Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-88.97.61.110-20160731113102/@comment-86.134.27.105-20160731192247

Nick here. Steve (SPWD), thanks for your kind words but let's put an end to this, people can think what they want, nothing we can do about that.

I already had a decent time at Daytona ... I'm happy if I'm within 5% of the best times, I was already doing better than that with my tme of 1:08 ...but I wanted to see if I could do better to safeguard my position in group B as I was only 0.25 seconds from the bottom of the group.

The track loaded, I started my run, but then I noticed that it was the oval track, my ghost veered off to the left but I carried straight on. Yes, I should have stopped there and reset the game but curiosity got the better of me and I assumed it would pop up a "you've left the track" warning but it didn't. I wasn't even doing a very good lap ... 47 seconds!

Yes, I should have veered off-track or hit the wall or hit the pause button but I was thinking clearly, I'd been messing aobut veering all over the track when I suddenly reaslised that I was approaching the finish line, I didn't want to post a time which I knew would ring alarm bells everywhere and prompt shouts of "cheat". I hit the brakes but it didn't stop. As I posted on the answers.ea.com website when I won the Venom, it's one of those cars like the Regera which doesn't have brakes to match it's performance. I went over the line at about 5mph. I immediately tried to close the app but the time had already been posted.

20-20 hindsight is a wonderful thing.Yes, I should have paused the game or hit the wall or run off the track ... but I didn't.

I immediately went onto answers.ea.com and posted "WTTT. It loaded the wrong track!" and raised a ticket on the FireMonkeys support site. I forgot about posting on the Real Racing Facebook page, I responded to a few "cheat" posts but then thought it might be better (and more efficient) to create a new post but it wouldn't let me ... I assume that only FireMonkeys can create new posts?

Seriously, if I were going to try to post a cheat time then I'd either post a realistic time, say 1-2 seconds worse than the best time OR I'd post a ridiculously fast time. I didn't even need to cheat, I was already in group B and going to win 100 Gold.

I have NEVER cheated, I wouldn't even know how to, and really, where's the joy in winning by cheating? Yes, I wish FireMonkeys gave us more Gold or charged less Gold for the stuff in the game. But all of my results in the game have been achieved by playing fairly.

And if we're talking about "cheating", over the last few months I've not received 3 end-of-month 30-Gold rewards, I've not received a few WTTT 50-Gold rewards ("want to see your reward?", well yu can't!) and lost all my Gold (about 350 Gold) in a save-restore issue which finally prompted me to spend money on this game ... so the last thing I now want is to get banned (or have my data wiped) after having spent money on the game.

I'm hoping that FireMonkeys will see that I had no need to cheat AND take into account that I posted online and raised a ticket immediately and either restore my genuine time of 1:08 or reset my Daytona time. I also hope they give the 200 Gold to the guy I inadvertently pushed out of group A.

OK ... have at me, say what you will.