Part 3 - The Art of Ingress

Portals

Portals naturally decay every day, keep them recharged
If you have the key to a portal, you can remotely recharge it (range decreases efficiency)
You can charge resonators individually

Power management

Links / Fields

You cannot link from portals that are covered by a field.
When a portal is covered by a field, you can link to it from the outside portals of that field.
With these rules in mind, you can layer fields. (This example is known as a Double Field)
Another example of layering, Ladder Building

Ultra Strikes

Condensed XMP, very powerful, short distance
Ultra Strikes have a higher chance to break shields than an XMP (stand close to the center of the portal)
Great for single resonator destruction (especially when someone is recharging)

The Compass

Tap the Compass needle to enable Dynamic Compass mode
The red needle always points North
When deploying, the hexagon with the red dot is the North point of the portal.
An easy mnemonic for Compass directions (N E S W): Never Eat Sour Watermelon
Deploy highest level resonators inside hard to access areas (like in the middle of water, behind a fence, inside a building)

Viruses

Flips a portal to a new alignment (Depending on Jarvis or ADA)
An ADA will flip a green portal to blue
A Jarvis will flip a blue portal to green
Costs XM 1000 * Portal level to use. Ex: To use a virus on an L8 portal, you’d need at least 8000 XM
Links are destroyed, but no AP is awarded
This is a one hour cooldown period before another virus can be used on a portal. Using a virus on a portal before this cooldown will still use the virus, so be careful
Resonators are recharged to full

Attack/Defence

Glyph Hacking