Status Update (some good news)
Hey Community,
so I have some good news for you.
As you all know all Bots, Scanners have stopped working. That's because Niantic finally turned on the switch that no map data is returned when you use the old encryption. That's the reason why we took it offline after 0.39 was launched. In the meanwhile a few ban waves happened. We were not affected because we took Pokefarmer offline after the update was released. Anyways since we're offline we're working on the new encryption stuff. We made a lot of progress but it's not easy this time.
However after a lot of team work with other developers we've found a function that generates the stuff we are looking for. So we actually found the stuff what we were missing. But that does not mean it is finished at all. We just found what we were looking for. Now it is time to dig through that, understand what happens there, find the encryption itself and understand it. Because of the recently added code obfuscation that means a lot of work. Some of us are trying to understand this manually - others are trying to create tools that automates that stuff.
In fact we are coming closer but it's not finished at all. But at least there is some little light at the end of the tunnel.
I still cannot provide an ETA because that really depends on some "luck". So, this can be a day, a week, a month, a year, or whatever. Let us all hope that it's be something between a day and a month. ;-)
Anyways the new released update is nothing you need to worry about. The encryption is still the same there and did not change and once we're ready to automate that stuff again we'll be ready for upcoming patches as well.
Thank you for being patient,
Your loved Buddy Team.
