I find it ridiculous how people defend the abusers of the game. Like nobody knows people spy and use whatever dishonest ways to win they can think of.
I remember taking a buff fleet to enemy hq once. I took great care to fly outside of dar circles and didn't even raise a darbar all by myself. Despite taking the long route around many enemy bases, looping far off hq before turning towards it and not flashing anything and not encountering a single enemy on the way, there were two 20+k interceptors waiting. There's no other possible explanation but spying. No way it was a coicidence that there were 20+k loitering fighters deep inside enemy territory.
In the end it made little difference as I was already past 30k, let my bomb load go and used the buff lasers to hack down the climbing enemy. But they were there, knowing I was coming.
Stuff like this eats away fun from the game when you see others are playing unfair.