Ingress Minimum Attack Efficiency

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I was experimenting with the "hold fire" option to get the 20% bonus attack this morning and I was doing it with some level 1 bursters. Nearby high level resonators (7 & 8) reported damage as -1%

I thought it was interesting that such a high level portal was damaged by a level 1 burster, so I gave a level 6 burster a try with the max +20% bonus on the hold fire, but again I only got -1% damage

I didn't think about repeating it and checking the actual XM damage from each attack, but it made me question whether due to maximum mitigation, using a lower level burster would acheive the same damage as a higher level burster.

Does anyone have any evidence of this being the case? I will experiment again but someone might already have the data available

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Even if what you're seeing with different bursters is the same 1% animation, you're not actually doing the same damage. If you noticed, you'll never see decimal numbers when firing an XMP, so what's actually happening is that you're doing a different amount of damage with the two different bursters, but those are both going to show as 1% because that's the nearest integer percentage that rounds both the amounts (you'll never see 0% when attacking). If you want to see the actual amount of damage, check the logs next time you do an attack.

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Country support for Ingress

Unfortunately the app and all the online material are only available in English, but you can play the game anywhere in the world where there are portals. I play in Berlin, Germany and we have more than a thousand portals and more than 600 players here.

So if you are able to understand the English app and online material, you can play it in any country. In Berlin we also have a very active Google+ community in which we speak German. So even if you are not fluent in English, you should be able to play the game, if you know the few terms you find in the game.

Field creation AP efficiency

The answer to your question depends on what you're trying to achieve. If you're trying to gain as much AP as possible, creating one field at a time (two fields with two separate links) is best. Here's the math:

313 AP per link established
1250 AP per field created
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2 fields with 2 separate links > 2 fields with one link
313*2 + 1250*2 > 313*1 + 1250*2
3126 > 2813

However, there are a few reasons for why you might want to create two fields with one link.

If you're short on time, this can be the fastest way to gain a relatively large amount of AP.
If you're running short on keys or know you want to establish other links with your existing keys, one link creating two fields gets you almost the same amount of AP (313 less).

Hope this helps.

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