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Mugwumps wrote: Powerup777 wrote: Top cheaters are removed during the course of online events.

There's a problem with removing the top cheaters after the event ends (that make the final cut of cheaters), in terms of how would you calculate who gets reimbursed what amount of payout? That would surely change the payout scale. Forever people would scream that's not fair. The vast majority of the time top cheaters are not removed. They weren't removed during the Top Speed event that inspired this thread and they frequently aren't removed from WTTT. Occasionally they are. Again, in the top speed event, the top 10+ teams were chalk full of obvious cheating. That's 200+ accounts. Monkeys didn't do a damn thing.

All they would need to do is flag cheaters and have a script remove them in the final seconds of the competition.


 * 1) FM says they are actively screening for cheaters, while it's likely not evident to the end-user
 * 2) Scripting a cheater flag to remove their score from the last minutes of an event is taxing for servers that's already burdened computing payouts for thousands of players. The act of each event would have it's own threshold criteria- which creates a huge bucket of new problems also
 * 3) Their team is actively working on solutions to proactively combat that type of cheating


 * That's about what I got for feedback. Some will say "oh, OK", others will cry we're being lied to. Just know that I'm surprised they gave comprehensive answer (as many times we don't get any replies at all).

Yes Drestin, that means they don't know how to solve it yet (or they would have). But I think they think they're on course to a solution.