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Pokémon Go |OT 2| Servers...gotta crash 'em all!

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GulAtiCa

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I live in Eevee town. Heck, today I caught like 6 or 7 today. I love it.

Speaking of Bellsprout. I need only 25ish more candies of that one and Oddish and boom I can evolve them both to their 2nd evolution! Then hello over-used Water Pokemon everywhere!
 
Anyone got the new tracker running? I can't seem to get it running, I always get stuck at npm install.

They released a new version a few hours ago. Maybe I'll have better luck with that one.
 
Anyone got the new tracker running? I can't seem to get it running, I always get stuck at npm install.

They released a new version a few hours ago. Maybe I'll have better luck with that one.

Which? There are plenty back up, I have a couple working.

PokeNotify for background notifications on phone and the latest PokemonGoMap running on PC.

https://github.com/mchristopher/PokemonGo-DesktopMap/releases

Should be as simple as putting in your PTC account details and your google maps key.
 

piggychan

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Speaking of gyms you guys talk about what is legit or what isn't but how do we know for sure?

Maybe they are just hardcore gamers who have no life or spent a lot of money buying lots of lucky eggs...


I saw this secluded gym at my side of the woods and although I like to think they just did it because they are hardcore but then..... could they really have hacked this stuff? They are all in the same gym and I just thought no one is going to take it down for a long while..
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Growlie19

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I finally found a Pikachu in the Wegmans parking lot today! CP's nothing to write home about, but I don't care. That makes 71 in my dex.
 
Why block pokeadvisor? I can understand blocking the trackers and all but IVs don't really give you that much of a competitive advantage because it still comes down to luck of capturing the right Pokemon.

Good thing I already favorited my Pokes with the good IVs
 

Durden77

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Dammit I just started getting into the IV stuff. Oh well, I'll probably be less inclined to ruin my fun with this game without them. Ir not. I dunno.
 

darksagus

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I went out and caught a ton of pokemon today only to find out pokeadvisor is down. Why does it seem Niantic is more interested in taking down people doing their job for them instead of fixing their own game.
 

GulAtiCa

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People are really surprised that a site that is against the TOS is taken down/blocked/etc? Was only a matter of time really. Same with all the new Pokevision/etc sites starting to pop up again, they will change the API/block them too. :p

Anyways, if you want to know of IV the old fashion way, you can use this: https://pokeassistant.com/main/ivcalculator
 

ElyrionX

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Game launched in my country over the weekend.

Came to work today to find three Pokestops and one gym in my building. Where I sit, I can access two Pokestops and there has been a constant stream of lures being set up.

This is not going to be good for my productivity lol.
 

hirokazu

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Speaking of gyms you guys talk about what is legit or what isn't but how do we know for sure?

Maybe they are just hardcore gamers who have no life or spent a lot of money buying lots of lucky eggs...


I saw this secluded gym at my side of the woods and although I like to think they just did it because they are hardcore but then..... could they really have hacked this stuff? They are all in the same gym and I just thought no one is going to take it down for a long while..

Report all of them to Niantic as suspicious?
 
Speaking of gyms you guys talk about what is legit or what isn't but how do we know for sure?

Maybe they are just hardcore gamers who have no life or spent a lot of money buying lots of lucky eggs...


I saw this secluded gym at my side of the woods and although I like to think they just did it because they are hardcore but then..... could they really have hacked this stuff? They are all in the same gym and I just thought no one is going to take it down for a long while..

99.9% sure that is one guy with multiple bot accounts to make holding gyms easier. The fact that you said it is a secluded area makes it all the more obvious. Since spoofing began there have been people who find secluded gyms all over the world since they are the easiest to hold onto the longest.
 

hirokazu

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Goddamn it. I just saw the same thing. This is bullshit.
You can get the same data from the servers using the available APIs, but you do risk getting banned for it. I would tread carefully.

Now that the APIs changes have been reverse engineered, the path forward for Niantic is probably banning cheaters directly and/or make further changes to the API.

That said, people checking IV are probably lower priority out of bots, scanners and GPS spoofers.

