getting accepted get some perks and rewards or certain Pokemon encounters like Scatterbug.
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Can we have properly advertised Global Wayfarer Challenge? Where we can nominate certain amount of POIs and after getting accepted get some perks and rewards or certain Pokemon encounters like Scatterbug.
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Which kind of perks and rewards would you want?
I'd have to wait at least 18 months for a submission to go through the process so they'd have to be pretty good rewards :D
Aren't the Wayspots themselves, and their resulting free stuff, kind of a reward in themselves? Lots of people submit, and far fewer people review. Reviewing is a thankless task, for the most part (rewards are based on agreements which take 100 to get an upgrade which makes one of one's own submissions move faster in the voting process, which isn't exactly a windfall-type reward) and I think Niantic's challenges should focus more on the accurate reviewing side of things.
Doing a submitting challenge would encourage too many people to randomly submit junk. Unfortunately that stands in the way for such a challenge, not everyone is doing wayfarer as responsibly as most people on the forum are. You could argue of course, if they have to get accepted, you can not just submit the ground, but usually spamming is rewarded, and wayfarer challenges going only in one voting direction have the potential to draw in big abuse.
Historically, Wayfarer Challenges had the problem of game rewards not being distributed, or only partially. IIRC the India Challenge meant to give out Murkrow spawns with shiny chance, but that never happened. I assume the game departement was not able or willing to do it back at the time. Pretty sure the item rewards can not be that good either otherwise you would draw in other people without any care or interest in wayfarer (in some groups it was visible since news outlets were like "with this simple trikc you get a bucnh of Items for free!")
The review format with agreements still has the potential problem of reviewers organizing themselves to vote a certain way, but it seems less likely than the other stuff, at least to me. We still saw questionable decisions from the Indonesia event though.
I think what would come closest to your suggestion is to have more frequent, but international review events, giving out a small but notable amount of useful items. Stuff like some balls, some high level resonators, maybe something like only 50 agreements needed for an upgrade, to throw some ideas in.
What would your suggestion be for Ingress submitters in this kind of challenge?