Emulate phone battery

[jaimerson]

Short Description

Bot could simulate battery depletion as it walks around and either take a break when it ends or "find a place to charge" and chill there, evolving pokémon or something until charged enough to continue.

Possible solution

Use the existing random breaks feature to take the breaks, and add config options for minimum battery (which should be random) needed to leave on a journey. One could also config a home location to go back to and charge. The break time would be calculated based on the current position and speed.

How it would help others

It would make the bot behavior more human-like, thus making it harder to detect as a bot (considering behavior analysis is the only way to detect)

[mustii82]

Great Idea but is this important for Bot Detection ?

[jaimerson]

@mustii82 well, how could we know what methods are used? At the very least it would make it more belieavable as a human

[sediyama]

I think it would be more human like if the bot at least wait for a while before starting moving and from time to time, stop moving for a certain period of time.

[Tych0n]

@sediyama #4202

[sediyama]

@nik0lashka the feature that you pointed is not the same. What I am suggesting is to stay put, at the same place, logged in, searching for Pokemons and spining Forts. The feature at #4202, the bot logout.
Everybody playing stops for a while and keeps the phone running, it is what I am trying to suggest.

[mjmadsen]

Does #4672 meet your request?

[jaimerson]

@mjmadsen I guess so. Is there a config option to sometimes have an alive pause right after the random break? This would be perfect to simulate charging

[mjmadsen]

Not quite, the different sleepers are completely independent.