How about making offering war cards that undome your opponent. Thats an easy fix, and time zones and start times are irrelevant.
@simcity-buildIt developers please fix this issue. It takes the fun out of the game when we wait around for a day, unable to attack because the other club is hiding like cowards
I disagree. The point of the umbrella is to give respite, to allow the other team to continue attacking makes the umbrella moot. Why bother limiting the amount of destroyed buildings at that point? Who cares if your building is destroyed, it's the points that are meaningful. Some people can play all day, they may have a desk job with an internet connection and their device beside them. Some of us, work outside and rarely touch our city throughout the day. The umbrella does even things out a bit.
Your option would make any new player untouchable to a club, so that new player would never get any experience which would mean no cards and no reasonable way to progress.
I think a simple 8 hour timer on an attacked building with a maximum of 10 hours under a bubble is the simplest fix. Your buildings would auto fix after 8 hours and after 10 you would lose the umbrella but remaining buildings would still be destroyed. You could have 6 buildings destroyed and reach the 10 hour limit and lose the umbrella with a 6 health. The opposing team could then attack but only for 6 damage. Points gained of course would depend on their attacks.
It’s been happening a lot with my club as well. It’s a supid strategy for a club to use. They give up gaining more individual pts and earning more cards plus the war items for repairs. Very frustrating and boring wars if the other cities cannot play! EA please FIX this!
That’s not the issue at all (players that aren’t available to play - that happens). It’s the deliberate strategy of running out the clock to win when available players are not repairing. Imagine if during a football or baseball game one team just sat on the bench and stopped playing once they got ahead! How long would that be allowed?
The problem is that a win is worth quite a bit and the war items are fairly costly. If you are going to win, you can play it safe and stay bubbled. At that point, you will get the cards you earned and the green money and war dollars ect,, but you also can stop getting war deliveries. When you are doing a COM and war at the same time that can be difficult, best to take advantage of the rules and stay bubbled, concentrate on COM and take the win.
Not how I like to play but I get why teams do it. It is an option so you can't really blame teams for taking advantage, the only way to "fix" it is to change the rules. In hockey you would get delay of game, in boxing you would start losing points...
