Strange Sights scoring anomaly (cheating?)

trenchdigger
trenchdigger Posts: 266 Mover and Shaker
in MPQ General Discussion

Just completed strange sights PVE. Top 10 all within 60 odd points of each other (112,200 ish), which is normal, but the person who finished in top spot had 1800 more points than anyone else. This wasn't a flip, everyone started at the slice start time, so how can one player be so far ahead of everyone else without cheating, and how do we report this?

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  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,894 Chairperson of the Boards

    To report a cheater, just screenshot the score and send a ticket to Support@d3go.com with the player name and alliance.

    They will investigate.

    It is quite possible to cheat and add points to your score, others have done it.

  • trenchdigger
    trenchdigger Posts: 266 Mover and Shaker

    @bluewolf Thanks, I have reported. It was slice 3, that just finished at 2:10pm GMT. Presumably I am not allowed to share the name here, but anyone who played slice 3 can look at the results and view the top 10.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,894 Chairperson of the Boards

    I was in the same slice and SCL and I would not have expected that account to intentionally cheat.

    It's possible they had a 5E or some other weird thing that gave them an advantage given the general state of things.

  • trenchdigger
    trenchdigger Posts: 266 Mover and Shaker

    That makes a lot of sense as the 5e node scores 645 per clear on day1, so 3 clears would be 1935 points, although strange that literally only 1 person gained this advantage.

    Apologies to this player if I have inadvertently asked customer support to investigate, but if nothing untoward has occurred then it shouldn't affect anything.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 8,064 Chairperson of the Boards

    @trenchdigger said:
    That makes a lot of sense as the 5e node scores 645 per clear on day1, so 3 clears would be 1935 points, although strange that literally only 1 person gained this advantage.

    Apologies to this player if I have inadvertently asked customer support to investigate, but if nothing untoward has occurred then it shouldn't affect anything.

    You should never hesitate to report someone who you think might be cheating in MPQ. Nothing happens to the player unless they're found to be cheating -- they never even find out they've been reported. They investigate pretty thoroughly so you don't have to worry about someone innocent being punished, either.

    Lots of players are afraid to report, or assume that others have already done it. It takes 5 seconds and it really helps!

  • ArchusMonk
    ArchusMonk Posts: 257 Mover and Shaker

    Pretty sure you’re talking about someone in my alliance. If so, he did not cheat. He had the 5e in the first sub. Why he had it I do not know, but you know. Unity

    PS - he absolutely expects to be reported. We even joked about it in chat, but nothing will come of it since he didn’t do anything wrong.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 8,064 Chairperson of the Boards

    This seems pretty straightforward to fix. If some players got an extra node's worth of points, they shouldn't be penalized and they didn't cheat. But other players who missed placement cutoffs because of the bug should get moved up to the next tier of rewards.

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