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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.
Re: Instant bans
The community did not ban you. No player has the ability to ban another player.
Niantic makes these decisions based on their own investigation.
Re: Instant bans
I can tell you it seems the community banned me for taking down what was said to be an inaccessible portal. I took down a portal at a lighthouse that was only accessible by boat and hard to get to. The community instantly said I spoofed. I replied to the community that I did not and I found a way to get it. The response was new players don’t flip portals like this. So I sent pictures of me going to the lighthouse in my boat. I figured that would settle that. Instead it just made people more upset and started attacking me on other things they thought were what they called red flags. I soon found out it was not going to make a difference what proof I had and they already were reporting as they said they would. Like a day later. Same thing, could not log in with my app and the Intel Map said I was suspended.
Re: Instant bans
Spoofing to take down an inaccessible portal will do that. All the opposition who notice will report, and Vanguards will be on the case to restore the broken links.
Re: Question about politics, demolished portals and the relevance of the portal database.
I don’t know what Niantic would decide on this but I know they did start to clean out confederate items from their database
We are removing Confederate statues and monuments, with the exception of those tied to historical battlegrounds, museums and other notable locations. It’s become clear these do not provide an inclusive environment for our community and furthermore represent symbols of oppression and glorify slavery. This is part of our ongoing commitment to use our platform to stand in support of the Black community and reject racism.
So it may be better raised on the Wayfarer forums with examples.
Re: Starting over with new account after suspension.
Vanguards will not be able to assist. We have no influence on bans or appeals, and Niantic doesn't discuss other player accounts with us.
Re: Glyph Hack result animation is not showing all types of items
If you compare the item output box, you can see which item is missing. In the video above:
1st hack misses the 10x L7 Resonators
2nd hack misses the 5x L8 Resonators
3rd hack misses the 1x L7 Resonators
What the original poster described as item flickering is probably the second and third items that disappear into XM and fly into the avatar, but appear again "in full" for a split second before the next items from the hack appear.
Re: Starting over with new account after suspension.
Knowing how difficult it can be to actually get a true cheater banned, I really feel like there is more going on here. Your first account has now been suspended twice?
Re: Cryptic Memories Anomaly Series - Details (Discussion)
It feels like this Anomaly was put together in such a rush without much thought
Ie hashed a date, announced it, then forgot to get around to the actual details.
I agree, there should have been more global sites for players to attend to on site