Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-29636239-20171019102935/@comment-28169398-20171020063325

141.213.172.70 wrote: What is a "Monkey lap" ?

Laps that the Firemonkey team inject into the event by spoofing IP addresses in order to reach the goal of the event, to make their numbers look better to sponsors of future events like the Community Challenge.

To hold up to audit, they could take the IP address of Inactve accounts and spoof those IPs to inject laps. There are well over a million downloads of the game, but only 100-200K active players. That means they could distribute a whole lot of laps over lots of accounts, and it would be very difficult to prove any wrong doing. It wouldn't be that much work for them to spoof IPs, and doing so would create a traffic trail that they could show to back up their numbers.

There are some serious coincidences going on the past few days with the timing of how particular milestones are being hit. I don't think anyone's analysis team is that good that they could predict that behavior prior to ever running this type of event to determine how milestones would be reached in order to make the timing of the event corresponde to predicted participation.

And while a few hundred thousand is a decent amount of opportunity cost revenue, it is probably far less that the cost that it took them to develop the idea and any pitches they might have to prospective sponsors.