Slice of Chaotic Life

The daily life of a celibate middle-aged man.

Ingress journal: “Useful idiots”

Posted by Itlandm on July 20, 2013

The Resistance agent had succeeded in capturing my best portal and making it his own, but things probably did not go as he had planned. Early next morning, an Enlightened agent operating on his own took opportunity of the “missing link” to connect Flekkefjord to Lillehammer to Karlstad in Sweden. That was something that was very visible on a map of Scandinavia, and could not have been done if not for our useful but misguided visitor from the Resistance. Thank you!

On a more personal note, I not only got 10 Action Points for every time I recharged that portal trying to defend it; I also got points for each resonator I destroyed as I tore it down, then even more for each resonator when I rebuilt it in its original color. Of course, he also got AP when he grabbed it, but 8 is the highest level and has been since the beginning. From level 8 upward, you don’t really get any reward for your actions besides whatever you planned to use them for. At this point you are supposed to be a master of Ingress and work to further the goals of your faction, not for your personal growth, as it were.

Thanks to this fellow, I got a week’s worth of action points in a day, and came very close to level 5. I should be there tomorrow.

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