Tips n Tricks to get you started
There is a lot to learn before everything will start making sense. While you'll likely pick up a lot through just playing and figuring it out, take a look at these tips to save yourself some time and make sure you capture the important details.
- Hack everything! You get items (and AP from enemy portals) from hacking and those items will help you level.
- Use the Intel Map www.ingress.com/intel to plan before you head out to play.
- Try to fully deploy on a portal. You get a bonus for capturing the portal, but will get another when you fully power it by placing the last resonator on it. Now you can link from the portal too!
- Make small fields! A field is when you link together 3 fully powered portals into a triangle. It doesn’t matter how large, all fields are worth the same amount of AP!
- Avoid spam links (aka Swacky links)! A long link to nowhere doesn’t give you a benefit and will likely interfere with your teammates' ability to make their own links and fields.
- Do not get discouraged when your portals get destroyed. This is actually a good thing since you get to build them back up again!
- Ask questions! All of us have them regarding strategy, best practices, gameplay, etiquette etc.
Earning Points, Leveling Up
Leveling up allows you to use stronger weapons, deploy more resistant resonators and hold more XM in the tank. Levels 1 through 8 are all about the AP.
| Action |
AP |
| Hack a portal (Enemy) |
100 |
| Hack a portal (Neutral or Own Faction) |
0 |
| Recharge a Resonator |
10 |
| Deploy a new resonator |
125 |
| Upgrade your own resonator |
0 |
| Upgrade a resonator (not your own) |
65 |
| Capture a portal |
500 |
| Deploy the 8th resonator on a portal |
250 |
| Establish a link |
313 |
| Establish a control field |
1250 |
| Deploy a portal mod |
125 |
| Destroy a resonator |
75 |
| Destroy a link |
187 |
| Destroy a control field |
750 |
Level Up Requirements
| Level |
AP Needed |
Badges Needed |
| 1 |
0 |
- |
| 2 |
2,500 |
- |
| 3 |
20,000 |
- |
| 4 |
70,000 |
- |
| 5 |
150,000 |
- |
| 6 |
300,000 |
- |
| 7 |
600,000 |
- |
| 8 |
1,200,000 |
- |
| 9 |
2,400,000 |
4 silver + 1 gold |
| 10 |
4,000,000 |
5 silver + 2 gold |
| 11 |
6,000,000 |
6 silver + 4 gold |
| 12 |
8,400,000 |
7 silver + 6 gold |
| 13 |
12,000,000 |
7 Gold + 1 Platinum |
| 14 |
17,000,000 |
7 Gold + 2 Platinum |
| 15 |
24,000,000 |
7 Gold + 3 Platinum |
| 16 |
40,000,000 |
7 Gold + 4 Platinum + 2 Onyx |
Badges
Access your agent stats from within your scanner (hit the symbol in the top left) and you will see the badges available for you to work towards. Tapping on a badge will show you how far you have to go before reaching the next flavor of that badge. Badges are needed for being promoted to levels 9 and above.
Missions
Missions, accessible through Ops - Missions in the scanner, were introduced in the fall of 2014. While no AP is gained from completing Missions, you do get both bragging rights and a special Mission medal for each one you complete. Those level 9 and above can submit new Missions here. If you have any questions about creating Missions, hit up the helpful folks in the Slack #missions channel.
Regional Cell Scoring
In this global battle, there is only one area in which either team can actually claim to be winning. Every time you log on to the scanner, you see a huge number each for Resistance and Enlightened. Those are the global MU count scores. As well as those global scores, the entire world is split into Regional Cells with local scoring. To see which cell you are in follow Ops - Intel - Regional Scores.
The scoring is divided into Checkpoints (every 5 hours) and Cycles (every 35 Checkpoints, 175 hours).
At the end of each Checkpoint, all MU from every currently standing field in the cell is added together. The large scores shown are an average of each Checkpoint's score for each team.
Every time a field is made, the MU shown in the scanner goes towards your personal total for the Cycle and determines your position in the See Other Agents list.
Anomalies
Anomalies are periods of unusually high XM concentration where players from both factions compete to control clusters of portals in order to win points for their team. Anomalies usually occur over the course of several weeks, with different events located in major cities around the world. Anomaly sites are divided into two categories: Primary and Satellite locations. Niantic Labs employees, as well as characters from the Ingress story, often attend events at Primary anomaly locations. The outcome of XM Anomalies often influence future events in the Ingress backstory.
#Recursion Anomaly, Miami FL, Feb 2014
