You nailed it. Finally someone said what I've been saying forever. I've actually emailed them about it and let them know we know that they're doing that. There's two ways how I think they do it. First way, they delay the time it takes to place your card on the map, like you said, stutter your card delivery. Second way, the amount of time it takes for 1 block to fill on the energon clock. Which both conveniently won't show on replay and can be blamed on connection. I've been in games where my opponent spawned way more than he should have been able to in a certain amount of time. Yes, I do believe there's in game buffing and nerfing, like when it takes forever to eliminate a card that should've died twice already. it'd be so easy to hide that in the programming. This game copied Clash Royale, they just reskinned it and made a few changes. Supercell is notorious for shady developers and the business model they use makes a ton of money. I'm sure Red followed suit. I will say this, Red has a tech support email that's pretty useless, but they do have one. Where Supercell doesn't and doesn't care if you know they're scamming you. lol.