Resonator / xmp bug for others? Or are the last few resonators now just much harder to destroy

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Recently I came across a couple portals that had all but one or two resonators destroyed on them and was surprised whoever started taking over the portal didn't finish the job. Then I tried to destroy the last two resonators which had very low energy, and could barely make a dent in them. My level 3 xmps were doing 1% – 2% damage to level 1 resonators and my level 1 xmps had no effect.

This happened to me on 3 different portals, where the last resonator or two was incredibly difficult to destroy.

Some people in chat seemed to think this was a bug, but I'm wondering if maybe the gameplay is just changing? Maybe there's a special new shield type I haven't seen before?

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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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Turned out that the inability to deploy the 8th resonator was a bug - I wish I'd taken a screenshot. When I got back to my computer, I looked and 8 had been deployed. It must have been I kept tapping deploy on my phone faster than something could handle it, and it just didn't show up. I'm wondering if restarting the ingress app on my phone would have fixed the issue as well.

As far as being unable to link it could have been for a number or reasons that I didn't know at the time. Portals link distance is determined by the level of it's resonators, and I may not have had sufficient resonators.

Level   Range
1       160m
2       2.560km
3       12.96km
4       40.96km
5       100km
6       207.36km
7       384.16km
8       655.36km

It also could have been because the link I was trying to create crossed the link between some other portals. It wasn't obvious to me that this wasn't possible at first, but makes sense and you get a message telling you why you can't link to a portal if you click confirm even though it's greyed out.

Finally, it could have been because portals only allow a certain number of links. You can only have 8 outgoing links and 8 incoming links. When this happens you'll see something like "Origin Link Capacity Reached" when you try to confirm a link to an unlinkable portal.

The most efficient way to upgrade a portal

When you are alone put the highest resonators available right away.

Placing a resonator gives you 125 AP, while upgrading one gives you 65, but only if you're not the owner of the resonator. Upgrading your own resonators will give you exactly nothing, zero, nil. This means that with a friend you'll get more AP by starting with low-level resonators and gradually upgrading them.

Also you have to remember the limits on resonators' deployment that depends on your level.

Anyway you can always check how many AP you get by looking at the log in your scanner.

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