Official Announcement: Cheating and Bans

[azzkickr]

My main at 29 got hit, never botted, spoofed since week 2, maybe going to NYC than SF and SM pier was a give away but it was always within an 8 hour period. IE sleep and put new location in for next day and always a week at that location. I think what flagged me was running auto sniper and masterball back to back. In a reckless way. Like I would get IP banned than switch IP and continue. IP's from all over the world, japan, UK, etc. I know I was reckless with my main. My 5 other botted accounts never went pass level 27. All of em got hit except my oldest one, only made it to 25 but it was on the slowest settings and took over a week. That 1 is safe. The ones that got to 27 in 2 days got hit quick

[hphln]

This announcement means nothing. The only thing it means is that we have to get smarter about cheating, plain and simple. There is a big big flaw in niantic's logic here. Niatnic isn't actually fixing the loopholes in the game that allow for cheating. All they're doing is banning the "obvious" cheaters. Well what about the non-obvious cheaters? They go free and clear. We can all still GPS spoof or run bots in the game.Also it is pretty much impossible for Niantic to fix GPS spoofing based on how android's operating system is open source by design. Everything in android's operating system can be spoofed and sent to Niantic. Impossible to fix this. So what do we need to do? Simply improve our techniques. We all need to report on what got us banned. If we did something that got us banned then bingo, take note of it and modify your techniques. Eventually we will be able to compile a list of "best habits" to make sure we aren't doing any obvious cheating.

The days of obvious cheating (sniping, GPS spoofing across massive distances, running a bot for 8+ hours non-stop) are pretty much over. Anyone who does that will get banned eventually.

Also for all you people who lost accounts. Stop cry babying it. Not like you guys actually put in tons of hours grinding these accounts anyways lol. I got two level 30 accounts banned and I wouldn't take it back what I did to get them banned. Why? Because I got to do all the crazy fun stuff in the game like battle in gyms, use high cp pokemon etc. If I was a normal player, I would have been spending all my time catching boring ass pokemons like pidgeys an ratatas. Who the hell even enjoys that? I don't. Without cheating, this game is boring.

Exactly, but that goes the same way with sniping, if we can't snipe anymore, then this game is boring, what good would it do to run a bot and get to level 30 if all the pokemon I could catch are pidgey and ratata? and one rarer pokemon every 2-3 days, what fun is that?

without sniping this game is boring as hell

[wordup]

Exactly, but that goes the same way with sniping, if we can't snipe anymore, then this game is boring, what good would it do to run a bot and get to level 30 if all the pokemon I could catch are pidgey and ratata? and one rarer pokemon every 2-3 days, what fun is that?

without sniping this game is boring as hell

Maybe actually go out to a populated place to catch pokemon instead of sitting at home doing what everybody nowadays is trying to do. I bot and I have friends that play this game for themselves and with their kids and the strangest thing is I still go out to these populated places with them, EVEN THOUGH I BOT. The game is essentially made for you to go out and visit places you've never knew existed. The way you're thinking on how to play the game, it's already dead.