Currently the game is not working. Been around 45 minutes outside without being able to connect. Neither at home with WIFI.
Game for spoofers:
Niantic won't ban you
You won't get tired
You won't get robbed / get accident (no risk)
You will almost have no connectitivy issues
For the rest of us who play legitimate.. the game sucks. Is there are niantic websie where I can express my frustration. I want to cuss at them literally.
They rlly need to make radical gym rework.
There shouldnt be different teams and there should be system that everyone can get coins.
So spoofers can spoof but they cant ruin gameplay for others.
And some way to get coins for your team mates if gym is stagnant level 10 forever.
(And everyone should be in same team for safety reasons, so ppl dont go hostile over another trainer)
Yes. They can get potions/revive easily from the comfort of their homes.
I have 7!!!!!!!! I almost can't fight anymore. Game is not working. Connectivity issues.. its really hard play legal vs cheaters. You can fight but no win. I'm usually getting 10 coins. That's all. I can try something better but it's uber hard.
Feel you man, I am so fricking tired of those spoofing assholes. Its getting worse and worse as time goes by, every week my group catches someone else in flagranti. Yesterday we lost like 15 gyms, because 4 spoofers from Mystic took our gyms down coordinatedly. Its just depressing, I know 4 sure, that it is EASILY possible to identify those people for Niantic. People with IV calculaters get warnings, but not even that was happening to the spoofing people I know at least. I even send a message on Facebook, no reaction of course. Also I constantly approach the employees of Niantic, when I report another spoofer, so they are probably already annoyed by me. xD
Maybe gyms will have no rewards next rework...
Like parents taking away toys from two arguing children, gyms will have nothing anymore...so spoofers wouldn't bother.
"Save your Pokecoins!"
Kidding aside, there are just too many reports probably to do anything. And most are probably not conclusive enough to ban some people.
I'll say again if the game is pissing anyone off that much, just stop playing for a bit and maybe in a few months, it's better. If not, move on. There is so much to play/do out there and time is always limited.
Seems pointless to whine endlessle.
I agree spoofers suck, you can report them, don't spend money, etc...but if it's bad enough, players will just quit and when enough do, be happy you have more time now on your hands...
Niantic is too busy trying to take down trackers and IV calculators, as if servers filled of tracking bots ruin the game more than spoofers. If 10% of the players on there servers are real, and about 50% tracking bots, I don't feel like they are overloaded by the number of accounts. Besides I can fight a player who capture every single dragonite that spawns in his neighborhood but I can't fight a guy that capture every dragonite that spawns in the world, have infinite items and can battle 50 gyms a day with his ass sit on his bed. Niantic really have to think about their priorities, that is if they even wan't to ban spoofers.
"that is if they even wan't to ban spoofers." I totally agree with you and I think you made the big point at the end. The don't care and don't want to ban spoofers, they are worried about the numbers the show to their partners and in conferences etc. About milions of players, accounts, hours spend and mon caught, nothing else, that is why you can't contact them anyway, they won't listen to any costumer, they don't even return you the coins in case server largs and you purchase two items or the wrong one...Niantic is a small and no experienced company, has no idea about business relations with their costumers.
And I have proofs that they don't care at all. How they let cheaters like this one still play? There is no other explanation than they don't want to ban them.
While I defend Niantic at times there is one thing I cannot defend.
How in the hell can you make a game this profitable and not have a feedback/issues/etc forum? Every big game like this I've ever played had one as well as several that were much smaller. There is zero excuse and if folks get fed up and walk away it's because Niantic never clearly stated their case or intentions. It also gives appearances of not giving a s%#^. It's just plain poor business.
There, whoever called me a Niantic shill the other day can hold my beer after that post.
I've never played a game where there was not cheaters of some sort but it's kind of strange how fanatical people have become and the lengths that are taken to cheat in a game such as this being a semi casual mobile game.
Trackers, tracking sites, bots, selling accts, spoofing, sniping, shaving. Sadly, it just shows that whatever measures are taken to prevent forms of cheating there will be plenty of players ready to counter them immediately.
It's unfortunate that this is a game where if you run into a cheater in game you can't just leave the server or grief them. There is no way to win. It is what it is. I hope niantic has a plan.
