Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-35717121-20180820155030

There are innumerable threads about the cheating and chaos that’s become an accepted part of online racing. Accepted or not, it’s demoralizing to know that no matter, how well I drive, I’ll never break the top 50.

Every time I get into the top 100, I immediately become a target for any cheater, looking to score an easy 10-20 points by beating me.

A year ago, I decided to report every blatant cheater I came across. In order to do this, in the most effective manner possible, I would only report cheaters that gave me irrefutable evidence. Cheaters, at their core, are lazy and impatient. Otherwise, they’d dedicate the time to improve their driving skills and win in an honorable manner. Seasoned cheaters are diligent about not setting lap times that are impossible to replicate, in normal driving conditions. New cheaters don’t pay attention to this and you’ll see them set Le Mans, lap times, of 2:30 in medium grade cars. However, even seasoned cheaters get sloppy and occasionally, one will screw up and set a world record lap time.

Whenever this happened, in an online race, I’d take a screenshot of the race finish. Then I’d find the fastest car I owned, find the matching track, then run a lap to demonstrate the impossibility of setting a time that fast. I’d take a screenshot of my lap time and, whenever possible, the game record lap time.

Once I had my evidence in order, I’d open up A support ticket and file a complaint. I’d check the status of the cheater in the rankings and wait to see what would happen. I wish I could say that the support team would punish every cheater but that was not the case. However, every third or fourth complaint, would get investigated and all of a sudden, the cheater that has 1289 points in the online rankings, would all of a sudden disappear for a couple of weeks.

I don’t know how many complaints I’ve filed but it has to be In the hundreds. If my complaints were ignored, I’d just open a new support ticket and refile them. I sometimes wonder if the support staff didn’t leak my identity to various cheaters? A six months ago, I noticed that many of the cheaters were avoiding me. I’d log into a race and, all of a sudden, half the field would jump off. This has now become the norm.

I have all of my screenshots and lap times but I don’t know if it’s allowed to post photos of suspected cheaters names.

Has anybody else had any success in reporting cheaters or do you know of any cheaters that have been suspended, as a result of complaints? 