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Bot collected mons aren't going to function anymore

Per nianticGeorge on TSR:

""With the announcement of Raid Battles and the new battle features, we are staying true on our commitment to ensuring that Pokémon GO continues to be a fun and fair experience for all Trainers. Starting today, Pokémon caught using third-party services that circumvent normal gameplay will appear marked with a slash in the inventory and may not behave as expected. We are humbled by the excitement for all the new features we announced yesterday.This is one small part of our continued commitment to maintaining the integrity of our community and delivering an amazing Pokémon GO experience."""

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/6ihyl6/update_on_pok%C3%A9mon_caught_using_thirdparty/

Asked by JHVS7 years 10 months ago

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Oh wow. Justice!

Haha, they are basically saying you do not have enough badges for that pokemon to respect you. Love the applying of the classic game to say F U to breaking the rules.

OK. So who will be the first to post a pic of what this marked Pokémon looked like?

My curiosity is piqued through the roof!!!

Anyone who posts it will be admitting that they cheat!

About damned time!!!

Woooohoooo!

This should affect spoofers as well as bots. If they are looking at mon that seem to hop all aver the world in short periods of time, or move too fast from place to place, then spoofers should be caught also........

My guess is spoofing is different from how they catch these. I would guess that they use old APK to differentiate bot collected mons in a similar fashion that they used it for other anti cheating purposes. But I'm not sure.

But since many spoofers are also probably utilizing bots too it will mean something to do it anyway.

Hopefully they are smart enough to mark those pkm that were found with a map.

That one will be much harder to do...if at all.
There is no way to know if someone used a map or simply got a call from a friend to tell them it was around - or even just they happened to be driving by and got lucky.

"or even just they happened to be driving by and got lucky."

Raises hand!

Yes, only statistics could help. If somebody happens to be driving regularely to places where a near 100%IV-Top-Pokemon spawns, this guy would be suspect. If this happens once, it could be a coincidence.

I think an easier way is to focus on removing bots. If bots are gone so are the maps.

Yes, but the problem with the unfair acquired pokémon remains.
If a botter or spoofer is not allowed to use his cheeted pokémon, a former map-user still keeps his unfair advantage.

True. I have no idea how they could pick up on previously picked up Pokemon though (i.e. pre-update captured Mon). They may have a chance from here moving forward though.

Edit: Unless they were tracking sufficient user data before update.

Even without evaluation of historic tracking data they could do statistics for amount of pokemon catched and amount of great IV great type Pokemon one player has.

If there is a chance of less then 1 in 1 billion all those pokemon are found by internal tracker only, (p.ex. 5 100%IV Dragonite encountered wild for a level 30 player) they could find a conclusion and an appropriate reaction.

It still remains hard to identify a specific illigal pokemon this way.