EPTIf any of you're visiting Bergen, look for Niding. ;3
Edit: Represent!
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plated.rawr
Norway1676 Posts
If any of you're visiting Bergen, look for Niding. ;3 Edit: Represent! | ||
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CarltonBeener
United States84 Posts
Don't get discouraged. One of the biggest things to overcome in the early levels is a feeling of hopelessness. You can't take down enemy portals, whatever you put up will fall super easy. You can spend a few hours fully capturing and linking up a cluster of portals, and an enemy agent can come along and blow it all up in 5 minutes. I hope everyone is picking resistance, but for either side, even if you are severely outnumbered, that just gives you more to do and you can level up faster. There are many ways to play the game and over time you will figure out your own play style. Some people are attackers, some people are builders, some just like to grind for medals. The game is really as deep as you want it to be. Use the intel map www.ingress.com/intel to look at any area in the world. It's a great way to see whats in your area that you'll never see on the scanner. You can also filter by portal level so you can find high density areas of low level portals to take out to get AP faster. Also look for portals without shields. The lower level you are, if you come across a high level shielded portal the most you'll ever do is tickle it. | ||
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Ghostcom
Denmark4782 Posts
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zatic
Zurich15355 Posts
I am still confused about linking. I just don't get how I can sometimes link portals I have keys to, sometimes I can't. Like I capture 3 neutral portals right next to each other and for some reason I can't create a field with them because on the links just doesn't do. So far I have just been roaming around creating links where I can more or less randomly. I wonder how people actually come up with strategic linking to get those huge fields. | ||
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climax
United States1088 Posts
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R1CH
Netherlands10341 Posts
On March 02 2015 06:21 zatic wrote: Alright I am L4 now and attacking actually does something now. Took down a few today. I am still confused about linking. I just don't get how I can sometimes link portals I have keys to, sometimes I can't. Like I capture 3 neutral portals right next to each other and for some reason I can't create a field with them because on the links just doesn't do. So far I have just been roaming around creating links where I can more or less randomly. I wonder how people actually come up with strategic linking to get those huge fields. Few things to consider: - Portals must be fully deployed (all resonators out) and sufficiently charged - Must have the key to the target portal - Key is consumed when creating a link (this confused me for the longest time) - Hacking a portal doesn't always guarantee you getting a key - Links cannot be created under a control field - Links cannot cross existing links | ||
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R1CH
Netherlands10341 Posts
On March 02 2015 05:59 Ghostcom wrote: Can someone please explain to me why I can hack portals of my own faction? I'm so confused by this game. You won't get any XP for doing that, but you will get items. "Hacking" is basically like interacting with the portal. Enemy portals will zap you when you hack them, at higher portal levels you want to be hacking your own faction portals so you can get lots of items without losing all your XM. | ||
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Ghostcom
Denmark4782 Posts
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zatic
Zurich15355 Posts
On March 02 2015 08:02 R1CH wrote: Few things to consider: - Portals must be fully deployed (all resonators out) and sufficiently charged - Must have the key to the target portal - Key is consumed when creating a link (this confused me for the longest time) - Hacking a portal doesn't always guarantee you getting a key - Links cannot be created under a control field - Links cannot cross existing links Aaaaaah didn't know keys are consumed by linking! This explains it. Also today I found a stack of 20 portal keys just lying on the street. Did someone just drop them there? Why would someone do that? | ||
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gillon
Sweden1578 Posts
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Danglars
United States12133 Posts
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R1CH
Netherlands10341 Posts
On March 02 2015 08:06 Ghostcom wrote: So it is fine to hack my own faction portals? It doesn't come with any drawback? Yep that's totally fine! The main thing you can do to "hurt" your own faction is make long links which block other links from being formed. When building and linking try to make the shortest links possible as this gets more links and thus stronger portals. | ||
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R1CH
Netherlands10341 Posts
On March 02 2015 08:12 zatic wrote: Also today I found a stack of 20 portal keys just lying on the street. Did someone just drop them there? Why would someone do that? Yes, you can drop any item and anyone else around can pick it up. There's an inventory cap of 2k items and keys can take up valuable slots, most likely someone visited your area and discarded the keys they picked up. Also if someone destroys a link, there's a chance that a key for one of the portals appears at either end of the link. | ||
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CarltonBeener
United States84 Posts
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zatic
Zurich15355 Posts
On March 02 2015 08:12 zatic wrote: Aaaaaah didn't know keys are consumed by linking! This explains it. Hmm this still doesn't make sense to me. Today I captured a portal, got the key from it. There is another one about 100m off, I also got the key from that. There is nothing in the way between both. Both are fully deployed and charged, they have 0 and 1 existing links. Yet still it says "No linkable portals".  Another thing: Can I somehow permanently team up with people? I have been roaming around with friends but I would like to get notifications and stuff like that from them even when they are out hacking somewhere completely different. | ||
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R1CH
Netherlands10341 Posts
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zatic
Zurich15355 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Q466qr5.png) | ||
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plated.rawr
Norway1676 Posts
On March 03 2015 17:25 zatic wrote: Must have been a temporary glitch, same link worked later. Yeah I used the Intel map to cross check. My area is pretty cool, there is basically a super strong Enlightened ring controlling most of the city and then a small pocket of Resistance in the center. I live right in the contested zone where no portal is up for more than a few hours. Great for leveling. Last night I managed to carve out a nice blue section with the help of some higher level Resistance who destroyed the stronger portals. Let's see if that lives until tonight. + Show Spoiler + We had a quite smiilar situation in Bergen when I started, with the town being mostly dominated by toads. It's completely switched around the last couple months however, with the downtown centre being coated in blue with l7 and l8 portals everywhere, and regional portal numbers for l8 staying around 140 for RES and 1-5 for ENL. Portals and fields usually stay for a while, unless it's along the light rail or bus lines. Those go down a few times a day. If the toads are dominating your area though, i wouldn't expect any fields or lines to stay up for more than hours at most. | ||
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zatic
Zurich15355 Posts
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R1CH
Netherlands10341 Posts
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