Should I report this??
Well guys just found a foundry where pokemon go bots are up for display and discussion
What to do now...??
You can always report third party websites at my blog.
www.pokemongoactivist.wordpress.com
Answers
As someone mentioned earlier today, there might be more hackers than legit players playing PG. Some even state figures like 90+% hackers. Thus they argue the game will be dead if Niantic bans the hackers.
Sad but true I guess. Nearly all players I met on the street are like "wtf you know there is xyRadar and xymap!? Why do you hunt oldschool?".
I am a completely "old school" player, I only have what I caught surreptitiously while walking around, or hatched. I walk to the gyms that I prestige or attack, have nearly gotten frostbite a few times, tap, tap, tapping my phone, been mugged and had my phone stolen, but I did evolve four blisseys, because of the valentines event. I powered up two of them to put in gyms, and have contributed to some blissey stacks this way.
On the attack side, I find blissey has forced me to hone a high damage output attack team. It is expensive in resources(revives, potions) to take a tall blissey stack, but if I really want to, I can, and have.
I can understand if your level is below 30, the current gym scene would be pretty tough I've been playing a few hours a day since July, and I can compete, and have done absolutely nothing the would violate Niantec's TOS.
The spoofers frustrate me to no end. Here I am standing outside in -30C weather battling a gym while spoofers sit inside their house on their fat asses doing nothing.
I played hard this winter but I know there were spoofers out there taking our gyms. One day it was -35C with the windchill and I powered a gym up to level 10 that you had to walk to. Cannot drive a car there. The next morning it was knocked down.
I powered it up from 9 to 10 and no way someone stood outside in -35C weather for nearly an hour to knock the gym down. I could barely stand there for 7-8 minutes before I froze. I honestly thought that gym would last weeks in that weather. Nope, not even one night.
Though I play completely legit now, I freely admit to having used trackers in the past. While I was doing it though, I did feel some sense of shame and is part the reason why I stopped doing it. I now take a great amount of satisfaction from tracking down pokemon the "hard" way. That said, I'm not completely opposed to the practice, it's just not for me anymore.
Spoofers though, I outright dislike. Trainer Tips Nick did fairly controversial rant on the matter recently and one of his points was that taking away the Go aspect leaves you with a weak game. Not sure why people want to play that when there are much better alternatives, namely the main series games.
