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Pokémon Go |OT 2| Servers...gotta crash 'em all!
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Wasn't that the bot developer's account who got banned? I don't think anyone else has been permabanned yet.
How exactly does a 'soft ban' work?
I'm loving this game btw. Super addictive. It's fine playing this on multiple devices, right (not at once though)?
That was fake, sorry.
I guarantee you those are all bot accounts. The only remotely possible exception is the lv.33 account, but even that's unlikely.
People upset about Pokeadvisor, check out the app GoIV. Uses screen capture to retrieve the IV information. Not as good as Pokeadvisor but it works a lot faster than typing everything in on PokeAssistant.
Doctor West
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I turned on my game earlier tonight and saw a Dragonite silhouette for the first time. I ran out of my building so fast and spent 10 minutes trying to track him down by constantly restarting the game to refresh the nearby list. I finally found him by a soccer field and went to work. I berried him up and gave him an Ultra and he jumped out instantly like, "nope, lol". I tired it again with a great curveball and got him. 1838 CP w/ steel wing and dragon pulse. So he should be a good gym defender. It was also badass seeing the silhouette's of the legendary birds and Mewtwo when he was added to my Pokedex.
that's interesting, does it also determine a Pokémon's exact level from the arc?
Awesome lol
man Dragonites are strong but they get kind of wrecked by ice Pokémon
love when I see a Dragonite in a nearby gym, means I can get some nice xp by taking it down with much lower CP ice-types
It'd need to know your trainer level to do that, wouldn't it? Seriously, I wouldn't even use scripts and services to scrape IV from the server if the calculators could do it without resulting in 10 possible results.
BigJonsson
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Snorlax with zen headbutt and body slam good?
FreezerGeezer
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From the maker of PokeAdvisor.
Benzychenz
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So maybe the change wasn't intended to break PokeAdvisor but just a general change they did.
Will wait and see if the site gets fixed, if Niantic makes changes to break it again then fuck them. They should be working with the community, not pissing them off.
ForsakenLotus
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That's insane, especially considering there are so very few counters to Snorlax (Machamp, and ???). As to if they are cheating...well, it starts taking millions of XP to level up in the mid 30's as I understand it. My inclination is some of those guys, if not all of them, cheat. I don't know, maybe if you live in New York City, London, or Hong Kong and have done basically nothing but Pokemon Go AND you spend money on lucky eggs and incubators, maybe you can get that high.
More likely they cheat though.
Yeah it does. You type your trainer level into the app before you start it. Just checked it out and it seems to work pretty well (compared to the other OCR IV app I tried at least). Good alternative if you don't want to risk your account.
Niantic IP banned AWS IPs to block scanners. It sounds like they expanded the IP ban to hit other VPS providers and pokeadvisor got hit. This seems like a cat and mouse game they can't win.
They already banned a bunch of cloud hosts intending to knock out scanners. They probably initiated another wave of bans with the intention of taking out things like Pokeadvisor. If not that, pre-emptively making sure cloud-hosted scanners will continue to be blocked.
Nice. Will give it a go. I hope it'll allow analysing live from the camera instead of having to take screenshots, if it doesn't already do that.
ForsakenLotus
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Benzychenz
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Yeah what I meant was that they want to get rid of scanners, which I can understand why, even if I'd like to use them.
We'll see if they actively go after Pokeadvisor specifically later on, because checking IVs is really just a convenience thing, and blocking that would be a dick move.
Yeah I evolved my Growlithe and got bulldoze
Thankfully it wasn't great IVs but getting 50 candy to try again is a pain.I'm really hoping my 96% Magikarp turns out well, because 400 Magikarp candies will be depressing to waste.
Thanks. I appreciate it.
Yeah it reads straight from the screen. It's actually a really slick implementation. On the pokemon detail screen there is an overlay button that matches the style of PoGo. You hit it and it does OCR on the screen and lets you verify the numbers then you calculate. Probably the best implementation I've seen so far (including actual MITM/logins) since you can view the possible IV range then transfer right from the same screen.
clearacell
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It feels weird when it seems like the area I live in is saturated with them.
It feels weird when it seems like the area I live in is saturated with them.
i've never seen one.
I've never seen a dodou on radar either.
nor charmander.
I have only seen vulpix on nearby like twice.
To the Niantic servers, there's no difference between a scanner and a IV checker logging in. But there's no legitimate reason for a cloud host to access their services, so the easiest option for them is to ban logins from those IPs.
of that entire list I think I have seen beedrill twice in the wild. maybe 3 times.
and this is over like 100+ hours of walking around with a chunk of that being someone in my group using something like pokevision
Benzychenz
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It feels weird when it seems like the area I live in is saturated with them.
Geez and 2 Golem's too, I'm only at 30-something Geodude candy since release, and that's with hatching one.
