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9 years ago

Cheating on SimCity Buildit

I'm hoping someone on the EA/Track20 marketing team reads this.  You just lost someone who spends about $20/month on your game because of the unchecked cheating that you allow to happen in the City of Mayors weekly contests.  Today, 6 hours after the contest started, the top player in my Megalopolis league has 56,100 points (impossible without cheating because there's no way to actually manufacture all the stuff required to get those points).  The next closest player has 33,610 (which is also close to impossible).  The next highest is at 14,900 (which is within the realm of reason).  I'm an ex-designer and coder.  It wouldn't be that hard to identify the cheating and kick the cheaters out in real time.  With the cheating, there's no incentive for me to try and get the Grand or Big prize- in fact it would be impossible.  I'll bet you right now that the cheater winds up with well over 100K points in the contest.

If you can't provide a level playing field with an equal chance for prizes, then I (and probably many others) are going to quit spending a little money every month on SimCash.

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