The option to report suspicious lap times in rivals is a nice addition to try and keep the LB’s clean. Though so far it seems no action is taken. Just look at the current VIP rivals in the Hyundai. Restrictions are Stock C class, yet its flooded with upgraded S class cars.
Its been over a week and no action has been taken. Do T10 care about legitimacy of the leaderboards. We are not off to a good start. Blatant cheating like this and the Mid Ohio turn 1 cut are clear to see for all yet no action is taken.
Please dont let the boards become a farce like previous Forza’s.
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I mean… if all the things that seems like they could be a super simple straight forward fix… “delete entry” seems like one of the easiest things anyone at Turn10 could do… ESPECIALLY when it’s such a blatant thing as “stock only” oh look S-class… “how about nope! DELETED”
That assumes that anyone in charge at Turn10 cares about something other than money.
Don’t hold your breath for a leaderboard cleanup.
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They’ve been working on this series for 18+ years & still can’t keep leaderboards clean?
I’m sure somebody will be along to say something like “ack-shoo-uh-lee, it’s not that simple…” but it’s difficult for me to imagine that a 2-trillion-dollar industry giant like Microsoft is incapable of managing a technology as old & basic as online leaderboards.
I feel like they could if they wanted to, but they seem to have decided it’s not worth their investment.
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I’m a software developer. It’s ludicrous that it’s not trivial. I’ve worked with databases with trillions of rows where it can be done. On a table in a database for their leaderboards they are not very big. Should be VERY easy to do
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A common argument is that it’s not trivial to detect/determine which lap times are cheats (outside of the blatantly obvious ones like 3-second laps)…
…and that if they simply set a threshold for what’s considered the absolute fastest possible/acceptable lap time, then cheaters would continue cheating just enough to hit that threshold…
…and that as soon as they implement any anti-cheat measures, the cheaters will just come up with different ways to cheat (which begs the question: why bother taking any anti-cheat measures at all?).
It’s too far a stretch for me to believe that a 2-trillion-dollar tech industry behemoth like Microsoft is powerless to stay a step ahead of video game cheaters.
Agreed. You don’t have to look at the lap time alone to spot cheaters. There is enough telemetry to detect if the lap was legitimate with decent AI.
Sure… that’d be when nothing else was BLATANTLY displaying that they cheated… like a giant purple S on their entry…
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Agreed. They aren’t even doing the easy catches first
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I came to the forum looking for what constituted a suspicious lap.
Seeing the above with S-class cars in an A-class rivals comp not getting picked up and booted makes think it is not worth me reporting my gripe.
My issues was seeing people ahead of me on the leader board hitting cones on the way around on their reply. Regardless of them hitting cones, their lap down as “clean”.
When I try to beat that lap and hit the same cone my lap is dirtied. I was wondering should I report that? The evidence is there in the replay but that would require someone actually looking at it.
Based on the stuff that currently hasn’t been addressed I think having someone check the reply is somewhat wishful thinking.
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X class Daytona tri oval. Someone posted the top time in the AMR pro doing a top speed the car isn’t even capable of achieving. It’s the only AMR in the top 400 cars. Obviously cheating but the record stands weeks after reporting
Just give up, this game is dead 
T10 have never done anything to fix the cheating issues with leaderboards in previous games so why would you expect any change now?
So frustrating.
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