Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-29746749-20180810171303/@comment-29898480-20180813221312

176.160.13.167 wrote:

It seems to say that anything FM deem unacceptable whether a design fault or anything else can result in bans.

As discussed above it is clear that FM know about all these exploits but chose not to do anything about them. They have in some cases (using time shift to service, adding upgrades to get a fast time in WTTT and then restoring, multiple levelling up during the old special events by force closing on green banners etc) but not others. With exploits of the shadier variety* FM seems to get around to fixing them eventually, like the examples you cite and the WTTT exploit(s) they're closing now, but they don't bother issuing bans expect perhaps in the most egregious and public cases. Why it takes them so long to close them is anyone's guess, but as you note it suggests (as does the lack of bans) that they don't much care about them.


 * Le Mans glitch = shady, perpetual endurance = not shady