The safest way to get IV stats from the server is probably reading server response using MITM, assuming the attack doesn't expose telltale sign to the server that the connection is compromised.
 

Cynn

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You can get the same data from the servers using the available APIs, but you do risk getting banned for it. I would tread carefully.

Now that the APIs changes have been reverse engineered, the path forward for Niantic is probably banning cheaters directly and/or make further changes to the API.

That said, people checking IV are probably lower priority out of bots, scanners and GPS spoofers.

The safest way to get IV stats from the server is probably reading server response using MITM, assuming the attack doesn't expose telltale sign to the server that the connection is compromised.
Thanks for the info. I really enjoyed using pokeadvisor. I can calculate manually but damn... Advisor was nice.
 

bernardobri

Steve, the dog with no powers that we let hang out with us all for some reason
Anyone playing the game on a Huawei G Play Mini (CHC-U03)? A relative installed the app on their phone but on the map screen it has some glitches here and then. I'm willing to bet it's due the O.S (It's on 4.4) but I was wondering if it might be due the phone not meeting the minimum specs to run in general, which would be really odd.
 

deanote666

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I see the pokeadvisor leaderboards are filled with cheaters. People with 4 day old accounts traveling 200km with completed pokedexes...
 

Majukun

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now pokeadvisor is done too?
they took away from me the only reason I was still playing this game... now not only is impossible to hunt pokemon, but when you somehow manage you have no real way to know if the pkmn is actually good....

well I suppose we can always calculate IV the old way, but if pkadvisor percentages were right, those calculator algorithms are partially wrong
I believe Poke assistant will be next :-/
poke assistant doesn't use the api, they can't do anything to them.
only problem is that their IV calculations were not always accurate
 

Syntsui

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Funny how they are so fast to ban these apps but not a single cheater has been permanent banned yet.

There is not a single legit gym here in São Paulo. The game is out for 4 days and there are a bunch of 1k-2k Snorlax/Dragonite/Lapras from level 25+ players.
 

CEJames

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I see the pokeadvisor leaderboards are filled with cheaters. People with 4 day old accounts traveling 200km with completed pokedexes...

Actually, I believe it was only showing when they first registered their account on Pokeadvisor and not when they first started playing the game( which is probably since day one)
 

Majukun

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Funny how they are so fast to ban these apps but not a single cheater has been permanent banned yet.

There is not a single legit gym here in São Paulo. The game is out for 4 days and there are a bunch of 1k-2k Snorlax/Dragonite/Lapras from level 25+ players.
they will never ban anyone
 

GulAtiCa

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Funny how they are so fast to ban these apps but not a single cheater has been permanent banned yet.

There is not a single legit gym here in São Paulo. The game is out for 4 days and there are a bunch of 1k-2k Snorlax/Dragonite/Lapras from level 25+ players.
There was a picture of a permanent ban the other day here..

These go out in waves. Hopefully all these cheaters will soon be banned.
 

zulux21

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Funny how they are so fast to ban these apps but not a single cheater has been permanent banned yet.

There is not a single legit gym here in São Paulo. The game is out for 4 days and there are a bunch of 1k-2k Snorlax/Dragonite/Lapras from level 25+ players.

it's quite possible they are working on the apps, and then after will ban people.

I mean if you don't stop the apps first people will just make new accounts.

It would be nice if the obvious cheaters were banned though.

aka I am not saying banning the users of most things, just the obvious spoofing and botting.
 

Koh

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Ran into a 1300 Lapras. First time I've ever seen anything of that rarity or strength.

Berry, curve ultra ball nails it. Breaks out and runs immediately. Why can't the running be fixed already?!
 

hirokazu

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now pokeadvisor is done too?
they took away from me the only reason I was still playing this game... now not only is impossible to hunt pokemon, but when you somehow manage you have no real way to know if the pkmn is actually good....

well I suppose we can always calculate IV the old way, but if pkadvisor percentages were right, those calculator algorithms are partially wrong
Yeah, I entered the stats for a Growlithe I caught and got No Matches.
 
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