Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24.146.196.148-20140923043802/@comment-94.197.121.226-20141118111631

I've been playing nigh on daily (to keep the 100% bonus up) for over a year. I have not 'hacked' the software to gain advantage, although I may have exploited the odd 'short cut' while racing for example, at one of the Silverstone variants you can take a left off the main straight just after the bridge & cut out a whole section of track by going across the grass in this way - usually good for gains of about 100 yards, but this doesn't work with the online tournament speed penalty for going off track, it more than wipes out any advantage. I've probably spent the equivalent of buying a full priced PC game on RR3 over the year. I currently have 86 of the 100 cars available (recent update added a few more cars, I did have all but about 10 very recently). I've pretty much hit a brick wall now though due to lack of gold earning opportunities (I have over $5m now but have nothing to spend it on).

I started focusing more on the online tournaments & weekly time trials in the hope of winning more gold that way, but I'm becoming rather disillusioned with it all to be honest. Like you, I suspect the winners in these events might be employing software 'helpers'. I've managed to carefully accumulate just over 1000 in the online tournament, that gets you in the top few hundred racers, but at this level, even if you win, you only get a few extra points to add to your score (often single digit 'winnings'), BUT if you happen to have a 'bad' race, because someone intentionally rams you, then you suddenly loose 100+ points & within a couple of bad races, you are back down to 600-700 range & have to start the very slow build up process all over again. I can't see or understand how the winners are accumulating 1500+ I really can't, unless they know some other 'trick' that has escaped me, or one that I choose not to use (software hacking cheats).

The weekly time trials are no better. At least one of the 4 races that you have to compete in involves one of the top cars which require lots of the precious gold (600+) you are seeking to win in order to buy the higher performance cars. Catch-22 really. So you are forced to race with an inferior car against those that have somehow managed to get a fully loaded high performance car....& of course, you are 20+ seconds off their lap times & out of the running to win some gold. Even when I have a fully loaded top car in one of the races the closest I seem to be able to get is around 4 to 5 seconds of the top times & I really don't see where I am losing that amount of time when I do a lap with little or no mistakes. Every now & then you see an impossibly fast time in a low spec car beating the top end cars & drivers, the obvious cheating times do seem to get removed by the end of the week, but this does prove that there are hacking cheating methods out there to get impossibly fast times, so it may be that the 'smart' hackers out there are cheating but are trying to post times only a fraction faster so that they don't stand out as obvious hacking cheaters & they get to keep their times & of course win the gold.

There are 'oddities' with the online tournament with cars disappearing/reappearing ghosting out with no collision detection etc. I think some of this may be genuine - for example if the internet connection is not great/slow & data is missing being passed back to 'race control' then hows the software meant to handle such 'drop outs'? maybe 'ghosting' a competitors car due to drop outs is an answer so that cars erratic behaviour doesn't impact the other cars - such ghosted cars may then disappear & reappear at will, & may also explain why I can seemingly win a race, but then be placed 2nd with a non-seen car beating me. Its deeply frustrating, especially when you have spent a night getting up to 1000+ only to have an unseen car beat you & you drop hundreds.

So what you are witnessing may be genuine, but maybe hacking cheaters - I don't know. If you were really cynical, you might think the software writers were behind the top online winning cars to stop the spending public winning precious gold so they end up spending real money on gold instead......