Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26456312-20150607023651/@comment-26793627-20150816165755

Okay, I think I can clear out a few things. Darren's query first. No your team hasn't been hacked. When new players are looking to join a team, they can't manually search for one.FM suggests teams based on team activity, although it prioritizes any team that has one/more of your TSM friends, whether through G+/FB, already in it. Till such time as you were alone, your team was rated "not very active". The moment the second guy joined, your team got a bump in the activity status and became a lot more visible. So when new guys were looking to join, your team was either at the top of the suggestion list or somewhere near it. That's the reason the floodgates opened up and your team got filled up. And now, to the second part. All those level 0 players that you see, they have employed a hack that has unlocked all cars, fully upgraded. The flipside is they stay at level 0 forever, and may get banned by FM eventually. If you ever see "XXX has been removed/banned from the team. Error code: 10055", you'll know. And no, you or your team won't be penalised for them, but you'll lose any contribution that the hacker made to your team score in a challenge, if he is banned while the challenge is ongoing. And if they try to use some hack to massively and disproportionately increase the team score during a team challenge, chances are, your team score will be discounted. So you might consider kicking him out straightaway. I do have a few level 0 players in my team, but they have been contributing honestly and so far it has worked out all good. :)