About leveling up
So, before I start this, i just want to say that I'm still relatively new to Ingress (level 7, half way done).
Ok, now that I got that out of the way, I just want to say that I really enjoyed every single moment that I've played ingress and really like the fact that I even made some new friends trough it( which for me is pretty hard because of social anxiety).
My question is: Is there any way to level up faster that making a lot of fields? My friends keep telling me they can help me level up faster but never actually explain how. Can I get some answers on that please?
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Fielding along with glyph hacking really helps
Been doing it for a while and also started watching a video series called "Ingression Prime". Got some pretty good info out of that too.
People in Ingress who are willing to help you level up faster are a resource you should use, 100%. Others can help you in a number of ways, including:
Providing materials (resonators, bursters, keys, etc) useful for fielding, taking down enemy links and fields in a local play area that you may not be able to completely wipe on your own, and even organizing large-scale, multi-Agent operations to prep an area with high-level portals, get you the keys necessary, and let you go to town creating a huge Farm, which you can then use to hack and gain weapons, keys, portal mods, etc.
Beyond this, other Agents in your area can coach you in best practices when fielding (layer stacking, etc), the best places to level up quickly, and overall how to become a better agent. All of this can even be done in the current COVID-crisis some of the world is still facing, through use of social platforms and socially-distanced meetings and ops.
I can tell you that networking with agents who impact the community for the better is a resource that can’t be usurped (when you show the same respect they show you). I can’t even count how many times agents in my area have helped me level up and just become a better Agent in general.
Also, as its already been said, Glyph Hack, Glyph Hack, Glyph Hack. Also, with the COVID bonus for Recharging still in effect, try to remote recharge as much as you feel comfortable doing. Right now, recharging gives 65 AP instead of the normal 10 per Charge click.
Also, glyph hacking and recharging will both count to their respective medals. Once you get past Level 8 you’ll need a certain amount of certain badge levels in order to move to the next Level.
There are techniques for making fields to gain AP more efficiently, but it will take some prep work. Here is the layout for an AP machine. You'll need softbank ultra links and flipcards to do it repeatedly, but if you can get those then it's a very fast way to level up. A 15-portal spine is the magic number for one SBUL per throw without wasting the capacity of the SBUL but you can do it with fewer too.
Some help include taking you to where there is a mass of portals, provide you with portal keys, and remove all opposing faction's links/fields. Your friends seems honest, portals are really dense where I live, and we consider Lv1->Lv8 a '24hr' job to do.
Ok, I didn't expect this many comments and I just wanted to say thank you and wanted to mention that I went from level 3 to level 7 and a half in less than 2 days
I am currently living in a part of Italy where until 4 days ago it was all covered in a field so I basically couldn't do anything. I am a bit of a "tryhard" at basically everything so I had to use all the time I have to level up as much as I can before they remake the field.
If you want to see some of the work I've done in the past 2 days look up the city Olbia on intel map and tell me what you guys think. Really need any kind of feedback on my fielding as it really helps
And once again, thank you!
That's an impressive set of triangles for a new player. Nice work!
There are a couple of places where you have "easy" additional fields. For example, see the long thin one at the bottom that has a tiny field inside? You can't link from the tiny field down to the portal at the far southeast because that inner portal is under a field, but you could link from the far southeast portal back to the inside one. That would create two additional fields. Look for cases where you have a triangle with a single portal inside and you can turn it into four fields.
Do you know how to get more keys via glyph hacking?
From my experience (at almost 80 million AP) you don't really need help from other players for leveling up. A group of players is super useful for making huge fields, field art, starbursts, and farming and having fun together.
This is a useful guide for playing ingress and gaining AP: https://www.smurfling.guide/
Keep in mind that you need medals to for levels 9 and up. Working towards the medals will also give you AP.
At the moment you can get ridiculous amounts of AP from recharging if you use the normal charge button (not boost charge). Charge all until the resonators are almost full, then charge each resonator individually. You can gain 650 AP daily from recharging a level 8 portal.
It is also the most boring way to play Ingress.
Yes, thank you and one of my friends showed me the pattern I need to do before glyph hacking. He showed me the one for requesting a key and the one for requesting no key.