DidiMau - ranked cheating

I was looking into DasUndying's topic about the guy. Watched the replay and did some calculations. Dude used about 490 quanta by 10 minute mark and in skirmish I did my best to rush quanta and got only about 400. Seemed suspicious but thought I could be missing something - extra 100 quanta is probably possible.
Now 8 500 quanta is a whole different story :) 

I actually was chatting to him about this before, (Didi) We were quite friendly at a point and when I was close to rank 10 we 1v1'd and he smashed me. I did think something was off as I'd never lost in such a manner before. 

Das has beaten me for example but only just. So it was strange for a rank 60 or whatever to smash me.

Anyway we chatted after and he said he had a trainer.

He did link me but I never wanted to use it. Though I did bring it up with frog in personal chat, or island maybe. But I couldn't find the link to the trainer so I couldn't help.

At the time he was testing it to see if it was workable. I never thought he'd be stupid enough to use it on good players though ;s 

Knigge cheated as well in a very obvious way in ranked games.

I have two other guys but I dont have a record of this. I will report them if I have a record.

I logged a report against Knigge.

Spent 4k+ in gas, yet mined less than 1k. Had 36k qanta after a minute or so.

Google: Ashes of the singularity Trainer

First two links. Based on the comments in those threads I presume they work.

http://mrantifun.net/index.php?threads/ashes-of-the-singularity-trainer.5774/

http://www.gamecopyworld.eu/games/pc_ashes_of_the_singularity.shtml

Its probably wrong to post them in this forum. But based on user numbers, not many people look here anyway, and its not like it was a hard google search.

Makes me feel better. He beat me pretty convincingly last weekend.

I should look at graphs more.

Swing Ban Hammer, Swing!

Yeah i have a serious problem in 'Quiting to Menu' instead of just surrendering. So I keep failing to see the end game graphs.

I played last night, and endeavored to check the graphs this time.

One match in particular worthy of note, I think... assuming I am correct that the graphs at the end of the match show metal and radioactive accumulation rates (vs. what's in storage).

In the match in question, I took several metal nodes before the opponent (ranked 8) even took his third node.

I had maybe 4-5 metal nodes, and most were multi-mine nodes.

The opponent had maybe 2 metal nodes.

And I am pretty sure I had constructed mines for at least several of my metal nodes. 

And yet, SOMEHOW.... the graph at the end of the game showed my opponent producing more metal than me, starting just a few minutes into the game.

Simply. Doesn't. Seem. Plausible.

Not that early. 

And yes, I was dominated. Multiple dread bays, and multiple dreads, while I barely had time and resources to build my second armory. 

Would be so great to have those replays, so that I could see what happened for real.

There is no way to be sure otherwise. 

I have played against knigge and lost, but didnt bother to check the graphs. It did suprised me, because when i had the first 3 furies he allready had 2 armories and was 30 sec away from completing a dread pad. 

I didnt bother to put a defense other than 1 sentinel and 1 drone bay because I thought he shouldnt have resorces to mass on me early and went for the map. Thought that game as my error but next time I will look at graphs. He could produce from two armories full with a dead bay incoming and only 2 rads mining out of 4.. next time I will look on result page.

Ps: btw i have seen didimau hosting a custom game. Has he been banned from ranked?

This post and another one both point out DiDimao as cheating and if you look at his recent matches he is no longer playing ranked. I want to know if he was banned from that or if the hack was fixed? Because he plays custom, I'm in a lobby with him now in fact, and I want to know if he can still cheat. So did you ban him from ranked so he can't cheat in the more "important" multiplayer or have you actually fixed the cheating which then turned him off ranked. If you just pushed the cheating into custom that would not be cool. Either way I would like to know, thanks.

Hmm I had know idea this was possible it really deflates my enthusiasm for ranked to be honest, over than questionable tactics  really thought it was all honest stuff.  That might explain the match against ironman who was ranked 10 I think and he wiped the floor with me on that small map with 4 turinum points in the middle.  He rushed straight through with a dread after what must have been 5 mins.  I had a few tech 2s.  

I honestly thought it was just him rushing out a dread but he had a 2nd a few mins later. 

curious to know what stardock will do about this, ashes doesn't have the most live mp as it is..and for cheaters to pop up..that's just going to sway more people.

Well, if he can't cheat anymore then I don't mind playing with him, but I would like to know one way or the other. Some communication from the Devs would be nice. Not good for the community if everyone starts thinking someone might be cheating.

I'm actually 90% sure that this is some sort of bug. 

I'm a new player (bought this game 1 week ago) and I managed to drop down 20 engineers and ended up with something stupid like.. negative 800 quanta. The reason this happened was because I was trying to drop the engineers in a small block on the map where fog of war was pretty thick - I kept mashing the drop engineer button because it kept failing - then somehow it dropped like 20... I couldnt' invest quanta in anything else for the entire game because I had negative 900 - I was stuck at 200 supply - kind of sucked.

Either way - already "Master" on this game. Despite better than anticipated search times per game (4 minutes wasn't too bad), literally nobody plays this :( 

Your issue sounds like a bug. This guy's is not a bug, there is another thread with a video of him in and it is clearly cheating with ranks and rows of units he couldn't possibly have had within the first few minutes of the game.

I know didi was cheating, that isn't something up for discussion. He was, we talked about it together. 

But after being in the top 10, some players coming here and just accusing people because they got their asses kicked.

I've smashed people and been called a cheater.. like fuck do I cheat.


Some guy was like how do you have 500 power to my 80, i'm like.. dude it's a surveillance drone.. 

Just a reminder. Any reports of suspected cheating can be reported to support so we can look into it.

https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit

Yeah, the power thing confuses new players. Build a few air units and power shoots up too. The opening move of grabbing two nodes quickly also upsets newer players too as they don't see how it can be done. These are reasons why we really need replays, so newer players can see how it is done and improve quickly without getting put off and discouraged, and also to dispel the idea that a good player is cheating.

I agree. You have to figure a lot of it out via Youtube which doesn't occur to many people (or they don't want to bother). An alternative would be just having some videos explaining basic strategies (like 2 cap).