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Jamairoqui
@jamairoqui

@bubbley I apologize. I am not trying to be inflammatory. The point I am trying to make is that as far as Rovio is concerned, playing with the network off might not be considered cheating, they might not even be able to tell if someone is deliberately setting their game up that way. In that case, reporting people for doing that is pointless (no offense, pointless) and you might be better off trying to identify people who are cheating by manipulating their scores by modifying external data files as opposed to those who are using features contained in the game. In fact, there are times when I am grinding in arena that it looks to me like the network is off, even when I know it is active. At those times, the teams I face in a series, maybe 5 in a row, are total quails, with wood-league banners, mis-matched sets, power levels that are well below my team etc. I suspect that what is going on is the game can’t contact Rovio’s servers, goes into “no network” mode, and lets me play on (the “lone Red” team is a variant of this, in my opinion). So, according to you, I should stop and wait for it to come back? Not play the weaker teams? It’s a *feature* of the game. Furthermore, even if you are playing against CG teams, you still have to play the matches, and it seems to me that “winning” in the arena these days comes down to who can afford to spend an hour, or two, or three, grinding away to get 15.000+ points seven days a week.

What Rovio considers to be cheating might be more related to gaming the system for extra LCs or resources, since that is how they make money. They might in fact care more about who is figuring out ways to get multiple runs per day through the golden cloud castle, or why the game lets some people tap multiple times on event rewards, than they do about people figuring out ways to get easier teams in arena.

It is frustrating when you are up against people who you think are cheating. I read about it and think to myself “Why?” It’s not like anyone in RL gives a damn about how you are doing in ABE, and mostly people I know make fun of me for even playing the stupid game. So the idea of cheating to win ABE makes as much sense to me as seeing who can amass the biggest pile of sand on a beach that is 20 km long.

You’re probably not going to see this as an apology. But it is. It’s a funny old world.