Thread: Pokémon GO
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Brad
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
 
2016-08-02, 22:37

Basically, you have to register another Pokemon GO account (or several if you want to map quickly/large areas) and you set up those credentials in the configs for your map tool of choice. The tool then simulates a player walking around by talking to the Google Maps API to get GPS coordinates and submitting them as her location to the game server API. You can force the coordinates to a specific location, but as you jump farther from your last location, the account will get progressively "soft banned" from minutes to many hours at a time. While it's soft banned, you technically get responses from the server, but they omit pokemon and other essential data, and you can't interact with normal things in the world. (This is where having lots of bogus accounts becomes useful/necessary.)

Right now, it's actually a bit tricky to get mapping tools working quickly and consistently. Clearly, Niantic is on a rampage to try to disrupt these bots (to the point that they have been introducing bugs that affect normal players the last few days).

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