Wayfarer Community Day
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As you’re all Wayfarers, you’ll know that today is Community Day. What you may be unaware of, is that it’s Community Day across all globally released Niantic titles (Pokémon GO, Ingress and Pikmin Bloom) and this is planned to stay the same until July 2022.
If Wayfarer was involved in this joint Community Day, what would you want to see from it? Double points for reviews? 24 hour change of bonus location?
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I would expect that during the community days of Agents, Trainers and Bloomers?, they would be too busy playing each of their respective games and then taking care of their usual real life, so at the end they wouldn't want to spend even more time looking at their computer screens to review any nomination at all.
It would be nice to have a community week, where we can get double points for review, maybe with a Niantic employee streaming a 1 hour review session + a little insight what's going on behind the scenes. Would be cool to have a contest who finds the best & worst submission. Winner get Upgrades or extra appeals. Maybe a little scoreboard (Most reviews, most agreements in this time). Something like this would bring the Wayfarer community together and boost the number of reviews. I think something similar was a huge success in the Wayfarer Discord
In general it is a good idea, but there need to be improvements to the whole system first. With the current issues going on, such an event would most likely do more damage to Wayfarer and nominations.
I agree that players are busy enough doing these events across differenmt games, so if implemented here, it would need to be at least for a whole weekend (48hrs), or even longer. It should also be limited to players with a specific minimum number of reviews done, or players with a "great" review appraisal, or players who have been reviewing for at least n months, to avoid further abuse of the system just to get quick upgrades.
But yeah, in general bonuses like locations switches or extra appeals sound good to me.
I’d like to see a badge of some sort for my preferred game. Something along the lines of a brief task list:
Submit an image update for a POI
Submit a description update for a POI
Scan a POI
Perform 50 reviews in Wayfarer
Personally, I am overwhelmed. Yes, I get that in Pokemon you can catch the two shiny shrews each, in Pikmin you can also walk 10k steps, but now that there's a Second Sunday Mission badge in Ingress, I'm very... well, I can't multitask all these anymore without feeling tired. For some reason, I feel forced to play for the first part for the duration of the Community Day, and then try and play the Ingress Second Sunday afterwards, but this will burn me out over time. They should be separate days.
I would not want Wayfarer to join such an already jam-packed day. A weekend of sorts, sure, but Wayfarer has become very dull to me nowadays. It would be fun to see a weekend (maybe the last weekend of each month) see largely-inflated areas for reviews, as well as edits and photos, and the possibility to designate additional bonus locations to be routed during the weekend only and cease afterwards.
Once again, Niantic put events for different games on the same day. Do they realise that quite a lot of people play more than one of their games. It should really be rotational, and ensure there are no event clashes of any sort across all games. Poor planning again.
No to a Wayfarer "Community Day". What would we do - review more?
I personally really like having multiple game events on the same day, but that's only when they line up with the day I have available to play. I've been working all week plus watching four grandchildren, two dogs, and five chickens. I just offloaded the smallest and most high-maintenance grandchild so I have a few hours to get things done before I need to prepare for the upcoming work week! I'm pleased to be able to work on three events at once, since I can run Pikmin in the background and walk about catching a few Sandshrew (I only needed one, shiny, Kanto Sandshrew to complete the family anyway) while doing a mission banner in Ingress which is pretty much my favorite thing to do besides First Saturday. I'm pleased they didn't run multiple events on a First Saturday day, because those involve too much computer time for me as host. If I had to choose between doing the outdoor events or reviewing, I'd choose the outdoor events every time. I review at night on my computer, usually after the Rocket Bosses leave the map to enforce the games' diurnal bias.
Yes, this.
To expand one point: a Wayfarer community event would need to occur some time (month? week?) BEFORE the Community Day. Then, enjoying the new wayspots would be part of Community Day.
The Wayfarer Community event could let reviewers opt-in (opt-in is one of the needed system improvements) - which would give them some Wayspots in the Community Day cities to review, with upgrades coming with 50 agreements instead of 100. Keep stats of how many were approved in those cities during the event. Award (bronze, silver, gold) Wayfarer badges to participants.
I think yes but two weeks before commday, I only play pokemon but I usually play between 4 to 6 hours and it's tiring, I wouldn't want to review much in the same day, sometimes I do like 20, like yesterday since the event was bad.
The week/month before is a great idea (though probably 2 weeks before so as not to land on the previous Community Day). It could serve two purposes: encourage people to submit new things for the next CD, but also to encourage people on the previous CD to find something new and interesting while doing CD.
This last CD, part of my fun was looking around at my community for good submissions that hadn't been made yet. I took the photos and location info I needed while I was there and submitted when I got back home. I think a 2-week span centered on a CD might be ideal, actually. Maybe you can get 1-2 bonus upgrades if you submit in that time period, and a limited number of fast upgrades, like from 50 instead of 100. Not something too overkill, but also to encourage a short, dedicated period of review for people who don't review as much (also remove the auto-upgrade as the first step).
I agree with this. I'd rather the community days were all different days. Whilst playing casually it's possible to switch between the games, but a community day event is more involved and I don't like having to choose to miss out on one just so I can do a different one in a different game.
“It needs to be a month before Community Day”
So… it needs to be on last month’s Community Day?
They rotate cities for Community Day. There could be a profile setting for "Show me nominations in upcoming Community Day cities."
Rotate cities for Community Day? For Pokemon Go?
Community Day is held globally and is not rotated by city. Did you mean something else?
Not a single location in the entire continent of Africa?
I would like to see Africa actually included for once instead of just being in the headings. I find it incredibly disappointing that it is overlooked by Niantic.
Someone posted a link lately... or else I stumbled upon it... It had a list of cities. In hindsight, maybe it was just cities where Niantic bling was going to be passed out?
If they want to keep this up then since Ingress is always second Saturday ideally the wayfarer week would be the last week of the month.
Ingress Second Sunday usually falls on a Sunday, but yep I agree that the last week of the month would be preferred if it doesn't conflict with Ingress First Saturday, which I believe is Niantic's most venerable pre-scheduled event.
I would love to see a special Community Day Bonus location that was only active for that day (or, preferably, a weekend) so that I could visit another location for a bit and help their queue move. The most interesting thing about Wayfarer for me is virtual tourism it would be fun to have a weekend getaway of reviewing.
Currently, the impatient secretary at Ingress has made a lot of appointments for agents.
First Saturday (Virtual Meetup), Second Sunday (Mission), Third or Force Saturday and even the last weekend of Battle Beacon Anomaly, unidentified events, Earth Day, Eos Imprint Investigation and Summer Solstice are scheduled every week until June.
The Wayfarer team does not have a single gap in their schedule. (LOL).
https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/18488/april-june-2022-events-schedule-kythera
Also, your suggestion is indeed an interesting suggestion.
However, it seems to me that a review on a specific weekend is a bit different from the nature and purpose of Wayfarer.
Therefore, I think it would be better to have a monthly task for reviewers and nominators, and upon completion of the task, a consumable passcode would be distributed for each game.
One month we would nominate a "historical site" theme, another month we would revise the title and description, another month we would correct the correct location information, and every six months or so we would hold a challenge day to spotlight a specific country, region, or continent.
We think this would be sustainable and encourage more Wayfinder participation.
Details could be discussed by the team and ambassadors.