What do shields do in ingress

Portal Shields , Link configuration, and the behaviour and proximity of friendly Agents configuration are all relevant to implementing a strong defence. An attacker can trivially destroy an unshielded Portal , even if multiple Agents are simultaneously recharging it. A well-shielded Portal is easier to defend through remote recharging and gives Agents more time to react to their notifications. This protection will vanish when the attacker destroys the Portal Shields , so the interim time should be used to mobilize a local Agent to redeploy Portal Shields as necessary.

Common Shields offer significant protection when deployed in multiples on linked Portals. When determining which rarity of Portal Shield to deploy, consider the density of Portals in the cluster. These areas demand redundant Portal Shields , or the increased stickiness of Very Rare and Aegis Shields, to hold against an assault. The extreme number of attacking Agents can easily destroy an Aegis Shield every two or three seconds, and experienced Agents will come to an event with hundreds of each.

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Asked 8 years, 11 months ago. Active 6 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 12k times. Improve this question. Thanks for the edit fbueckert but as the second tag specifically mentioned portal shields, are you sure it's extraneous?

I would have kept it and removed the more general 'ingress' tag if anything Usually we use just game tags; if we get enough questions for a game, we start breaking it up into specific sections, such as the one you made. If it turns out that Ingress gets a ton ie. Until then, though, we just finished a massive tag cleanup effort, so we try to limit the number of tags. OK, that makes sense, thanks for the explanation.

Happy to help. Good question, do you know what shields do? Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer.

Volker Stolz Volker Stolz 8 8 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Can you find a portal and make note of the data? Will do, just need to get near a portal and will update the question.

Thanks for this answer, seems we're close! Daenyth the values are 6, 8 and 10 of something I don't understand : — BanditoBunny. I've only seen the three "Mitigation" ones.