Good news for legitimate users that Niantic is taking action against bots and cheaters.


First things first, in case your account was permanently terminated wrongfully.
Here's the appeal FAQ. https://support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/h...it-a-ban-appeal


Seems there are now account termination and perma bans in addition to soft bans. I hope there aren't too many false positives. Perma bans will probably take some time for Niantic to process. Now would be a good time to report Level 30+ players. I suspect they'll be going after bots first.


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This post has been edited by soonwai: Aug 15 2016, 11:57 PM

Good job!

What we need to be aware is that use of ANY third party software is in violation of ToS.

https://www.pgnexus.gg/

This site seems to be very popular here and this is also likely to be in violation of ToS as it accesses Niantic's servers to pull data from them.

There are players who use similar 3rd party site like PokeAdvisor already getting permabanned because of this.

This kind of website is not harmful, I'm sure they won't ban you easily because of it. Those who got banned from here probably a botter themselves.

It's not about whether they are harmful or not. They are in violation of ToS, simple as that. There were far simpler 3rd party tools for Ingress like extracting personal game data onto a spreadsheet and people got banned for using them.

Agreed. I don't think Niantic would care what it does. As long as there's 3rd party access to the servers, it'll probably be flagged. What's their criteria for a ban, we won't know.

Hope that I'm not in the false positive. My redmi note gps is really wonky.

Almost everyone I know on Pokémon go has wonky GPS teleporting everywhere

Every one I know that plays Pokemon don't have gps problem.

I think if you're teleporting a few hundred metres and jumping around be like crazy, you should be ok.

some people travel around the globe

U used agps which refer tower. Maybe something fixed to focus gps issue using software from store?

Dont want to burst the bubble of certain people but still so many 3k+ player in my nearby gym

make a report... they will ban straight away

they told you they just came back from US, New Zealand or Paris.

finally, we can fight square and fair in gyms

gangbang em

Yes, apart from waiting for the ban on them, team up with others and attack the same time is the only way.

Niantic probably busy with US, Japan region. Especially with Japan since some gyms there are sponsored by McD. Malaysia is probably at their bottom of their list.

Maybe making a report will help.

These 2 weedles used to be quite prominent in UTAR Sg Long. Haven't seen them the last few days.


This post has been edited by soonwai: Aug 13 2016, 11:28 AM

Good news:
botting is much harder
many quit botting
the rise of legit players

Bad news:
Ex botter not getting banned , means if the cheater did not bot since yesterday , they get no penalty . Which means their high CP Pokemon still remain, their level still remain .
So do expect to see high CP Pokemon at gyms.

What type of banned niatic is introducing :
Back before this there is a ban call soft banned , if you get this ban you can't loot pokestop however it can be unbanned quickly with spinning 40 times at pokestop.

So yesterday there is 2 new ban wave
1) IP ban, will ban your ip, if one get this ban, just need to wait 4-12 hours for the ban to be lifted. Or simply play around with ip changing ?

2) This is what they call permanent ban , you can't get any of your account data from niatic, meaning you can't login. This is the heaviest ban that all legit players are hoping for and its coming true . Many players got hammered by this .

Be happy that Niatic is taking action guys .