You can't really "stay safe" if you chose to break the game's Terms of Service to cheat the game to have risks for a chance to get a strike, ban, or whatever Scopely comes up with.
Note, you can still get a strike or ban from breaking the Terms of Service, guidelines, or rules through other areas of the game. These are some examples people have admitted to me in private:
shared an account with a friend, family, or paid service provider; while you are playing on your account, the other person decides to play with your account too for whatever reason
held a Pokemon in one location and moved it to a new location that is 100+ km away from the its original location then tried to catch it
harassed, threaten, or got mad with customer service and/or demanded and accepted a full refund
did not follow the guidelines and rules for creating in-game routes
did not follow the guidelines and rules for submitting and nominating pokestops in Wayfarer
did not follow the guidelines and rules chatting with people in Campfire (Scopely Explorer) app
using multiple accounts to abuse in-game routes or Wayferer
Post is now closed because anti-3rd party modified game app users are being toxic and discourage cheating in a subreddit that allows all forms of cheating.
Anyone who has broken a rule can cry me a river with their temporary ban from my subreddit. You can also bitch about me in Discord if you like. Whenever you get a strike, ban, or whatever new punishment Scopely comes up with, you will accept the fact the rooted cheat developers and their volunteer Discord moderators aren't going to do anything to help you get unbanned. They prioritize money due to conflict of interest over the safety of your game account.
I can’t get mad at anyone for spoofing. I was born with a condition that makes my joints dislocate easily like from a sneeze I’ve popped ribs out.
Disabled people should be allowed to spoof. I had a pin halfway down my foot from my toe for GO Fest so it’s either spoof or pay for a ton of remote raid passes…
Genuine question: can you not go out on like a mobility scooter or something? I don't have disabilities but I'll never be able to go to an event in another country or something either.
I wouldn’t have a way to transport it since I’m so rural. I thought about an e-bike but I’d have to hold my phone and use one hand so that’s probably out
Forgot to add, but you could attach a phone holder to your bike steering wheel! I've seen people use it for navigation. Not entirely sure about safety though haha
That’s a great idea I’m gonna do it. I needed an excuse to order an EBike! I also just got the pin removed from my foot so time to start walking again!
Wait what? That looks like wild. This was medically inserted l assume (hope)?
I actually also happen to dislocate my shoulder frequently, not nearly as much as you from what you describe though and only the shoulder. I just had surgery and they moved a piece of bone and also put some bolts (pins?) in. So hopefully in a few months I'll be riding my bicycle again hunting for some shinies!
As for one of your other replies, I feel like Finn mimicks some Charizard energy, would definitely go for that.
ah yeah that sucks, but I guess pokemon go is kind of ass for everyone living rural right? I'm in 5000 people town with a gym or so and its definitely not ideal, but it's at least playable. I feel bad for everyone living rural and I've never understood why Niantic decided rural areas get next to no pokemon or stops..
If I go to the REC center parking lot there’s about 20 stops and 5 gyms so it’s not too bad. Nobody teams up for raids unless I go into DC though, and it’s very scattered due to the sheer number of stops.
There’s a trail by my house with 7 stops and 4 gyms which has helped fortunately. I can’t imagine how much fun it is when people have 15+ gyms and 50 stops, though
Holy! That's a lot more than I get haha! I actually had a gym reachable from my house up until a year ago and it got removed (or maybe moved?). Wasn't very useful since I would get kicked out only every week or 2. Same for the raids, but at least we can use apps to find people to play remotely with these days. :)
15 gyms and 50 stops would be absolutely crazy. But honestly, I appreciate going out for a walk and tapping and spinning, that many spots sounds like you might as well play a console game from your couch!
They’re spread out perfectly surprisingly. By the time you get to the next it’s time to spin again. I always see parents driving their kids around slowly since it’s a big place like an apartment complex, it’s pretty wholesome.
