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Like I say, it’s an expensive exploit. You can get two R8s with the first battle beacon, and then one more per battle beacon thereafter. So the total is a very expensive seven. Very much for the C.O.R.E. player than doesn’t use them for field engines…

About three months ago - yes the behaviour is still the same.

Sounds excellent! Double AP events are great for levelling up after recursion. I’m glad to have helped : ) well done on level 12!

@@LessThanJessLTJ Thank you!

Alas no. Just a couple of the features Niantic forgot to turn off including this one…

Satisfying and frustrating at the same time - my phone was definitely working hard…

Thankfully they drop some of each and we have kinetic capsules!

True

Hehe, I try not to get involved at all.

A lot of the content I post is pretty hardcore play that involves tons of key farming and glyph hacking to prepare for field engine, battle beacon or decay engine use. This video was about how I play when I play more casual (which granted, isn’t casual by most standards). Sometimes it’s nice to tap hack and see more of the world around me instead. Depends on the day/occasion.

Yeah I realise - it does count towards your medals though - depends what you play for.

Fair point

You need to have recursed to have access to Very Rare Battle Beacons - that means getting to level 16 and pressing the recurse button - once that’s done, you can buy them in the shop, you get them with C.O.R.E. membership and sometimes during events.

I've never passed recursion, but I have VR BB available in the shop. So, I believe recursion is not mandatory

@@DmytroVolhushyn interesting - Very Rare Battle Beacons rather than the Rare Battle Beacons?

@@LessThanJessLTJ I have both in the shop.

@@DmytroVolhushyn oh nice! Either that’s changed or I’ve been mistaken for a long time : )

Glad it’s helpful!

Thanks!

Nice tip! I didn’t know about this one and will have to check it out.

That sounds like another good use for it - inventory management - especially if you’re near the item limit. And that’s a nice quick way of disposing of keys - thanks!

@@LessThanJessLTJ I am constantly near the item limit 😄

Likewise - I love it when I have space. After this recent event, I have more Apex and VRBB to store also…

@@LessThanJessLTJ haha! my inventory is completely messed up now - I have way more R1-R3 and common mods than I usually carry, and way fewer X8s. I have a hard time recycling things that might be useful, so I will just adjust my play style for a few days until it all evens out again. I'm a little over 5 million AP from my first recursion, so those Apex will be very useful.

They certainly will - combined with a 2sday even better. Are you going to aim for 40million exact?

Thanks for saying so! I love a decay engine as it doesn’t use up all of my viruses which are very difficult to come by. I’m glad I had the foresight to set up the decay engine ahead of time. I had some help with key collection from another agent who knew about my time constraints and appreciated I’m motivated enough to throw that many links in 3 days. I’m looking forward to the Field Test: Dispatch medal now… Next video will be soon - about how to level up portals using VRBB solo.

Nice going!

Nice work! Yeah as a solo player it’s really difficult and depends a lot on location. Well done on the medal - the bronze looks better I think.

Thanks, yeah I'm not stressing about it anymore. I'd be done for the time and without fail, the opposition would be smashing everything I did within an hour or 2. I was hoping the portals would all just stay up and I could keep smashing my anchor. Normally my area is pretty quiet.

Yeah that sounds like a good plan - though even farming keys and working from a single anchor would still be very tough solo.

Wouldn’t you know it? Sounds like the key out put has been increased. That would have been helpful from the beginning.

Yeah I’m noticing that - currently in Tanzania farming keys and regularly getting 3 per hack. Would have made it a lot easier for me at the start if I was getting that many.

Hi to you!

Sounds plausible to me. It’s nice seeing some happening - people are doing the medal like it’s supposed to be done.

@@LessThanJessLTJ I live in a small area, so I'd have to make the star multiple times and ADA/Battle Beacon when I run out of portals to link. Unfortunately no bonus points for me

Ah that’s frustrating - sometimes living rural has its advantages but not for this event…

Yes - very helpful improvement for this kind of fielding.

Good question - they’re not often in the shop and if they are, they’re expensive and you don’t get many and they usually come with a lot of other kit. The only way I have so many is by hacking a lot and by trading for them and being given them from other generous players. Some players don’t have occasion to use them but know we can put them to very good use. In return, because we hack such a lot, we can offer most in game items.

Yep that’s the short of it. 3 points per link made, 1 per link destroyed. 2,000 for bronze tier and 10,000 for silver tier medals. After that, there’s a starburst metric that I like the sound of but won’t be able to participate in. I might get some footage from others giving that a go…

@LessThanJessLTJ thanks, your so helpful 😀

You’re welcome!

I suppose looks can be so deceiving can’t they? I don’t advocate spoofing. Yes CORE helps with this but it’s possible without.

