Re: Cheats/Hackers in Contest of Mayors

You are so right! I should have been compensated many times but no. It wouldn't be so hard!

I don't use real money to this. My club always gets the legendary chest so I had simcash to spend when the mayor's pass thing started. 

I have done only the biggest point tasks in every com after mayor's pass started. The points needed stopped growing in 30 000. As stated in earlier post I have been in top 10 in every com and still i won't have a chance to get to the last level, only the cheaters can.

I think it's very embarrassing to EA that they have made the mayor's pass in accordance to cheaters impossible points. It isn't possible to achieve the last level even by using  real money. I know cause I have used thousand simcash to win 4000... Happy those thousand were not paid by real money. 

I hear ya!

It is even worse now with the Mayor's Pass. Instead of winning 4000 SimCash, it is only 2000. Second place is only a 1000. So you'll spend a 1000 to win a 1000 because chances are so good that you will lose to a cheater. 

I know what kind of effort it takes to get into the top 6. The time is incredible, even using SimCash. So when I see someone go from zero to 200,000 in 6 hours, it just makes me feel more inclined to just pack it in. Seems like I spend more time tracking and reporting cheaters than actually playing this game. I suppose I should listen to myself.

Still finding cheaters and still reporting them. 

Keeping this thread at the top until something gets done about it so that cheating doesn't happen anymore or I give up and quit.

Currently playing CoM and it was pretty competitive with players jostling for the top spots as it should be.  Normally you will notice a player gaining on you in 1k increments.  Out of nowhere a player showed up in first place with a 40k lead.  What's funny is that his score is 127,957.  The other 99 players in this match has a score ending in a zero or five.  How do you get a score that is an odd number?  Really starting to irritate me that this is allowed.  Please tell me Ikachka how do you get this score?  EA, you need to stop this!

Well.. I stumbled upon this video on youtube..

https://youtu.be/xOagdReY-Ew

Im not sure if it still works in the current version of simcity but the black button on the left is clearly not a part of the regular game..

And that, my friends.. is apparently how you fart your way to the top position in a matter of minutes..

Well, isn't that interesting!

The video is in Russian, so that explains why it is usually the Russians that are winning the Contest of Mayors with impossible scores. 

So my best guess is that it still works because the Russians still keep hacking the game.

I still can't believe they haven't been able to make this game with check points in it that immediately red flag someone when an unusual points score comes up. They should know what the average score should be and how many points you could earn in a day. Anything that goes against the clock should immediately be frozen and investigated. How complicated is it? If Facebook can do it, I am sure they can too.

EA should have all this data and not need screen shots.  They dont care anyway or something would have been done about it.  Perhaps they just dont have enough talent to rewrite the code.  

I will never buy any game from EA for me or my 3 children.  Hopefully others will follow suit.  If you want action, stop giving them money.  EA is lame.

Agreed.

It is quite obvious throughout the game and with all the updates that they are more interested in figuring out ways to try to make us spend money on this game than worrying about stopping the hackers. I am getting real tired of reporting hackers and also with the game due to the hackers. I'll never spend money on this game, especially since it is so hackable. 

* this game and EA.  Same cheater in CoM as last week.  Cheating in CoM directly affects wars with Sim Cash to purchase war items.  This is BS and I'm tired of being polite.  Sign me up for the class action suit against EA because it's coming soon.

Call me paranoid but this guy can’t make so many points with 36 hrs still to play. Can’t access him to check club again but during CoM I checked and he was from a Russian club.... boot these cheaters. Not fair on people who spend time and money on games.

@monu_84 I suggest using report player, that’s clearly an illicit score.  It may take them a week to reply presently, but I have an active report on someone else for the same reason and so far they appear to be taking it seriously.

Yeah, with the CoM cheaters they can get a lot of SimCash with repeat wins and then purchase attack cards.  Once I realized the CoM was fixed it really disappointed me because I enjoyed this game.  I'd spent a lot of time to win the CoM only to have some joker show up out of nowhere and double my score in 2 hours for what took me 5 days to do.  Seriously, it was very obvious.  I just don't spend money on this game because it's not fair.  

I see in the mayor mentioned in post #57, a creative and diligent player publicly pilloried as a cheater.

A war level of 48 only means, he has made a lot of points. When you read the description of the mentioned club it says they prefer to play Open Wars. His high disaster levels are also as expected for war level 48.

@summersclan , purchasing attack cards will not increase any war level and I can't see any signs for CoM cheating.

Yes, there is cheating in the game, but posts #57 and #59 strongly remind me of the witch-hunt.

I can't speak for post #57 as I didn't write it @Superpraesi.  So happy you haven't been a victim of cheating in CoM.  Glad you agree with me that there is cheating in the game.

@summersclan  You’re correct cheating is rampant in both CoM and the War Games and EA has no appetite yet to address it...I tend to believe they’re still in the denial phase. @Superpraesi  There is a not sufficient information to reach that conclusion, only the player that reported the issue and the folks that participated in that competition know what happened...perhaps the player put up 50k in the last 30 minutes, who knows - this was in January, There is no witch hunt going on...just a player with a concern who has every right to pursue it.