Why thousands of bots?

[cukuntay]

I'm really curious why people keep coding for new bots or modifying the old ones? Niantic eventually bans the botted accounts. I've tried almost all bots in this forum, when i decide to use the botted accounts on my mobile, the account definitely get banned in 2 weeks at most. No matter how humanized, they eventually find out our dirty little secret

[capturepokemon]

Most of the developers making the bots are doing it for fun. I know that when I started CapturePokemon, it started out as a little HTML table of Pokemon co-ordinates and has grown into a multi-server platform used by hundreds of people an hour.

As a software developer/engineer, you want to experiment with new technologies, practise existing ones and push boundries. Most of us look at something and go "how does that work?", or "I could do X/Y/Z with this". These are all good traits for when going into the commerical sector.

If nothing else, it's because creating things like this is fun to do. If people use it, even better.

I can assure you, other than the giants, nobody writing bots is expecting to make their fortune from it.

[crafturtoemc]

true, I wouldt be a hardcore in physics if it werent for the satisfaction when I solve a problem

[cheater007]

I'm really curious why people keep coding for new bots or modifying the old ones? Niantic eventually bans the botted accounts. I've tried almost all bots in this forum, when i decide to use the botted accounts on my mobile, the account definitely get banned in 2 weeks at most. No matter how humanized, they eventually find out our dirty little secret

1 word: donations

[capturepokemon]

1 word: donations

Donations on things like this are few and far between.

Like I said, most developers do this for fun - The average salary for a Software Developer in the USA is just under $100,000, with contractors hovering around $250,000 - Dev's are not short on money, but they do need to stay on top of their game.

[cheater007]

Donations on things like this are few and far between.

Like I said, most developers do this for fun - The average salary for a Software Developer in the USA is just under $100,000, with contractors hovering around $250,000 - Dev's are not short on money, but they do need to stay on top of their game.

For the first bots(before wavebans) i actually agree with you, but now all these new bots with 'changed' API stories etc. Most of them 80% copied from available sourcecode and then just editing the user interface a little to make it look like a new bot.
They don't spend that much time in building this.(compared to the dev's who made the first bots)
Everyone knows the next wave ban will come and wipe out most of the botaccounts anyway. But in between these banwaves there is time to get donations
Btw to integrate some new functionality in existing code doesn't require the same level of engineering as building it from scratch requires.

[pokememon]

for me its more for the fun of beating the system rather than amassing 10,000 dragonite. Some kids might enjoy showing off to their friends that they have this and that caught but some of us don't care. I'm now trying to config a bot that amass max xp in the shortest period of time so that I can farm lure modules and put it up for friends and have a good laugh

What cheater007 says is true also, this has blown into a get rich quick thing whereby everyone with some developer skill is trying to rip the original thing and badge it their own and hopefully make a few bucks.

[cheater007]

for me its more for the fun of beating the system rather than amassing 10,000 dragonite. Some kids might enjoy showing off to their friends that they have this and that caught but some of us don't care. I'm now trying to config a bot that amass max xp in the shortest period of time so that I can farm lure modules and put it up for friends and have a good laugh

Nice alternative to profit from botting, since accounts probably wont last anyway.

[Zamock]

Most of the developers making the bots are doing it for fun. I know that when I started CapturePokemon, it started out as a little HTML table of Pokemon co-ordinates and has grown into a multi-server platform used by hundreds of people an hour.

As a software developer/engineer, you want to experiment with new technologies, practise existing ones and push boundries. Most of us look at something and go "how does that work?", or "I could do X/Y/Z with this". These are all good traits for when going into the commerical sector.

If nothing else, it's because creating things like this is fun to do. If people use it, even better.

I can assure you, other than the giants, nobody writing bots is expecting to make their fortune from it.

I agree, but on the other side, there are a lot of opportunists making necrobot rip off bots and "selling" it like it was a reinvention of the wheel.

I do not see a point releasing something that does not add anything really new. Why not just contribute to other ongoing project?

[awand]

Not that much it's just like 2 or 3 bot, NecroBot Base, pokemobot that's all

[Zamock]

Not that much it's just like 2 or 3 bot, NecroBot Base, pokemobot that's all

The first page of our forum has 11 bot threads. I just counted. If you scroll through a few others i am sure you will find a lot more.