asmith Active 8 years ago
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asmith replied to the topic Is Rovio weeding out the cheaters? in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
“I’ve suspected that the top scores were bogus for quite a while. I also wonder, like many, if the high scores aren’t just artificial, a way for rovio to generate money by making players strive to reach those scores.”
That’s a thought…
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asmith replied to the topic Is Rovio weeding out the cheaters? in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
“I dropped down to 18th place in the gold…in
some of the tourney levels, I’ve cleared EVERY pig, rock, ice, stone,
etc sometimes without using every bird and there are 10 people ahead of
me with scores thousands higher…I don’t get that…”Spike, I’ve had the same thing happen to me at times. Depending on the game, I’ve come to the…[Read more]
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asmith replied to the topic Is Rovio weeding out the cheaters? in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
MJ, I’m in the gold league and a Victoria is in first place with a score of 910,790. With my score I’m dropping like a speeding rock into a canyon. Yesterday, I was in 15th place and today I now see I’m in 23rd place with a score of 836,750. I might play some more with it come Sunday, but I’ve had it with buying coins so I’m trying to stay away…[Read more]
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asmith replied to the topic Is Rovio weeding out the cheaters? in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
Marcelle, Thanks for replying… I’ll be honest, I don’t trust that what’s being explained by Rovio is true. I can see a big advantage to either FB or Rovio, (whichever one is on the receiving end of the money) to allow cheating to go on. The harder honest people try to compete, the more money they make on coins.
Say, I don’t understand…[Read more]
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asmith replied to the topic Is Rovio weeding out the cheaters? in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
Spike, I’m starting to wonder if this whole tournament is a fraud.
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asmith replied to the topic Is Rovio weeding out the cheaters? in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
“I’m in gold league this week…16th place…the first place player right now is Hospi with 929750.wouldn’t it be a trip if NONE of the other players in our individual leagues weren’t even real, just randomly generated names with random scores?”
Spike, I am so glad you posted… you and I are thinking along the same line. Thanks to what you poste…[Read more]
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asmith replied to the topic Is Rovio weeding out the cheaters? in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
Dixi, “I tried to find Mr. Bird on FB today, no luck”
How do you even do a search for other players on FB? Only their first name is shown on the players pic. Honestly, I’m not too sharp when it comes to making my way around FB… generally I muddle around.
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asmith replied to the topic Is Rovio weeding out the cheaters? in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
Dixi, thanks for the update about Rovio’s response to you. You’re right… they need to be banned.
Spike, I’m really wondering if each of us is even seeing the same tournament each week even though we might be in the same league. What league are you in this week? I’m back in Gold. It would be nice to compare the 1st place score number as the…[Read more]
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asmith replied to the topic Is AB Tournament scores true? Absolutely, NO! in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
“Had #1 spot briefly then 4 new names popped up and BLAMO Back to 28th”
Yea, that’s how I felt last week.
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asmith replied to the topic Is AB Tournament scores true? Absolutely, NO! in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
“So far the cheaters have not struck I dont think. Top score is reasonable.”
So far, so good. I don’t think they’ve hit the Silver league, either. All of the scores are normal at this point and we’re all really close.
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asmith replied to the topic Is AB Tournament scores true? Absolutely, NO! in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
” I don’t see myself breaking the top 20 this week”
I’ve got a hunch about something. Judging from the comments and from what I’ve seen, I’m wondering if we’re all looking at different groups even though we might be talking about the same league. Last week I was in the Gold, but I’ve been kicked back to the Silver league for this week. It w…[Read more]
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asmith replied to the topic Is AB Tournament scores true? Absolutely, NO! in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
” how do said “impossibly high” scores compare to the high scores recorded here in the nest? Users here are very good at giving some insights into the methods used to reach their scores”
My scores are usually somewhere close to the scores of the examples on the power up nest examples posted each week. Sometimes those people that are cheating sco…[Read more]
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asmith replied to the topic Is Rovio weeding out the cheaters? in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
Mudcat, thanks for that bit of info. At least now I understand how I lost points. So far, in this weeks tournament, I’m in first place, but I don’t think any cheaters have invaded the list. It looks like I’m again playing with a full load of players and we all aren’t that far apart in score numbers. My guess is that when the cheaters invade,…[Read more]
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asmith replied to the topic Is Rovio weeding out the cheaters? in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
Agree!
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asmith replied to the topic Is Rovio weeding out the cheaters? in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
“I was annoyed to find, accidentally, a trhread where ABF’s purists were calling PU users cheats, mixing us up with hacks. That’s how I found my wy here.”
Good grief! Things are complicated enough without adding unnecessary and invalid complaints. No, people using PUs are not cheating. Those are available to everyone to use as they choose. FW…[Read more]
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asmith replied to the topic Is Rovio weeding out the cheaters? in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
More weirdness to report. Last week I was in the Gold league, with 545 points. Just now I went to play and see they kicked me back to the Silver and knocked me down to 497 points????? How in the world did I loose points over the weekend? Something is really off about this whole thing.
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asmith replied to the topic Is Rovio weeding out the cheaters? in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
“I’m as mad as you are at the discovery – you can’t tell me we are the only two to find the sites!?”
I’m not as mad as I am disappointed. Truly did love the challenge when I thought it was real. Gotta be honest, if I hadn’t been a reader of Angry Bird’s Nest, I probably wouldn’t have caught on to the cheating. I’d noticed a short while back…[Read more]
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asmith replied to the topic Is Rovio weeding out the cheaters? in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
Ok, I’m in shock!!!!!! Up until most recently, (last couple of weeks) I figured that those high scoring people probably were just better players than I. I didn’t have any comprehension on how someone could cheat on this game. I did as you said and found a link to a YT video that BRAGGED about their cheating hacks and how they can not be spotted…[Read more]
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asmith replied to the topic Is Rovio weeding out the cheaters? in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
” I found them advertising quite brazenly without much effort on You Tube.”
Advertising???? I just did a search for Angry Birds Friends on YT and all I could find was just different levels shown. Is there a link you could post… I’m curious.
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asmith replied to the topic Is Rovio weeding out the cheaters? in the forum Angry Birds Friends Forum 9 years, 6 months ago
“Not throwing good coins after bad or feeling as if we are being mugged.”
Being mugged… I hadn’t thought of it in those terms, but yes, that is what it feels like. Something is really off about this whole thing. Especially, the appearing and disappearing players along with their unrealistic high scores.
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