Obvious cheat, how can this not be detected?
So there is this place in china https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=25.711587,116.771785&z=17.
i backloggued a bit and that's just plain stupid:
Each agent 1k portal captured, 1k reso deployed, 10 portals visited
And of course still in game.
just 10 min of reading i can see 6 cheating account only one of them banned. (awarada76 twentysumotso auuhbhe dedasew mikolalu atwella44)
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It's the same situation as Saragossa. They have a fly camp field to level up quite fast (Almozara neighborhoood, then the spoofing accounts are able to fly everywhere else and break big OPs like this one https://twitter.com/ResistSpain/status/1292181891672682496 )
A spoofing account named Lagartijos was created close to a vital link which needed to be took down. This account seriously harmed the credibility of the res members who legally participated. https://twitter.com/WutForscher/status/1292437470290812928
I reported the account several times (same as other res members) and is still online. Honestly, spoofing is killing the game.
Also gyavovvo (Aug 28), cevkootash, khabatict (Aug 29), NHgreenpower (Aug 31). And how many before ?
obvious win trading mule accounts there.. why this not punished harder ??? it sucks
This happens everywhere and when you detect it you see how ridiculous is niantic in banning the cheating accounts
Nia don't care about cheating at all,they care about selling items and only because they dont like concurents xD
As an example,almost all my opponents use backpacks. D'u think abusing will help? Nope. Even more,this is known as "normal" to use backs.
These accounts are pretty much guaranteed to be removed when put through the TR system. And eventually they'll have a proper shape of how to distinguish this from the more natural play.
Any hints about what specific data should be put in the ticket?
agents name, portals when they captured or did something, time etc..... suspicious travels that is to fast even for airplanes.... if its win trading it should be easy for niantic to ban such agents accounts involved.
"Account is clearly a bot because it has levelled up to 8 using the same 9 portals"
Done.
Well, pretty sure that doesn't work, I once reported a lad that got Gold Recruiter by wintrade and every account was leveled up to l3 on the same portal, same day, minutes of difference. It was like, ok, new account, capture porta, then the main destroys portal, then new account captures again and so on until L3, then bye new account, comes a different new one, and it kep several hours like that until all 25 accounts required were leveled up to l3. Several people reported him, but nothing, some tickets didn't even get to be reviewed.
The lad quitted Ingress as soon as Wayfared came out.
So, no, not done. Thanks anyway.
I can guarantee you didn't put it through the Trusted Reporter like I said, because you didn't have access to it before Wayfarer came out.
But the TR state (at least the bot does) that a ticket should be submitted through TR only if a portal restore is requested. There was no portal to restore in this situation. Unless, ofc, TRs added this condition later on, which I don't know because the only time I have submitted a TR ticket it achieved nothing (it was spoofing). So that might be confusing then.
I don't think you are reading that right. I've reported many bots through the RES TR bot without checking the box that says like "does this portal need to be restored?"
I quote explicit text from bot chat (this text is given outside the form and before opening it):
"What NOT to do:
1.This bot is for escalating serious or urgent reporting requests for spoofing. This is not the place to report an agent you think trespassed or may have a backpack account, etc. Please report those yourself."
So, unless RES TR bot is different from ENL TR bot (which would be hilarious for a lot of reasons), I think it explicitly states that the case I described earlier is in the NOT list.
Nowhere does it state that a ticket should be submitted through TR only if a portal restore is requested.
I did not state that either! The case I am talking about is this one (quoting myself now lol):
Could I be, by any change, just missundersanding all of this?
100% of Ingress bots are spoofing... So there isn't a conflict.
And no, the TR path doesn't require a portal restore. You literally posted the text and it says nothing about restoring portals. The Bot is for reporting spoofing. Sometimes the spoofed portals require restoration. Sometimes they do not. That's why it's an option whether you need a restore OR NOT. If it was only for restores, you wouldn't have an option.
Could I be, by any change, just missundersanding all of this?
Yes.
Sadly, the reporting system is all but useless. Niantic doesn't seem to even care about putting effort into a game they know is dying.
I don't think we are talking about the same bots, my dear. I am referring to Telegram TR bots only.
Please, I'm the one who can't read...
I don't think we are talking about the same bots, my dear. I am referring to Telegram TR bots only.
Is your purpose in the forums to intentionally distract conversations about cheating?
@Khatre I can't figure out why such obvious activities are not autobanned, I can only tell you to stay strong and suffer by your side.
Just like people told you in previous comments, keep reporting and just try to ignore this kind of gameplay if that helps.
This answered my question well enough, thank you.