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PurpleMoon
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the answer to weeding out cheaters… yes they are.

I had something happen last week. I was in first place, scored an additional 13K on a panel, went back to main scoreboard and found now in 3rd place with 2 above me. The 2 were not there 15 minutes prior. Checked all panels and found them in 1-2 place in all panels except for the 1 i had just scored the additional 13K. I wrote to Rovio, saying there is no way at 1:30AM on Sunday morning for 2 folks to go to 1-2 place in 15 minutes in all 5 (almost 6) panels, when I and everyone else had been working all week to slowly get to the top.
They wrote back.. here it is….

Hello,
Currently the game works so that if a person is flagged as “possible cheater” (they get too high score on one level) they are hidden from other users but they will still see everyone. When another user is flagged, they will see both regular and flagged players. So the 2 users that received too high score on a level were flagged before you, which made them invisible for you until your score went over the limit. That is why these users seemed to “appear from nowhere”, as they had already been there for some time.
Kind regards,
xxxxx (i PurpleMoon x’ed out their name)
Rovio Support Team

Above reply explains what happened, my score of additional 13K on that panel, put me “invisible” and now i get to see all prior players including the 2 “invisible” that really had been higher than me, i just didnt know it before. BTW… I also got a note saying the 3 ‘too high’ scores were found legal as they had mis-figured panel max score , so we all 3 were now ‘visible’ and legit.

PurpleMoon