The tutorial is not great, but you can actually engage in the core loop (capture/evolve) at level 1. Conversely, one of the most common newbie questions in Ingr

The tutorial is not great, but you can actually engage in the core loop (capture/evolve) at level 1. Conversely, one of the most common newbie questions in Ingress is "wait, why don't my bursters do anything against these high level portals?"