I have a few towns nearby that spawn them regularly and I have to travel through for work. They add up gradually…

@@LessThanJessLTJ I got a bunch of Ap today from your videos. Thanks

Nice! Thanks for saying so - I appreciate it.

Thank you - I appreciate your saying so.

Unfortunately not - Chronos was a temporary medal.

@@LessThanJessLTJ aww

Yeah sorry - plenty of medals I’ve missed. But I like that everyone’s scanner profile is unique too.

Yeah a lot of effort. It was a while back now - we still have plans to beat that some day…

I was in Norwich in the UK yesterday playing with shards. They’re a completely new element to the game…

Still effective and a great way of helping the cell score if you are able to keep the fields up. If we leave them up they get smashed. Also great for the current Buried Memories event medal…

Yep that’s correct. You just have to make sure you throw the links in the correct order which will make sure you gain two fields per link after the initial field. So link to the opposing anchor and then work your way down the spine from the farthest to the nearest.

@@LessThanJessLTJ as a "free to play" player what minimum of "spine portals" are ideal for a worthy project like this in your opinion? In your vid you'll have like 30+ that's already to big for my area. I have like 23 Virus mods and only 8 Softbank-Ultra-Links mods atmo. Edit: I did the math myself. The SUL-mods are the limiting factor in my inventory. so to maximise score based on my inventory id would be ideal not making more than 16outgoing links which means 1 SULmod per ancor portal before reseting via virus.

15 would be the optimal spine then - one SBUL per anchor portal. The 16th link would go to the opposing anchor. You could also use it as a decay engine if you run out of viruses also.

@@LessThanJessLTJ I completly forgot that I only can Flip one portal per hour :( So I have to flip every portal after 1 link session so I can reuse another portal and start all over again. Unfortunatly I only got 4-5 Portal that are accessable for my current spine-field-setup :(

Yeah that is a limiting factor - it’d would be rather too good to be able to keep flipping them after every set of fields…

Nice! Take care! And hopefully we’ll see one another at an anomaly one day.

TY check Kharkiv in ingres intel map We trying but there didnt so many ENL 😢 if you get to ukrain, help us❤ and my nickname in ingress jjiiiibohi. Im 6 level cuz im cant grow up😢

I’ll take a look. Might be a while before I get to go to Ukraine at this point : ( I hope to one day.

Wow Kharkiv is surrounded by some very big Res fields…

You found my portals?

Thanks for saying so!

I really enjoy playing in heavy Machina areas - it’s quick due to all the items they drop and most of the time you can get away with tap hacking as there are lots of keys. That and my Purifier medal is a huge way off completion… Happy bursting!

Yep much easier than it used to be with portal density, items like apex and 2sDay events. The initial hype may be gone but I’m glad there is still a wonderful player base out there that make events special and rewarding to attend and encourage socialising. I also love seeing older names pop up every now and again to touch base with the game as they still have that initial sentiment and still value their year medals / what the game gave them in times past.

Yeah 2sDays make this even better! Definitely good to record - always good to motivate people and give them ideas.

Yep that would mean 4 SBUL on each of the 10 anchors - that would make for an excellent decay engine if you set it up to decay for Tuesday during double AP. I used a spine of 39 with a VRBB a while back - took a while to set up but was very satisfying…

I wonder if ITOs can boost that number or if there is a cap on the number. Future experimenting…

Excellent to hear and I’m glad you’re picking up your scanner again! Yeah, we love seeing how we can optimise play and events - just did shard evening at Bradford. Hopefully see you out there.

I did exactly the same thing - it is a good bit of advice - keep an unclaimed KCap just in case. I like it.

Yeah I like an event medal like this - gives me something to chase after… well done on the 1st medal!

Sounds like you’re going pretty strong - well done! Hopefully, you’re managing this new medal too…

Unfortunately, if they were all level 1 resonators, I wouldn’t be able to create a link long enough to reach the other portals. The higher level the resonators determines how long a link you can throw from it.

@@LessThanJessLTJ with 2 SBUL it would be enough to have L3 portal and link range 39 km

Ah cool - I didn’t realise the SBUL would make so much difference - I assumed it would be too little. Learning point for me. Thanks!

@@LessThanJessLTJ you are welcome )) also this single regular link amp in inventory looks like time stealer, you can't just swipe right to the last mod (sbul)

Inventory management - sometimes the biggest trial in Ingress. Trickier still when hoarding viruses…

Nice! I think they got this medal right as it encourages cooperative play.

No worries! Glad I could help.

Thanks a lot! Good luck on yours too!

Thanks Hunter! As soon as inspiration strikes.

Either click on the next portal on the map or swipe to the next portal at the bottom of the screen. Sometimes (all the time) it takes you to the next closest portal rather than the one you necessarily want so you have to shuffle a bit occasionally but skipping the animation saves a lot of time.

If you scroll down to the Events tab on you agent profile, it will tell you how many you have already.