@cosmicdebris (Nice avatar, btw) I’m not convinced that a jump of 15,000 or so represents cheating in the sense that Moa was adjusting his score. For one thing, it makes no sense. He didn’t need the points, and if he was just adjusting his score, why not take first place?
When you see people whose score increases by what seems like an unreasonable amount, (e.g., 60,000 points in five hours, or 40,000 points), what I think is going instead is that these players are working with their network connection off. When that happens, the scores don’t update to everyone, but they play on their device and their score increases locally. Then, when they reconnect to the network the score updates and propagates out to the rest of the league. So it looks like their score jumped, but in fact they were grinding with their network off.
People do this, I think, because it makes the teams they face easier. Every team is a CG team, and they tend to have lower ranks. If you are facing a stream of CG teams, it is possible to gain around 12,000 points in an hour if you are really dedicated and burn FEs to make sure you get the max reward each battle.
I’m just not sure all of these people we think are cheaters are in fact cheaters in the sense they are manipulating their scores. My hunch is a lot of them are playing the game, just not the same way you are. And it isn’t clear to me that fooling the game into running without a network connection is really cheating.
