I know a lot of suggestions have been made to slow the progress of the ‘downhillers’. Couldn’t the dreaded ‘cone of shame’ be given automatically after more than 21 km downhill, so that there would be zero progress in that ride toward challenges/upgrades?
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Still the top level racing buddies are helping each other with the teleports and descents.
One I reported previously is still doing this - I spotted him again today.
One drop on ADZ, then teleport over to Genie group in the desert and then a teleport to his friends near the top of ADZ and then a U turn to go downhill again.
This is a joke. Turning a blind eye to this encourages cheating.
If it’s okay for the top level racers to get away with this then it sends a message to everyone else that you can cheat and very little will happen.
And another rider:
That’s over 1000km at more than 70km/h average speed! This is cheating!
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Zwift not bothered as long as people keep their subscriptions going.
Seen one rider with 17 teleports on one ride
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That last dude has spent 131 of the last 168 hours violating Zwift’s TOS. That’s laughably pathetic.
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Apparently he earned 70 slices of pizza…… I don’t think so! 
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Sitting on the couch for 18 days and 9 hours builds up an apetite 
Zwift doesn’t care at this point,.. If they do, we will see these accounts wiped back to start on the next update, or they will start to do a behind the scene wipe when they log in for rides.
Right now, there are 6000 people zwifting.
There’s about 40.000 active accounts.
There are a handful of people whining about teleporting
An in game mechanic perfectly OK to use
I’d say, the easiest thing is ignoring that handful of whiners
NONE of those upgrades are even remotely close to the difference when it comes to peoples creativity with weight, calibration, “dual readings” etc. and what that does to virtual performance
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Gosh, what’s going on there on Zwift? Was riding Yorkshire CCW yesterday. At the ramp, A Constance was about 100 seconds behind me accompanied by a rider at 1 mile & 0 w/kg. Since it didn’t make sense, I watched them almost 10 minutes. This L100 rider cruised in kind of CB mode almost full loop. Pretty weird.
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It’s May, I wonder how many of those 6000 are just faking distance…
Once you have it, it will not be “taken away”
Hopefully , there will be preventive measures in this week’s update. Very similar to time gains on time trial bikes, it just stops accumulating without announcing the entire saga.
It is not okay. It is cheating. Simple as that.
It’s totally unfair to everyone who is upgrading their bikes properly by real riding. No excuse can be made at all for this cheating. Everyone who has done this - and we do know who they are - should have their accounts reset.
It is wrong.
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The use of the term “whining” is a little disrespectful, though I accept it may be a language translation issue. The forums should be a safe place to discuss concerns without be told you are whining.
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But whining about people whining is okay? 
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I’m just saying, in terms of performance, it doesn’t matter compared to other challenges like weight doping, “wrong readings” from equipment etc.
So some gets a cooler “skin”…Big deal
When someone relays their ant+ and boost up their power or cheat on their weight, I’d say it’s a big deal.
There’s lvl 10 bikes right up with the best Halo bikes. It’s not a big deal
…unless you are REALLY into how your avatar looks
Yes. Here, vanity is supreme.
What do you ride? (Level 5 halo?)
A full upgraded bike vs a stock bike is almost the equivalent of “weight doping” by 5kg… for someone that is already lightweight.
I imagine that stretches out to more like 10kg for 90+kg riders.
I wouldn’t call that marginal.
Folks who are healthy and active on the daily / weekly don’t generally swing 5kg through an entire year.
If @Crazy-Cat here lost 5kg she’d blip out of existence 
For the record, I think if folks were off by 5kg during the WTRL ZRL Finals just recently in their weigh ins, they’d have to forfeit their win.
If a series calls that “cheating,” then I’d call that as black and white as it gets.
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Two new bikes released today.
All bikes will now be listed as time or kilometers needed. Also, the number of Ventoux downhills required to reach level five.