Creating multiple user accounts to reap the benefits of Seasonal Events

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I'm wondering what people think about creating multiple accounts so you can run the Seasonal Events more than once?

What I mean is, since you earn so much prize money, you use the money on your alternate accounts to buy cars and gift it to your main account (but NOT for duping). You're still putting in the work in terms of winning the race, but since it's so easy, does anyone consider this to be an 'exploit'?
 
You new account will only have $20,000. Can you buy a Ford GT 06 or a Nascar for the events....?

If you gift the car to your alt account, win the race. You still have to gift the car back the your main account. buy a new car and gift again after 24 hours. That's just dumb....

It can be done but take at least 48 hours to gain any real benefits.
 
hot_cheese
You new account will only have $20,000. Can you buy a Ford GT 06 or a Nascar for the events....?

If you gift the car to your alt account, win the race. You still have to gift the car back the your main account. buy a new car and gift again after 24 hours. That's just dumb....

It can be done but take at least 48 hours to gain any real benefits.
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What I did was do 2 license tests or so to get lvl1, use the kart to run the 2 easy level races, then buy the prius for the prius race and go from there. Lvls and credits are easy from there.
 
Slashzor308
Not an exploit at all. If you do the work, you deserve the rewards, simple.
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This is why I gave no argument for it being an exploit.... I really don't know, but gut feeling says that PD obviously only want you to get the CR. reward once, which sets it apart from the GT Life events. Although you are doing the races more than once, you can do this anyway but without reward after the first time....
 
Slashzor308
Not an exploit at all. If you do the work, you deserve the rewards, simple.
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Of course it's an exploit. If they'd meant for you to be able to get the rewards multiple times they would have made it like that.

Knock yourself out if you want to do this, but you are kidding yourself if you think this isn't a form of "cheating".
 
DanDiplo
Of course it's an exploit. If they'd meant for you to be able to get the rewards multiple times they would have made it like that.

Knock yourself out if you want to do this, but you are kidding yourself if you think this isn't a form of "cheating".
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And how would you classify upgrade the engine's CPU in a 1960's car?
 
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hot_cheese
You new account will only have $20,000. Can you buy a Ford GT 06 or a Nascar for the events....?

If you gift the car to your alt account, win the race. You still have to gift the car back the your main account. buy a new car and gift again after 24 hours. That's just dumb....

It can be done but take at least 48 hours to gain any real benefits.
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Once you gift one car to your alt account and win one of the races, you'll have enough money to just buy the car you need for the next race. I agree that having to transfer every car from another account would be too much of a hassle. Basically, you'd be buying the cars 2x for both accounts.

I would say it's a bit of a grey area. So you get an extra $3-5million credits every week or so, which doesn't really throw the balance of the game out of whack IMO.
 
tezster
I'm wondering what people think about creating multiple accounts so you can run the Seasonal Events more than once?

What I mean is, since you earn so much prize money, you use the money on your alternate accounts to buy cars and gift it to your main account (but NOT for duping). You're still putting in the work in terms of winning the race, but since it's so easy, does anyone consider this to be an 'exploit'?
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Ive done it and it's amazing that you can reach lv24 with just the seasonal events .

I found a super bird on my alt account in used cars that i could not find in main acc.

Also , i gifted myself a Nascar cause i had 4 of them which would be like gifting one to your friend for the same reason .
 
bullie77
And how would you classify upgrade the engine's CPU in a 1960's car?
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I just consider the ECU tune to be a carburetor tune-up and timing adjustment on the older cars. PD should have done the same thing just by changing the text and picture in tuning menu. 👍
 
Exploit? I don't think so...I consider an exploit to be those undertakings which involve manipulating game save backups, shutting your machine to manipulate loading a ticket, etc.....

The game ALLOWS you to add multiple users, gift cars on a regular basis, etc.....big difference.....

EDIT: That being said, I don't care if people exploit the game at all, it's their game......
 
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bullie77
And how would you classify upgrade the engine's CPU in a 1960's car?
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It's certainly not an "exploit" since the game explicitly lets you do this. It may be a mistake on the part of PD to allow this, but allow it they do.
 
hot_cheese
You new account will only have $20,000. Can you buy a Ford GT 06 or a Nascar for the events....?

If you gift the car to your alt account, win the race. You still have to gift the car back the your main account. buy a new car and gift again after 24 hours. That's just dumb....

It can be done but take at least 48 hours to gain any real benefits.
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Those of us that have the Stealth and Chromeline cars get them in every account we open....

They're not competitive but they sure can crank out the CR and XP....:D
 
Not a exploit or cheat at all. No game or system flaws are being manipulated to do this. Pretty good idea actually.
 
TRC GeorgiaDawg
Not a exploit or cheat at all. No game or system flaws are being manipulated to do this. Pretty good idea actually.
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Until the leaderboards show up. Then all those accounts to multi tag with. I don't think it's a good idea. But i'm not going to tell other not to do it.
 
not going to lie i did it. gifted my alt account the wrc car, instant 1.5mil credits. buy car, send it back to main account to complete races. 0 grinding. but then my driver doesn't gain as much xp because i wasn't grinding in the meantime.

lol, i knew a kid that did this with that old pokemon gameboy game.

flame away.
 
xSLOW POKEx
Until the leaderboards show up. Then all those accounts to multi tag with. I don't think it's a good idea. But i'm not going to tell other not to do it.
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Yea, I won't ever use mine on a leaderboard as I hate multitagging for the purpose of getting your name on a LB more than once. But the way I see it, those who were going to sully the LB's with multiple accounts were going to do it whether they use a second account to get extra credits or not.

