Slice of Chaotic Life

The daily life of a celibate middle-aged man.

Ingress journal: Refilling resonators

Posted by Itlandm on August 19, 2013

I have given up on recharging all the resonators in downtown Kristiansand. There just isn’t enough time to walk around and absorb all the XM needed.  And with all the time I already use, I have given priority to hacking the remaining level 6 portals so I could continue to upgrade after they get taken down.

For the other portals downtown, I recharge resonators level 5 and above and let level 4 (and any remaining level 3) decay. It takes 7 days for a full resonator to discharge completely. That’s 7 days I don’t need to recharge it and can concentrate on the higher-level resonators and hacking the level 6 portals. Once the resonators are completely gone, I get AP for placing new ones of the same type, and a completion bonus for the last.  I have hundreds and hundreds of level 4 resonators, and in the unlikely case that I will need more, I can just hack a level 4 portal, which is almost all of them.

There is bound to be a downside to this, of course. And it is that half decayed resonators are easily destroyed by an invading opponent. Well, I can live with that. I have hundreds and hundreds of bursters too.  My body is wearing out faster than I run out of gear.  I can no longer remember the last day I went to bed without my feet or legs hurting. Well, that’s fun and games these days!

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