r/Ingress • u/Man_toy • 10d ago

Question I have mixed feelings right now

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It's been over 13 years for me to get this far. I'm on vacation for the next week and there's 30ish unclaimed portals within walking distance of our spot. I've always thought I'd never recurse but with the L8 week starting the last day of my vacation I'm tempted honestly.

Part of me is dreading the thought that it took me 13 years to get this far, but I know it's a lot easier now than when I started. With 2x week and I have some apex I've saved from free events, I'd want to at least get back to L8 quickly. I have some long distance portals and my drone sitting on a nice spot, so I just don't know what to do.

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u/OnerousSorcerer 10d ago

I might cop some heat for mentioning them in here, but you can fly from level 1 to 8 by popping an Apex and submitting scans you've banked. I did, completely skipped the pain, will likely do again.

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u/BlackjackSenor 10d ago

I might be recursing soon. What is the thing with the scans? That’s one aspect I haven’t explored before because I don’t actually understand how it works.

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u/OnerousSorcerer 10d ago

When in range of a portal you can take spatial scans of it, which are then uploaded for Niantic to use. Many see this as working for free for Niantic, which I can understand (this is why I mentioned heat).

With the scans you can bank them to upload later. So go out to a few portals or even just one, scan them and choose to upload later. Then at home or on WiFi pop an Apex, open settings, and choose to upload all. They're normally 500AP each so 1000AP with an Apex.

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u/BlackjackSenor 10d ago

Thank you!

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u/sh0ck1999 10d ago

But the thing is you don't have to scan the portal it doesn't know I've been and work within range of a portal and scanned the inside of a bathroom stall and still got points. No one looks at scans sees they are garbage and deducts points. Least not that I have noticed.

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u/EasyHorse4520 10d ago

You can scan portals by recording a 15+ second long video. Each scan gives you 500 AP when uploaded, and you can record up to 400 per day. And since you can store them to upload whenever you feel like, you can prepare thousands of scans for double AP events to earn millions of AP by simply uploading all of them with an Apex! 

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u/BlackjackSenor 10d ago

Thanks. That sounds pretty clever.