Calling out spoofers/snipers......
It's really simple to identify, just show us where your pokes were caught! This kinda goes back to that guy posting this morning.
So sick of people posting these retarded lineups! Here's mine, I feel like it's really good, but also been a lot of work.... Of my top 24 CP mons all have been caught in my metro area other than the 3310 Dragonite which I caught the Dratini in Florida watching my son play baseball and the 76 IV Blissey which I caught the Chansey in Chicago...
Call me on it, I'll post the pokes location. Who's willing to do the same?
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I share your distaste for cheating, but I don't think your method of discovery would be completely effective. Most sane people could get their fill of high-IV rare Pokemon entirely within the confines of a large city if they knew where the spawns were - either by spoofing, botting, or getting info from spoofers/botters.
If I wanted to cheat, I'd probably go this route so that I could plead a case to Niantic if they went after my account.
The real test would be something else, and that something would probably only be available to Niantic, assuming they have been keeping detailed info on locations and quality of catches.
They were everywhere for the Valentines event.
I live in one of those areas that was had a ridiculous number of them - I couldn't even get out of my own street without running into at least one at any time.
I don't see dratini without travelling or any of the other top mons, so I took advantage while I could.
I still have a stash of candy to level them up as I level up.
We must have a similar biome. The Chanseys were everywhere and I hatched 3 or 4 of them too during the event. I finished with 440 candies and have since caught more that just randomly spawn. Hatched another the other day.
Blisseys are everywhere in our gyms here. Literally gyms stacked with them. Our team has one gym with 9 Blisseys.... Yeah.
I'm trying my best to hold my laughter.
This is what we come down to?
Someone posts their line up and someone requests proof of where they caught it.
- How can you proof they spoofed to it?
- How can the trainer prove they did not spoof to it?
Heres a perfect example. I'm a trainer who normally play in NYC. But when I'm playing on the upper west side catching pokemon, the game says the location caught is Edgewater, New Jersey or sometimes Fort Lee which are both miles across the Hudson river in a completely different state.
So how would I go about saying hey I just caught this awesome pokemon while having dinner at Carmines but the location shows Jersey?
Niantic knows whose cheating. Trust me on this.
I had an odd sutituatuon where every gym i was in i was getting kicked out by the same trainer. Then another trainer told me the serious trainers use a site that tracks the gyms and the players and showed me how to use it.
What the site does is track every Pokémon belonging to the trainers. You can search for a trainer by name and see every pokemon they have in the gyms, the IVS, and their moveset. When I ran across the trainer that kept kicking me out and saw they held 41 gyms and all their Pokémon were 15/15/15 tyranitar, dragonite, snorlax, blissey this makes me wonder if a third party site can do this then Niantic can as well and knows whose cheating but won't do anything because they need the cheaters to make honest players pay $$$
I think an easier way to tell if someone is spoofing, or at least looking at a scanner is looking at their pokedex. I have seen/caught 8 Dragonites. I have seen/caught 5 Dragonaires. This means I have evolved 5 Dragonites and caught 3. If someone has caught excessvie amounts of rare pokemon, there is a reason for it...
Your image displays as plain text. Kindly reupload it. I would suggest that you use the Android Gamepress App if you are not using it.
What happens to your "excessive rare pokemon caught" method when a trainer comes along that that lives where rares like the dragons spawn frequently?
Also, what number is considered excessive, and who gets to decide that number? :)
I suspect the problem occurs with the GP site not recognising certain png image compressions...so it is more of a technical limitation issue with this site than a user error.
Even then, I get have had some images that display as code when I click on them, only for them to display correctly if I click on them a second time.
I used the app to upload it. Anyways, what we consider excessive can be up for debate because I know stuff does spawn in certain areas. I mean I have seen more Dragonites than Dragonaires. Snorlax is pretty common here in the suburban neighborhoods, so I have like 25 of those, Chansey, on the other hand is pretty rare. For comparison, a buddy of mine has been using scanners for months and has caught well over 100 Snorlax.
