After considering whether i should post about the rampant cheaters in town, and firstly deciding not too, i broke and decided to post here anyway.

I live in a town in the Netherlands. in this town it is impossible for team Valor or Instinct to build gyms, as these get spoofed down immediately.

2016

At the start of the game we had few cheaters, a few multi-accounters, but that was about it. 2 months later spoof activity started happening in town, making me start making spoofer traps at a gym with a 300m² area that leaves no space to hide ( not even trees, shrubs or ditches). i started keeping track of who spoofed and who didnt.

At first i was relatively succesfull in demotivating the spoofers, or so i did like to think, as these spoofers buggered of. Another month later, all these spoofers were back for vengeance, kicking me out of any gym they saw me in, not allowing me to level gyms or even collect gyms.

This destroyed the gym-game in my town, Mystic rapidly got more and more control, Continue reading →