Stop Not Defending and Help Your Neighbors by Visiting KL

I'd like to see more testing, but I did visit KL this morning. Hope all went well as my shields did indeed disappear.


And if I screwed everyone up, I blame the OP..... :P

Just attempted a visit to KL with 2 shields above the small brown house farm I built for this event (which have been there for 2 days now castles were at 20), and they were gone. How long is the time for castles at level 20? Just raise the recycle to level 22 since notice the price drop, just to see what each level brought. Got 2 more walls & don't plan on raising castle levels any further.

Great news, now I can remove all the extra brown houses I placed for the event to make sure there were plenty of houses to attack. Thanks for the info!

Since I was so long-winded earlier, I'll respond to a couple scenarios as briefly as I can:

ambug666 wrote:
When someone goes to KL, the server wipes the attacks from the defender's springfield so it looks pristine. However, the attacks are still stored for the attacker, so they are paid off after they are supposed to occur. They must be storing the attack data in two places then, one for the defender and one for the attacker.

I bet this means that if people wanted, they could attack a town, have the owner go to KL, and then attack all the houses again. I wonder if that would overwrite the attacker's data or if they would get full credit for both attacks....

We're thinking along the same lines. Unfortunately, however, five attacks is the max as the attacking data isn't overwritten.

fuffazzoni wrote:
Two things to test for those who have at least 2 feeder towns:
- If another invader attacks the same building after the KL cleaning, does the first invader get his victory anyway?
- If another invader attacks the same building after the KL cleaning and the defender defends, does he cut the attack of the first invader as well?

I ran a variation of these two possibilities by attacking the same house three times, and the attacks always got full credit. I couldn't come up with any scenario where the attacker lost. That being said, I agree with those who want confirmation from another source.

My goal was to assure people that visiting KL would not deprive neighbors of their rewards, so I'll leave it to others to decide what to do with the info.

I heard a recent update has fixed the KL glitch? I saw it in another thread.

This is some good investigation--thanks for getting to the bottom of it! Nice to know that KL isn't off-limits.

Sorry in advance for this equally long post. I will say that there are some drawbacks to intentionally clearing one's shields in KL. In addition to the lost reward, you won't get to see who has been raiding you so you can at least return the favor.

The bigger downside to this approach, however, rises from the question of whether it actually helps your neighbors to raid you at all. In creating events and FP this year, EA has really made an effort to diminish the need for and offset the advantage of keeping a list of many good neighbors, instead seeking to make the few-neighbors or single-player approach more viable. In crafting the rules for this event, they've been even more transparent about it: defeating an invader gives you 5 times the reward of defeating your sparring partner, so stop sparring already, collect your FP/donuts, and go defeat some invaders. (and this is a topic for another thread, but I bet the random button will be back in the future. Not only does it make single player more viable, but it accomplishes a major objective of their neighbor system--to hock premium items).

Because I understand that, on my end, the nerds are ultimately going to waste, when I raid neighbors, I do it either to help their scores or to send some sort of a gesture (thanks for being awesome). Thus, I preferentially try to save more nerds for neighbors who appear to want to be attacked (lower score, houses not undefended), and I absolutely never raid Other Springfield or my feeder towns because I perceive it as a total waste of nerds that helps no one and yields significantly less than random attacks. If a neighbor were to go to KL to clear/surrender his shields from my attack, not only would he never get to see my gesture, but he'd effectively turn down the gift--however meager--and the nerds would go to waste.

I realize this is all a circle of neighborliness and goodwill, and I'm not sure the best approach to being neighborly. An alternate solution would be: help your neighbors by visiting for FP, but don't clear your houses at all--this way they'll know you don't need the gold, and they can instead attack randoms. Of course if everybody did this, we'd have no randoms to attack. :?

You may not like KL (it is kinda boring, I agree), but remember one thing: Keep clearing Sideshow You and you'll eventually get free donuts. :) I know, not a lot, but some is better than none, right?

Thank you for this info, this glitch is still working for me so hopefully my neighbours and invaders are getting full payout each time I go to KL. I'd avoided KL to start with but I'm at the point where I don't mind not gaining gold/elixir, which I expect a lot of players who started at the beginning are. Thanks again :)

:thumbup: for the work of the OP

But i have now over 100000 gold and 60000 elixer so i have all i need, i go to my KL and back, if i lose gold i dont care :wink:

GamerPerfection wrote:
I heard a recent update has fixed the KL glitch? I saw it in another thread.

I just updated and visited my KL and the shields were still there whereas they disappeared before the update.