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Re: Instant bans
Ingress devs are not Ingress Ops agents. They do not handle player tickets on cheating.
Once again, Ingress Ops SUPPORT agents do not have access to this data and also do not have access to Wayfarer data. The same way they do not have access to or handle Pogo tickets, Wayfarer tickets, Pikmin, Peridot or Monster Hunter Now tickets.
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I hear if you have some cmu, the store has some xmps with your name on them. 🤣
Re: Spoof Activities in Oman
Thanks for reporting, @SSFireLeo! However, we are unable to review such reports on the forum. Please reach out via in-app support along with the evidence you have. One of our agents will take a look at it.
That said, I'll be closing this thread. I appreciate your understanding!
Re: Instant bans
Portal photo submissions go to Wayfarer, and are reviewed and approved/rejected by the community. Ingress Ops would only have access to the photos after approval and sync to Ingress. Submitting a photo can be done from gallery, so would also not be verifiable as being taken on the day at the relevant time, and Ops would in any case not know what the location should even look like at the time to be able to verify it as accurate or not.
Re: Instant bans
@Grogyan Niantic Ingress Ops agents do not have access to the scan data. No matter how many times you say people should scan to prove presence, it's simply not available to the team that would be investigating reports. And since scans can be queued for later upload, I'm not even sure that that would be an accurate indication of your presence on location AT THE TIME in any case.
Re: Instant bans
Take it as oppertunity to leave the sinking ship.
If your local community is that unfriendly its not getting any better in the future.
Re: Would GPS-less play work in Ingress?
"Can we play without GPS".
No. The purpose of the game is to go out into the world and explore, no matter how distorted players have made the activities. You can already do activities without leaving the house, however you still require a GPS lock for those activites because they're range based.
Agent, it's time to move.
If you want "GPS-free gameplay" there are a thousand better console games and a thousand better PC games that require no GPS at all...
Everything to everyone, all the time, is a recipe for disaster.
Re: Instant bans
Well offer to take someone on your team to the lighthouse and allow them to destroy it. Just to prove you can access it. Maybe then local players will believe you.
Re: Local agent has been banned twice for harassing and is active again
And RES Amsterdam allows this person? 🤣 i'd ban this player from the res community as well to make a statement. Absurd and pathetic behaviour towards people who chose a different side🤡
Re: Instant bans
I can't say anything about your personal situation and the people in your area, but generally, portals that are hard to get to (like lighthouses) are high value targets for both factions and, in turn, cheaters. Because people don't want to lose their main account they often create a new one, level it up a tiny bit and then spoof to the portal and destroy and capture it. The opposite faction will report the new account after which Niantic will ban them, but their main account will still be fine.
Again, don't know anything about your situation, but from what you have told us, your behavior sounds very much like that: new account starts playing, suddenly goes to a high value portal that is hard to access, destroys it. I am not surprised that people assume that you were a spoofer.
Try to appeal the ban via support and send in the pictures you mentioned as proof. If Niantic doesn't budge and you still want to play, do make a new account but stay clear of the higher value portals for the time being. If Niantic does unban you, try to reach out to Agents of your own faction and show them your pictures as well as the mail from Niantic saying you were unbanned. The opposite faction will likely still not believe you, but hopefully your own faction will try to get you under their own wing.
