This is a topic that will never go away. The irony of it all is people thought this game was free of this kind of crap in the early years but the reality is there was people running altered truck files as far back as RORMJ, I know for fact of 4 people that were running altered settings in SM season 2 alone. Three of which are highly respected members on here. The truth is people on here have personal vendetta's against certain individuals (I know I can put Mark's name here without causing a problem because we know its all true) and use the argument of cheating to either try to tear that person down emotionally or because they do not want to accept the fact that it is just a video game and just like anything in life, there are people who can do it better then you.
A perfect example would be last years MROR world finals, if anyone can recall Mark got called out for running a GD The Legend with a slightly altered shocks2 with the front chassis nodes set to non contactable. Meanwhile Chris Hamilton's Titan, in which he won the Freestyle portion of the event, was also altered but nothing was said about his truck at all. Ontop of that I was even running an altered Max-D, which I had run several times during the year, with non contactable front chassis nodes and altered shocks2 line. Why? Well (no offence to the track makers that helped during the year) there was several tracks with obstacles that I would come into and the truck would hit the nodes and get punted over constantly (this even still happened at the Vegas show for me with the changes).
My example is not to cause further conflict nor do I honestly really care at the end of the day, its just a game. I personally love the ability to alter a truck to handle in a fashion that is most comfortable for the driver (case in point: SMRA). If people want to bitch, there is nobody forcing them to take part in events or even be part of this community. People wonder why I do not race much, this is the exact reason why. It is almost physically impossible for a single event to go smoothly without some dickhead bitching about something. I play this game to relieve stress, not add further drama to it. Some people need to have a reality check and put their priorities in better order.