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Considering that building very few settlement buildings slows progress to a crawl, I'd hardly call it "cheating".
What about players who decided back in chapter 6 that they don't care about the quests or the rewards? Are they all cheaters?
How about when a player decides that they don't care about an event prize, and don't put their city on hold to do any of those quests? Cheaters?
I could argue that if you build factories which you don't actually need because you already produce more goods than you use, that you are artificially inflating your score. Is that cheating? What about putting up a couple of temporary buildings while you wait for the next guest race, knowing that you will remove them later? That inflates your score too... is that cheating?
If the game says you can do either A or B it's not fair for you to call everyone who chooses B a cheater. Feel free to complain that B is easier than A, (I even agree with some of it), but try to do it without accusing other players choices of being cheating.
You've read my post wrong, I didn't call the players who skipped the story quests cheaters, I called the ones who didn't build the amount of guest race buildings that are asked for in a story quests, shortcut takers. It's not cheating, but it's also not playing the game as it was (originally) intended.