Patrick
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As @Red_Conspiracy said. You just need to do one battle against anyone with any of your Pokemon and win. OR you can simply catch a Pokémon. Either of these will put your points back to where they should be.
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1 hour ago, Red_Conspiracy said:
Thank you so much Patrick AGAIN I thank you for all your marvelous work. But one more question. Will I get my donations back? Or will I lose BOTH my EXP and donations? I'm just scared. Thank you so much for all your work @Patrick!
Unfortunately you lose both. I don't have a huge team of help here so tracing and reversing trades is beyond my capability.
Honestly, I just wouldn't trade for experience. While some do train it because they don't mind the grind, they won't trade it so easily because it takes a LONG time to do.
If you apply a bit of logic to a trade, you can see who's on the losing end of it.
Lets say, for example, someone wants to give you a 100,000,000 experience Lugia for your Shadow Arceus (Fairy), yes the donation Pokemon are valued pretty high because not everyone can donate to get one but would you sit there for the time it takes to get 100,000,000 experience just to trade it away? That would take roughly 100 hours by the way, if you weren't aware.
It's a debatable topic to assume someone wouldn't train that just to trade it off but 9/10 times you'll find they did not gain the experience fairly.
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Yes, Trainer B will be banned for automating experience or glitching Pokémon. Whichever would be at play here then Trainer A would have what was traded reset to 50,000 experience providing it was experience that was traded.
This is only a temporary thing. I'm currently working on changing the way automated flags work in which when an account is flagged by the system for me to later check, they will not be able to trade until the flag is removed by me or the account is banned. This slightly protects people such as yourself when trading with people who refuse to follow the rules.
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Nothing, don't worry about it.
I can see how many times you battle someone and it's pretty clear when someone battles that same account 380 times in a row that they intended to do it.
However, I don't really see how you can just "stumble" upon an account like that anyway, you'd have to know it's username.
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Pokemon Vortex June 2016 Maintenance
You're probably wondering why the game is currently down and has been for quite a few hours now.
Well, fear not, it is for a good cause. Earlier today a problem that had existed here on the forums last week caused a larger problem within the game which has since been resolved but I decided to take this time while the game is down to do some preparation work for v4, that being enforcing our fair play policy in which no automated playing is allowed, nor bug/glitch abuse.
While these were always rules within v3 and any version to follow after, they have not been strictly followed by many members. But that does not mean we were not aware of it. Every account is closely monitored by an automatic system that will watch you battle, catch, trade and evolve Pokémon and flag your account if it detects any wrong doing. These flags are then later reviewed by myself to determine whether the flag was just and issue a ban.
Over time, the log filled up without any justice to the people who were wrongly "playing" but the intention was always there to later come back to these and clean it up for a better playing experience for you all.
What does this mean?
At the moment, I am working through a huge backlog of accounts to ban and Pokémon's experience to reset which breach these rules.
- All accounts that were automating experience on their Pokémon will be banned.
- All Pokémon that were traded (unknowingly) to others after having automated experience put on them will be reset to 50,000 (Level 100)
- All Pokémon that were glitched in any sense to filter attacks, types or origin will be returned to their original state.
- Every account in the game will have it's points and experience set to 0 (Just complete a battle to update the points back to it's original state)
I got banned but I didn't break any rules
The ban process is not automatic and users are vetted completely before anyone is banned so the likelihood of you being wrongly banned are beyond small. I hear it all the time "I didn't do anything". Honestly, don't waste your time trying it, I've been watching your account since it was made.
Do bans get lifted after a certain amount of time?
Absolutely not. Familiarise yourself with the rules and don't break them then you wouldn't have been banned to begin with.
What is the fair play policy?
Our fair play policy is an aim to make everyone play the same without certain people having advantages that others don't such as third party apps playing for you (botting) or trying to glitch the game in a way that is beneficial to the way you play. For example, some of you may be aware of accounts that have "glitched" Pokemon on the team and they have no attacks so you will use them to battle against without these Pokémon being able to deal damage. This is not allowed in any way. You are not allowed to create these accounts, Pokemon or battle against them. Fixes for these are being worked on and will be applied within v4.
While currently the glitched Pokemon accounts will go unpunished - From the end of the maintenance, anyone caught creating or battling against these accounts WILL be banned without question.
When will the maintenance be done?
I'm working as fast as I can to clear it all up but I expect it to run into approximately 48 hours or so.
Don't forget, when the maintenance is complete, you will need to do a battle to update your points and experience back to it's original and rightful state.
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1 minute ago, SmartAss said:
Tried it again. It does say I edited the post, but still, nothing in the post changes...
Add a smiley face to the end of the post for me.
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The edit worked fine when I tried it on your trade topic.
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5 hours ago, Becky said:
I got a normal one.
Daaaaaamn, Becky. Back at it again reviving dead topics.
I got a Mystic
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On 31/05/2016 at 11:09 PM, TAT said:
why not just use rand()?
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On 12/04/2016 at 2:10 AM, Patrick said:As the title says, a quick simple dice rolling mini-game using PHP 7's new function for random integers.
I was just testing out the new things added to PHP 7
Aside from this, rand() does not generate cryptographically secure values whereas random_int() does, as does random_bytes() and openssl_random_pseudo_bytes()
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The luck was rel with this one.
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Question(s) regarding IPs (Merged accounts)
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1) Probably. It depends if they were feeding botted experience to that account. Just because an account wasn't botted on initially, moving all your botted experience to it also puts it in the light to be banned. (Some of the current top trainers use this method for a "main" account to stop it from being banned) It will not work and it will be banned if that's how it was being handled.
2) That was pretty much the same question as #1
3) That also sounds similar to #1 with a slight twist. But if people are sharing an account, some botters and some legit, you all take responsibility for this shared account. I don't care if they "didn't know" that's just their story and I will never know the truth. If someone has a legit side account of their own, I can tell the difference and it will not be banned.
On top of this, I just want to point out that it's things like this that make sharing accounts a very bad idea. I do not advise it at all and will not help you if you lose the account because one of the other members of that team account took it all for themselves. Be responsible with your account and keep it safe.