Slice of Chaotic Life

The daily life of a celibate middle-aged man.

Ingress journal: Hacking while it’s time

Posted by Itlandm on August 15, 2013

Knowing that there’s a level 8 player visiting Mandal, I spent an hour before and after work hacking the two remaining level 6 portals in Kristiansand before they get attacked. The problem is, as I’ve mentioned before, that at level 6 I can no longer create portals high enough for me to refill my inventory. I can only make level 4 portals alone. Together with my level 5 ally to the east, I can create level 5 portals. By now I have plenty of level 5 gear, enough for a long long time. But I used up my level 6 gear quickly, much faster than I could replenish it. Level 5 portals occasionally drop a level 6 resonator, but very rarely. For some reason they drop much more level 6 bursters than resonators, at least for me.

So I have added burnout insulation and hacked the level 6 portals like crazy, and they have been very generous with level 6 resonators. (I’ve also got a few level 7 and even one level 8, which I did not know was possible at this level.) So now I have enough for a while. I may still hack some more if the Resistance does not read this and destroy the portals quickly, but it is no longer urgent. I have for a while.

Once the level 6 portals in Kristiansand are gone, I will probably make a trip occasionally to a town with higher level portals. It does not much matter whether they are blue or green. Green give more gear, but blue give more Action Points, so either is fine. Oslo in particular is jam packed with portals, and the Enlightenment seems to be in minority there, so they would probably not mind if I came over and fired off the several hundred bursters that have accumulated in my inventory. ^_^

I hate traveling though, really hate it, so if the Resistance don’t destroy my last level 6 portals, I am probably not going to bother going on a day trip to blow up their farms either.

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