This forum is riddled with bugs, my first comment certainly didn’t become a new topic, keeps giving error pages. Will try again. I posted this to support earlier.

I note that La Cag 2 and La Cag 3 fixed their GC match yesterday. The score was La Cag 0 vs 8 La Cag 3. They have many top players, have had for years, they have no need to do this, many are respected players. Their other opponents during the GC, they managed to win at least 20 games each match.

Those in La Cag 2 that did play, and there were not many, used a losing strategy. Their hope was that Academy Cymru lost or drew so that La Cag 3 would be promoted. Academy Cymru, my guild, won and topped the group for promotion.

La Cag 2 & 3 have been in the same GC league of the 4 teams et up for months now and they constantly fix their results, usually drawing.

I also see that a vast amount of their players have numerous visa players, yet they deliberately lose their league games, position themselves at the bottom of their lrespective league so they don’t get promoted and go up a level and more often than not this increases their chances of winning their Champions Cup final and they receive a free visa player. This keeps them at a low level, but they get stronger and stronger.

You have been allowing this for at least 2 years now. Don’t you realise players know this? Don’t you also realise that they are costing you revenue as honest players think what is the point? Additionally you charge them less for a visa player in euros than you charge UK players which is deplorable, unacceptable and unfair and you are destroying the game as honest players lose interest and feel cheated. Have you not seen the number of long standing loyal players just giving up, these will be top players who have spent fortunes with you over the years.

I have been playing your game for more than ten years. It is a great game. I gave up about 2 years ago, only coming back a month or so ago. I left because I reported the cheating to you, you acknowledged (one of the few times you did respond) the cheating, you promised to resolve it, and yet did nothing. You even requested I provide you real information and proof, which I did and you still did nothing. I don’t know about you, but I believe the point of a game is to win, not lose to improve your position in the game. Rugby is a game you play to win. The French have been cheating for many many years. It is a fact, undeniable. They will always find away to buck the system and get success.

Unless this French cheating and match fixing is not resolved, I will leave for good. I am currently spending £9.99 a week. That is an average of £43.29 a month.

Please advise me of your intentions. But here is an idea…..

Maybe you could create a coach academy role which can add additional skills, like fitness as an example, which you can purchase (more revenue for you) and if you reach the final stage of the Champions cup, you receive free coaching medals based on whether you reach the quarter,semi and final, to go towards your teams prowess and strength, this would compliment the Sports Shop.

But really for me, I wish you would actually respond with your thoughts. Failure to do so will prove to me you really do not care and I will leave the game for good. As will, I suspect, many others.

I have ensured this note is polite and courteous and I hope I will for the first time in well over ten years, I will receive a response that actually demonstrates you are receptive to ideas and do actually want to stamp out the cheating which will inevitably be losing you revenue.

They won't do anything mate as they would rather see the game die! There are now only about 60 fully active guilds, where only about a year or so ago there was nearly 200! Nitro don't give a shit to players who play the game honestly! So I would not hold out any hope for them to change at all. I only play now for something to do as I am now retired and the online friends I made here. Its a shame really as this could have been a really good game if the mange the game fairly stopping cheating and had a proper league system which included relegation. And awarding league winners with a player and not the cup! But I suggested that a long time ago and they said it was a great idea but to difficult to do! But there again they don't know what they are doing?

Can’t disagree mate.

Hey fellas

I totally agree with your sentiments. The game was way better in the days of Sublinet. When Sweet Nitro took over, the game started a nose dive.

Support is a joke. They have a set of templates they use for answering support queries. If your question can't be answered with one of those, they don't respond. They are still sending replies to tickets that say Match Bonus can affect player performance. Match Bonus! That ended years ago.

Bottom line: Sweet Nitro gave up on this game long ago. The only development taking place is that you can upgrade the buildings now and then. Not even a change in the look of the buildings though. No new features, no engagement with players, no response to support tickets.

Yeah the game is dying. From 200+ guilds to now - and I'm surprised there even are 60 guilds. I also came back recently from about 2 years out of the game for all the reasons you expressed. I still made it back to top level in no time, because thats how inactive the game is now. How many top level players are there? I haven't counted, but I estimate 50 at most?

As for La Cagnannaise, they have sucked the life out of this game for years with unpenalized cheating. From fixing championship matches to guild challenges, even hacking people's teams and selling their players, their strats, and resetting their setups to default. Supply all the evidence you want, Sweet Nitro don't care. Who would want to be associated with such a guild? I certainly wouldn't want my own character brought into question by associating myself with them. They have no integrity.

The only good thing to come out of their cheating is that although they can win champs cup players and gold balls at a lower level, they have remained very poor players with terrible strategies. Because they don't compete like men but cheat like rebellious children, they haven't developed their skills. That’s why they are so easily defeated in the top leagues. I even beat their leader RC Cagnan twice in a guild challenge when I was a level below top, and he was top level. I also defended a few other top levels in the same guild challenge. They are good at cheating, and terrible at actually making a decent strategy and playing the game - thats actually the reason they cheat.

Back to Sweet Nitro - they probably make a lot more money off the other assets they own and Rugby Manager is the least of their concerns. Waste of time logging support tickets - they don't care. People have complained about La Cagnannaise cheating for 5+ years and they have NEVER addressed it. They won't start now.

Who knows - maybe someone will create a better version of this game to compete, and draw all the current players and past players there to play, where there would be an actual support team who gives you what you pay for and EVEN replies to tickets.

Who knows...