Extremely unfair P2W advantage or bug?

[sturdy cave]

Is this intended for special events? I've seen people fly through special events before, but in many hours, not mere minutes.

[atomic bison]

This isn't p2w, this is just heavy grinding

p2w gets sub-10 minute times

And personally I wouldn't call a few hours "flying through"

Anyways, cheaters and p2w players aren't bugs, so don't belong here

Methods of cheating? Sure. But cheaters? Not really.

[ashen coyote]

Darwinium?

[atomic bison]

This can be done darwiniumless, at least if on mobile

[sonic ether]

We've done the research and its almost impossible to get a sub five minute time on events even with massive amounts of whaling 👀

We're actively investigating on how exactly these people get such short time onto the leaderboard

[atomic bison]

Ok, interesting

[sonic ether]

So if you do see people with incredibly low times on the leaderboard. Do @ me and let me know, It would be very helpful for us to figure out how exactly some are getting such low times

[glad perch]

@sonic ether Very fast guy

[ashen coyote]

Maybe save in a list the amount of darwinium someone spent in an event+phone time?

[silk elm]

I can send a video later of a method that these people might be using to get a low in-game time

[atomic bison]

Just dm the info, you don't have to say your going to do it here

[sturdy cave]

Here's another one in the current event:

[atomic bison]

Sir that is a more than reasonable time

[exotic cradle]

note, if it is a near 10 minute time it is likely an exploiter

or some rando fucking around with his phone's clock

[atomic bison]

For this event, yes

[woven lark]

I did state once before that one way to do this is to go over the time limit on the previous event, complete it within the new event’s time window, and collect rewards.
I did this accidentally when I went over the time limit on Tea, but it still was open in my phone, allowing me to complete and get 1st place in the new Fungal event in around “an hour.”
I then went back to Primary, which had the new Fungal event icon. When I hit that, it started me over in Fungal, and I was able to complete it for real in about 2 days (collecting a small reward for 4th place, I think).

[sturdy cave]

@sonic ether as requested, in the current event (James Webb Telescope)

[static phoenix]

nah that has got to be a glitch now way in hell

☠️

[atomic bison]

That's reasonable actually, for JWST specifically

[sturdy cave]

You think 13 minutes is reasonable to finish a 4 day event?

I'm clearly doing something wrong after a year of playing if I can't complete these in under a day without using DarWINium and having a ton of other bonuses 😦

[atomic bison]

Yes, I did it

[sturdy cave]

https://tenor.com/view/hmmm-thinking-batman-gif-6153870554148391864

[atomic bison]

Needs to be in one session ofc

Spam click, get 4x boost, refresh nanos lots

[exotic cradle]

they should make it so that using time warp will lower the reward depending on how many times you used time warp

so it’s easier to identify cheaters

and also so darwinium cheaters get an essential digital fuck you

[trim mesa]

@sturdy cave so here's an interesting one... Check out #5

And in case anyone's wondering, while I think #1 is a bit fishy, he's ranked master 10 so I assume using time warps, nanos, and a clicker, with the bonuses he must have, that time of 28 minutes may be possible

@sonic ether

Apparently this guy who is listed as #1 was called out as a cheater in an earlier poat... https://discord.com/channels/488478892873744385/1189448245118767124

[sturdy cave]

Yeah, those are interesting... first and last place both pretty sus

[trim mesa]

Just happened to notice looking through other bug reports

[atomic bison]

There is no such thing as a darwinium cheater

[atomic bison]

The time on first place isn't for JWST at least

But the amount of badges, 100%

[sturdy cave]

Well then.

@sonic ether

[ashen coyote]

42 seconds is an insane amount of time skipping

how is that time possible?

Even with time skipping, you would need 20 seconds alone to watch cutscenes

[silk elm]

extinction has a lot more cutscenes than other events so 42 seconds might even be under the total cutscene time

[sturdy cave]

And then the next guy....

[ashen coyote]

with the time frame between the image of the first guy and second one, it was definitly possible

[sturdy cave]

Possible for him to do it 19d when the event has only been running for 2h or so? Hmmm...

[ashen coyote]

Its a bug with time, or a time cheater

[flat herald]

And even with darwinium you can only use 4 time skips before there is like a 20 minute cooldown or something.

[rigid steppe]

This is a bug when you download a save from another device. The progress of the passage is saved, but the time is reset to zero. This is not cheating.

I also had it. I downloaded a save from my phone to my computer, the progress was already 50%, and the time was 0 seconds.

[ashen coyote]

Make a bug report about it then

[sonic ether]

Hey @everyone, I wanted to follow up and let you know that we've recently pushed an update that addresses many of the issues related to cheating in the game (⁠#📢-announcements). The update is now available on all platforms now.

If you guys encounter anymore cheaters in the future after updating the game please do let us know.