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Self crushing is out of control

2HIPSI2HIPSI Registered Users 6,984 Posts
Seriously how pathetic when the top 2 teams sit in a lobby and continuously crush their alternate account cars!!!! Then they admit to it in lobby chat.

Here you see Chief the leader of kings den self crushing cars from LUDLOW119 and Ludlow120 - amazingly both account were filled with 69 corvettes only

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Then we have IXI 3 IXI from kings den self crushing his own IXI thug life IXI and mad of boom, then his team mate Irie Love comes in to join the party and defend him and explain why they self crush. Amazingly both accounts had maxed stellas only

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    2HIPSI2HIPSI Registered Users 6,984 Posts
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    K1TSAL0TK1TSAL0T Registered Users 5,705 Posts
    Those people should be banned from turf just a suggestion
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    2HIPSI2HIPSI Registered Users 6,984 Posts
    Admitting to self crushing because they "have to do what it takes to beat them" referring to dramonite

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    2HIPSI2HIPSI Registered Users 6,984 Posts
    This is all the same stuff that used to happen back in the day with chicken points
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    2HIPSI2HIPSI Registered Users 6,984 Posts
    They won't pink race a random racer but they sure will crush their own cars, pathetic
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    traviss45traviss45 Registered Users 1,303 Posts
    this is bullshyt. each racer should personally be banned from turf.
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    adeechiadeechi Registered Users 7,246 Posts
    it's their way of playing... if they want to spend a ton of rrc filling up accounts with tuned cars so be it. That's their way of playing imo and tbh the first place car's value is never worth the rrc or time they put into self-crushing. joke's on them
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    BTSRBTSR Registered Users 427 Posts
    These are the rich kids who spend tons of money for their cars. I've seen people bragging they spend thousands of real life dollars on this game, sometimes even per week. Glu loves these people.
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    2HIPSI2HIPSI Registered Users 6,984 Posts
    Yea I get it, but in all reality these teams wouldn't be even close to the top if they raced legit like the remaining T25
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    TheGangstaTheGangsta Registered Users 13,283 Posts
    adeechi said:

    it's their way of playing... if they want to spend a ton of rrc filling up accounts with tuned cars so be it. That's their way of playing imo and tbh the first place car's value is never worth the rrc or time they put into self-crushing. joke's on them

    the only way to fix self crush or aka the current **** up RR is make Racing Rival have seasons or ladders.
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    shalootshaloot Registered Users 48 Posts
    How would seasons or ladders help prevent this? I've been thinking that it would be difficult for Glu to combat self crushing without potential drawbacks. I'm not arguing with you, I'm just curious about your proposed solutions. I don't know what you mean seasons or ladders would do
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    RepresentingJDMRepresentingJDM Registered Users 3,888 Posts
    Don't wanna try and mix up any real info but didn't the t1 team in the smokey firebird event way back in the day get banned for self crushing? Why did CIE give a fxck and Glu doesn't for some reason?
    Oh wait, dat money tho :'(
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    shalootshaloot Registered Users 48 Posts
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    Yea exactly RJDM - it's a money factory for them. Can't see why they would do anything to prevent self crushing as they have nothing to lose. Unless other teams got organized and boycotted the game or something. Which won't happen either.
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    2HIPSI2HIPSI Registered Users 6,984 Posts
    So let's put this in perspective - 1st place team did 3.7 million points, divided by 20 members = 185k points per member!!!

    Crushing a single maxed R class car achieved 1k points per crush, so basically each member crushed 185k cars?!?! Let's get real, turf has become a Fkin joke now. The top 2 teams this week should be stripped of prize car end of story
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    RogerTheTodgerRogerTheTodger Unregistered / Not Logged In, Registered Users 152 Posts
    Unless they have some sort of hack to get the cars for free that is totally DUMB!
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    BTSRBTSR Registered Users 427 Posts

    Unless they have some sort of hack to get the cars for free that is totally DUMB!

    They're rich and spend gems. This is where the thousands of dollars per week some braggarts, apparently spend.

