Shield Buster in Club Wars coming soon!!!

@BlazinsZ 

I understand your pain. I can tell you that even at 1000+ ranking, we are still seeing teams making up of one active player and 9 feeders. Problem is that one guy has insanely high level disasters, so he just hide and hit to slowly close up the lead we have over him. Then when he has the lead, he shields up completely. More often than not, that one guy is a cheater.

Club wars are pretty painful to fight given all the issues. But still doing something is better than nothing on the side of EA.

I dont mind the idea of the new shield buster attack/booster/whatever it is, but I hope that each player who has it will only be able to use it a limited number of times during a war.

My club lost by more than 350,000 points last war we played because we were up against a team who seemingly had never ending jackpots, umbrellas (well, every boost in generel) and level 15 magnetism/mellow bellow/movie monster attacks. If a shield buster had been in effect and that team had an unlimited amount of them, they would have scored a million + points.

The new feature definitely supports cheaters more than before.

Simcitybuildit 

Just because a few people have not understood the game, intelligent adult people are now being forced to do nothing but collect items and launch one attack after another. Not one hour, not 5 hours, but 36 hours stupid repair and attack. This is not challenging enough even for my 10 year old son.

And people who already have high levels disaster cards will find it even easier in the future. They will simply hop with all members of their club to a lower-ranked club to farm more war items and boosts. The detour via 9 feeder cities is then no longer necessary.

Hard to believe how EA can completely ruin the game with just one update.

Since I belong to the few and the proud that never understood the “race to the bubble” and more importantly the lack of fortitude it takes to select this as a strategy - I guess you intelligent adults will have to find a way to play rather than hide. For the hundreds of folks that I know that left the game completely because of the boredom created by the “strategy” it’s of small consequence. Enjoy the game, you’ll adjust...you stated more than once you would rather compete than hide now this is your chance...intelligent adults find a way.

If it is of any comfort I suspect there will be be a limit on the number of bubble busters per war so it’s not likely it will be 36 hours consecutively...although real strategy teams will make everyone count. I agree with your final statement except it wasn’t this update that did it. Good luck Superpraesi!

As I said in a previous post, there will be nothing interesting or good for us (war players) when the game is full of cheaters, it's what EA really has to focus on, beyond trying to add new things to incentivize players. I know that @EA_Arrenai  says that we report again and again, even if the same player, report again. but this is not the solution, to have a war and in each war to have to report and wait 2 days for it to finish to hit the war button again, and find another team to report to. I also know that @EA_Lanna says EA cares a lot about keeping the game clean, but our experience as players is pathetic, it is disappointing and tiring. 

I attached an image, this shield buster is new, came today, but the cheaters have already improved.  @EA_Mai  @EA_Arrenai  @EA_Lanna  , Hey you all, EA will do something? Or is this game dead for honest players? 

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@Superpraesi wrote:

Hard to believe how EA can completely ruin the game with just one update.

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Is actually funny that, the update destroyed CoM with the new tasks and also the war, sad.

Talking about the buster and shield issue. I've always thought that the problem were cheaters with their endless attacks and 9 inactive accounts to reach 10, totally annoying and frustrating fighting these enemies over and over again. But the game against legal players, where both teams struggled to maintain the lead, taking care not to repair, using our boosters and using our strategy, was the best. Unfortunately, I consider that the game has been ruined with this new attack, I respect the opinion of those who hated the bubble strategy, but this is certainly worse..

Some of the problems I can name: 

The team who have their attacks level up is the one who going to win. No strategy, just do deliveries, unbubble with this new buster, then bubble again with jp, unbubble the city with the new buster, then bubble again.  Freezes, umbrellas, duds, vampires, are completely useless now,  what is the point of watching the game for two days, waiting for the enemy to get online, so that when they remove the shield of your city, so you are there to umbrella or dud, lol. of course no, I'm not going to do that (even if you dud it, nothing happens, they can repair your city and try again, hilarious). 

What is the point to use an umbrella in your city, when there are a lot of another targets, the enemy can pick one, remove the shield and attack, ignoring you umbrella. 

freeze an enemy 15 minutes? For God's sake, you have more than 20 hours to take someone's shield off and attack when it pleases you.

the enemies will choose the weakest of your team (the inactive), and will attack him forever, and no one on your team will receive parts.

Also, the ''shield'' was making a balance between 10 enemies and 20. Now, obviously a team with 25 members is gonna crush a team with 10. Is about doing deliveries, unshield enemy and attack, the team with more energy, boosters, items and attacks (a perfeclty a team of 25 players) have a huge advantage.  

Since both enemies are going to attack the inactive one, unshield, attack again, this will create a hole that will take the items of both teams to nothing, feeling like you are only attacking and not being able to receive items. it's like being in A1 against a dead enemy, so that in the end, both teams will be exhausted, and they will realize that wars are now simply do deliveries without any strategy. I think everyone is going to get bored.

The buster erradicate the shield and heals +7, so, if you rebuilt (inside of the shield) like 7 houses, when they use the buster attack , you are unshield and completely green, (7 + 7) , so, It's interesting to see that, repairing even inside your shield is a mistake, you're helping the enemy, what a fail!! LOL ,  this is so unbalanced, oh my God, if you want to do the things hard for your  enemy you should never repair now, not even inside the shield, You should never repair, both teams should forget about that... without a doubt... , this is a disaster.

I guess having a team of 25 is the option now, at least it's more people to talk to. I say ... you know, so as not to leave the game and evolve as it gets, lol.

@Superpraesi 

I was waiting for you to come in and comment about it! Lol

And nope, even with shield buster, we are not expected to attack non-stop. Think about it, if enemies can break down your shields, your team can do the same thing to them. I’m sure smart strategists such as yourself can figure out a good strategy to deal with this change. To only know how to win with shields and not through other methods is kind of like one trick pony, you know.

With this shield buster, the only way to confirm a win is to have an insane lead over the other team. Otherwise, it’s anyone’s game till end of game. Frankly speaking, wars should be like this. To get a lead and then remain under shields is easy way of winning war. I do that lots of times recently (I’m not proud of it though) because I can’t be bothered to put in more effort.

My opinion is that if one is focused on the process, rather than outcome, club wars can be fun if the system is not broken. My club used to win almost all wars (we got into top 100 before) and it was particularly hard to accept defeats at the hands of teams that are just simply stronger and more aggressive. I couldn’t sleep well because I was too concerned about winning. After fighting so many wars and losing many in the process, I learnt to take it easy. While wars no longer drive up my adrenaline level like it used to be, but I feel happier now to get the balance between real life and playing the game. I have to thank the strategists for that lol It allows me to stare at the shields and just decide that okay, I’m done taking this seriously.