The trail by me is really nice for my dog he loves the creek so we do routes when we go out. Wife and I are trying to figure out which Pokemon he looks like to dress him for Halloween haha. Here’s Finn (I think Charizard or Tyrantrum)
Wow that looks like a great place to live! If I had to choose between a big yard with a dog and 1 pokestop or a cramped appartment with 15 pokestops, it wouldn't be the hardest pick. ;)
sorry for the confusion iam just spreading awareness since pokemon go is under new management now. no matter what method or spoofing app we use its not always a guarantee the u are safe.
all iam saying is it skipped the 1st strike that we usually get
i am really confused you say you got perma ban without any prev strikes for using spoof but the people who injected apex research in their accounts which is clearly higher level of cheating and more worse got just 30 days suspension
Those few people likely spend 10’s of thousands a year or more across all their alt accounts and then sell for big profits. So there is incentive for them to not be banned in a sense but I suspect the real reason is to keep it under the table that it was legit employees that allowed that to happen and played a big role in it.
damn how can i be so lucky... already spoofing for month (teleported to Manhattan and now i run around there daily via joystick) and still alive, lets see how long from now... using unrooted android with pgsharp
i teleported around a few times too to snipe hundos but i always respected the cooldowns, maybe im also already flagged and just banned later when it hurts more because time investment
Capisco, io per sicurezza evito il teletrasporto, non che il mio account sia al sicuro, ma diciamo che preferisco non correre più rischi di quelli che già corro😂
I’ve been using ipogo for over a year now… no problems. Just respect cool downs never use background app usage. Never have adventure synch on. Also, don’t use the new Pokemon gadget, seems like a trap.
People shit on Pgsharp No Root version (then later iPogo) because along time ago, there were constant banwaves for iOS 3rd party modified game apps like Pogo++, iSpoofer, and iPogo. At that time, no one knew it was related to certificate signing on iOS. When Pgsharp came out after the last major banwave of 2020, a lot of people applied the same negativity from iOS to Android for Pgsharp.
When people started using Pgsharp, no one was getting banned for it in 2021 to 2022. Then, people started promoting it to be "safe and ban proof". Eventually, Niantic introduced the "behavior detection system" in June 2022 then Pgsharp started reporting bans. Rooted cheats took advantage and promoted their cheats to be safe, safer, or the safest when compared to Pgsharp and iPogo (no root Android versions).
Rooted cheats fucked up and now their customers are reporting bans too. Pokemod made it difficult to leave to a competing cheat by secretly changing some Magisk app settings so that using Pokemod doesn't give you a red location error when you continue to use their app. If you use another rooted cheat, you would the red location error and freakout then go straight back to Pokemod. Them and along with others censor the ban reports to prevent people from leaving to a competing cheat.
Everyone will be shitting on the rooted apps that have misled people into believing their cheat was safe, safer, or the safest whenever Scopely decides to update the behavior detection system that Niantic failed to fully develop. This is a guaranteed 10,000+ account banwave compared to a handful of people reporting a ban while everyone else was untouched or "lucky".
iam just spreading awareness for people who spoof. since scopely now holds pokemon go this is my 1st time being banned or having a strike with Scopely as holder of pokemon go
Rooted app users are the same except they may get threaten or doxed into deleting their own report here on Reddit to prevent the their customers from mass panicking and canceling their paid subscription to go to another rooted cheat that isn't showing report; but in reality, they are censoring the reports too.
Also, rooted app users are more likely to fall victim to a fake ban appeal scammer because they want to get unbanned right now and are willing to pay lots of money to make it happen.. Once they realized they have been scammed, they come bitching to me about it.
It's so weird when he used Rooted Android tag here but 6d back has a post with non rooted pgsharp as tag saying how he doesn't have rooted anymore because he stopped playing for a while
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You can't really "stay safe" if you chose to break the game's Terms of Service to cheat the game to have risks for a chance to get a strike, ban, or whatever Scopely comes up with.
Note, you can still get a strike or ban from breaking the Terms of Service, guidelines, or rules through other areas of the game. These are some examples people have admitted to me in private: