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Good evening sinners,
It has come to my attention that Niantic is handing out IP bans for people using excessive amounts of bots on one IP address. This happens because the bot keeps spamming request API for actions for the bot. One way to avoid this is to use less than 4 bots at once, but for some, including myself, it's too late for that.
IP bans are not permanent, but depending on how many times the bot made requests to the API after you received your ban will determine how long you're actually banned for. This can be an inconvenience for many of you, including myself.
Also, there is speculation that Niantic is in the works of a new banning system. Most botters, including myself, have already experienced part of it, which includes a new type of soft ban: the "CatchFlee" error. More bans below.
IP Bans:
Workaround? (not good at tutorials so bare with me)
This VPN also provides the luxury of switching to a different VPN in the click of a button.
Simply do the following:
Feel free to tweak this tutorial around, as I said I'm not very good at making them. Just please give credit where credit is due.
Happy botting!
It has come to my attention that Niantic is handing out IP bans for people using excessive amounts of bots on one IP address. This happens because the bot keeps spamming request API for actions for the bot. One way to avoid this is to use less than 4 bots at once, but for some, including myself, it's too late for that.
IP bans are not permanent, but depending on how many times the bot made requests to the API after you received your ban will determine how long you're actually banned for. This can be an inconvenience for many of you, including myself.
Also, there is speculation that Niantic is in the works of a new banning system. Most botters, including myself, have already experienced part of it, which includes a new type of soft ban: the "CatchFlee" error. More bans below.
IP Bans:
- Soft IP Ban: 20-min ban of your IP. (Accounts using this IP can't see Pokestops or Pokemon.)
- Hard IP Ban: Permanent Ban of IP adress. (Accounts using this IP can't see Pokestops or Pokemon that way Niantic shuts down servers which use the API)
- Soft Ban: Account-specific, time until unban variates.
- Results in:
- Can use Pokestops, but no loot.
- Instant Pokemon flee.
- Pokemon don't spawn.
- Results in:
- Hard Ban: Cannot login into your account, mail from Niantic (more info on this as more information becomes available.)
Workaround? (not good at tutorials so bare with me)
- Open your browser and visit http://www.okayfreedom.com/
- Click "Download OkayFreedom" for free
- Install OkayFreedom on your computer via the okayfreedomintdle.exe file (you should know how to do this)
- Navigate to this specific OkayFreedom promo page and input your valid email address
- Hit submit and check your email for your premium code (ABCD-EFGH-IJKL-MNOP-QRST-UVWX-YZ12-3456 format)
- Look in your taskbar for a little icon that looks like an eye. Right click it.
- Click "Enter Premium Code"
- Enter your premium code that you received in your email, and hit "Redeem"
This VPN also provides the luxury of switching to a different VPN in the click of a button.
Simply do the following:
- Click the little eye icon in your taskbar
- Hover over countries
- Select new country (make sure Pokémon GO is playable there, I'd assume)
- ???
- Profit
Feel free to tweak this tutorial around, as I said I'm not very good at making them. Just please give credit where credit is due.
Happy botting!
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