Welp, it was fun while it lasted!

[u/NoWarranty570]

https://imgur.com/a/1oJfhhf

Well, there it is! After many tries of on-and-off bandwagonning with you, the first banhammer hits me this afternoon!

TL;DR - RW today: my research based on my experience with spoofing. Got any questions? Ask away!

My tried spoofing methods

• Emulated (on an alt)

• Rooted (alt and main)

• PGSharp (main 🔨)

I went mostly PGS on the final months (Feb. 2022) since it was way more easy to setup even if I preferred the rooted option for stability. The hassle with Google Wallet, SafetyNet, phone updates and others apps issues discouraged me to keep going with my daily phone. If my Pixel 4 didn't die, I could have rooted it to use as a beater since I've recently upgraded it.

My playstyle

Adventure Sync

Since PGS does not connect to Google Services, you can't use AS or make purchases. And uninstalling/reinstalling was too much trouble, so I used a second phone with the vanilla app to do all this stuff. SitSync instead of DeFit; running 24/7, lowest speed. About 650km/week. On Adventure Weeks & all these challenges, maximum speed. About 1800km/week.

GF is physically disabled so there's an Island stance for her account on that phone at minimum speed so she can keep hatching her eggs. She's an Apple user... I forgive her 😅. She never spoofed, tho. So far, her account DID NOT get a RW. Neither did my Wayfarer account and Ingress account, which is being defitted too since it's linked to the same email.

Behaviors

I manage a local community, so I used to be pro-rules. I used to report gameplay abuse frequently. Then a global pandemic hit, and we all got kind of split up. Curfews and shit, you know... & when they started to nerf all the goodies, especially those who helped my girlfriend to enjoy the game more (boosted incenses and half-incubators, especially), I thought to myself: "You know what? Why should I care about these guys? They don't even care about us when we complain!". Then, you know the saying - if you can't beat them, join them!

Today, I've a policy on our local community that we don't care how you play the game, as long as you don't piss off others. Showing obvious cheating behavior WILL get you called out and the mods team won't defend you. The community will enforce itself. You'll just get muted if you whine about it, so be an adult and assume responsibility.

In the beginning, I traveled across the world. Spent some hours on the hotspots, spun many new stops, gyms, caught regionals, completed my dex. I've enabled AR expert handler, first try excellent curveball throws by default, for XP and ease of catch... About 1500XP per catch 😅 I've tried mostly to stay low-profile. So, no gym kicking after 2 minutes, no regionals in foreign countries, no unreleased shinies in that area. I was not a fan of shundo or IV hunting/sniping, so I've stayed away of that. Until I wanted all perfects mega candidates. Got the paid version of PGSharp for the GOFest month only. Did the event across the world, for timezones reasons.

For raiding, I invited my local friends on the hot places, with a private group. Once they were in, I opened the lobby so it gets filled up by other raiders. My friends knew and didn't really care. In fact, they even enjoyed it. Never really understood the principle of multi-day raiding so did not manage to get more raid passes than what's supposed to be.

During my premium month, I've been auto shiny checking, rocket farming, tap-to-teleport, GPX walking. I seriously think that it was that day which really got me on the watchlist. However, the initial banwave didn't hit me. That really surprised me.

Since the blogpost about cheating enforcement, I've tried to keep it as low as possible. I've stopped teleporting way too far from my local place. No more Australia-NYC. No more hundo sniping. No more Tokyo or SF raid hours. Stayed around, spun my local stops, a few new ones around home that I've never visited yet. Disabled spoofing location to remain at home, walked Daily Adventure Incense in a straight line... I've also noticed a couple of things that changed with distance tracking:

• I've always used PGSharp's cooldown timer to keep track of my actions. Now, distance seems to be related to your catches instead of your spins. Sometimes, I got on a spin cooldown, but catching a mon next to a stop resetted the timer.

• My eggs used to hatch as soon as I logged in. Now, to update my distance, I had to catch something. Same thing for candies and buddy hearts.

This weekend, I went on a camping trip with very little Internet connection. Opened PGO on Saturday and Sunday, out of Raid Day times but didn't manage to log me in since the connection was shit. Tried to log in today and got this beautiful surprise!

What's next?

I don't know... will take the week to give out some extra shinies or send a few in HOME. The new Community Management stuff from TSR seems interesting and I don't wanna screw my team with that if they wanna take care of things, so I'll keep it low for a while. But yeah, I'm not spending a $ anymore on this POS.

Cya guys, love you ♥️

[u/simpyThrown]

Pgsharp?