Suggestion : Improvement of Shield Buster

We have also have had ea boot maybe 50 to 60 hackers from the game.   We are their frontlines.   And maybe it will save some of you from them.  But maybe what we do is futile at all with all the other issues

@Duckups  There are many elements of this game that are great, nearly all were included when EA acquired the licensing rights of SimCity...the Buildit part is what’s at issue. That said there are many good things that have been brought forward within this specific aspect of the game...the ability to participate with folks world wide, the mayor’s club which provides the opportunity to communicate and develop relationships with folks you would have never have met otherwise, the ability to work together as a unit in CoM (competing for the legendary chest) and war games, just to name a few.

There are also many things wrong that need to be corrected...most are related to cheating and hacking issues as I’ve shared before. The aspect of war game assignments in CoM is just wrong and creates problems in both war games and CoM...but since that’s not your concern as you stated previously “war 24 hours a day” then let’s just focus on war. The shield buster is unfair, the timer is not fair, the JP’s are not fair...I’ve heard it all and much, much more. I have actually brought well thought out proposals to the table to address some of these concerns...

As far as what’s on You Tube, I really couldn’t care less and I doubt very seriously they are sanctioned by EA. It is also my understanding from others that there may be hacking tips available, but I do not know or honestly care. Anyway you try to spin cheating it’s still cheating which in my mind’s eye is no different from a hacking...taking an unfair advantage and putting honest legitimate (you can not cheat and be legitimate) players in a comprised competitive position. However anyone attempts to rationalize it, it is what it is.

@PinnacleValleySure. Past 100 is hackers with unlimited. Maybe 200, maybe 300. They go pretty fast at that part.

If EA limited changing clubs. It be the biggest fix. But then. We would be done and never have enough to fight hackers. Now limit changing clubs and give 30 to 40 thousand purple coins per win, and 20k ler loss we may have fixed it. Or limit boosters in general as you stated. And have 10 per person per war, instead of 25.

I think we all agree having war tasks is stupid for non war players.

But without fixing things smoothly. Most will quit and it will be sims builds hackers. If EA wasnt kicking people for us. We would be done already.

If we can't change clubs to gain stuff for a fair fight against hackers, we are done unless we get more coins for boosters.  If cheating for some helps beat other cheaters the game has already lost

We spend a week gaining so we can fight. It's quite sad in reality lol. I keep pushing to stay in one and win or lose. But only 1 other agrees.    Just cant spend 25 boosters and compete in another

Our problem with cheaters is their unlimited war supplies - upgraded weapons isn’t really a problem, as long as you score high you get all your chests, and eventually all active players will manage to upgrade their weapons to the maximum, even if it will take a long time.

Therefore I will insist on my initial point of view: give to the victims of SB all the war supplies from the buildings that are automatically repaired. Just think about it a moment:

By this way, the victims of SB don’t lose constantly all the cheap supplies, when attacked back to back with endless number of magnets & SB from cheaters. They are given a chance to fight back, score some points with those given supplies  & maybe reduce cheaters’ lead during the war.

Finally, I don’t believe this could be a difficult update for EA to deliver...

@PinnacleValley I missed your older post, thank you for sharing that again.

-selling shield and get rid of booster

Interesting idea, but without booster itll be even more "no strategy' war. clubs who has strong cards and who has more war supplies will win. Since we can see players war information, we can guess which can win when we matched up. The fun part of war is we dont know what strategy the opponant has untill we start it. When and how to use boosters are one of it. It's an interesting point of view though! 

-limit the number of usage of attack

Interesting. Maybe not only SB, every other attack can have specific limit of usage. So people will stop only upgrading Mag and SB and stock up only specific items. It will be so difficult to manage the club though, especially for fresh clubs with fresh members who only has 2-3 attack unlocked...?

-cool down time for club switching

Totally agree! There are too many cheaters who stock up and improve cards in lower arena and do serious war in A5-6. That frequent club switching helps hackers too. They can hide thier identity by moving clubs.

-remove war assighnment from CoM

I understand some CoM tasks arent fair for non-war clubs. Then why not play war just for CoM...? They dont have to win, they can start war and just do some attacks? War is the one of the main element in the game, I dont know why they refuse playing it. If you arent into war, thats ok. But thats what you take I think...? 

-accept cheaters/hackers problem

well said.

I'm mainly ok how the CoM and war system is right now,  a littel improvement can make the game fair for players. Keep adding too much rules or change the whole system makes the game complicated. I'm new to this forum and not really sure how these topics have been disccused over and over. But improvements are happening, KO timer, SB... If we keep speaking up, EA might take actions.

@Duckups I understand how annoying hackers are. Those hackers create cheaters (feeders), and it suffers legit players. Bad spiral. 

Our club has no feeder city, feeder club. We were in top 100 6-ish months ago, but dropped to 1000 now. We stopped caring ELO because there are so many cheaters and the ELO isn't fair. Hackers are so obvious and we dont even fight back, we just stock up for the next war. Cheaters are so sneaky. We cant trust their average score becuase they score 33K easily and stock up in A2 and score 110K in A6.  

Sadly, there's no fair fight for both cheaters and hackers. Only fair fights are legit club vs legit club. 

I wonder if cheaters will stop cheating if all the hackers are gone? I dont think so, cheaters will keep cheating. And legit players have to keep dealing with them.  

@1457699360 

"give to the victims of SB all the war supplies from the buildings that are automatically repaired"

it means you get free war items from hackers by changing the rule. lol. i think this change supports hackers to exist to supply legit players endless war items... you dont get free war items when you get overkilled, you have to repair to collect items. thats the base idear of war imo.