Does the AP points given for linking portals depend on the distance between them? I just got more than 2000 points for linking two portals separated by about 10 miles, which I've never seen before…
Ingress AP for linking portals
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Hack plenty of enemy portals. You get 100 AP for hacking an enemy portal, but none for hacking a friendly one.
If there are no unclaimed portals around (highly likely in some locations), find a level 1 enemy portal and start slugging away. You'll want a few dozen XMP bursters at minimum to destroy the portal, but the rewards are high--destroying 8 resonators and planting 8 of your own on a single portal will get you almost a quarter of the way there. Even if you don't manage to capture the whole portal, you'll still have gotten 75 AP for each resonator you destroy.
Deploying portal shields is a good way to get AP that may not be obvious at first. Check every friendly portal you encounter to see if it has a full complement of shields. If it doesn't, deploy as many as you can. You get 150 AP for each one.
Update: This bug has been fixed.
Apparently it is a known bug, and the bug is that the resonator field is rotated 180 degrees. So for example, if you want to destroy a resonator at the top of the portal, go to the bottom of the portal and fire your xmp's.
I tested this out at lunch today (see attached photo), and it definitely helped. Some people were reporting that it changed so you have to be standing on the portal to do full damage, but I found the 180 degrees off to do more damage to resonators. It just seems like standing on the portal does more damage than standing on the resonator, because you're closer to the opposite side of the portal where the real damage spot is for now.
This question should be irrelevant now that they fixed the bug, but it was almost a week before it was fixed.
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Best Answer
No, there is a fixed amount of AP you get for linking two portals, which is 313 AP. But it is possible that you created two fields, each of which is worth 1250 AP, so in total you'd get 2813 AP.
This happens if there are already four links that form a quadrangle. If you then link the two portals on opposite sides (one of the diagonals) , you get two triangles, i.e. fields.
See http://ingressfieldguide.com/content/action-points-ap-leveling for details on AP.