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r/pokemongo•
Naz-One

[Complaint] Does reporting cheaters work? Multiple accounts cheater.

Complaint

I was trying to take this gym, when they kept feeding the pokemon berries. Ok, well I though I would just grind through it, when all of a sudden a new player adds their pokemon and it's the same user name, except they added one to the numbers at the end of the username. This means that the new player gets to start adding berries again from zero. This really sucks. Is there a way to prevent this sort of behavior. Isn't multiple accounts against the rules? See screenshot here: https://imgur.com/a/k1GWNEB

NOTE: Had to resubmit, because of the flair requirement.

Posted Oct 18, 2018, 3:38 PM UTC

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lugarcia24•

You can try but the pokemon community here are actually okay with people with multiple accounts since a lot of them have multiple accounts. You can report them but most likely nothing will happen.

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25vipers•

It’s a common practice among a lot of die hard fans to have multiple accounts. I don’t know the overall communities opinion on it, but most of the time people will be on different teams with multiple accounts. I’m sure this is annoying though!

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FandangoGhandi•

It has always technically been against the TOS. Which I've always found hilarious because when you can't log in...the error message says "Try a different account". Why would it give you that error if there wasn't an expectation of multiple accounts? Always amuses me.

Personally when it comes to multiple accounts and cheating, I always look at it this way - if they're acting in a way that is detrimental to other players, I disapprove. Taking up 3+ spots in a gym and shaving off one Pokemon in a gym to put on their own Pokemon are really the only two things I get angry about.

Not going to complain or strenuously defend multi accounting, but not going to report it either if it's not directly harming other players.

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ospreyTing•

You're only supposed to have one account, but I see people in my local park walking around with two phones (there's one woman who shows up at raids with four!). So, yes, it's cheating.

I've seen cheaters like the ones in your picture. They don't even try to hide it. Others go to great lengths to make it seem like a random, non-connected group of people.

I used to report cheaters all the time, but, like a lot of people, I just gave up. Niantic never seemed to do anything, even with proof. I don't think it's worth them spending the time on it, to be honest.

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TrainerTITs310•

The situation is so bad in my city, the multi account era now have 3-5 and even 6 accounts at level 39-40. Niantic needs to make it stop, it’s worse IMO than spoofers at least they just had one acct they spoofed with.

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Naz-OneOP•

What will make Niantic listen, though? I like the game, but this is a huge minus for me.

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TrainerTITs310•

Who knows, I’m about ready to quit playing this game over the issue. I live in a major city that’s spoofer heaven, and in the multi accounters and it’s really unplayable in the gym sense.

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vsnapii•

There is zero proof, so doubtful anything will happen.

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ohheykcInstinct•

Are these new rules? I swear it used to say that you could use multiple accounts as long as you played fair with them. (In this particular case, it definitely isn’t fair)

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Naz-OneOP•

Can't say. I have not been playing for long, so I don't know.

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NyuQzv2•

So first of all, this isn't really cheating. But it is as other people mentioned against the rules, HOWEVER I may add that iirc it is forbidden to have several accounts on one phone. If you have 2 phones and 2 accounts that should be allowed I think.

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Naz-OneOP•

It is cheating apparently:

No cheating. Don’t do it. Play fair. Pokémon GO is meant to be played on a mobile device and get you outside to explore your world! Methods of cheating, unfortunately, are limited only by cheaters’ imaginations, but include at a minimum the following: using modified or unofficial software; playing with multiple accounts (one account per player, please); sharing accounts; using tools or techniques to alter or falsify your location; or selling/trading accounts.

https://support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/221993967-Pok%C3%A9mon-GO-Trainer-guidelines

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RangerSloan•

It’s referenced in the Terms of Sevice and Trainer Guidlines as cheating with multi-accounting. This is especially cheating in this case- look how unfair it becomes for someone attacking a gym when there are potentially six accounts able to feed 10 berries within half an hour each.

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