But I do understand what you're saying. Multitagging is going to be a massive problem on PS3. It was bad enough on XBL. But between not allowing people to change their tags, so they have to create new ones when they change teams or whatever, and the fact that you can have unlimited free accounts it's going to be ridiculous.
 
I also found a Super Bird on my alt account in used cars that i have been looking to buy for a while now and have never seen it in main account .
 
I do this so that I can buy the rare expensive cars that show up really early in the game. I'm still using the credits I earned by doing the races myself using the cars that I purchased, so it seems fine to me.
 
I've been doing this since the first seasonal event. Pretty surprised that a thread on this hasn't shown up until now.

The process can take several days but I just gift the car needed to my second account, win, and then just buy cars I want to use and try out and send that back a day at a time. I can understand it being an "exploit" but since I've basically finished A and B spec I'm not using the cars to dominate race series. Just want to test drive and try them out.
 
Making seperate accounts to farm cash is no differnet then doing grinding at Indy. I see nothing wrong with it
 
In world of warcraft we used to do very similar stuff by creating extra characters who can supply stuff/money to the main character, this is nothing new and is not classed as cheating imho. Once you get the 2nd or 3rd account up and running with suitable levels then you have them forever to use to farm cash or the ucd, worth it feels slightly more honest than duping/glitching also :p
 
Its your game, play it how you like. The fact is that everyone here paid the same amount for the game (SE and CE, extra money was for the extra material, not the game itself) and you are paying to have fun. For me, that is working through and earning things as the game intended. For others (and I completely understand why) its skipping all the levelling up stuff to get behind the wheel of the greatest cars as quickly as possible.
 
I'd consider it an exploit to use it to gift cars between multiple accounts so won't do that but don't have any problem with others doing it. It's your game.

I have set up a second account ready for the WRS here so have done some seasonals twice. I've not gifted any cars either way but did some events on the second account to get cars for the seasonals and have now done the first two sets of seasonal events. Your level goes up a ridiculous amount at the start (unlike in my main account where even the seasonals are now not shifting the bar that much).

Will probably continue to do all the seasonal events on both accounts. That way, If I ever decide to try to level up the second account to 40, there should be no need for any grinding.
 
OK this is not in the spirit of the game.

As some others and me have explained before, some people see this as a simulator and not a game. More cars and tracks are more important then playing.


If you would be cheating, who would you be cheating but yourself, there is no competition to get most cars or cars quickest as far as I know of.

Cheating for me is:
1) Modifications to HW that are not readily available and allow to drive faster then others and using them in competitions or rankings where this is not foreseen. (infamous systems to flat shift)
2) Modifications to SW that are not readily available and allow to drive faster then others. (e.g. Hybrids, when you are not disclosing you did this. Or putting a F1 car in an other car ranking, etc..) and using them in competitions or rankings where this is not foreseen.
3) Going in a competition with a certain set of rules and not respecting them (like GTPlanet registry)

It certainly is an exploit = use of a bug or design flaw by a player to their advantage in a manner not intended by the game's designers.
 
Vince_Fiero
It certainly is an exploit = use of a bug or design flaw by a player to their advantage in a manner not intended by the game's designers.
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Now wait a minute Vince.

You say that if someone else give me the car, than it's ok, because gifting the vehicles is the part of the game design, conceived by designers.

If I drive the game on my primary account, use my own skills and knowledge in order to obtain some credits through gameplay, than buy the car with those same credits and gift it to someone else - than it's also ok.

But if I drive the game my secondary account, use my same own skills and same own knowledge in order to obtain some credits, than buy the car with those same credits and gift it to myself on primary account - than it is not ok.

OK.

Would the above be OK if I was schizophrenic and had professional-examination that verifies my schizophrenic status? Would it be considered as an "exploit" or just beneficial outcome of my psychological status?

If yes, than why it is "exploit" if I am not schizophrenic?
 
pezzarinho17
I would class it as an exploit, yes...
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Vince_Fiero
OK this is not in the spirit of the game.

It certainly is an exploit = use of a bug or design flaw by a player to their advantage in a manner not intended by the game's designers.
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I think not...

So your saying me buying 2x copies of GT5 and running purely B-Spec on the second account/ps3 to buy and gift cars to my main acct/ps3 and mates is an exploit? No, no it's not...

One way or another whether on a second acct or a second ps3, you have to do the work to gain the prize you gain nothing but another car which affects NO-ONE else but yourself...

Duping via saving game, gift, restore is an exploit playing the game on several accounts is not...
 
I think people get too worked up over the exploit term and tend to assume it means the same thing as cheating which it most definitely does not.

Exploiting is not a bad thing. It just means you are taking advantage of something such as using 2 psn accounts which is requires you to do nothing other than sign into the other account. Psn is designed to work this way and they knew it. If the developers had a problem with this they would have done something to prevent it. I really doubt they care what people do with their game as long as they enjoy it.

Cheating on the other hand is frowned upon and requires irregular activity on the user's part. Such as the changing of save files to make hybrid cars. Things like this are dishonest, and can negatively effect others if it were possible online. However many people seem to think anything other than how they feel it should be is cheating, i.e. using skid recovery and active stability. Those people don't know what the hell cheating actually means and or they just want to feel superior.

Exploits = not bad
Cheats = bad
People's own definitions = retarded
 
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