What's the reward for completing missions?

It's pretty unclear what's granted for completing missions. Even the web doesn't agree on the answer:

  • This Reddit's Q/A says there's no AP
  • This Decode Ingress' page talks about missions rewarding AP
  • The Verge has a post mentionning missions rewarding AP as well

The only thing they all agree on is the custom badge earned at the end of each mission.

So: do you earn APs for completing missions ? If you do, is it worth it ?


Solution 1:

You get a mission badge, and there's also a medal called SpecOps that's given after completing unique missions. Levels are:

  • bronze: 5
  • silver: 25
  • gold: 100
  • platinum: 200
  • onyx: 500

I've not seen any mission give AP on completion.

Update in july

I've done quite a few missions recently, and they indeed gave AP, 125 each. I'm still not sure if it's only a few missions, or they all give.

Solution 2:

A badge is given as well as 125AP. I assume that one could consider the items gathered in the hack to be reward. Further of the portal is owned by the enemy a takedown and turning grants you AP. So really it's what you do at these portals during a mission that would bring the outcome