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    • [Official] Current Situation, Looting, Fleeing & IDLE

    Discussion in 'Pokefarmer Forum' started by HatchingEgg, Aug 12, 2016.

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    1. HatchingEgg

      HatchingEgg Moderator Staff Member Moderator Buddy Core Dev

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      Dear Community,

      we have seen a lot of reports regarding Looting Pokestops, Fleeing Pokemon and IDLE and even the well known "soft ban".

      First of all I want to say, we are not ignoring these reports. As you all noticed the spawn rates of lured Pokemon were reduced a lot. This just happened after Build 94. A lot of people thought it was because of a bug in Pokefarmer. But this is not the reason. All Maps, Bots and third party tools have this issue. Before we could see all lured Pokemon of every Pokestop around. In a high popular area this was a lot! Nowdays we cannot see them all anymore. It is bound to the distance. If you are close enough - you see it - otherwise not. That's why Pokefarmer does not encounter as much Pokemon as before. Besides this a lot of rumours are around regarding "bans", "ip bans", "device bans", and whatever. Yes, there is something going on. The "soft ban" we all know is not alone anymore.

      At this point, we do not want to spread false information. Give us the time to figure out when these "bans" are triggered.

      There is not just one reason that triggers this. There a multiple reasons that leads to this situation.

      Anyways always be sure to keep the following guidelines:

      • Never use Pokefarmer and the real Pokemon GO app at the same time.
      • Never teleport insane distances.
      • If you want to teleport from Amsterday to New York City, check a plane. How much hours would it need? Log off the game completly, wait and **then** teleport.
      • Do nothing with Pokefarmer that is not possible under real conditions.

      I still have one account that I use for "real botting", not debugging or testing things out. That was never banned, never soft banned or anything and I just do things with that account a normal player could do aswell.

      Also, below is a summary of known items about Soft Bans, Hard Bans, IP Bans

      • Soft Ban:
        1. Original Softban: Pokestop gives nothing + Pokemon fled on first ball
        2. Pokestop gives items + Pokemon always flee
        3. Pokestops always out of range + No pokemon spawn

      • Hard Ban:
        1. Read data error on phone
        2. Not sure if this is going to be permanent yet, but it looks like it is going to be permanent with a new Niantic Ban Appeal Page

      • Soft IP Ban:
        1. IP Ban temporarily (30mins+)

      • Hard IP Ban:
        1. IP Blacklisted on Niantic server, unable to access PokeGo from that IP anymore.
       
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      HatchingEgg, Aug 12, 2016
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    2. ArmaniDove

      ArmaniDove New Member

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      Thanks for the update! Glad you guys are on it.

      Maybe you could close all the threads considering this with a pointer to this thread to keep it central?
       
      ArmaniDove, Aug 12, 2016
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    3. Energy

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      Can agree to this. My bot have never been soft banned or anything. Still using my mobile phone to play sometimes. Just remember if youre far from home to wait the travel time before log in with your phone.
       
      Energy, Aug 12, 2016
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    4. Vanylla

      Vanylla New Member

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      For what it's worth:

      Mine had the IDLE status as well, but suddenly the bot started working again. I did not do anything, just let it run with the IDLE status.
       
      Vanylla, Aug 12, 2016
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    5. schaller

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      All that was is ur softban being lifted and the bot being able to return to normal function.
      OTP Good post! Very informative and just what the community needed.
      For this idiot below me
      My sources are me I sat there for 40 minutes watching mine go from IDLE TO playing on both of my accounts sir GET YOUR information correct.
      and If you don't understand how IDLE works here you go bud
      https://www.thebuddyforum.com/pokefarmer-forum/253698-psa-avoiding-idle-tips.html
      >For those are are to lazy to read my point to this being true is the new softban removes/pokes and Pokestops from the map so the bot IDLES because it has nothing to do well if you let it sit on IDLE long enough your softban will disappear and it'll break the IDLE function because it now sees where to move to.
       
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    6. Energy

      Energy New Member

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      No it wasn't. Please get your sources correct.
       
      Energy, Aug 12, 2016
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    7. Dosenbeer

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      Thank you HE.

      Great work so far!
       
      Dosenbeer, Aug 12, 2016
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    8. TarasBulba

      TarasBulba Moderator Moderator

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      Might be unrelated, but try other locations than Tokyo Disneyland or Santa Monica Beach, there are tons of cities around the world.

      I would also try to make sure that your exit IP is in the same country that you are farming.
       
      TarasBulba, Aug 12, 2016
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    9. ArmaniDove

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      Okay, just tested some things out.

      I have two bots, one has the "can't get data" error, both on the wifi and the mobile device without wifi, so it's probably not IP related. (Glad it's my wife's)
      The other account still works although all the pokemon flee after the first try. It can still spin pokestops and I just tested it on a Gym which still works. Also it runs the same IP as the first bot.
       
      ArmaniDove, Aug 12, 2016
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    10. HBK75

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      We can still run the phone app as long as the GPS is turned off while we bot right or do they detect that now too?
       
      HBK75, Aug 12, 2016
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    11. HatchingEgg

      HatchingEgg Moderator Staff Member Moderator Buddy Core Dev

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      I can confirm this same behavior on two accounts aswell. But I did crazy things with these accounts. Still figuring out when it get's unblocked again.
       
      HatchingEgg, Aug 12, 2016
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    12. Pokemongo

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      Got my lvl 40 acc perma banned
       
      Pokemongo, Aug 12, 2016
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    13. HatchingEgg

      HatchingEgg Moderator Staff Member Moderator Buddy Core Dev

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      Do not ever do this.
       
      HatchingEgg, Aug 12, 2016
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    14. Vanylla

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      [13:50:06] Session expired. Relogging.

      And now it's stuck on recycling items.
       
      Vanylla, Aug 12, 2016
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    15. schaller

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      My sources is me I sat there for 40 minutes watching mine go from IDLE TO playing on both of my accounts sir GET YOUR information correct.
      and If you don't understand how IDLE works here you go bud
      https://www.thebuddyforum.com/pokefarmer-forum/253698-psa-avoiding-idle-tips.html#post2249192
      >For those are are to lazy to read my point to this being true is the new softban removes/pokes and Pokestops from the map so the bot IDLES because it has nothing to do well if you let it sit on IDLE long enough your softban will disappear and it'll break the IDLE function because it now sees where to move to.
       
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    16. Deus83

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      Hmm, im still trying to figure out what might be wrong with one of mine tho.
      I'm able to catch pokemons, but not use the pokestops :D
       
      Deus83, Aug 12, 2016
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    17. ArmaniDove

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      How do you know it's a perma-ban?
       
      ArmaniDove, Aug 12, 2016
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    18. Tanaka187

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      i Can login see pokestops see no ban message can transfer pokemons only one what i cant is loot pokestops or catch pokemons i can´t it with pokefarmer or with my smartphone
       
      Tanaka187, Aug 12, 2016
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    19. Vanylla

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      And mine works perfectly fine again after the Pokéfarmer update.
       
      Vanylla, Aug 12, 2016
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    20. Gintasama

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      Have been using PokeFarmer, Phone (without GPS) and BlossomsPogoManager over the last week. Never had an IDLE issue. Today I started using PokeSniper2 along side the rest and finally got the IDLE problem. After a quick scan through the forums I logged off my phone and waited 30minutes. Currently back to botting; though it looks like I'll stop using PokeSniper2.
       
      Gintasama, Aug 12, 2016
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