What happens to links, fields and long term ownership if a portal is moved?
It's possible to submit a location correction of a portal through the scanner. Unfortunately that is being abused by players of the opposing faction every once in a while to move home portals away.
What happens to the state of a portal if it is moved? Will links and fields disappear? Will the resonators disappear and it will spawn grey?
Might it even get a new id (which would be visible in the intel map if you look at links and the source code) and thus count as a new unique visit?
Maybe someone has witnessed this already.
Best Answer
It happened to a portal holding an important link at that time (move was genuine, portal was not at its right place). Links (and so fields) are destroyed, that's quite normal as otherwise portal move could cause crossing links. Portal owner, resonators are still there. Mods also (I'm quite sure I would remember if mods had been destroyed)
If you move a wrongly placed duplicate portal at the location of the right one, it can also be destroyed, and pictures added to right portal.
Pictures about "What happens to links, fields and long term ownership if a portal is moved?"
The Portal Connector Explained in 4 Minutes
Sources: Stack Exchange - This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Exchange and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Images: Johannes Plenio, Евгений Горман, Antony Trivet, Anna Shevchuk