Patrick
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Trade is disabled until I finish all the banning. I will finish up without further maintenance but that means trade needs to be disabled.
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@darkxknight101 v4 had been planned basically the day v3 was complete. I never waste any time in thinking how I can better my projects. That said, it was only thinking work at that stage. I took a lot of analytical data and feedback from v3 over it's one year of being open to decide on some of the ideas I had in mind, order them by priority so some things may never make the final build if I feel I'm cutting fine on time.
Actual development on v4 began about two weeks before the teaser was released. A very small portion of it was done by then but enough to make a simple video to let everyone know it was being worked on and ideas had been finalised.
As for motives, like I said, I'm always thinking about how I can better things, whether it's with revamps of current features or completely new features and with v4 comes a mixture of both. One thing only a select few people know so far is that for v4, I'm rewriting nearly the entire game. Only the maps and battle will remain as they are with minor visual boosts and optimization tweaks.
I hope this covers what you were asking. Interesting question by the way, I enjoy answering things like that.
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On 14/06/2016 at 8:25 PM, bitcoin said:
donation pokemons become scarce now as many who have them got banned... nice strategy to get more $$$ next time, we never want donation/event pokemons too many out there
So clearly you're just here to troll the forums? Interesting.
Guy A - "You don't ban donators, this is rigged"
Guy B - "He bans all the donators to get more money"And by your logic, the same people are going to donate after being banned? I don't think so. If anything, I'm costing Vortex money by banning the donators and honestly, good riddance. I'd rather no one played it than have all these bots killing the trade economy and leaderboards.
You people make me laugh. Accept you got caught and banned and move on.
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1 hour ago, bitcoin said:
looks like a lot accounts are banned. I bet they will come back as they have the bots that can easily establish themselves. Someone showed me a script before, it automatically catches wanted pokemons, that guys used it to catch thousands legends and fossils in his 2-3 accounts and not got caught. I doubt Patrick's program will catch it, as according to him, the script functions just like you click around. lol we'll see if the ban is effective or not
This is a question and answer forum, not a discussion about current goings-on.
Aside from that, you think thousands of legendaries isn't fishy? Doesn't matter how human-like your bot is, that's just ridiculous.
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The point of it isn't to prevent botting. It's so people can't complete more than one battle every 10 seconds. Without something like this, someone could open 800 tabs all side by side on 4 monitors (just an example) and complete all the battles within minutes of each other, press reload and do it all again.
This is an advantage of hardware which is unfair on others who wouldn't be able to and don't know how to play like this. I also think it's a stupid way to play and would hate to see it take that turn.
The 10 second limit will always be there, I know it can be annoying when continuously battling smaller teams and wild Pokemon but it's better to have it there than it would be to not.
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Alomololomololola
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I'll look into it. Thanks.
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Maintenance over. Vortex is now back up and running
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Why can't we play while you ban people?
Simply because people start to panic when accounts are getting banned, they start offloading Pokemon to other accounts and other people who are oblivious to what's going on in an attempt to hide themselves and point at other people.
Why was the maintenance not announced like usual?
Basically the same reason as the above question. If I had announced what I'm doing, a lot of people would have given all their Pokemon to others causing twice as much loss.
Is everyone from the backlog going to be banned when the maintenance is over?
Unfortunately not. This process is taking a LOT longer than I had expected. As I've stated before, the ban process is not something I take lightly and I completely look into the case before banning anyone so that I am 100% sure they deserved a ban. That said, 980 accounts have been banned so far and a further 2,386 Pokemon have had their experience reset. I've made a huge dent in what was some of the more frequent individuals but I can't get everyone done in the time you would all like as well as what I would like.
I will be putting the game back up within a couple of hours with the current state of bans and will schedule to continue it in the week with another maintenance break.
How many accounts are left to ban?
Roughly 1,000 accounts are left to ban and 6,000 Pokemon left to have their experience reset.
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It'll be back up in a couple of hours
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2 hours ago, sas said:
Hi Admin,
I know that you are busy Banning Accounts.
In this busy time,I would request you to delete the banned accounts along with the pokemons in those banned accounts.
It will make it easier to know the exact amount of rare events like Volcanion,Pikachu cosplays,etc. in the game.And hence their real value can be estimated.
With just banning accounts,it makes it impossible to determine the correct value of rare events as most of them are in the banned accounts.And the pokedex counts those banned pokemons too.
Hope this suggestion will not over burden you.
Thanks.
This is the plan eventually. It's something that is being brought into v4 because it means the ban system needs changing every every Pokemon needs recounting to not include those off banned accounts.
1 hour ago, Tyheamma said:How about everyone stops cheating and botting and then accounts won't need to be banned or deleted? Cheators are the real burden. There's a suggestion for you.
Lmao. Savage.
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