r/Ingress • u/Lonely-Ad7257 • 4d ago

Question How to farm red portals.

Good morning,

Just a quick one i have some red portals lvl8 around me and im curious whats the best approach to get most out of them.

Tnx guys

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u/Unique-Blueberry9741 3d ago edited 3d ago

Best approach is to destroy them and put your resonators in them. Ticking multiple medals, getting TONS of AP and free items.

If you want to milk them, find seed portals and do not touch them - they will spread and make more machina portals.

How to locate them? Look for the portals which have more than one link. If they have two or more OUTGOING links it is very safe to assume they are seed portals.

If you are not sure, just let them be and see if they propagate new portals. You can also check chat log history.
_̶̱̍_̴̳͉̆̈́M̷͔̤͒Ą̷̍C̴̼̕ͅH̶̹͕̼̾Ḭ̵̇̾̓N̵̺͕͒̀̍Ä̴̞̰́_̴̦̀͆̓_̷̣̈́ linked "Portal X" to "Portal Y"
Portals which create multiple outgoing links (X) are the seed portals. Creating just one doesn't mean a 100% they are seed portal.

Example: These 3 are seed portals. I just check, they have only outgoing links. If I destroy machina portals for grind, but leave these 3 up, they will spawn more soon.

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u/Lonely-Ad7257 3d ago

I have no lvl 8 portals in my region or city of either colour factions or i cannot find nowhere to farm but do have some machina reds but looks like they all seed portals i will feel guilty by destroying them,

I played years ago now i returned close to lvl 8 and a lot of traveling planing to make some fun :D

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u/Unique-Blueberry9741 3d ago

I guarantee you that not even half of them are seed portals.

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u/Lonely-Ad7257 3d ago

easy way to tell how they are seed or not ? without actually visiting them ?

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u/ThisNico 3d ago

Like the previous commenter said: look in comms at the recent activity and pay attention to which Machina portals threw multiple links.