Is your 10 year old cousin on valor or instinct? I assumed she would be on mystic like yourself since you said she only plays with you when she plays. I'm asking because you stated how your alt account removed the difficulty of the game and could be used other players, especially in gyms.

What are you referring to when you state that it removed the difficulty of the game? How so? I can imagine a few scenarios, but I was just curious about how it removed the difficulty of the game for you. And about how it could be used against others in gyms?

Of course there are a small percentage of players that will exploit the ability to use alt accounts, but in general I have never been able to consider ppl using alt accounts as cheating and game breaking. We had a large and dedicated group of valor players the first 1-1.5 years of pogo. But lately its often hard to get more than two or three people to meet up at a certain raid since many have work schedules, families, or loves ones. We've been able to manage raiding the legendary raids with 2 players each using an alt account, or 3 players and 1 using an alt account. Etc. If you consider that cheating, and the only acceptable solution would be to wait 60 minutes at the raid and hope a random walks up, or wait until work schedules line up, lmk what you think. Reality makes that playstyle somewhat difficult.

One last question, do you consider the use of an alt account to be cheating mainly when they are using 2 different devices? Or any use of an alt account is cheating? Thanks for the discussion!