I have been botting for some time. I have kept everything realistic, I follow the recommended settings so on and so forth. Since the update to 174, all of my bot accounts have been banned shortly after logging off the bot. Including one that only ran for about 5 minutes. I think the devs missed something. I was using PTC and google accounts. VPN, Never left the city. Kept the bots in a small park with realistic walking patterns. All of them gone sighs.
I completely agree - there is some trap that has been missed - I botted no more than 20 mins on my main account and that got banned too in addition to a level 33 and level 27 one. Never left town used vpn/poxy etc. All things you would think would be flags.. Something is missing.
Does device ID have anything to do with it, Im assuming the device is different for everyone? Does PF automatically change the ID on a new install?
.PLATFORM_OSX and .PLATFORM_WNDOWS were found in data mining. Nintiac maybe tracing your logins permanently once flagged and are actually banning because of devices not accounts.
By all means bot. I wouldn't even play the game if not for botting. This is why they should add a sniper botting is far from risk free make it a separate download that hooks into pokefarmer so you can easily log the ones who get banned with sniper. but I'm under the impression if you bot it's not a matter of if you're going to get banned it's a matter of when so might as well use all the tools.