Take the 2-minute tour ×  In Ingress you can create fields
completely within fields, e.g. like in this screenshot of north-
eastern Oslo: Nested fields in NE Oslo  On the intel-map, they
are even indicated in a more intense colour. Does this bring any
advantage with regard to hacking or defending the respective
portals?  share|improve this question  4 Answers 4  up vote 7
down vote accepted  There are numerous benefits to making onion
fields, ladder fields and advanced onion fields.  The primary
benefit with respect to defending portals is that overlapped
fields require more links and more links provide greater attack
mitigation. Just as shields provide attack mitigation (removing
a portion of any incoming attack), so does each link to a
portal, thus every extra link to a portal causes the opposing
faction to have to spend more resources taking down that portal,
and gives the defenders more time to recharge the resonators on
that portal.  There are also benefits to the individual builder.
All of the extra link