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What is botting?

I was goin through the Q&A's and saw multiple people discussing about how botters take down the gyms. what exactly are botters and how does this botting work?

Asked by MaaPiChu8 years 4 months ago

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i dont know very well but they are hackers i guess niantic can report you if you do it.

but the fake gps thingy was stopped some updates ago.

If you go search: str0bots GAMING
in youtube
There will always be cheaters.

I think the fake GPS thing still goes on. They are no longer sitting in NY City and pretending to be in San Francisco, but they work somewhere where they could actually be, like 30 miles away where they can take Gyms and stay on for a while. They don't use phones, they use computers.

One thing is spoofing, where you fake the GPS location but this isn't botting. Botting is if a computer is doing all the action like hatching, catching and spinning pokestops. I think that botting isn't possible anymore and a lot of them got banned, but spoofing is still possible.

Note: Be careful with accusing someone as botter/spoofer, sometimes I enter a gym fight, turn of my GPS and then continue the battle from a warm place. It looks like spoofing but isn't.

That's actually not well done from you anyway, you are playing from a place different than the gym is located. And how do you put a mon in the gym after taking it down from a "warm place"?

On the way back. Or it is already in there and I just keep prestiging. So do you think it is cheating? I think it is smart playing

You can think what you want, but it is in fact cheating, you are taking advantage of disconnecting your GPS while other players are actually in that place to take down the gym or prestige it. So in terms of Niantic you are cheating, your character is there, you are not.

Ok but even if I stay there I will disconnect GPS because I don't want to drift while battle. So how do you know the difference?

Easy, other players will see you, suspect that you are taking down the gym and wait for you to leave to retake the gym and place a mon there, or go to other gym close, take it and then come back, try to make your gym battles harder, if you are not there no one knows when you can start taking it down or up, so you have an advantage over the rest of players ;)

And about the gps working bad it is not an excuse, it has happened to me a LOT, and now they have quite fixed it, if you get an error just relog and you can continue the battle in a minute, some months ago you were not allowed to go back to that gym in a lot more time.

I don't know the difference but personally I don't care for people that fake GPS and go to any place in the world to complete their pokédex, it does not affect me, what I wanted Niantic to do is ban everyone that takes gyms without being there, from a computer at home, I have been dealing with this on my town since the beggining of the game, reported 3 known cheaters and still waiting for Niantic to ban those people...And I know they are hackers because I stay on the gym some minutes after taking it down and no one is around.

NOTE: if they are gonna implement trading then I do realize that actually it affects me, just ban all hackers do what they do ;)

Niantic seem to be taking some action against spoofers - we had a problem in my town, all playing for Instinct (btw, there are clean Instinct players in my town who I respect as gym opponents). They would take gyms without being around, sometimes jumping between two gyms where there is only one physical route. I'm not sure what they got out of it other than fun - they never put great Pokes down, and would do it multiple times a day, so it wasn't just for coins/dust.

Suddenly they vanished...

Everyone hates bots. Everyone hates spoofers. I don't understand why tracking is generally accepted, it gives a massive advantage.

Players on here use trackers and say "yea you don't have to spend money on incubators to have a good lineup, I have tons of top tiers, just be patient and keep looking!" Neglecting to mention they are using a tracker.

I really wish they would shut that down. The argument that the in-game tracker sucks just adds to the fact they have even more advantage over regular players.

I didn't even know there were still 3rd party trackers that worked

Apparently there are, there were posts about it just a few days ago. Also I googled "Pokemon go update" on Thanksgiving and a top result was "tracker even finds the new ditto!"

Recent pic posted on here had 100 iv ditto with 252 candy. Coincidence?

Yes, trackers are still around and much better than FPM, they tell you moveset and IV's too. They are shared between few people are not public though. Excluding some Twitter accounts that post the most important finds.

These people generally have their Pokédex full of powered up Dragonite etc.

I think it's lame and boring, personally.