    It is all for ego-stroking. "I'm #1!!!" nothing else.
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    CHSJACHSJA Registered Users 407 Posts
    Please.... Where do you think all the duplicated cars ended up going? On these guys main account?? Of coarse not. They ended up in hundreds of hold accounts for this purpose. Most of these guys arnt spending a penny. These were illegally obtained cars to begin with.
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    [RR] Ryyst[RR] Ryyst Registered Users, Moderators 3,814 Posts
    We're working on improving matchmaking which will also make it harder for teams to "race" their own accounts. In other words, you won't be seeing the same racers week to week to week in your lobbies. Which would make it hard to "self-crush" since you'll never know where your accounts will wind up
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    crazyjrcrazyjr Registered Users 547 Posts
    edited July 2016
    Because they allow crushing for extra points. it's going to be exploited. Until GLU does something, there is nothing anyone can do. Much like piggybacking, right now. Was in a 20 lobby, every other car, but me, was an R class. I was in a B class M2. does the name custer mean anything to you? BTW, where are the F'ing bots?

    BTW Ryyst, unless you changed something, you can't race your teammates, unless they use a sister team. How can you make that stop? If you set ally/ rival setup, all they have to do is set to rival. Nothing will change and the exploiters, will continue
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    C y r u sC y r u s Registered Users 293 Posts
    Ryyst you had a fix to this when lobbies changed every event. Since the update to 5.0 it's the exact same racers week in and week out. Lobbies and opponents changed each and every event. I'm amazed at how little the devs know about their own game. You say your working on a fix but you already had one, lost it and didn't realize it
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    HaBadTractionHaBadTraction Registered Users 1,347 Posts
    How do they get so many of those cars ?
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    dulwhitedulwhite Registered Users 118 Posts
    This is GLU's intention. They know a lot of veterans who have too many cars need to get rid of them. So, they crush cars, even if it's their own, to get money out of the system. They get a fancy car for the several they crush-but the RRC and winnings are minimal otherwise. Why do you think turf cars are worth so much? The winners of the same cars are spending plenty to get them.

    Let them self crush, they are overall complaining about the new system and they don't want to have to re-tune thier cars; they might be just giving a last stand before they quit and move to another game anyhow. Good riddance.
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    2HIPSI2HIPSI Registered Users 6,984 Posts
    dulwhite said:

    This is GLU's intention. They know a lot of veterans who have too many cars need to get rid of them. So, they crush cars, even if it's their own, to get money out of the system. They get a fancy car for the several they crush-but the RRC and winnings are minimal otherwise. Why do you think turf cars are worth so much? The winners of the same cars are spending plenty to get them.



    Let them self crush, they are overall complaining about the new system and they don't want to have to re-tune thier cars; they might be just giving a last stand before they quit and move to another game anyhow. Good riddance.

    That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever read, I've been turfing since turf wars were created and being a senior member I don't get any special treatment I can assure you that
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    dulwhitedulwhite Registered Users 118 Posts
    I didn't say anybody got special treatment. The first place turf winners get a prize at the end of turf. So for the next few weeks it'll be single sided as things equalize. Hopefully.
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    CHSJACHSJA Registered Users 407 Posts
    dulwhite said:

    This is GLU's intention. They know a lot of veterans who have too many cars need to get rid of them. So, they crush cars, even if it's their own, to get money out of the system. They get a fancy car for the several they crush-but the RRC and winnings are minimal otherwise. Why do you think turf cars are worth so much? The winners of the same cars are spending plenty to get them.



    Let them self crush, they are overall complaining about the new system and they don't want to have to re-tune thier cars; they might be just giving a last stand before they quit and move to another game anyhow. Good riddance.

    This is one of the dumbest things I have read also.... Not to mention the lack of respect for the "last stand veterans"... Lol man..They helped build the game your playing moron. How about good riddance to you new ignorant players , who dont have a clue about the time and dedication it has taken to get here, and continue to stay, even after continually being shit on.
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    dulwhitedulwhite Registered Users 118 Posts
    Say what you will, if you think GLU hasn't anticipated this behavior, obviously you have been mentally double-crossing yourself. They have the cars, they crush the cars, they get points, and they win the turf event.
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    BTSRBTSR Registered Users 427 Posts
    Crushing cars = $$$MORE MONEY FOR GLU$$$

    Yeah, they clearly didn't think of this. /sarc
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