[aznpwnzor]

i would have liked this for pokemon go. i started scripting the week it came out and then was banned in the 2nd or 3rd ban wave. but i would have liked to continue playing against other scripters

[arnaudsm]

A significant part of Niantic's servers were overloaded with bot requests at that time, which caused massive lag for everyone. Banning was their only option.

They came with a shadowban technique later though : https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/24/15686428/pokemon-go-niant...

[andybak]

Thanks for owning up to making the world a slightly shittier place.

[afiori]

Sadly the nature of the game doesn't allow for this, you cannot just spin up more matches in PoGO.

But on this I am very critical of how Niantic is handling both Pokemon GO and wizard Unite

[csa]

What is your issue with WU? I can’t see scripting really impacting the play of others (at least not yet).

[afiori]

the energy system, it is almost impossible not to periodically end energy and have to grind at inns to continue playing as everything needs energy in the game.

In comparison in PoGO if you finish one category of scarce items you still have many part of the game you can play in (e.g. with no pokéball you can still fight in gym and raids)