Re: EA! You are losing honest players! There are too many hackers in the game!!

@NotHere2237 If you read the previous posts, you would’ve seen that the example of 305,000 points was from a Double Points week.

Have also played this game for several years and am fully aware that such totals aren’t possible during normal times. My personal all time best is 175,000, so I would guess the region of 180,000 (give or take a few thousand) is the upper limit without cheating. And perhaps 350,000 to 360,000 during Double Points weeks.

The highest points task I know of is 3,240. It’s rare, but I think I’ve had it twice - produce 18 drills.

Once again, I’m not making excuses for cheaters. Just to put things into perspective and not let people have tunnel vision and get carried away thinking that all high scores are the result of cheating. 

Some are perfectly achievable if the task generator favours you (for example, when Golden Tickets give you 15x repeating 3,000 point tasks). But sometimes players do not fully understand this, and cry ‘cheat!’ when they only get repeating 1,800 pointers and cannot catch up. 

I totally agree 

Game now is completely overtaken by cheaters now.

Developers just ignore this fact and not wanting to communicate with us.

I spend more time reporting cheating players now than playing the game.

Which is pointless as I keep an eye on reported players and see them continue to play. Which means nothing is being done.

EA is well known in the video game industry for just wanting your money by creating big titles where in order to progress you have to buy loot boxes.

Here they have even bigger potential because video game players are better in gathering together and being heard. 

Here, people keep paying to keep up with the cheaters so EA promotes cheating.

I've spent reasonable amount of many on game over the last 5-6 years of playing but enough is enough. I've stopped now.

It's all about the money. I understand it's business but you need to keep the balance. Find a way to ban hacked towns if you want our money.

Hackers have unlimited resources. They don't pay for game. We do to try keep up with hackers.

I'm going to start a new topic in forum encouraging honest players to stop paying for the game until it's fixed.

New Shield Buster attack....made cheaters unstoppable.

My very active club just stopped playing and paying real money for the game.

Players, let try to build a community to be heard by developers.

Our club has discussed a moratorium on any EA purchase in game until we see positive action from them regarding cheaters.

The problem is that EA tries to stop any similar initiative.

I've opened a separate topic in which I've encouraged all players to gather together and take some actions. 

Mainly stop paying for the game until it's fixed.

The post was deleted immediately and I was blocked to post a new topic on the forum.

That's how EA fic the problem.

Ban people who speak out on the forum.

We also stopped paying a while ago. It was mainly due to unaddressed by developer number of cheaters in this game.

The new attack just made it worse and we are not planning to spend a penny more.

If anyone recalls Battlefield Play4Free, they did exactly as OP suggested. The cheating got so bad that one day they popped up and said The Game Will Be Shutting Down In Four Days. Thanks For Playing! and that was that. So, it could happen here, too.

@smadath  Your analysis is quite interesting and could eventually become reality...however there is a tremendous difference between the level of participation in Battlefield Play4Free and SimCity Buildit. The revenue generated is exponentially greater and I believe it will take much more than cheating and hacking for them to make that move. Which makes their failure to take corrective action that much more mind boggling. My advice is spend the resources, get rid of this ridiculous privacy policy and cleanup the game before more folks decide to walk away.

i agree with most of what everyone posted. i too spent alot of time reporting cheaters and received the "general" response too. re: privacy topic - it reminds me of criminals who have more rights than victims in real life. at this point i don't care to know where the cheater lives or his name because i just want to see the cheating stop. that kind of response from customer service only deflects the real issue anyways. now i just hope and pray the cheaters will be banned.