Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-86.99.195.122-20180909155803/@comment-26388545-20180910140008

I just had a race at Spa that had the appearance of hackers and had some thoughts.

Right after the first corner, 3 cars jumped in the air and shot way ahead of me. One flew up in the air and spun all sorts of directions, other started going in and out of walls, etc. At first I thought it was over, 3 hackers were going to kill my points. But in the back of my head I thought, it's not reasonable that I'd meet 3 hackers in 1 race and it was perhaps a connection issue, time lag or something like that. So I just kept racing hard like I usually would and pretty soon they were in my rearview mirror. In the end I won by about 200m.

As I was racing I got to thinking, perhaps it's not just about time lag. Just think about all the things that have to go on for someone else's raceline to be appearing on your screen. Whatever they're doing needs to be converted to code, fed electronically into some cloud and then download onto your device and interpreted back into a car drivng on track. Well there's no way that all happens in real time. Also, if there are some glitches along the way you end up getting the crazy looking car on your track.

I know there are some people that are hacking specs but I'm finding more and more that there's few hackers in OMP. I can guarantee you that many people think I'm hacking when I blow by them through the Eau Rouge corner at Spa. I look at a Porsche a 100m ahead of me as I head into that corner and then he's 200m behind me as I'm at the top of the hill. I'm sure he's shaking his head saying "that guy hacked!" but I didn't... I'm just driving a car that can take that corner flat out, while your Porsche has to nail the brakes to not go sliding off track.

So someone else said, it's all about your time at the end of the race. I think this move to make all car see-through so we can't contact is the best solution with all of the bizarre variables that are going on. OMP has become one of my favorite parts of the game. At 1182 points I'm going to stay out of racing until this event ends.

Happy Racing!!