You won a game in less than 5 minutes...

With the bling you have on your post, it looks like you have more than just those 5 games reported to MVL.

There is a minimum number of turns a game has to last, anything shorter will cause a cheat flag (12 turns I think?). Back in the DA beta it was certainly possible to do that with spores on a tiny 1v1, but spores were made more expensive to try and prevent that.

The only things I know are from the Answers to questions about the Metaverse thread which is pushing two years old now.

Anyway in that thread it mentions "finishing the game in 12 turns or less, even if you used legitimate means to finish the game" among other reasons. I also know that since then code has been added to check for racial abilities above certain maximums.

I would suspect that the 12 turn limit could come into play in a 5 minute game. Although I thought Wyndstar mentioned a 10 turn game and posted a screenshot of the submission with no cheat flag.

However with the above said there have been occurrences of cheat flags in isolated games where there is no doubt that there was no cheating going on but there was no other explanation either. Basically, I’m convinced that cheat flags sometimes happen for no apparent reason and due to no fault by the player involved. However I did think that DA games did at least warn you prior to submission that the game would be flagged as a cheat and you could chose to not submit it.

I too recall Wyndstar mentioning a 10 turn game, and i immediately thought of the 12 turn limit and wondered if it had been changed. I have had a cheat flag once and there was no reason i could work out why. The game was as normal as any other i had played, so i too think that the MV database that checks games has a loose wire or something.

Hmmm, well its possible the last world fell on exactly turn 12 so I didn't get flagged. I played it really quickly - sloppiness in analysis is bound to creep in. Sadly because of my second game of the morning everything for that first game has been auto-saved over so I can't reload it to look.

~ Wyndstar

That is good. But it actually lowered your score? That's very strange. You'd think that the score would rise slower as the turns go by but to actually go down doesn't really make sense. All score accumulated up to the previous ending turn should stay the same and although the additional score added by continuing would be less and less as each turn goes by.

You must have done something differently in the restart that made the initial 9 turns score differently that caused the overall score to decline. Clearly you must have because previously all planets were conquered by turn 9 and that didn't happen in the new game until turn 22.

It's only because of the very short nature of this game that you'd ever see that. In any normal length game the rate of score increase gets smaller and smaller but it always remains positive.