Seems a few cheats around | Forums

[myflle]

One cannot help but be a little cynical as to some of the, shall we say, momentous leaps on the leader board. As a small example I was somewhat surprised to note that in the space of a day I'd dropped one place in my country's ranking. Not much you might say, however before that happened, the player below me had 11,000 calories less than me, and the person above 31,000 more. A differential if you like of 42,000 between those two. Now neither of these had scored anything more so someone had somehow leapfrogged the three of us. In addition as the next score for the person two above me was yet a further 29,000 away, a miraculous player had somehow achieved a minimum of 71,000 calories in a day!!!

Because I only look at players one or two places either side of myself, I have no idea who Superman, or indeed Superwoman, is. Whoever they might be, I can't really see the point in whatever method was used to do this. Most of us earn our points fairly and squarley, and this sort if thing tends to take the fun out of tracking your own progress.

[AuntieParticle]

While what you are seeing may be as you see it, that someone has figured a way to "burn" many calories in a short period of time, it is also possible that someone has had their console offline for a while and has accumulated a good chunk of calories over time. Their ingame calories may have just synced with the leaderboard for the first time in a while.

[myflle]

Thank you Auntie Particle. Seems a plausible suggestion. One that will allow me to sleep a little easier in the hope fairness prevails. As if all this exercise doesn't get one to sleep well in the first place.

[GedankeHydra8]

These people are quite often cheaters. I had this situation in the past, too, and searching for the gamertag showed, that the player was the member of an achievement site. And in his public profile I could see, that he got all achievements (including the 200000 calories) in less than a month.

I don't really care, whether these people get all achievements, but I am annoyed, that they are polluting the rankings. In my opinion Ubisoft should introduce either a calorie limit per day and/or remove people from the rankings, who haven't used the game for a long time.

[myflle]

Hi GedankeHydra8

Apologies for late response as only just seen this. Good to know that I'm not the only one who's a bit non plussed. Sadly I can't see Ubisoft being bothered, let alone doing anything. They simply set the system up and probably never bother to keep a check on it afterwards. Still the cheating goes on. I burn a genuine 20 - 25,000 a month, yet amazing that in the last few weeks at least six have passed me, having been absolutely nowhere previously. Again, it does make one wonder just what the point of them doing this is?