Ingress General Discussion: we're all BRTD now

[Flake]

We're all BRTD now

[Lief 🗽]

Thanks Bacon King, that's helpful!

We're all BRTD now

The Atlas Forum turned into a hardcore Ingress discussion forum so gradually, I hardly noticed.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Lief don't worry about attacking green portals at this time. You won't do much damage. Just hack them for more gear and you get 100 AP for each hack. 25 hacks = Level 2.

Main thing to do is link together blue portals. Get them in a triangle and you get a field which is the fastest way to gain levels. Also claim any white portals you see and fully deploy on them, that also gets you big points. It's 500 for claiming it and 250 for having the last reso plus 125 for each individual one. That equals 8 x 125 = 1000 + 500 + 250 = 1750 for building up a white portal. And if you do it to three and then link them into a field, it's 313 for each link and 1250 for the field. So 1750x3 = 5250 + 939 for the three links and 1250 for the field and thus 7439 for each of these you can fully do. And now you see how I can often pull in half a million points a week.

[Lief 🗽]

What happens when you go up in levels? Do you get better items from hacking portals?

Also what do I do with all these portal keys in my inventory?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

What happens when you go up in levels? Do you get better items from hacking portals?

Indeed. And better weapons. Once you're Level 8 you can crush any portal if you have enough weapons.

Also what do I do with all these portal keys in my inventory?

You can do two things with them. One is recharge portals which you gain a slight amount of points from. The other is link to other portals to make links and fields. To link, both portals need to have a full deployment of 8 resonators, be of a high enough level to travel the distance (this should not be a problem on a university campus), not be under a field themselves, and have no links blocking between them.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Whoa the Enlightened really took over Columbia University! Not really a bad thing though at this point, since you only get points for hacking green portals, not blue.

[Bacon King]

My first portal: the childhood home of Senator Richard B. Russell

[Bacon King]

Update: I'm at level 3, halfway to 4. Got really lucky on the way to my parents on Christmas eve because a lot of portals in Winder were suddenly uncaptured so I made a lot of links that lasted until after Christmas (winder is super enlightenment). Now in Athens there are a lot more portals. The portal in my previous post is now my guardian of 9 days.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Hey BK's got four badges now. And up to 153 portals visited. Just 6195 more to go to catch me!

Lately I've been working on my missions badge.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Hey BK: https://plus.google.com/events/cgpfcf623gl9ci48jkmdf7bgvnk

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Oh yeah, if you go, you can meet Zeke, my team captain from Chicago. He'll have interesting things to say.

[Bacon King]

Yes! I think I'll be going to that. Trying to talk my gf into joining me. I'm almost level 6 and today I went to the state botanical garden which has like a bazillion portals! I am a member of the Athens resistance and I will be getting a matching hoodie with my username on it for the event if I go to it (I guess I'm in the cult now)

[Bacon King]

Oh also this happened

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Nice! Especially as I see that's Athens and not even a rural cell. I never rank high FYI (unless I drive through a rural area and throw up a huge field or something) because I live literally two blocks from the border (Minneapolis is split into two cells) so I play heavily in two instead of just one.

Oh and thus you have plenty of time to get to L8 by February 21! Also you'll likely get to meet one of the top 25 Resistance agents in the world (he lives in Atlanta).

[Bacon King]

Nice! Especially as I see that's Athens and not even a rural cell. I never rank high FYI (unless I drive through a rural area and throw up a huge field or something) because I live literally two blocks from the border (Minneapolis is split into two cells) so I play heavily in two instead of just one.

Yeah I looked on intel and saw if I took a slight detour on my drive home today I could make a series of huge fields spanning my corner of the city using keys I already had or could pick up on the route. In half an hour I made 17 links, making 14 fields totalling something like 3500 MU. It brought me from 9th to 2nd

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Yes! If all goes well I'll hit level 6 tomorrow which I'm told is when I first become genuinely useful for team play.

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Oh that DarkKnight guy? I saw on his profile that he did a series of ATL missions that gave him mission badges spelling out RESIST, and ever since I saw that I've been wanting to go yo Atlanta and do those missions except in the wrong order so it spells out SISTER or maybe just do five and have it spell TIRES (I can't think of anything better but I am very amused by the idea)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Ha, that's really clever. So far no one has done anything like that here. Someone made a series of 18 in Singapore that apparently represent the story of Romeo and Juliet and if done in the right order show some sort of cross faction logo.

Oh and I'm so happy, I made over 200k points tonight and broke 26 million.

[Bacon King]

Ha, that's really clever. So far no one has done anything like that here. Someone made a series of 18 in Singapore that apparently represent the story of Romeo and Juliet and if done in the right order show some sort of cross faction logo.

Oh and I'm so happy, I made over 200k points tonight and broke 26 million.

You've also maintained a link for an entire year now!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

That's actually my teammates who have been recharging it.

[Bacon King]

Hey anyone who wants to try Ingress should let me or BRTD know so we can send you an official invitation email, because now we get an achievement for recruiting people

[Bacon King]

Update: level 7

Also on Sunday I met someone through Ingress when hw met me in the park to give me a bunch of items. He was literally exactly how I imagine brtd is in person

[rpryor03]

I have officialy joined Ingress!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Update: level 7

Also on Sunday I met someone through Ingress when hw met me in the park to give me a bunch of items. He was literally exactly how I imagine brtd is in person

Wearing a band shirt?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

BK have you registered for the anomaly yet?

[Bacon King]

he had a band shirt on but i forgot the band

I have officialy joined Ingress!

username?

BK have you registered for the anomaly yet?

oh no i forgot do you have the link?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

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