Why Cheat?

Why do people cheat in this game? I am wondering due to recent events and also because I used to save successful defends in my saved events, and I recently noticed a lot of the players I defended against are now 999'ed at relatively high levels, like between 50-80. These people put a good amount of time into the game yet were still willing to risk getting fedded. Were they cheating from day 1 and could not stop themselves? Did they cheat, stop cheating, but get busted for past transgressions? Did they play it on the straight and narrow but succumb to temptation a few hundred or couple thousand days in?

I know Dunmugmeh will answer that it is because the cheaters are greasy nerds, but I am trying to go a little deeper in this thread. What satisfaction do you think people get out of cheating? If someone cheats and gets, let's throw out a random number like $70b ::winkwink::, do they feel like a big man or woman spending that $70b? Do they get satisfaction seeing themselves rise on the leaderboards, or feel that people respect them more because of it?

To some extent, this question can be applied to Torn as well - i.e., what satisfaction do you get out of Torn - but to many that is answered by setting a goal, whatever that may be, and achieving it. Achieving goals is good. Do the cheaters feel like they achieved a goal? It seems that to some people, the cheating itself is the game, and their goal is not necessarily to have big stats or lots of $$, but simply to cheat as much as possible and get away with it.

What do you think?

Because they want to "win", I guess...

Dunmugmeh is right, greasy nerds, the lot of them.



Also because until recently it was pretty easy to cheat if you knew the right people. #tinfoilhats

I'm kind of shocked someone would actually ask why people cheat. It's a concept that has been around since the beginning of time, and will literally forever.

Cheaters believe they can be better than anyone else without the hardwork, dedication or skill to play a game. Sad fact is, cheaters never prosper. In time their clock out card is punched and they get caught. Maybe not at first, some may even get away with it for a fair while. But eventually all cheaters get caught.

Personally I think its stupid and juvenile. The reality is they are only cheating themselves.

less effort for higher reward

i dont like cheaters and scammers at all greasy nerds need to get a life and not buy one lol ;)



all i want is to get merits and to one day get a tv or oil rig. thats my goals for this game.

Because they are extremely lazy, greasy nerds, and still want to achieve everything as much as someone who invests all their time in Torn.

Their moral compass is skewed.

moral compass in a game based on crime, faction territory dominance, extortion, attacking others, etc etc :D

i still don't get it

It's a karma game. You just rate and move on. No need to get it!

but like, what does that pic have to do with it? i get the "at least i tried" but whats that thing in the corner?

Can you differentiate between game actions that are allowed and out of game, or let's say quasi-game, actions that aren't? If my faction is warring another, it does not mean I can break into the other faction's homes and beat them up (putting aside that 85% of online game players are RL blackbelts who would kick my butt).

The game has rules.

Or do you think they don't apply?

People have always cheated, but they usually cheat to get something, whatever that may be. What do Torn cheaters feel they are "getting" out of it?

My room. Nothing to do with anything. Just ignore the background jheeze

The satisfaction of seeing people make numerous posts complaining or conversating about it or them in the forums obviously is the reason why they cheat