The thing that does kinda get me is when I get a bunch of noobs in my room calling me a cheat because I happened to beat them repeatedly by over 30 seconds, with a variety of cars. No matter how much I remind myself about the vagaries of human nature, this kind of behaviour never ceases to amaze me.
Surely people can’t be so short sighted as to believe that anyone who is markedly faster than them must be cheating. The fact is, I’m just a whole lot better than them, or at least a lot better prepared.
Let me explain a few things, the way I see them. Before I get started however, let me just say that this isn't directed at anyone here. Those people from NFSUnlimited that I have raced haven't been a problem and knowing most of you guys I don't expect there would be one. This post is more a way of getting this crud off my chest and possibly providing some tips for better online results along the way.
1. To finish first, first you have to finish.
You gotta walk before you can run. If you’re having trouble getting through a map without hitting anything – and I mean anything, not just walls, but lightposts, signs, bushes etc – then it’s highly likely that there’s someone in the race who will get through quicker. Everything slows you down in Most Wanted, even driving on grass and pavements. Race clean, or lose.
2. It’s a level playing field
Performance matching is enforced in ranked games. What is it? Performance matching automatically sets all cars in the race up with the same performance parts as the best car entered. For all intents and purposes, all cars in the race are equally capable of winning, power-wise. Um, don't choose the Camaro, however..
3. Have a clue
For crap’s sake, have some idea about the track you’re about to tackle. If you turn right when you should have gone left, don’t be coming back into the room screaming about the guy that broadsided you in the middle of that fated manoeuvre. This is what offline mode is really about – practice, practice, practice.
4. Maximise your available power
So many people mess this up. When adding performance parts to your car, be sure to add all ultimate performance parts first, buy those, then come back in and add the Junkmans. Junkman parts enhance your existing parts so if you haven't yet bought the ultimate package, you'll actually be upgrading the stock crap that you came into the store with. Done right, you should hit max on all three bars once the Junkmans are installed.
5. Power is nothing without control
So many people I talk to online about their cars have done basically nothing to them except to max them out (hopefully) with Junkman parts. In fact, when I mention ‘performance tuning’, most people don’t seem to have a clue what I’m talking about. Fact is, adding more power to a poorly set up car will only make it less controllable. Make sure you take each and every one of your cars on a variety of offline tracks, and tweak the performance tuning (in the Pause menu, in case you never noticed) to get the car handling at its best. Believe me, performance tuning can completely change the feel of the car. This is a key point and cannot be stressed highly enough.
6. You drive with a keyboard?!
Heh, I’ve had guys screaming at me that I’m cheating ‘cuz u cant drive that smooth in this game’. Wrong. You can’t drive that smoothly with a keyboard. I mean come on, think about it. Imagine a car that has two large friendly buttons on the dash marked L and R instead of a steering wheel. Now imagine that those buttons instantly set the front wheels to full lock in either direction. Such a car would be completely uncontrollable. Ok sure, this is a game, but you’re still doing the same thing! There is no way you can get though a turn driving keyboard as quickly or as smoothly as a skilled guy using a controller, no matter how good you think you are.
7. You can’t cheat anyway, dammit.
You cannot cheat in ranked games. The EA servers run cheat detection systems on ranked games, looking for any changes in a variety of parameters - parts, nitrous and so on. Read it yourself, you have the damn file on your hard drive already: Start>All Programs>EA Games>Need For Speed Most Wanted>Readme.txt. It's all there in electronic black and white. Jeez.
Ok, I’m done. Anyone wanna race?
BTW, next time this happens to you, shoot them a link to this post. Here's the tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/9f5vn
I think, i must try playing online 
. Anyway, i know exactly how you feel GT, what makes it even worst, is when you try to talk with them in a social manner about there allegation and they either burst into an abusive tirade against you or just completely ignore you.
and when I used to crash.... 
Well, I am still getting my bounty up high in career mode and just play unranked races online. I just wanna improve. Though, I am BL#1 here in NFSUnlimited.
