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@ingress @ingress @krugdrew @nerdmeetsyou The retirement of prime is expected, but still bad news at the current state of prime. For me recharging and casual gameplay with prime is a pain for several reasons. A thread.
@ingress @KrugDrew @Nerdmeetsyou Recharging is much slower in prime. I'm a user that regularly recharges several hundred portals. By that I mean 600+ portals. I tend to use all my small power cubes as well as several hundreds l8 power cubes.
@ingress @KrugDrew @Nerdmeetsyou Usually I recycle three l7 or two l8 pcs (or more for lower) and then keep recharging. In prime I have to wait after using each pc. That's absolutely unnecessary.
@ingress @KrugDrew @Nerdmeetsyou Also the steps to recharge so many portals are too much in prime. You had the chance to improve the handling, but you didn't fix major issues. The first step is my decision to bulk recharge hundreds of portals. I'm not interested at all in other portal pictures in this process.
@ingress @KrugDrew @Nerdmeetsyou Still, I have to look at all the portal pictures in the process. Please remove this intermediate step as it's completely superfluous.
@ingress @KrugDrew @Nerdmeetsyou Next, scrolling the portals list is a pain as well. I have a one plus 7 pro, one of the most powerful phones on the market and it's laggy. Scrolling is laggy! Wtf.
@ingress @KrugDrew @Nerdmeetsyou Then, due to the lazy loading of values like recharge levels etc. I sometimes have to go back and forth being really quick, because I initially thought that the portal is neutral. This highly depends on the network connection ofc.
@ingress @KrugDrew @Nerdmeetsyou Coming to casual gameplay. My phone has a huge! display. Still many things are really hard to see in the birds eye view of the map. What is so hard in making portals appear bigger on the map? See the arrows. Why not make them as big as the center of the portal in the square? 
@ingress @KrugDrew @Nerdmeetsyou Coming to feature parity. I want to navigate on the map. This is a super useful feature to explore my neighborhood. I can explore everything as long as I can navigate to it. Even without having a key. Also spot the difference in size compared to the picture in the last post.
@ingress @KrugDrew @Nerdmeetsyou Once you fix all these issues (and add the expected tsv export for stats), then we might talk about parity. Until then, watch the number of active players drop even more.
