Niantic announced that “On Tue Apr 15 at 10:30 AM PDT, we’ll disable Niantic Campfire and the Niantic Profile on Ingress. Additionally, we’ll temporarily pause new Portal nominations and Portal edits”.
I had planned a 4-day trip to northern Finland for Easter holidays. The sole purpose of my trip was to nominate portals and enjoy nature. I live in south-western Finland myself so it takes a day to just drive up north and another to drive back.
For context: I have a project to get a wayspot (portal) nomination accepted in all of the 308 municipalities in Finland. I’ve completed 283 and am missing 25 so far, and the missing ones are in Lapland as that’s pretty darn far away.
I have a low-level PoGo account that can’t nominate and my son has a high-level account that can’t nominate being a child’s account so no help there.
I could take photos and locations of the nominees, sure, but there’s no way to remotely nominate those in the future due to distance limits.
All ideas are welcome about how to make this trip count.
Afaik no. If u want ur name in the submitted
Wayspot,u nd to lvl up pogo to37 before easter holiday. U can take pic with camera to submit later but submission distance will be problem
Hello @forzacomo
I’m sorry to hear you are in this situation. It must be deeply frustrating.
The only option to nominate on the trip and I do realise how this is likely to be unappealing, is to have a Pokémon Go account at level 37.
That is a lot to do if starting from zero. However it doesn’t require any badges just the accumulation of points. The easiest way to do this is by exchanging gifts. There are probably articles on how to do this quickly.
If you decide to go this route I’m sure people would be happy to help if they can.
If this is not feasible then I can only suggest you try to enjoy the trip if conditions are good take photos and file them away in case you get an opportunity in the future.
My PoGo level is twenty-something I think. Also it is a PTC account that is not linked to my personal Wayfarer account. Years ago I had accidentally created a new PoGo account to my Google account, I had it removed and thus I don’t think I can ever link another PoGo account to my Wayfarer account.
Yeah, I guess I could still nominate portals with my PoGo account nevertheless if I’d manage to level that up in time, but I don’t think that is a way I want to spend my next week…
For me nominating portals has been my “main game” for years. First I set myself a goal to get 1000 portals approved and one in every municipality of my home region (27 municipalities).
Then I set a new goal to get 2000 portals approved and one in every municipality in the whole of Finland (total 308 municipalities). Got the 2000th accepted last year, but never had the time to travel to Lapland as it’s so darn far away.
Now I finally found time from work and family to do a 4-day trip myself to visit the the western part of Lapland, not a perfect time of year but still feasible. A bit disappointed feelings atm.
My only advice not already mentioned is to make sure you bring this up in Ingress communities where their staff may be present.
It won’t change things, but they need to be aware of the community frustration.
Years ago, I recall Brian Rose making a plea to leave positive reviews to the Ingress app and reviews on what could be improved. I take this as an opportunity, however they’ve made an increasing separation from the community voice.
Wow, that’s really frustrating, and I feel with you.
I think the only way for you to get there is leveling up your PoGo account fast. doing it with friendships should be the fastest way to do it. Also Lucka Eggs can help a great deal. Level 37 isn’t very hard to reach. I hope you can get your stuff done.
Anyways, it might not be working, as the stop of nominations for ingress might mean that the date when the Lightship-Copy for the New Niantic could already have passed (just speculation, but it seems likely to me that ingress players get barred out at this point, so the frustration of newly accepted wayspots never appearing in their game gets less frustrating…)
