Contest of Mayors is a joke
WTF how can this be happening? Last week I was beaten by players who put up more points than I had available if I did ALL 28 assignments and now this!
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My experience:
1st League: 2nd place (fell short of a few hundred points)
2nd League: 1st place (43,000 points)
3rd League: 3rd place (close scores)
4th League: currently 39th place. I finished every big task with only 47,060 points. The top 10 is currently from 61,600-69,160 points.
Note that simcash has no effect on the task points, it can only help you do the tasks quicker. Getting a high value task is all about luck, which means these contests are just plain stupid, a waste of time and resources IMO. I don't see any point putting in dozens of hours of work to come 51st, only to win no prize?!?!
#51 in my 4th (City) League is currently 42,835 points.
My preparation for this league:
1. sold a lot of big items in Trade HQ, but didn't claim them (there's a task for making Simoleons)
2. Pre-queued 5 of each of the 2-7hr raw materials (often you're asked to produce 60, but you can only do 55 at a time)
3. Pre-produced 10 of each lengthy item like Garden Furniture, TV, Couch etc, but didn't collect (many tasks for them).
4. Built 3 new Tokyo/Paris/London zones (i'm out of space so I have to destroy my old ones).
5. stocked up on Vu parts.
6. Stocked 5 bronze/silver/gold speed-up tokens, and had 50+ token pieces available for collection (and I didn't even use 1, nor collect any!).
Sadly I didn't get many big tasks for the above list, I got several Airport tasks, but still they weren't very high value.
Even with all that effort, i'm at #39, and that will slip further over the remaining 24hrs.
For those of you who feel people are cheating, then I suppose you think the Denver Broncos won the Super Bowl by cheating. Could it be that these players beating you are better than you or at least luckier? In a perfect non-cheating world, would we all come in tied for 1st place?
How could they not be cheating and have so many more points than me (you)? When I cut a piece of wood the other day and it was too short, it was of course the saw's fault. How could it be my fault?
Whats that old expression "Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the amount of fight in the dog"?
Get it?
If you're doing all the highest possible valued tasks, and other people are scoring way higher (like 50% higher), then of course that arouses a lot of suspicion for some.
I don't think there's anyone cheating (although it may be possible), I came to the conclusion that people are just having a lot more luck with task allocation.
You could role a die 6x in a row and be lucky enough to role a 6 all 6 times. Someone else might not get a single 6 at all. I believe that's exactly what's happening here, but I strongly feel that the format doesn't belong in such a contest. Most of the luck needs to be removed so these contests can be based on skill and effort. If you put in just as much effort, you should have a competitive score.
For me, I put in the maximum effort and still came 56th. NO PRIZE! My score is so far short of top10...
EDIT: at the end of the League I finished #61...
The Leagues at this level has become a lucky draw dip, they might as well just randomly place us on the final leaderboard.
What league is that? I just may want to stay lower on purpose for a bit. As people go higher, I would expect the lower tiers to become easier too as everyone putting in maximum effort would be in an upper tier.
For the third week in a row I was not given the opportunity to earn enough points to win my league. Although I was much more competitive this week, top 10 finish, the top 2 finishers were ~10k & 9k ahead of me the third place was 8k above me in 8th. If I total all the uncompleted tasks their point values don't add up to 8,000 points, so again I never had a chance to win.
My latest theory on this is the first week everyone seemed to have a similar assignment pool and a equal chance to win and I felt the contest was enjoyable, but I also think it unbalanced the Trade Market terribly with everyone looking to buy and sell the same items in the same time frame. EA's quick and dirty fix to this was to randomize the assignments, thereby fixing the Trade Market problem while making the contest totally unbalanced.
The right way to do this without breaking the Trade Market would be to have pools of assignments at each point value, then randomly assign each player an equal number of assignments from each point level pool. This would result in every player having the same point total potential while giving them varied tasks to complete to keep from breaking the Trade Market.
Again, only my theory and possible solution, but I would love to hear what other think.
The constant "they are cheating" is getting old. It is possible to score big really fast. It's been talked about over and over. you can to multiple tasks at once just dont collect the items you produce until you have that task selected. I moved up a league every week until this week. In my city league you have to have over 60K to advance. I ended up with 42K and finished 48th! So should I be crying that 47 others were cheaters?
They only thing that does suck is the random tasks and how others can get more points than you even if you do all the highest point tasks. At one point I had a task of produce 12 cheese, I completed it and got the exact same task, so I didn't it again as it was my highest option, then I got it again for the third straight time. If someone else had that happen but it was produce 5 keys for 5000 then of course they will crush everyone.
so- i decided that i am not going to use real cash to get simscash, the only way to do that is by doing mayor competition and at the top not to rejoin the league again, but stay in the megalopolis for some time, (only way to do it i believe) (i also believe there is no rule against that), so i did, i have lots of time to play, im on pension and i play on my pc 14hours a day, i won the mayor competition a few times, build up my shops to 11 slots each, i prepare for each comp by cleaning my store and let things hover what i might get a task for, what was my reward, i got banned for cheating. i did everything the game allowed me to do, but EA didnt like that, SO BEWARE, do not do to good in this competitions, you will end up on the cheat server. AS soon as someone struggles a bit, he will report you and away you go,
so many players have explained what and how easy it is to get over 100k+ points and at least have a shot at the top prizes, but most of the lazy and backstabbing players dont like to work that hard, and the bad news is, EA doesnt even investigate, they just move you and dont even answer your tickets, so be careful please, the mayor competition is a platform where people can get you banned because you try to hard.
its a pity, for me and my friends this was a great platform to chat and they helped me a lot, i had a great club, they all send posts to EA to explain but none got answered.
so again, be careful, try not to win more then once, and even if you win dont go to high on score, dont use golden tickets because others think you cheat.
My problem is that we don't all start each league at zero points. Some are already maxed out before you do your first task. That can't be by luck!
- Better players? Better than who, better than you maybe. I fu@:-!g know when I've been cheated, wake up. The truth is out there. Ea has admitted to nickel and dime there players at any and all cost. Named the worst company in America 2 years in a row, beating out company's like BP oil, Bank of America, World com, Comcast, etc.
- Oh yeah. 🤣
@Toby-G-211: Thank you for posting those screenshots! I always found it amusing that people would keep insisting that there is no hacking or cheating going on--that it's all just "strategy" or people paying money--when it's obvious that this couldn't be the case. Why would someone spend $50 or more just to win at City Leagues? How could someone possibly lead at 40-60K points within an hour of CoM starting when everyone else is still at 1K?
BTW, here's another beauty to add to the collection:
