Go Update = instant flagged botting account?

[Pyrock]

Just thought i would raise this thought.
When they updated obviously a lot of bots were out of order.
Doesnt this instantly flag all accounts that up until this time would have had high activity (especially for those running them 24/7) and then suddenly no or little activity? Isnt this a very easy way for niantic to see who is botting and flag them for further inspection?
I suspect that this is what happens to all the other major games bots too?

Or am i very wrong in thinking this?

 

[larrylove89]

Considering when the game was first released I was probably on it for 20 hours straight with other friends at the boardwalk and havent play since that first week until downloading this 3 days ago I highly doubt it.

 

[Clamlapper]

Time played wouldn't be the factor for determining whos botting IMO what makes sense to determine would be experience gain etc

 

[jaksemurf]

Just thought i would raise this thought.
When they updated obviously a lot of bots were out of order.
Doesnt this instantly flag all accounts that up until this time would have had high activity (especially for those running them 24/7) and then suddenly no or little activity? Isnt this a very easy way for niantic to see who is botting and flag them for further inspection?
I suspect that this is what happens to all the other major games bots too?

Or am i very wrong in thinking this?

For a mobile game like this, it's more likely that they just use a lack of incoming peripheral input data (no accelerometer, no gyro, no camera, no device name/IMEI, etc) to flag bots. Average play time wouldn't be very reliable. What if you just went on vacation and it happened to correlate with patch day? Too many false positives when there would be a super easy way to do it without them.

 

[Opzon]

Time played wouldn't be the factor for determining whos botting IMO what makes sense to determine would be experience gain etc

Sorry but I have to say. Any detection method would probably not be this at ALL. There are many streamers that play long amounts of times on twitch or record for youtube and they aren't flagged or banned for their XP gains. Detections would consist of robotic pokeball throws or robotic gps walking, insanely long hours played in one sitting, teleporting, none human like transfer pokemon speed or discard items.