Reward Points

We have made a change to the reward point system.

Until today some people have been exploiting the system by running lots of free teams, accruing reward points & then transferring them all to a main account & buying 2D with these points.

From today free to play accounts are not able to send or receive reward points. They will continue to accrue them, but they can only be used for that particular team.

The system remains unchanged for 2D accounts.

Good move - I hadn't even thought of that kind of exploit.
Me - I'm basically too honest.

Jeez, some people...



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I understand and agree that was necessary, but... that was one of the reasons for some people still be in the game. I think now some will leave after that "free month" over.

Personally I think it would be more important to the game, ending with multi-accounts.

I think that it would help for a better game development.. Only 1 team per persone will result in, less complaints (lots come from our multi-accounts), and all the rest come from that, and developers will have a better focus on what is the really important.

I leave the question:

When will end the multi-accounts?

In the iGP Word Series I'm giving reward points out after every season with the "after season awards
A lot of people in the league liked it and will this mean I must stop with it? I see there's a problem but isn't there another solution? Like not fift reward points to accounts with the same IP adress?

Unfortunately this is not going to be reversed

:D Yuri, I won't mind whether season awards would be just honorable mention without actual reward point price that comes with it. They're just good fun and reward points can be bought at reasonable price, when needed and THAT is most important thing to game I think, that players actually buy their reward points to make developers effort worth it. Thanks! It's not worth cheating, that's like peeing to rice krispies you are going to eat yourself. Just use your money, it's best to everybody that way.

Andrew, if that not going to be reversed, one more reason to end with the multi-accounts, dont you think?

We are not against multiple accounts. I have more than one.

We just need to prevent people from exploiting the game.

You can't end multiple accounts after it's been running for so long. People have spent legitimate money with their credit cards on their accounts and some people have up to 3 subscriptions running at a time. Not to mention the countless hours that have gone into the progression of each account that people wouldn't be so free willing to give up.

How do you propose they even implement such a feature? If you forced everyone to hand pick a team to keep, or even two teams, the amount of time it would take to go through and delete/process/check IP addresses for all these accounts individually would take forever - The sort of time that the iGP dev's don't have to spare at the moment. Then you're stuck with having to give people refunds if they have subscriptions on more accounts than they're able to keep which takes a hell of a lot of effort and time.

To add to the point, how would it even be done? How can you work around people who play from the same location on the same connection? My friend James who got me into iGP played from work with his colleagues. All four of them had more than 2 teams each, and often shared computers while racing if one computer was being used for something at work. So even if you limited the amount of teams per person to certain computer specifications on IP addresses (like quake live does), or even by IP addresses by themselves, how do you get around situations like this?

Then there's still ways to get around the problem any way. I have two internet connections at home with 5 computers in my house, if you started limiting accounts to computers or IP address some people will still be able to get around the system. Then there is proxies aswell.

I don't think it's as simple as people think it is (you're not the first person to mention it)

I remember that at first, everyone got 2 points for each race. That was a bit more fair because right now you have to do 600 races (which is 2 years!) to get a small reward. I mean, activity should be rewarded a bit more. For example giving 1 point for qualifying to the race and 1 point for finishing it. Teams, who have 0% parts and don't qualify get 0 points, something like that.

+1 Pedro

I agree with Pedro

i agree with pedro also

I also agree

+1 to Pedro as well.

I used to buy rewards points and then send them to my B team to upgrade the health of the B team drivers. I did this because when I tried to buy rewards points with the B team account the purchace system would nor recognize that the account was different from my paid account. Thus I would have to set up more than one PayPal account to buy Rewards for each team I had. I didn't want to do this.

My guess is that usually the free accounts do not earn money from the rewards system. But if they did they will no longer.

I hate exploiters! But every game has them. It is sad that this kind of measure has to be taken.

I would prefer that every account has to be paid for but that B teams would be discounted to the owner of a fully paid account.

Few months ago EVERYONE got 2 points per race. Maybe it was a bug, but that was the case then.
Following was just an idea to perhaps improve the current rewards system.