PokemonGo #15. We're gonna rock down to Electrike Avenue

98% Toads that’s great! Mines 84%. Still pleased with that and wondering what next weeks reward will be. More legendarys?

I have one low cp pooch shiny and that’s it despite three garys I’ve never seen a shiny magicarp. Or a shiny anything else.

For those who haven't seen this teaser. pokemongohub.net/post/news/test-post-please-ignore/

My star cast. Ds1 is luckier than me. He even has a shiny shuppet that I caught him before I went to bed, the other night!

Looking forward to my collection growing a little.

Yeah, there are spoofers and there are spoofers. To be fair, the type you've both come across would piss me right off too. I gather there are a few of them around our neck of the woods but I haven't actually encountered them myself.

Spoofing is using software on your phone to fool the GPS into thinking you are somewhere different. So you can raid gyms which are miles away or put yourself in a certain country to catch region-specific Pokemon.

It's not allowed, and if you're caught doing it, Niantic bans you. I'm a Luddite so would have no idea how to do it even if I wanted to.

My shiny crew

Got my Pokédex Moltres from my research breakthrough today. 98%! Very chuffed

Newbie ish question - what is a spoofer?

The spoofers in the place I used to live made it impossible for legit players to ever stay in a gym long enough to get coins. Then when legendary raids started they thought they were heroes with their "air support". Pissed me right off tbh.

It's much better where I live now. We have a zero-tolerance policy to them and we know which are the spoofing accounts. We keep them out of raids and if they start appearing in gyms too frequently we make a concerted effort to boot them out whenever we see them. Consequently they don't seem to hang around here long and the game is much better here for it.

I've had two shiny Shuppets and evolved one to Banette.
Two shiny Dratini from community day, evolved one to Dragonite
Two shiny Bulbasaur from community day, evolved one to Venusaur.
Two shiny Luvdisc.

Still hoping for a shiny Pikachu and in search of a shiny Magikarp for a red Gary. :)

Yeah, most of the spoofers in our group have had or currently still had shadowbans.

I used to be totally against spoofing, mainly because I'd get pissed off that I'd stood in cold or wet weather to take down a gym and five minutes later a spoofer would have knocked me out.

However, since legendary raids started, I'd have only been able to do a a very few, and I haven't done many anyway as I don't spoof, without air support, it just wouldn't be possible to get the numbers there in the time available.

In all honesty personally, battling gyms is the only thing I object to spoofers doing, nothing else they do spoils my enjoyment of the game and, in the case of air support for raids, they have actually enhanced it.

bettytaghetti Not particularly, but they do have a special place in your dex.

I would never chuck a shiny, though.

Other than looking pretty, is there any other point to shinies? I love the description of the shiny swablus looking like burlesque showgirls Soup!
I only have 5 and they're all pretty rubbish IV's! Think I may have binned some before not thinking they were worth keeping!

Nice I have 13
1x Pichu
2x Pikachu
2x Raichu
1x Aron
2x Dratini
1x Duskull
1x Lugia
1x Luvdisc
1x Magicarp
1x Mawile

I have 18 shinies in total

Caught outside of events:
• 1 shiny Magikarp, 2 shiny Gyarados
• 1 shiny Pichu
• 1 shiny Altaria

From events:
• 2 shiny Pikachu
• 2 shiny Dratini, 1 shiny Dragonair, 1 shiny Dragonite
• 5 shiny Bulbasaurs, 1 shiny Ivysaur, 1 shiny Venosaur

How's everyone doing with their shinies?

soupforbrains Exactly. If you’re going to cheat to play the game you’re not welcome in our group.

Thought they'd managed to ban all the spoof app things....gps spoof apps, etc.

You don’t need an app to spoof; all you really need is a computer, but Niantic are tightening their controls so those players will hopefully be banned before long.

Also your graphics should have gone back to normal now?

My graphics are still crap.

Don't know how anyone manages to spoof anymore. Used to see it a lot but haven't noticed it in ages. Thought they'd managed to ban all the spoof app things....gps spoof apps, etc.

Same here what spoofing is specifically against the Niantic Ts&Cs so is banned as part of the code of conduct of our group.

number of the members who are happy to help those on the ground to do raids by spoofing if they need extra people.

With the new methods Niantic are bringing in to combat spoofers, those players will soon be banned.

Spoofers are absolutely unacceptable in our group; we kick anyone out that’s caught doing it.

soupforbrains Sat 07-Apr-18 07:59:00

Round here we have very large groups which get organised for raiding and we tend to use private groups for all raids to prevent spoofers.

You're lucky to be able to get enough people in person. We have a very good local group, and there are a number of the members who are happy to help those on the ground to do raids by spoofing if they need extra people. They're referred to as air support. :)

Unown envy!

Rare candies tend to be a bit thin on the ground but I'm getting ds1 more into doing raids now, so I get a few per week. They've been getting poured into bagon as it's going to take me a year to evolve all the way if I don't get around to buddying one. I simply don't get to do as much walking as I used to now that I no longer have school runs and I've been spending all my child free days diying and decorating. We're only just getting them into their rooms, this weekend, 4 months after moving in!