Brian Rose is taking a half time break from Q&A for meetings a | RGNN Ticker

Brian Rose is taking a half time break from Q&A for meetings and RGNN has summarized the first half of answers for you:

Mission Day Guide for 2022 has been finalized and they’re hoping to be available for Agents to apply in April. Stand alone 2020 MDs are contacted late 2021 and Hexathlon MDs will have the chance to host stand alone or in the future along with Hexathlons.
Niantic Team is less than 20 people across engineering, art, marketing and community. To try new things and share with other Niantic games. “The best way to describe how we work is a build > measure > learn cycle, where we launch then iterate. And the question we always go back to, for every release, is, ‘What should we ship that Ingress Agents will thank us for building?’”
Niantic has been experimenting 2-week sprints and 4-week release cadence, in comparsion to previous updates every 2 weeks.
Niantic is still trying to fix lag by speculative fix but having trouble to pin down.
Premium items will continue to take inventory limit.
Niantic is trying to re-enable gameplay in Russia and Belarus, lifting a previous difficult decision.

Update: Brian Rose updated second half of the Q&A, including his thoughts on Player Guidelines, especially win trading, in addition to 20m portal proximity rule, and his vision of Ingress that are best in his words. Be sure to check out.

See Brian’s all responses at https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/18751/transcript-24-march-2022-q-a-with-brian