What can niantic do to stop us botting?

[gastra]

I'd stop if they left me an account, nobody will start from scratch and not bot, especially since its so easy, but left with one account most of us would play legit.

As it is we will just keep trying to bot and hope one slips past mods.

[Power of Illuminati]

What can they do to stop people from botting? They can keep doing what they are doing right now as it seems to be working greatly.

People will keep trying and they will keep getting banned, in the end the botters will lose as there is no point in investing time in something that you know you will lose.

They have made it pretty clear by now, they want you to either play legit or not play at all.

[Fadelol]

I think that currently they are refining their ways of identifying the patterns of a botted account. Currently it seems run checks on accounts in batches and ban the ones that are flagged, i.e. it isn't based on real time calls to the API. Once they have dialed this in enough the next step is probably to implement some type of temporary ban on accounts that meet these criteria until a deeper investigation can be done. If they do this they could for example identify the pattern of a bot in real time based on the API calls and not through analyzing the accounts afterwards and set a temporary ban much quicker than the existing temporary bans. It will probably be a cat and mouse game where bot makers tune their bots to act even more human like which will lead to lower and lower exp/rates until they are at realistic human levels.

[omgsosorry]

What can they do?

They can ban us lol

[junclj]

Niantic will improve the game encryption to block botters to bot in their next version.

[gastra]

Niantic will improve the game encryption to block botters to bot in their next version.

And the not makers will improve bots, hopefully we will escape bans in the future and when that happens we will get more accounts and give them more server load.
They should allow one unban providing you don't not again.
I'd go for that no idea about you guys.

[Cenedra]

It takes days to bot to lv 30+, but only a few secs for Niantic to mass ban everyone. So given time and if Niantic can keep doing this, I think it will effectively end botting.

It's only been 5 days since the first ban wave started, and so many botters are caught. Just imagine Niantic doing this for 1 whole month, how many botters will be left?

[gastra]

It takes days to bot to lv 30+, but only a few secs for Niantic to mass ban everyone. So given time and if Niantic can keep doing this, I think it will effectively end botting.

It's only been 5 days since the first ban wave started, and so many botters are caught. Just imagine Niantic doing this for 1 whole month, how many botters will be left?

All depends on human settings, at some point it will not be worth them chasing up bots, right now its harsh lots were caught but to be fair we didn't try to hide the fact we were botting.

[comfirm12]

What can they do? They can make a new API so that the new maker of botters wont be able to implement them so no one can use it

[Pix3]

They can write threaten letters to bot developers and then we won't have any working bots.

[tumor]

I really dont care, as soon as they are banning me, im creating another account so who cares,
if i were them i would just do as Xbox live once did

they used to flagg your character as "cheater" with a big label above your gamertag

i mean they could do the same.

But honestly its just a game that in the end will just come to a downfall..

[Nemm]

They ban us
We re-config
They ban us
We get sneaky
They still ban us
... And keep escalating. Few slip past each time. Hope your one of those few.

Really, WoW Botting accounts still get banned after 8 or 9 years of perfecting Bots. With the amount of variables though on PoGo, Niantic will have a easier time detecting , if less experience.

[Cenedra]

I really dont care, as soon as they are banning me, im creating another account so who cares,
if i were them i would just do as Xbox live once did

they used to flagg your character as "cheater" with a big label above your gamertag

i mean they could do the same.

But honestly its just a game that in the end will just come to a downfall..

Niantic can just do a ban wave every 3 days, and all ur efforts will be gone again. As long as they can continue to do a ban wave every few days, botters will never be able to progress. You will not be able to gain anything at all if ur accounts are just gonna be banned again and again.

[bannedbypokemon]

play 3ds none will ban me

[clamchoda]

What can they do to stop people from botting? They can keep doing what they are doing right now as it seems to be working greatly.

People will keep trying and they will keep getting banned, in the end the botters will lose as there is no point in investing time in something that you know you will lose.

They have made it pretty clear by now, they want you to either play legit or not play at all.

This is not true sir! I have botted many cellphone games undetected for year. We just need to develop them correctly.

We can take the aspects from other safely botted games which have gone under the radar for years, like the Clash of Clans bot which actually use an emulator, and swipes, taps, ect. We need a bot, that actually plays the game, like a human.

Developers are focusing on too many irrelevant things, like throttling calls, walk speeds ect. The API bots are simply detected. Config it all you want. I have had, a non API bot, running 24/7 for 1 week now. Not even one single temp ban. (EDIT: And it's probably exceeding 2000 pokestops and 1000 pokemon...)

I'll release it in a few weeks. Let me build up some more confidence lol!