Soft bans - What we know, should you be worried and how to avoid it

[Hansot]

http://imgur.com/L61oquX.png
The first permban confirmed

[Sheetka]

http://imgur.com/L61oquX.png
The first permban confirmed

How did you spoof?

[HunterHero]

http://imgur.com/L61oquX.png
The first permban confirmed

Source on this?

[furby]

http://imgur.com/L61oquX.png
The first permban confirmed

source????

[Crowd]

in the thread titled "First known Perma ban" it's assumed whoever created the image simply got the "banned" image from the game files as there is no evidence to back up the claim.

[flip-]

found another one. Seems they start

[treezz]

found another one. Seems they start

where are you guys finding these banned screenshots?

[Merudo]

Do you have a personal opinion on the likelihood of there being a mass ban wave happening when the game gets matured?

I personally really hope I won't be included in a mass ban if it happens, I use my phone for real and also spoof at home, I have never jumped to a location outside of the areas I have actually been with my real phone never left anywhere outside of my city and nearby locations to my city. Never jumped more than even half a km and have not be soft banned at all.

I have spoofed in the past on ingress many times with the same ruleset that I'm following on this game and have never been banned... so I really don't know if it's possible they'll be able to catch you if you follow a strict ruleset such as I.

I too am worried about a mass ban.

Beside detecting that a player violated the laws of physics by traveling too fast to a different location, Niantic could potentially identify cheaters in these ways:

- Traveling in impossible / difficult areas (going across water, crossing where no paths exist, entering buildings where there are no doors or when they are closed, etc).
- Always traveling at the Nox speed
- Accessing areas such as Central Park that are known for the ammount & quality of their pokemons.
- GPS too precise or connection too reliable, especially while inside indoor areas
- Battery level constant / charging while on the go
- Mouse detected instead of touch screen
- GPS spoofing apps getting detected
- Nox / Bluestacks getting detected (Avoid possible Ban for NOX by Change your Phone Type / Resoultion)

Niantic could easily identify accounts that are suspect (for example accounts that got soft banned & accessed high Pokemon areas) & run more exhaustive algorithms on these accounts to confirm cheaters.

On the plus side, Niantic's servers have been overwhelmed since Pokemon Go was released. Hopefully they disabled their more sophisticated cheat detection algorithms to reduce the workload of the servers.

[heylith]

Are the permabans confirmed, I feel like there is no legitimate source to prove this. People spoofed in ingress without getting banned, so I feel like this might just be photoshoped

[Crowd]

Are the permabans confirmed, I feel like there is no legitimate source to prove this. People spoofed in ingress without getting banned, so I feel like this might just be photoshoped

yeah there's basically no proof to back up any claims being made

[jake1116]

As long as you:

Haven't been softbanned
Haven't spoofed far outside of your town/region
Waited between jumps

You're more than likely fine.

[treezz]

As long as you:

Haven't been softbanned
Haven't spoofed far outside of your town/region
Waited between jumps

You're more than likely fine.

I was soft banned for trying to catch pokemon on my flight home... so ill be banned? lol

[jake1116]

I was soft banned for trying to catch pokemon on my flight home... so ill be banned? lol

I highly doubt it, but it's better safe than sorry. I wouldn't be surprised if they marked current soft banned accounts for further investigation. But then again, that would be a SHITLOAD of people. We will find out soon enough.

[treezz]

I highly doubt it, but it's better safe than sorry. I wouldn't be surprised if they marked current soft banned accounts for further investigation. But then again, that would be a SHITLOAD of people. We will find out soon enough.

eh im not too woried at the moment.. they have so much going on right now that might be the least of the worries until the majority of bugs are fixed (at least thats what im hoping on lol )

[Ainess]

http://imgur.com/L61oquX.png
The first permban confirmed

i like how someone looked at this exact picture on this website on their phone and then screenshotted it to post on reddit