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Happy Bird-day to the self-proclaimed “grouchy old SOB” (quoting from 4 posts up :)
Enjoy your day @stevep … a captain salute for you and your dedication to this team and forum plus your willingness to always voice your honest opinion (politically correct or not). It’s always nice to know to that you have our backs too … hehe…if @phoenix6 is team ambassador, then you’re the head of security :)))
@nastyteddy — At the risk of getting on my soapbox and rambling on about my feelings towards the “multi power up / special powers” debate, @phoenix6 represented the concern well. We like to race based on skill and effort and not rely on the games advantages to win
My position from Day 1 of establishing my team was that we had to race within the rules Rovio intended. You can choose to use or not use the powers given by the game as long as you’re not manipulating the way you acquire them. So using @phoenix6 example as a guide for my point, I am okay if someone wants to spend real money to add gems buy power ups and use them 1,000 times or if you choose to earn them by logging significant race time in any of the games options to point you can afford to use them 1,000 “for free”. I’m also okay with watching videos to earn them if you are so inclined to add them (our team is divided on this one given their desire to remove ads from freemium games). These are all things the developers intended us gamers to do. This is not cheating BUT drives some behaviors to hurt the spirit of competition and take away from the overall “fun factor” this game has to offer us.
What I really and truly can’t stand are teams that “come out of nowhere” and end up with leaderboard results that indicate they may have used a hack or cheat tool. My ABGOFAST / ABGOFORIT team is one of the longest (if not longest) active team in the game. Our race time and race results are achieved through many many races and many many dedicated hours. We’ve seen teams come and go. The obvious hackers and cheats post scores > 1 million and Rovio eventually cleans them out (btw…very quickly now). We collectively helped Rovio with this matter months ago. Without us and this forum, the tool would not have been developed so quickly. We demanded it and Rovio listened. I can remember early on reporting at least one hundred cheaters to help them trace the accounts to see how the game got hacked. Yes…maybe I had a selfish reason to do so – I wanted to be “number one” and was frustrated to show only a top 50 when I knew my score was possibly the strongest legit score in the game. Hell, @janmej and I early on were considered cheaters by Rovio support because “it was not possible to score this many golden eggs so quickly since the team multiplayer game was released” … turned out they didn’t know the definition of FAST and eventually realized their error and all was forgiven :)
Other “cheaters” are more careful. Almost criminal in their behavior as they attempt to deny and hide their manipulation. They actually will manipulate their score to give the illusion they’re legit racers. We have had a “nameless person” let’s call him Victor to protect his privacy…okay…no…the guy was named Victor…I have choice words I can use here but will kept it clean…and I don’t usually get mad about something but this guy was a liar and deceived me…anyway a few of my more skeptical teammates warned me about this guy as they felt his story didn’t seem right….fishy was the word used by at least 3 of my team mates. Anyway… this Victor put score of 75,000 but then posted pictures of his success with manipulated gems count of 10 million. He was proud that he was in the top 10 at the time. Then next day, his eggs “disappeared”. He claimed Rovio app had bugs and didn’t understand why he couldnt get support to “fix his egg count problem”. Then magically within 12 hours of the issue, his eggs came back and were 5,000 higher than before they disappeared. My iOS friends know they can lose eggs and then log back in an get them to come back but never saw them change for “races Ihad while I was waiting for the eggs to get fixed by Rovio”
When I finally reported this guy, it turns out he is a well known cheat / hack that does this for many of Rovio’s games. Almost like he’s on a Rovio’s most wanted list with a picture that say “don’t help this a-hole”
I can’t prove it but always felt that some racers on Vuks were like this person I mentioned above. Maybe that is why the team has disappeared now. They’re in cheater jail.
That said, I never thought team Nasty Dudes were cheating. I could tell you guys were gamers as you very cleverly were changing your driver name in attempt to send messages to each other. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could send a message to your racing team or opponents to find out if the race is truly “live” vs “recorded”?
Well done @nastyteddy … whether this was your idea or a team mate it really was fun to get matched up to you guys to find out what the next series of messages. II would welcome and love if you send messages to your team somehow to get them all to join us here. We could have fun with the competitive trash talk. We all enjoy having fun here and don’t mean to offend or bully. Our team reaches many countries and time zones and if you get a chance to know us, we’re not all that bad…BUT one thing is for damn sure…we’re all FAST FAST FAST !