No to shield buster

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@Superpraesi wrote:

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@Duckups  schrieb:

It's possible they are rich and bought enough stuff for 50 mellows

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Collecting huge amounts of war items cost nothing. Only a lot of time that can be shortened by using feeder cities.

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And this is the moment when I sit in the Shield Buster side. I like bubble strategy because the game is about that, just attacking a lot when you are out, using jps, using duds, freezing they guy you think is going to attack (calculating the energy team), collecting parts, sharing parts with your friends, all is ok. Not rebuilding like crazy  because that is an obvious way to give more points to the enemy team by attacking your city,  is a basic thing! Only unbubbling your city when you are ready with attacks, time, energy and targets, and here is when i don't agree with people saying that I am **** just because I stay bubble, just because I'm getting ready? So i have to go out unprepared without energy so the enemy thinks " Oh ok is not a bubble butt team yeah you have our honor" ... no men... And this the momento when shield buster is bad, because I'm probably bubble and i think ok i'm going to have my dinner, but the enemy busted me, so i say to my family: sorry the enemy unbubble me so i can attack, i should do that" noo way lol. 

But i have to say that I also understand the ones who hates bubble strategy because i have been there, this trick about using feeder cities kills the game, i hate that thing, and i say THANKS because this new shield buster is an end for that. 

Is soooooo annoying that when you reach high rank you encounter only 10 enemies when there is one only person there. 10 cities and all of them with the same name ' ragnarok, rannarok, ragnaroti, rangkrankg, rangni, etc... 9 cities never attack, stay under, and only one city ( with high disasters) attack, BUT, this guy just go online at the start, then he waits like 7-8 hours just repairing very slowly (to confuse us) and randomly go out, we bubble, and he waits like12 hrs more,it is obvios that one guy can't give to 10 persons action! he have his life, he go to sleep, then a meeting idk, but we, as a 10 group probably1 or 2 bubbled, have to check the game over and over again waiting for this guy decide to try to get lead, no men that thing is boooooooooooooooooooriiiiiiiiiiing . If you team is offline at least 1 hour that guy can bubble like 4 cities, means that you and your team need to check the game every 30mins, that is stupid. because even if you are online, only 1 guy is not a solution, you can try freezing but not too much. Other hand i always get bubbled because is like 10 seconds to repair last building, put a jp and bubble, and I am in my team the one who have good attacks, and can't be there every second, so i get bubbled and just have to help with boosters because if I go out is worst. At the end this guy manage to make points (probably he lose) , but we only made like 8000 points, and even when we won, that is one of the most boring wars, when we start the next war, again, another one guy with 9 feeders, seriously? are people ok in this game or all are insane? 

We had another war and 2 guys respond (8 others feeders, or not feeders because not even rebuild 1 zone) at the end we join their club lol just too see their chat, and they never spoke in their chat, lmao, wth is that? that prove us that those 2 guys was only one. 

with shield buster feeders players are forced to play and not abuse the bubble thing, if they are dead with only one guy going out every 14 hrs we can unshield and at least enjoy chests (because is still a boring one) , but those guys need to rethink that awful behaviour. 

So, I'm like 50/50 lol.

@BlazinsZ 

Yes! This is what I had been complaining about! At last! There’s another player who understands my pain of fighting 1 active guy + 9 feeder/dead cites.

@BlazinsZ 

Just to say it clear. I'm playing in a team of 18. We have no other club for farming items and none of us uses any feeder cities. We are not the typical 10 mayors hider team but anyway we are often the first team hiding with a lead even when we play against a hider team of 10(with an absolutely normal winning rate of about 50%).

Yes I can feel it too, I absolutely agree that all the feeder cities and farming clubs and open wars with friendly clubs has slowly killed the game. But this is a different problem and has nothing to do with the shields. Or in other words, the shield buster will not solve this problem, it will make it worse.

The situation before the shield buster:
The only reason for the existence of all these clubs with one strong city and 9 feeder cities is, that all the members of the top teams need more war items and much more war simoleons then they get as reward. So they are leaving their main club and join their farming club where 9 feeder cities are already waiting.

The future situation with shield buster will be something like this:
The top teams are still in need of much war simoleons. But now they are also in need of much more war items than before. So the farming and feeding will getting more worse than before, too. Because of the shield buster, one strong city with 9 feeder cities will probably not work any longer, but something like 10 strong cities with 15 feeder cities will.

An easy solution I have already suggested a long time ago could be:
Don't allow any player to carry war items and war simoleons from one club to another. The war items should not only be related to a player but also be related to a club. When a player leave a club he will lose his war items and simoleons. When the player goes back to the club he will get his war items and simoleons back. This will prevent players for playing in a second club, only to farm war items and simoleons.

As a long time adult player of Simcity Buildit, I totally agree. The game has been dummied down and there is no longer any strategy to the game with the Shield Buster. Those who whined about being domed are too dumb to realize that there was a strategy. NOT HAPPY! Get rid of the Shield Buster. I refuse to spend any more money on the game until it is gone. 

I'm not a fan of the shield buster, although I admit that if used in a decent manner, it's probably okay. But if used over and over again up against the same city in a matter of minutes, it's just silly.

My club has played 4 wars since the attack was introduced, and the first team we played used it against us like crazy when none of us had the attack. The last 2 wars we've played, 3 people in my club now have the attack and a few people in the teams we've played have also had the attack, but no one has used it. 

From Russia. High chance is hacker instead of war hoppers and using feeders.

By the way, I think I had fought your team before. Conchwood and City of Edmonton look very familiar to me. Edmonton has high lvl disasters, right? But I can’t remember if I win or lost in that war lol

@CatChatter2 

Another one of those claiming “if you hate shields, you must be too dumb to know strategy” guy lol

Yes, I hate shields. But I can cut and paste my reply on another thread to show you that I most probably know about strategies more than you, you know.

Don’t assume. Just because I don’t employ shields to score wins doesn’t mean I don’t know how to use them.

@J6niceLYes, you may have. Ed spends money. Not hacker. He runs out of stuff. Not 50 MBs. Who knows if you won. We have lost 2 times in last month.. mostly cause 3 people with level 15 mag and monster will beat one guy with it.  

We run out of stuff. We work and go to school and have families.

When I say shorter wars would be helpful I mean it. Shields while annoying shortened the game and allowed a life.

Yes, teams with 9 feeder cities will lose now maybe. But when you don't have them. They pick the weakest city and bring em back,  and kill them again and again at will now.

Hacker or not, what is the point in even trying against a team where one guy does 50 MBs?

Anyways. Doesn't seem anyone truly favors the shield buster. Or they haven't had it used on them yet.

I get it, but limit the use, or shorten the wars so when we lose by 100k in first hour we can move on faster than 36 hours plus 12...

Maybe they want people without a life.

@Duckups 

I didn’t think Ed is a hacker, btw. A hacker will either form his own club with 9 feeders or join a likeminded hacker club to easily demolish the opponents. I don’t think most legit teams will want a hacker to join them anyway.

Yes, I do think that war is way too long. I had mentioned it several times before on this forum. Even with shield buster, for the last three wars, the activity on both sides dropped significantly 18 hours later as lots of us had gotten our chests and we were running low on war stuff. Since there is no hiding, the period near end of war has become pretty peaceful actually. So long hours of war is really pointless, even with the introduction of shield buster.

One way to counter opponent using shield buster due to wanting to maximize active jackpot on a just shielded city is to put dud or umbrella.

But still I think need to limit the usage of shield buster. And make the cities impenetrable to shield buster for one hour right after being shielded (this can be indicated by change in the colour of the shield).