I think I played against a cheater in ranked, pls explain someone if this was possible

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Hey guys,

so far I enjoy AotS, the "campaign" was fun and altough ranked comes to down to rushing, its still fun.
Right know I am rank 3 with 3 stars, have 35 ranked games and I thought I had seen most things.

But this morning I played a game to climb the ranked ladder further and got matched against a rank 10 guy and hoped for an easy win...except he bombed me to death.
He barely clamed any regions and his military strength jumped on occasions like he could spawn dreadnoughts. 
Sure I know that sounds really really whiney, so I attached an several screenshots from the statistics endscreen. I can´t wrap my head around that jumping spikes in his military strength with so little income, considering he had many hades bomber. Oh and he used no quanta to up his unit limit/logistic or to increase his strength.
Game took 11 minutes.
If someone knows how this is possible, pls tell me.

English isn´t my native language, if I failed to explan something correctly/clear just ask again and I write it in more detail.

 If you wish you can see them on imgur too.  Link:http://imgur.com/a/ByIDJ 
Hope posting this link is okay, didn´t find an option to attach them directly into this post

Edit: could attach the screenshots now thanks too Moomo
Military_diagram
 military_statistics

income_radioactive

Income_Metal

Economic Data

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Reply #1 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Well, a Hades costs a lot of radioactives, so you can't actually build them without spending radioactives, those shots show a grand total of one possible Hades built.  If they're accurate, then he has to have cheated for you to have seen many of them.

Reply #2 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

The link is fine.

To link directly to the post there is a little tree icon in the bottom row (two icons to the left of the smiley face).

This will give an insert/edit image prompt box, which you can paste the direct image link to images hosted on sites such as imgur, and re-size as needed.

 

It is feasible to perform an early bombing run if an opponent doesn't build any AA and you have a foolish dedication to it. But the numbers just don't add up as psychoak has pointed out.

A replay function would make situations like this a lot easier.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Yeah found that insert image button but din´t thought about uploading them first to imgur and then link it with that, thanks for the tip.

I built 2 early Apollos and destroyed 2 bomber squads with it. ( Do you say 2 hades units or 6 hades units since they come as a 3-pack ? ) 
This was the time when his military strength was almost zero, it was like 16 or sth like that.

I am not sure how the military spendings are calculated, but his are far more than he earned...

Yeah a replay function would be really nice.

Reply #4 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Yes, a replay function would be so great and yes, something smells very fishy here.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

This same player was also identified with obvious screenshots showing cheats going on in a thread on the Steam forums. Really pathetic that people do this - at least SD takes a no warnings ban-hammer approach and is upgrading anti-cheat features for the game. I doubt we'll be seeing this person in ranked for long.

Reply #6 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Thanks for reporting these. We'll be taking care of this, but again thanks as people looking out for possible cheaters is a big help. :)

Reply #7 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

daviddos is probably right, I've played against him two times and he has a very clean execution of rushes, he knows what to do and by the time the first bomber arrives apollo should be in queue even if the opponent went for a radioactive node first. It is something very wrong here

Reply #8 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

This is why we need replay feature.  I don't think I will start playing until it is implemented. I'm pretty sure cheats existed in the beta already.

But yea two bomber squads can take down a nexus with no problem. He had just enough rads for two bomber squads.  That is 6 bombers in total.

I also would not swear that those graphs are spot on accurate. There can be quite funny bugs present in the game still.

But that military might does look suspicious. If you didnt do much fighting he could have just spammed brutes in his base but that is still quite an impressive difference.

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

Yeah but I destroyed his first two squads, in total he had like 12 squads during the game. 

Even with spamming brutes, he would have needed more logistics than 100... 

For me this case is closed, he cheated ;)