What can i do to get cheaters banned??
Well i have tried niantics report page many times but nothing seems to happen my friends can still hack and have super CP pokemons.
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Answers
https://support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=319948
In reality, I doubt Niantic would even bother to look at your ticket. I submitted one with all kind of proofs (pictures + videos) of the most obvious cheater ever and nothing has changed.\
Actually, I think he got a temporarily week ban as when he returned he had an extra account in the gym called "STILLPLAYING". I must admit he has a good sense of humor.
You report on your cheating "friends"? I guess they are not really your "friends"... =p
Kidding aside, I don't think those report pages really work. Maybe it'll work only for a blatant cheater that has been reported on by hundreds of ppl.
I don't really care that my friends' cheat. As long as I'm having fun with the game myself. I don't get any satisfaction getting ppl banned. Cheaters will eventually get bored with the game since there's no challenge for them and they'll quit. Or maybe Niantic will find a good way to detect cheaters and do a massive ban. But if banning ppl is not good business for Niantic, they won't do it.
Every game I have ever played goes like this;
- Game is great lots of ppl play
- People notice cheating/botting happening and legit people who have half a brain complain and want things to change.
- Legits see no change and most decide to cheat to keep up
- Things change for the worse and cheating becomes 99% of the playing population.
I think PoGo is close to the last stage right now. You cannot ban them now as cheaters are the majority.
If you are asking me if you should start cheating the answer is obvious.
If the game is still fun for you regardless of cheaters then ignore them and have fun.
If it gets too much go ahead and cheat if you must, but recognise that your now part of the problem and also understand that your experiences in game will have almost no value whatsoever now.
I am level 34 and just caught my first lapras in this event. I do not have a dragonite yet but have enough candies to make one, I am just waiting for a better dratini. If I cheated now, all that work would have no meaning whatsoever, I could just bot to 40 and spoof to get myself 100 iv dragonites all day. What is the point of that? So I could spoof and take down gyms from legits just to show off my hacked 100IV lvl 40 pokemon? What a joke those people are. I pity them.
I really think that Niantic does not want to ban them, seriously there must be tons of ways to identify those people, and if nothing has yet done about it is because Niantic is more worried about showing their huge number of accounts, players, distance walked, mon catched etc. on meetings than actually caring about their dedicated and legal players, I think that at this point 90% of accounts are bot/hacks, probably even more.
I won't put a single cent more in the game if nothing is done about bots/spoofers, 50% of gameplay is gym battle, the other 50% is catching/hatching, if 50% of their game cannot be played fairly I will just keep playing for free, I think it is the best you can do, hurt Niantic on their income, and try make everyone you know close to not spend real money too.
- Maybe niantic prioritize how to gain more "M" as the basic but major source in such business in able to long last. "M" for employee. "M" for developer and founder of course.
- Maybe they focus on how to lure more people or trainer to play and purchased via "M".
- Just consider those Hacker as a part of the game. Niantic doesn't bother to banned them. If there is maybe 1 player banned for every 1000 who cheats.
Why?: Its not there priority and Player Lost.
4.What I focus for now just go on walking as my enhancer. Then enjoy the game... Don't be too serious..
"Too Much of Everything is No Good"
By: Jacky Chan... Karate Kid...
Well yes it does seem to me that niantic just wants to show off their large playerbase and do nothing about cheaters.See ive seen plenty of times how cheaters get soft banned which means that niantic can detect hacks well,but wont just permanently ban them,which supercell does in clash of clans.Shouldn't we legit trainers do something to give niantic a clear message that we are not going to invest a single penny anymore until they ban hackers.I just used 40% of my pocket money to buy pokecoins so that i can buy some storage space and items and wait my friends have already upgraded their storage 3 times just by means of bots and not even paying a single penny.
I often type into google "pokemon go news". Now the first thing that pops up is an advertisement for this website: https://pogopirate.com/
Go spend $25 and get a level 32 account lol.
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You see cheating makes this game worthless.
No, it will not remove bots, which is the biggest problem! Spoofers is annoying, but not as big as problem as bots since spoofers play manually and you can still deal with them, but bots is impossible.
tbh, I'm not sure why Niantic is not sending "cease and desist" letters to botting sites whereas are going after 3rd party scanners, which are clearly the less of the evils... go figure.
Bots affect others through server load but in general they just bot to get pokemon/levels.
Currently the only place people interact is at gyms and Bots do not seem to be in the gyms scene so much.
But In some areas you simply cannot play because of the spoofers. They just spoof to catch 100IV dragonites, tyranitaurs and snorlaxes and then completely dominate the gym areas they choose.
I have an area near my home that once had a lot of mystic controlling the gyms. I would actually see the people come to retake or prestige. But now the whole area (about 12 gyms in one suburb) is dominated by team potato.
I went there on my way home and took down a lvl 7 gym that had a particular spoofer at the top. I took it down and then went to leave in my car but the battery was stuffed. So I look at my phone and hey what the hell the gym is already down and back as Yellow and the spoofer puts a 2550 Blissey in his main account and a 2200 Pinsir in his alternate (which is his name back to front). No one around for anywhere near the gym except me, stuck in my car. We all have stories like this.
** I killed the pinsir over and over and left the gym with the Blissey with 1k exp, let them train up a 2550 blissey! At least that will be annoying to them
