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    Originally Posted by G00nzi Go to original post
    Hello everyone,


    We are currently removing the cheated times/scores from all leaderboards. We are starting with Android Leaderboards and iOS will follow immediately after.

    How it works:

    1. Our tools allow us to check all global stats and verify that the calculations have not been tampered with
    2. The times/scores signaled as invalid will be removed from track specific leaderboards and global leaderboards
    3. Players flagged will be able to continue to play as normal but if they continue to cheat, they will be blacklisted from further entries on any leaderboard permanently


    Notes:

    • This is an ongoing process and we want to be absolutely sure that upon removing a player's entries these are double checked as cheater, regardless of how obvious it might seem.
    • This is not related to leaderboard recalculation and sorting issues which as you have seen from QA corner sticky is also in the agenda for future actions.



    Hopefully we will be able to achieve 100% valid leaderboard times scores in the near future.

    Ride on!

    - G00nzi
    Well.....Here's how the Leader Board for the 2nd week of the Rodeo Event looks like right now.....

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    Hopefully they will get this sorted out so there can be a fair judging of the top 20% otherwise there will be quite a few players missing out on this weeks prize because of these persistent hackers who are meant to be Permanently Blacklisted from making anymore entries to any of the Leader Boards as stated by G00nzi in the beginning BUT we keep seeing the same names pop-up all the time !?!?
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    Persistent hackers will always find a way. They can't be stopped, especially if they are up for the challenge. From experience, challenging a hacker is an invitation for them to get more creative. Piss hackers off enough and they'll really start making a fuss. Only sure fire way is to get players to pay for server protection, but I can safely say no one would go for that, especially for a mobile game. What's being done now is enough of a deterrent for many though.
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    Originally Posted by FatalDragon69 Go to original post
    Well.....Here's how the Leader Board for the 2nd week of the Rodeo Event looks like right now.....

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    Hopefully they will get this sorted out so there can be a fair judging of the top 20% otherwise there will be quite a few players missing out on this weeks prize because of these persistent hackers who are meant to be Permanently Blacklisted from making anymore entries to any of the Leader Boards as stated by G00nzi in the beginning BUT we keep seeing the same names pop-up all the time !?!?
    Hello,

    A very good point indeed. The reason? Event Leaderboards work in a bit of special way which require a bit more work from our side. Basically we can blacklist players but the way this impacts event leaderboards is a bit different. To cull this we have the ongoing process of "sort/remove/sort" every day and specially before the weekly event leaderboard comes to an end.
    We are currently working on a more permanent and automated solution to this.


    -G00nzi
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    Originally Posted by G00nzi Go to original post
    Hello,

    A very good point indeed. The reason? Event Leaderboards work in a bit of special way which require a bit more work from our side. Basically we can blacklist players but the way this impacts event leaderboards is a bit different. To cull this we have the ongoing process of "sort/remove/sort" every day and specially before the weekly event leaderboard comes to an end.
    We are currently working on a more permanent and automated solution to this.

    -G00nzi
    Hi G00nzi,

    I'm a bit worried about the event leaderboard currently.
    I skipped almost 3 full days from the convict chase and rodeo slots on the weekend, and still I'm on top 0,4%, with just ~5850 horseshoes.
    Could you confirm that it's correct? and the collected horseshoes amount is really that "low" to be in top players...?
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    Originally Posted by G00nzi Go to original post
    Hello,

    A very good point indeed. The reason? Event Leaderboards work in a bit of special way which require a bit more work from our side. Basically we can blacklist players but the way this impacts event leaderboards is a bit different. To cull this we have the ongoing process of "sort/remove/sort" every day and specially before the weekly event leaderboard comes to an end.
    We are currently working on a more permanent and automated solution to this.


    -G00nzi
    That's good to know, hope you do manage to figure out an automated solution for us soon !!

    Thanks for the info & reply G00nzi.....It's much appreciated and nice to have some interaction from you guys again !!


    Keep up the Great Work.....Cheers !!
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    Originally Posted by flooodi Go to original post
    Hi G00nzi,

    I'm a bit worried about the event leaderboard currently.
    I skipped almost 3 full days from the convict chase and rodeo slots on the weekend, and still I'm on top 0,4%, with just ~5850 horseshoes.
    Could you confirm that it's correct? and the collected horseshoes amount is really that "low" to be in top players...?

    I had an answer post to this previously but I think i actually deleted while using mobile. In short though the sorting that we are doing on a daily basis will affect your position directly so do expect the slider to update accordingly.

    -G00nzi
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    Originally Posted by G00nzi Go to original post
    I had an answer post to this previously but I think i actually deleted while using mobile. In short though the sorting that we are doing on a daily basis will affect your position directly so do expect the slider to update accordingly.

    -G00nzi
    Thanks for the answer!
    It has now been acting "normally", jumping between 2% and 1% depending when I play.
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    Originally Posted by bwestlie Go to original post
    Top 11 on Three Bridges on Android are cheated times. Would be cool if they could be deleted.
    Yeah I'm really wondering what happened. They were removing hacked times pretty quickly about a month ago when we got the new forum mods, but now they don't seem to be doing it anymore. All we want is Leaderboards that have integrity and are CORRECT!
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    Last line of my sign is still valid, yo! Also, just look at the "top" riders on the recent event LB... God almighty...
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    I think you need to look at the top of the Android leaderboard for the name pravdorub76 as he somehow has 5.4 million more than GTdave which I find inconceivable and so would you if you faced him. I played him in the Bunker just using the 8 free tickets and he needed to throw at least 30 or 40 golden tickets at it to win.
    If you faced him you would know he is nowhere near the high calibre of GTdave, in fact I'd go as far as to say that I'm better than him.
    He should not be there with that amount of points (out of nowhere) even if he glitched all the tracks in the game currently, he needs checking out.
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