The expense associated with bots and spoofers is not irrelevant because it affects legitimate players out there. In addition to the examples presented by Hosette, our group once wasted fuel, time, and other resources while fielding because "bots" decided to interrupt our fielding to demonstrate to us that we couldn't field without their permission or abide by their "rules." Not only called a **** move but quite patriarchial and sexist too. As for Niantic's official stance that it does not condone bots and spoofing, its current anti-cheat system is insufficient to counter it. Who eats the cost of the effects of the bot network and spoofing? Legitimate players. However, Niantic does not seem to care as long as legitimate players continue to purchase XMPS to make up for its financial constraints despite laying off 8% of its employees.
Lol! Niantic wants its players to socialize and linger longer or stand still and farm. Imagine it is zero degrees celsius, and an agent is standing still and farming; he/she will end up socializing with the paramedics due to hypothermia. Yes, prolonging the CD hack time is a bad idea since winter is just around the corner, and fuel prices will go up because of current world events.
No, I was responding to a specific discussion, and you're trying to "prove me wrong" with a strawman. It's nothing to do with the drifting conversation, because you're not raising an independent point. Yet again, you can't disagree with a point, so you find different thing to be 'right' about.
If you'd said "That part is right, but there's also another issue of" etc, sure. But you didn't.
Regarding drifting conversation, legitimate agents do not force new agents to "cooperate" into a win-trading situation to level up one or two of their bots. Before, new agents did not have a lot of resources in the store due to the previous premise that most of the stuff needed to be hacked. The recent changes with the CD hack times, CORE loadout kits, and availability of more resources in the store show desperate moves to generate more revenue for this game.
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The expense associated with bots and spoofers is not irrelevant because it affects legitimate players out there. In addition to the examples presented by Hosette, our group once wasted fuel, time, and other resources while fielding because "bots" decided to interrupt our fielding to demonstrate to us that we couldn't field without their permission or abide by their "rules." Not only called a **** move but quite patriarchial and sexist too. As for Niantic's official stance that it does not condone bots and spoofing, its current anti-cheat system is insufficient to counter it. Who eats the cost of the effects of the bot network and spoofing? Legitimate players. However, Niantic does not seem to care as long as legitimate players continue to purchase XMPS to make up for its financial constraints despite laying off 8% of its employees.
Lol! Niantic wants its players to socialize and linger longer or stand still and farm. Imagine it is zero degrees celsius, and an agent is standing still and farming; he/she will end up socializing with the paramedics due to hypothermia. Yes, prolonging the CD hack time is a bad idea since winter is just around the corner, and fuel prices will go up because of current world events.
No, you were diverting the discussion away from the prices Niantic charges for stuff. Legitimate players don't pay third parties to buy gear.
The "effective cost" of cheating is not relevant to the discussion, but it sounds all moralistic and high-minded.
@Perringaiden You too have drifted far from the discussion of rolling back cooldown times, so pot and kettle?
No, I was responding to a specific discussion, and you're trying to "prove me wrong" with a strawman. It's nothing to do with the drifting conversation, because you're not raising an independent point. Yet again, you can't disagree with a point, so you find different thing to be 'right' about.
If you'd said "That part is right, but there's also another issue of" etc, sure. But you didn't.
Regarding drifting conversation, legitimate agents do not force new agents to "cooperate" into a win-trading situation to level up one or two of their bots. Before, new agents did not have a lot of resources in the store due to the previous premise that most of the stuff needed to be hacked. The recent changes with the CD hack times, CORE loadout kits, and availability of more resources in the store show desperate moves to generate more revenue for this game.