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I agree. This game has huge potential, and it hasn't wasted it all. I'm looking at you, Niantic.

Hi Ruvox! Thanks for letting me know! First of all, I have checked the anti-cheat logs and you aren't flagged as a cheater; the system seems to be correctly recognizing that you're experiencing GPS issues. So the land capture block you've experienced is just a harmless precaution. However, having analyzed a few dozen of trips similar to yours last week I have begun developing a new anti-cheat version that should be even more accurate and potentially allow to remove this precautionary block completely (as there's really a very clear difference between players like yourself and those using Fake GPS from my end; I am hopeful that at some point even the cheater punishment will become automated due to precision of this new system). It will probably go live at some point around/after Easter! As for the GPS position jumping to a previous location: we've actually switched to using Google Location Services API instead of just reading coordinates off your GPS, as Google's algorithms are a lot more advanced than anything I can possibly design myself (simply because they've spent more time developing their solution ) and many more devices are now showing accurate positions compared to previous versions. However, I have honestly no idea how they work internally and cannot say why the API sometimes decides to throw you back into a last visited city! It's quite possible that, as you noticed yourself, the accuracy level of your current coordinates is simply too low and the Location Services decided to use the last known accurate position instead. * shrug * Unfortunately, there's little I can do to improve the GPS accuracy further, as there are just too many devices working in different ways and whenever one of them gets really accurate some of the others stop working completely (as it happened in 1.17.5). So we're probably going to keep the current version, but as mentioned above I will adjust the anti-cheat around it.

Hi all, Two more accounts have been identified as using Fake GPS and will be punished without a trial: 1) Evale Frost 2) THE KING OF POTAtION Kudos on the attempts to "micro-cheat" within a walking distance from the McLoughlin High School, this really made it difficult for the anti-cheat to notice suspicious behaviour straight away. However, manual review confirmed a precise collection of remote resources without actually travelling to get there, which isn't possible to do without a Fake GPS app. Both offending accounts are relatively low-level, but because of the fact that we have a zero tolerance policy against Fake GPS and I've wasted almost 2 hours analyzing the anti-cheat logs (instead of developing new game features), the offending accounts are now banned. I have not banned any of the devices involved yet; consider this your only chance to start over from a clean slate and not cheat in this game again. Should the cheating reoccur I will proceed with banning the associated mobile devices as well.

That is unfortunate, but oh well; cheaters never win. Evale Frost's device is now blacklisted.

I don't think it's perfectly balanced, I'm just presenting my arguments in support of a theory that Unobtainium threats are greatly over-exaggerated. However, if I start receiving reports from Unobtainium victims and evidence that this functionality actually causes harm I would be happy to review it (and any suggestions are welcome).