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.