Slice of Chaotic Life

Today after work I spent two hours ingressing in Kristiansand. In part I tried to secure some more level 6 resonators from the few remaining sources. I also recovered a portal that had been blue after the Short Bus Attack, and had lapsed to gray. I had hoped to take it just before it lapsed, to get more Action Points from destroying the blue resonators, but yesterday was long enough as was, what with the sunshine and the feet and all. I also linked up a number of portals that had not been linked for a while, and in new configurations since there are now more portals. I had to hack some of the portals repeatedly to get keys for the links. For the time being at least, portals rarely if ever yield keys if you already have the same keys in your inventory, but the chance is fairly high if you don’t. Still, I had to hack one of them three times to get a key.

Much of the time (as well as my whole lunch break) was however spent refilling portals that had lost one or more resonators, mostly due to natural decay (15% of full value per day).  This was not entirely involuntary: Placing resonators is one of the things that give decent action points (125 points, 250 completion bonus for the last), but less than creating links (313 points) and fields (1250 points). You cannot create fields within field, and links can not cross other links, so there is an upper limit there. But you can let one or two resonators decay each day without any negative effects except that you can not link to the portal for the duration (and of course it gets easier to take by the Resistance).

In my case however it was only partly deliberate. There is also the fact that I am kind of playing catch-up with recharging my portals. A month and a half ago, I was slightly disappointed that I didn’t have more portals to recharge, as it was pretty much my only source of AP (before the Resistance attacks began). The XM energy that leaked from my work portal was enough for me to recharge all the portals in Kristiansand – I would go outdoors once an hour or so, it only took a couple minutes, to soak up all the XM and use it for recharging. Now, there is no way I can recharge them all that way. I need to either use my lunch break and go to the park (which is swimming with XM) or spend time before or after work going through areas with lots of portals and recharge. Even then, I tend to leave a resonator or two or three, the lowest on each portal, and not recharge them unless I have more XM than I need to keep everything green.

So I came home and got mail: Two new portals confirmed. One is here in Mandal, and I am happy to say that it just happens to lie between two existing portals on my short (15 min) circuit. Straight between them actually, so I don’t need to take an extra step. This pleases me. The other is in Kristiansand, and also lies between two portals, but closest to one that is so out of the way that I probably visit it less than once a week. I recharge it from a distance though. Keep the city green!

So, two hours of walking around after work and one hour in the evening. I am starting to wonder whether this can be healthy. ^_^