Hello players,
I’ve come here today to ask few questions about the game and the wayfarer website. As we all know few days/week ago an addition to the website was added to where people can see the map with all of the stops around the world. While I was checking the map I’'ve noticed few things that kinda moved me in the wrong way. This includes seeing all over the place stops that are not permanent, placed on the wrong places, stops that include places that don’t exist anymore, duplicated stops, stops at restricted areas of the city and adult themed or in sensitive areas stops. At the start I was noticing few, then I started looking outwards for the whole city, not just the area where I live at. This includes areas such as the university I go to, the sea garden of my city that is approximately 10 kilometers long, the city center, the road I take usually to my work which crosses the city and goes to my work 25 kilometers away from my home on the other side of the city and few of the schools and highschools I went to while I was growing up. The whole information that I’ve gathered and the reporting on it took me from 8 AM until almost 12 AM. Overall it took a while and in some of the areas where there was mass problems with criteria issues I’ve also noticed people from my city being active there but since I knew the people who were playing in that location I never joined them since I feared my account getting banned. The reason for the fear is because the people there were using several accounts, different third party accessories from the kind simular to Pokemon GO Plus + and teleporting if needed. They also didn’t like me too much since I tended to not be ok with cheaters in the game and because of that I started to get targeted specifically and to the point where I cannot place any pokemons in the main city area anymore since all of them are team Mythic and team Valor and they knew the community I was building and still build in Campfire was using Valor and Instict teams. Basically I was not allowed to do anything in regards to the city area. Eventually based on my efforts to populate the area I live in with stops simply they started to teleport and kick me out of the gyms in my area to the point where its almost daily basis and sadly because of this my behaviour in the game is fear everyone and know there are no actual players taking the gyms since me and 1 more guy from my campfire community from the Instinct team were playing and he ended up quiting because it started to affect it. I reported the people with all of their accounts and you might ask how do you know if they are not actual players and the answer to that is because they are not active in showcases, they only appear once , take the gym and you never see them again and because I’ve attempted to reach out but no response is given. After a while member of that group that was kinda on my side but he was part of their group only so we can get help with the game, reached out and told me the names of their accounts after few conversations. He is still nice person and the only thing he ever did is to use his wifes account to help himself in 3 star gyms since he couldn’t get help at the time. Overall the names were around 19 to 23 that were given. Plus the names of the other people that constantly appeared in my area once and vanish afterwards that made the number of names go to 67. I basically after figuring this out ended up giving up on going on routes and taking out gyms and focused more on keeping 2-3 gyms and then trying to win the 3 showcases in my area, sometimes I would take out few other gyms but they would quickly get taken over eventually. Not only this but I focused on niantic wayfarer reviews which led me to this discovery. 4 hours of stop reporting in my area which the majority of the stops are created by the same cheater group. Basically this ment stops placed on the wrong places such as middle of heavy trafic steets or far away from their actual locations so you couldn’t scan it, duplication of stops at different parts of the city so Niantic wouldn’t notice it, placing stops of sand sculptures at the local sand sculptures park which are there only for 4 days so no permament, placing stops of statues with sexual themes in them clearly visible, placing stops inside schools and highschools, placing stops in restricted areas such as privetely owned parts of the sea port or police/customs stations where the only way to get to the stop is through gateways with restricted access to civilians and adult places such as tattoo shops, alcohol stores and night clubs. I’ve gathered all of the information and reported it through the Niantic Wayfarer Support team. That was 3 days ago and I’m starting to get worried that due to the amount of reports I’ve provided I basically might be ignored by them. I was wondering if that would be the case so this is why I’m writing this. Also with the case of the cheaters, as far as I know is that they are doing it since April 2024, my community has reported them and personally I’ve lost the times when I reported them and so far nothing happens. I tried to find also ways to make our Campfire community more active and searching in facebook groups for active players to join us for the events as well as discord groups for the country and basically turns out some of those cheaters are from other citys and other are from mine and all of them knew each other and immidiately started harrassing me in public forums as well ,but hey, our community is at 19 members, sadly half of them quit the game because of the harrasment and the other half is working or living outside of our country and come for the summer season only to play with us since the city is popular and cheap destination for summer vacations. At least its something. Let me know what I can do and is it worth it to even bother with reporting anything at this point and even trying to play the game.