I tested about 200 hundred accounts on how soft banning works and came up with some ideas.
First kind of soft banning is the kind you can catch pokemon but can't get stuff from pokestops.
This kind is probably cause by hitting the exp cap that can be gain per season.
Tested few accounts on different settings and found this out.
For a easier example to explain, I'm gonna use a but that gains 22K EXP per hour.
It was lv 1 and I continued botting it for 23 hours and 30 minutes straight , and got banned at lv 22.
For lv1 to get to lv22 you need 444K exp , and after getting banned I tested and fount out I could use pokestops after 12hrs.
So that 12hr is one season and about 250K is the limit for this season ,
Got these by assuming that I botted from lv 1 to 222K~ exp and the 12hr season mark was hit , so the calc resets to a new season so that continued botting to lv22 when the exp cap was hit ,so I got soft banned , and by the exp left on the account (which is 67300 exp), I can say that the cap is between 222K~289K , but the bot crashed in before botting the 23hr straight and so I was guessing that the cap is about 250K.
The next ban is for those that can use the pokestop but can't catch pokemons.
I tested 80 accounts on trying to find out how to get them banned with obvious reasons, tried going too fast ,doing stuff too fast sniping too fast etc.
Finally came up with a conclusion that teleporting and moving way too fast will get you this kind of softban, and apparently after getting banned I had to wait for the next day to use those accounts again , but unfortunately about 20 out of 80 accounts got the "Failed to get data from server" thingy and are not usable anymore, the rest were able to continue botting , thus I guess when you get soft banned this way your account is under investigation ,if it's cheating then it's banned.
Anyway , all of above is my Theory of how it works
niantic hired necro and told him to stop to work on the bot. after that they wanted to know how exactly the bot works. he told them everything. then once they got what they wanted to know they told necro to release a rigged-ban version of the bot. that's how we all got banned.
niantic hired necro and told him to stop to work on the bot. after that they wanted to know how exactly the bot works. he told them everything. then once they got what they wanted to know they told necro to release a rigged-ban version of the bot. that's how we all got banned.
Kappa123 /s
sorry for bad englando
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Last edited by GreatKingKong; 08-14-2016 at 09:09 AM.
Good testing, hard job.
BTW, the team of PokemonGoDEV have a serious of rigorous testing and came out a conclusion, i suggest you to look into it.
Here's the website New ban types and their causes : pokemongodev
niantic hired necro and told him to stop to work on the bot. after that they wanted to know how exactly the bot works. he told them everything. then once they got what they wanted to know they told necro to release a rigged-ban version of the bot. that's how we all got banned.
Good testing, hard job.
BTW, the team of PokemonGoDEV have a serious of rigorous testing and came out a conclusion, i suggest you to look into it.
Here's the website New ban types and their causes : pokemongodev
yup , but I used a account to snipe with sniper2 ,and when I run out of pokeballs I use necro to farm them up (setting are set to not catch pokemons).
But after two rounds of snipe , I can't farm any more pokestops , I'm pretty sure that I didn't farm 2K pokestops
niantic hired necro and told him to stop to work on the bot. after that they wanted to know how exactly the bot works. he told them everything. then once they got what they wanted to know they told necro to release a rigged-ban version of the bot. that's how we all got banned.
Kappa123 /s
sorry for bad englando
Exactly what i was thinking, smh i bet its true too