Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-106.68.94.141-20150818003212/@comment-26793627-20150818163757

Level 0 players are those who have applied any one of a number of hacks available on the internet, which unlocks all the cars in the game, fully upgraded. There is a variation of the hack where you can choose the amount of R$ or ((Gold)) that you want, and it magically appears in your kitty after you apply the hack. In the process, you are fixed at driver level 0 and can neither level up, nor earn ((Gold)) that way which legit players do. FM used to ban them previously...atleast till v3.3.0. I remember seeing many players getting banned from online gameplay and the error prompt 10055, which was an indication of such foulplay, used to be a frequent occurence in my race team. That being said, now I'm seeing more of level 0 players in the race teams, including my own. And I believe that the reason FM is letting them play is because most of them, if not all, are accumulating scores in the challenges in a legitimate manner. My team members certainly are.

PS: Hope is not lost for genuine players, like the contributor above says. In fact, till v3.4.1, I saw lot of teams having a single member contributing 90-98% of the scores in the top 100. I don't see them anymore. And genuine players do score 10000 overtakes. Here is proof. :) I just crossed 10k overtakes in the ongoing Boxster overtaking challenge.