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SwipeX / PokeMate

Automated PokemonGo Application
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[question] is softban reported / detected by bot? #314

Closed ickis098 closed 8 years ago

ickis098 commented 8 years ago

After successfully running for ~1,5hr, the bot stopped doing anything. Or better said, it still runs between pokestops, but doesn't tag, catch, etc. Restarting doesn't help & i have a suspicion, i got softban, but how can i confirm that? Or was the Niantic again implementing some new security feature? Anyone else having the same issue?

gsisso commented 8 years ago

what is your walking speed?

maxi2mc commented 8 years ago

I noticed a softban also, after running 2 accounts on same machine for 30 minutes. Speed is 1.8 for one, and 2 for the other.

ickis098 commented 8 years ago

my speed is 4. it was working in previous releases..

ickis098 commented 8 years ago

Lowered the speed to 2, got softban after 3min. I guess they now have some very easy way to detect the bot..

maxi2mc commented 8 years ago

If you think of the operations per second you can do with your phone, and then look at the bot, I would say it's pretty clear.

SwipeX commented 8 years ago

@maxi2mc that's a valid point. I assume the 100k+ exp per hours days are gone.

maxi2mc commented 8 years ago

I was always asking myself why are they not banning anybody. Now I think they are fine-tuning their algorithms on accounts flagged as bots :).

gsisso commented 8 years ago

well Im runnig 1 instance of the bot and its working fine,guess it has something to do with the account history of botting and/or amount of instances running by the same ip & device

SippieCup commented 8 years ago

Softbans are not flagged as bots by Niantic that we know of. It is very possible to get soft banned on real devices when you have poor connectivity and driving. I don't think its anything to worry about.

That being said, if you get soft banned it will continue until you stop playing for 30 minutes or use a bypass (which is not available in the standard release of PokeMate.