Ones I'm still yet to evolve: Venusaur (caught a wild one, but not the best IVs), Charizard (only on 11 Charmander candy lol), Blastoise (nearly there), Raichu, Nidoqueen, Nidoking, Clefable, Ninetails, Wigglytuff, Vileplume, Dugtrio (nearly there), Machamp (11 candy since release), Victreebel, Golem, Rapidash, Muk, Gengar, Hypno, Marowak, Rhydon, Gyarados (nearly there), Omastar (have 1 Omanyte), Kabutops (have 0 Kabuto).
I think all of my geodude candy is just from hatching, don't think I have ever seen one.
Naughty_Doge
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So now they really blocked IV calculators? This company man...
Can't fix their shit in the first place but waste resources on shutting down harmless calculators of all things.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongod...ossoms_pokemon_go_manager_xpost_rpokemongoiv/
Still seems to work though, fortunately =)
Can't fix their shit in the first place but waste resources on shutting down harmless calculators of all things.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongod...ossoms_pokemon_go_manager_xpost_rpokemongoiv/
Still seems to work though, fortunately =)
I'd be really careful about using stuff like that. At least with pokeadvisor you had numbers on your side. Would be crazy for them to ban 500k people for checking IVs.
With this app you're on your own. It doesn't even look like they updated to the newer pgoapi that generates a signature (even though Niantic isn't validating non-map calls they could still be seeing if it's being sent with requests). It'll be really easy for Niantic to see that this manager isn't a legitimate client and if they just flag all those people and ban them in a wave you're screwed.
The fact this manager can perform automated actions much faster than a regular user is a red flag as well.
Well the only way to stop people from running things on their own computers is to either detect if a login isn't from a legitimate client and reject the request or ban accounts who do use them.
The former is a cat and mouse game, the latter is gonna make a large number of the player base mad.
I could see them out right banning bots and GPS spoofing.
but if they go after people who have run some sort of personal pokevision it's not gonna end well as most people I know who are doing that are only doing it until there is a working nearby tracker.
same with an IV calculator, it's just because there isn't a good way to find it in game.
if there was even something like a potential with a terrible, bad, average, good, great Excellent gauge in game I am willing to bet a lot of people who deal with IVs wouldn't bother using something else.
You mean your GF appeared in your bed! 😂
Problem with the IVs is that it's obfuscated by design, as it is in the main games. The difference is that in the main games, they're values that go into making each and every Pokémon unique, and you can happily play without ever caring about them. Mostly only the competitive battling scene care about them.
In this game, however, IVs are the only thing that differentiates Pokémon and there's almost nothing else in the game for long-term players that maintaining a team with good IVs is the few remaining incentives to continue playing.
blankempathy
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Ask yourself, what has Niantic actually done to help make the game better for long term players? Them going after botters because of gyms is so that new players aren't put off by that op dragonite sitting in the gym. Long term players likely have good enough legitimate pokemon to take the gym over. If anything Niantic has shown they don't care about the hardcore and want to milk them for all they're worth. Shitty scaling meant that catching crappy pokemon becomes harder at higher levels. So what do they do? Make pokemon even harder to catch by making them attack and jump more often. Oh lets not forget the "bug" which has pokemon break out of the balls easier as well. So now its even more frustrating for high level players. Oh you want to catch something besides those thousands of pidgeys and rattatas? Welp sorry the tracker is broken and don't you even try to use scanner to find something new and exciting to catch. Oh you want to get serious about your pokemon and check their ivs? Nah we can't have that either sorry. Good luck wondering which pokemon are actually good and which are trash.
I'd never bother with IVs in the normal games, since it's hard to level stuff in Go though having some sort of indicator in game telling you if you have a good one or not would be great, and far more n00b friendly then needing an IV calculator.
Pretty much sums up my feelings. I was so geeked about this game right up until that stupid patch and the nerfing of the trackers. Now I'm playing out of obligation to the money I've spent on incubators, and somewhat because it's still fun to play at the Santa Monica Pier. Definitely not obsessed anymore, and I won't let any company milk me of my money and time by mismanaging the game for players like us.
blankempathy
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Basically the only thing is do anymore is sit at a triple pokestop location so i don't run out of pokeballs because theres no way I'm spending a single cent on this game in its current state.
Pokemon go! Go and catch wild pokemon in your neighborhood and explore the area around you!
More like sit at stops and farm the same junk over and over. I honestly miss the days of broken servers because when they were up at least it was fun going out and finding new stuff.
Muku
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Guess Iran doesn't want Pokemon Go...
I'm not using the automated features but if they really feel like banning me for using a simple manager tool, so be it. I won't get overly angry, I'll just try to get back the few bucks I spent on IAPs and be done with the game (until maybe they do a major update that fixes tracking, introduces trading and new pokemon, improves gym fights, makes the pokemon menu more useful etc).
I enjoy the meta aspect and comparing pokemon stats with friends and people I get to meet at gyms/stops and the mapper utilities make the game vastly more enjoyable as well (obv the mapper runs on a secondary account). So without that, I'd have dropped the game a while ago anyway - especially since I live in a rural area.
Nope, worked for me. Apparently it only works 100% the first time you do each one. And I cannot confirm if they 'fixed' it last patch either, I haven't tried one since then.
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