Cheats/Hackers in Contest of Mayors
Hi Been directed here by an appalling e-mail reply from EA customer services. I finished last weeks (commencing 03 Jan 18) Contest of Mayors Mega League in 3rd place, but the two cities/mayors abov...
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As the poster above me said, if one’s cheating, it’s likely they’re using the out of sync/reload thing.
However, it’s also important to realise that not all high scores are the result of that, as some can just get very lucky with lots of 3k point tasks.
Two weeks ago in Megalopolis, I had a favourable amount of 3k tasks in my first 60 assignments, finishing with 130k. I was even more overjoyed when my first two golden ticket tasks were both 3k too (upgrade 3 Omega homes and launch 3 disasters). As golden ticket tasks repeat in an A-B-A-B pattern, that assured me of an extra 45k points over the 15 golden ticket assignments.
As that was almost the maximum one could hypothetically get, I proceeded to use 15 golden tickets to finish with 175k. About 8 hours from the finishing time, I was top and confident of winning a Megalopolis league for the first time in many many months.
But 2 hours later, I saw that a city had come from nowhere and surpassed me with a mind-boggling 194,000 score. Doing the math, he/she averaged 2,586 points per task. Even more astounding was that the city had come from nowhere (didn’t notice it in the top 10) to suddenly shoot to the top in just a few hours (i know its possible to SimCash one’s way through it).
Supposing he was as lucky as me to get all 3k tasks in his/her 15 golden tickets, it means he outscored me by 19k over the 60 initial assignments.
I was gob-smacked and frustrated, but resigned to the disappointed. I wanted to report the city, but knowing that nothing would be done, ended up not bothering to.
It is truly sad that it has eroded to this...but I understand clearly where you’re coming from. When the stars align themselves just right and you have an honest opportunity to fulfill a goal and you work diligently to achieve that target and accomplish the task at hand it gives you that rush of excitement and success...it’s a great feeling in anything you do. Then to have that accomplishment over shadowed by someone that resorts to taking shortcuts and cheating is very frustrating...but take solace in the fact that they didn’t experience that same filling self respect moment that you enjoyed. But it still sucks...
I understand why you feel it’s a waste of time to report the player, EA has earned that and needs to own it. But if you have credible evidence of wrongdoing go ahead and report them....nothing may come of it, but if you don’t nothing will.
Congratulations on your effort and your performance!
Same thing happened to me as well. A player came out of nowhere and topped me in a few hours remaining of the contest by over 15000. And this was after I did every maximum point challenge. So I don't put much effort into it anymore. Only thing that keeps me playing is the group I am in.
The time zone of when the contest starts and ends needs to be addressed. As it stands now, it favors the Asian time zone. They should alternate it between there and the North and South American time zone to make it more fair.
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