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@bubbley @kennymcc I’ve tried to make this point before. “Jumping” scores are not necessarily evidence of cheating. For example, if you are playing with no network connection your Arena score can increase but it won’t propagate through to the leaderboard until you connect back to the network. So let’s say you’re getting on a trans-Atlantic flight and set your device up to run ABE with no network connection before you take off. While in the air, without a network, you grind 5 hrs of Arena battles and accumulate maybe 12,000 points. When you touch down and reconnect to the network, ABE then updates your account and your leaderboard jumps up 12,000 points. It looks like you cheated (whether or not you consider playing while not logged into the network as cheating is a different topic), but in the case of network issues causing jumps, the battles still have to be fought and won. So as far as Rovio is concerned there was no cheating because maybe there is a log of each battle.
Because some devices can be made to run ABE without a network connection, it is possible for someone to play an entire week in a league with their device not connected to the network, then connect on Sunday morning and have the highest score. It seems like a stupid way to approach the game to me, but if it’s possible and not too difficult to accomplish then I think it’s likely that someone out there is doing it. “Jumping” scores that are consistent with what people could get by grinding over an hour, day, or week are not prima facie evidence of cheating.