Well not to burst your bubble of thoughts of a puritan game,...but,..
Low life tactics have existed since online games first started. AW namingly, had VERY much the same. Every game does.
I think this is one of the reasons most former AWers don't pay any attension to scores. Because they can be manipulated by some cheap tactics you wrote about. "Game Breakers" are in every game, the more popular the game the more there are. The older simmers who d this stuff are most likely the same ones who did it way back when. Either way it's really irrelivant because it does happen and there is next to nothignyou can do about it except shame them. For the most part shaming doesn't even budge these type of folks because they don't have much in the way of morals going into it.
It's a shame that the point systems is tampered with, points should be something earned and retain some dignity in that they are assumed to be accurate. They are not. Because of folks like this toying with it, and the fact that if they don't someone else will keeps those types always doing those type of things.
Don't pay attension to the points\score system, it will only anger you. Because of the fact that desparate people do desparate things. Desparate in the fact that they want to be something they are not. It's also a sign that some folks take a game entirely too seriously.
Immersion is one thing, obsession to be king of the hill is one being blind to themself.
It's when you don't let the score system affect your play that ACM and SA become a more desirable point of view.
Cheating the scoring and game breaking is no less then telling a room of women you're a rock star, when you're not. And how silly you look when the truth surfaces, and it will,.. sooner or later.
Some folks need to scrape bottum a little longer then others before they decide there is more to a sim then points. I think they call it "Fun", some may call it "Class".
2 cents
