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Breaking the game IS the fun. Actually winning afterwards is irrelevant.

titanix2 9y ago
No it is not. Some gyms of my town are full of Blissey from level 40 accounts all with the same looking names. Given how hard it is to KO even one within the allocated time when playing alone, it's effectively ruining a whole part of the game for every non-cheater player.
- Zarathust 9y ago
  I didn't play Pokemon Go, but the only reason I ever installed Ingress was to figure out how Android location services ran. This led me to arm shared objects decompilation and mocking and other interesting shenanigans. Achieving internet points was not very high on the goals list
  - nemo 9y ago
    The people who are cheating aren't the ones figuring out the cheats. The people providing the cheats are doing interesting things, but also enabling cheaters to steal fun from the game from everyone else.
- nemo 9y ago
  Blisseys are hard solo, though if you have a few folks hitting them with a Gyrados or Dragonite you can take them out. My wife and I just took down a L10 gym with 5 Blisseys, and the rest Snorlaxes and Dragonites, and with three people no gym can hold no matter what's in it. You have to know other players to do that, though. The cheating scum will just take it back after a while and play the same game though. Glad they're finally starting to try to take on the cheaters - they definitely do steal the fun from legit players.
- fencepost 9y ago
  There's some indication that this is being addressed - among other things, it seems like they may cap the number of a single type that can be in a gym. Honestly this is the kind of thing where I could see hyper-local chat (team or public) of the sort Yik-Yak was trying to do. "Hey Instinct within 1 mile, meet in 15 to take down the gym at the fountain?"
pavel_lishin 9y ago
Okay; but the people who are breaking the game are going on to "win" afterward, and are ruining it for everyone who isn't cheating. If you want to prove to yourself that you can level up your Ratatat to level 1,000,000 - fine, do it. But don't send that pseudorodent to your local gym to lock it down forever.
Raphmedia 9y ago
Breaking online games and thus ruining other's people experience isn't. Flooding live production servers with requests to figure out the location of Pokémons isn't "white hat" either.
- stale2002 9y ago
  That's just called a game design flaw. They should have implemented a tracking system that doesn't suck.

No it is not. Some gyms of my town are full of Blissey from level 40 accounts all with the same looking names. Given how hard it is to KO even one within the allocated time when playing alone, it's effectively ruining a whole part of the game for every non-cheater player.

Zarathust 9y ago
I didn't play Pokemon Go, but the only reason I ever installed Ingress was to figure out how Android location services ran. This led me to arm shared objects decompilation and mocking and other interesting shenanigans. Achieving internet points was not very high on the goals list
- nemo 9y ago
  The people who are cheating aren't the ones figuring out the cheats. The people providing the cheats are doing interesting things, but also enabling cheaters to steal fun from the game from everyone else.
nemo 9y ago
Blisseys are hard solo, though if you have a few folks hitting them with a Gyrados or Dragonite you can take them out. My wife and I just took down a L10 gym with 5 Blisseys, and the rest Snorlaxes and Dragonites, and with three people no gym can hold no matter what's in it. You have to know other players to do that, though. The cheating scum will just take it back after a while and play the same game though. Glad they're finally starting to try to take on the cheaters - they definitely do steal the fun from legit players.
fencepost 9y ago
There's some indication that this is being addressed - among other things, it seems like they may cap the number of a single type that can be in a gym. Honestly this is the kind of thing where I could see hyper-local chat (team or public) of the sort Yik-Yak was trying to do. "Hey Instinct within 1 mile, meet in 15 to take down the gym at the fountain?"

pavel_lishin 9y ago

Okay; but the people who are breaking the game are going on to "win" afterward, and are ruining it for everyone who isn't cheating. If you want to prove to yourself that you can level up your Ratatat to level 1,000,000 - fine, do it. But don't send that pseudorodent to your local gym to lock it down forever.

Raphmedia 9y ago

Breaking online games and thus ruining other's people experience isn't. Flooding live production servers with requests to figure out the location of Pokémons isn't "white hat" either.

stale2002 9y ago
That's just called a game design flaw. They should have implemented a tracking system that doesn't suck.