I live in Finland and my sister lives in Australia.
If i dont log in my account in 4 days and give log in information for my sister and she logs in and then catch me Kangaskhan and then logs out and i wait 4 days and then log in, will Niantic find out that i wasnt in Australia and ban me????
Have anyone tryed this yet with siblings over the seas?
to catch region based pokemons.
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Just visit her. She will be glad!
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Only theory, unfortunately:
Two times 2 days, or - to be sure - look for a flight and just log out and log in according to take off - landing - time should be perfect.
I have used a different phone with a different provider, switched back and was not banned. But i have never been in australia.
I don't think you'd need to wait quite that long. Theoretically if you allow for enough time that you could actually travel that distance then Niantic shouldn't be able to tell. There are software checks for traveling too far a distance in too short of a time, but not for logging in on another device. It would still fall under account sharing which is against TOS, but there is no way to check for it.
Whether or not you decide to do it, you should wait until after the Valentine event and wait to stop playing until after your 7th-day bonus.
4 hours is feasible to get from UK to Spain...and vice versa.
However, Australia to Finland will take around 18 hours if you get a direct flight.
As for the original question, 2 days will be more than enough.
...maybe even drive to the airport and catch a mon or 2 before logging out, and then do the same when you get it back ;-)
I agree that 4 days is likely much too long. If PoGo is anything like Ingress, you probably only need to wait a few hours...
The way Ingress works, your location is tracked from the moment you interact with an object in the game (e.g., hack a portal, deploy a mod, fire a weapon, etc.). You can visualize it as a circle that expands out from your location, kind of like a ripple in water, at 35 miles per hour. The game tracks you to make sure that your next action happens inside of that expanding circle; if it does, all's good (and a new circle forms at your current location, again expanding out at 35 MPH). If it doesn't, the game will "speed lock" you and your action will fail. This would happen, for instance, if you're driving down a highway. Now, the circles only last for 30 minutes in Ingress; if you don't take any actions for 30 minutes, all of your circles disappear, and you can start playing again from any location, even one that's several hundred miles away from your last location. (This is how Ingress accounts for people driving on the highway, taking a train, taking a plane, etc.). I know the comparison between the two games is inexact - for instance, in PoGo the game will speed lock you if you travel over 12 MPH, even if you don't interact with any portals or pokemon. Still, I can't imagine that Niantic's servers keep a log of where you were last seen for hours and hours after you quit the app.
You don't have to wait that long, how long does a flight from Finland to Australia takes? That's more or less what you should wait, I've done that with my girlfriend a few times (about 3 hours distance at that time), and she wasn't banned.2 or 3 times it was done to gather pokeballs (she was working in sort of a rural area and I pass 20 pokestops on the way to and from work), once we waited too little (like 40 minutes) and she was banned out of pokestops for like a day (maybe less), but that was it, I guess if you do that often, you might get a more severe punishment.
Doesn't it just feel better to actually visit a foreign country to catch a region exclusive?
Maybe it's just me, but I'm ok with not getting all the region exclusives and just wait till I eventually go there (or not)...
Having someone login for you to catch something seems to just cheapen the catch/experience for me at least...
Traveling982,
For my work, I travel the entire length of Asia Pacific. Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, HK, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
Even when I log into the game in a country that PoGO hasn't started, I can still play (look up IV and change names, mass-evolve, transfer, etc).
Just find out the flight time between Finland and Australia. Log out, wait that period of time and then let your sister log in. Should not be a problem.
