Pokemon GO! (2016)

Yeah it's a tricky one, as on the one hand I agree but then I'd be frustrated if I wasn't able to take any gyms, which would be particularly annoying for lower level players.
 
topgun06 said:
Or you can hatch these from an egg I believe.
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Nah, that was just an excuse people GPS spoofing would use afaik. There was a reddit post where people posted whether they'd hatched a foreign regional or not and how many eggs they'd hatched and out of 5k eggs or something only 4 people said they'd hatched one.

3 out of the 4 were proved to have spoofed, the other guy didn't reply after being questioned about it.

The above might not be exactly right, it's just what I remember, regionals don't come out of eggs though unless you get the egg from that region.

Edit: for leveling gyms, if you use a pokemon with lower CP than the defender you'll get 500 prestige per kill (just run away after killing the first one and then do it again), if you do it with half the CP of the defender you get 1000 prestige.

Putting a Magikarp in and then killing it over and over with a half CP pokemon is the best way to level gyms, obviously this is only really good if there's a few of you though so the rest can put in high CP dudes once it's leveled. It also means you don't need potions to level since you can just use trash rats/pidgeys etc to beat it and then transfer/evolve them instead of healing and using up potions.

Edit 2: Niantic now have a ban appeal page on their site, inc bans I guess (RIP my level 26 NY account) :D.
 
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Looking at reddit they're saying that a lot of botters are reporting that they've been banned already.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongod...a_permabans_have_arrived_stop_all_use_of_3rd/

You might get this from Niantic https://support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/225146308

And you might see one of these screens http://imgur.com/a/hvNvT

There are a large number of bans of this type occurring, which have been reported in some of the bot slack channels. While we're not 100% sure they're permanent yet, better safe than sorry.

To clear up confusion there are several types of bans:

Soft IP ban Ban the IP but not the account (not permanent). All accounts on the ip will be unable to see pokestops and pokemon. Usually goes away after 20 mins of not accessing the pogo api from that IP.

Hard IP ban Ban the IP perm. This happened to cloud providers like AWS. You can't log in or access pogo at all from one of these IPs. Never goes away.

Soft ban Account specific - there are now multiple types of softbans: (time to go away varies)

Spinning pokestops gives nothing, and pokemon always run on the first ball. (this was the original softban)
Spinning pokestops is fine, but pokemon always run. (added today)
All pokestops say out of range, and no pokemon ever spawn (added recently) ... there may be more

Hard ban Perma ban (Read data error on phone). This is the new ban that botters have been getting. If you get a login error, it does not mean you are banned for sure, but if you were botting or teleporting and you can't log in on that account from any IP, and you can use other accounts - good chance thats a hardban.

EDIT: People wondering what actions cause the ban. It is still unknown, but it seems related to highly frequent requests involving teleporting. However, any third party api usage or GPS spoofing voilates their TOS and it is possible you can receive a ban. I recommend not using any 3rd party service or spoofing for at least 24 hours. IMO, If you have never botted or spoofed/sniped, it is unlikely you will get banned. But I would avoid using any services that require your login until this is sorted out.
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chroniclard said:
Will be done if I get banned, fun while it lasted tho. :D
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I think that applies to a number of people, Most people seem to have stopped but I have a couple of mates who still play but only because they are using bots. If they get banned I am not sure I will continue playing either as walking around on your todd sounds like a boring way to play.
 
chroniclard said:
Ah, just returned from Lake Garda, campsite had one gym but no pokestop for a good distance, after a week almost all my pokemon where knocked out. :p
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Haha, I'm on the northern point of lake Garda right now :D

Cruising around Greece next week, hope for more pokemans.
 
Got in a little playtime today when I was out. Got to level 18.

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Also came across my 3rd ever Dratini. And this one I actually caught. Not very good CP at all, but good to have it added to my pokedex at last.
 
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