Gym Snorlax cheat attack
Hi,
Two days in my city appeared buch of cheaters, using bubblestrat tactic they pump gym to 10lvl and put 1 magicarp and 9 snorlaxes 100% IV, no scanner just my quess.
Not that i dont like it, but it takes 30mins to take gym back.
Please advise me how to ban them?
best regards
Ps. No one is near gym while they take gym. Question is how to ban them all not writing 10 different ban reports with 10 screenshots in each
Answers
It's frustrating but I'd be willing to bet Niantic will continue to let their automated spoof / gps detectors do the job they were created for. When I have to do a couple of random reCapchas I know they're working. I want the engineers to spend more time on quality of game than banning every cheater. There's just too many of them. Hopefully the detectors get better too in the process.
10 mins to train the gym to level 10. 45mins-1hr to take it down is just not right. For the life of me I don't know why Niantic don't nerf bubble strat when it would be so easy to do so. Gym turnover is healthy for the game and this completely kills it so it's in Niantics' best interests to nerf it.
Dont take the gym down all the way, take it to 23K and let them take it down to 0 and redo bubble from beginning. Trust me, them seeing only level 5 gym will annoy them. Flip side is they will expand their area to make up for the half sized gyms. Ofc this will mean they make more enemies which will result in more of their gyms being taken down. This is the gym game meta in big cities now.
If its a spoofer they are prolly sitting at home playing PoGo while watching TV. Most likely some college kid with no job living at their parents house. I doubt they will stop since they only spend 10 min total per gym, your the one thats driving around spending hours parked in a car. My guess is all 10 accounts are alts of the same spoofer.
Ive been dealing with this for months and what Ive learned is to look for long standing gyms in nearby areas via tracker apps and drop off there. Look for a spoofer that is the same team as you. Im usually in 8-12 gyms and go train a couple times a week. The game is much more fun this way. I handicap gyms when I have free time around my home, I never drop off mons.
You can also file a complaint and ask any players you see to do the same. Unfortunately the spoofers who know what they are doing dont seem to be getting banned. Even if they do get banned they will have alternate accounts so banning doesn't stop anything.
Some people will say that if you report and give evidence Niantic will ban them, from my experience I am sorry to say that there is nothing you can do to make them ban those players, the only way is to try to make their life as hard as possible until they leave to another area, don't let that gym stand at level 10 too much time, take it at least to 5 as many times as you can.
Niantic customer service is non existant, I have send like 10 emails with captures of people not being there taking gyms, saying hours, name of the gym and location and hackers keep doing their runs on my town since the beggining, it is true that less people play now and I am lucky enough that they bring gyms only to 6 or so, not level 10 anymore, but I have not seen any of the 6 known hackers here been baned and I know it won't happen, the only hope is they eventually get tired of the game or leave to another area.
I keep doing my gym runs everyday and killing their gyms, but every night they take them back.
