Change shield requirements

It would be nice if they lowered shield requirements to 35%, or gave a shield after a certain number of resources were stolen. That way, we couldn't get attacked 4 times in one night, like I was.

Attack 1: 2 lightning spells, 5k elixer, 235 dark.
Attack 2: 39%, 15k gold, 80k elixer, 50 dark
Attack 3: 35%, 137k gold, 71k elixer, 250 dark
Attack 4: 3*, 265k gold, 140k elixer, 890 dark

And I was only offline for 5 hours.

Another suggestion is to sell shorter duration shields, so we can protect our resources while sleeping or at work.

You should post your base in the tactics section, because it should not be possible to lose that many resources (except from the first attack) without gaining a shield. This tells me your resources are likely poorly defended.

All this extra shielding you are asking for would make looting a lot harder.

They can't really do that because it's already a problem in the Champions league where people will have other high level players (4000+) attack them and get 40% and then stop. Lowering it to 35% would just make "cheap shielding" more common. Also, even if it was changed to 35% for a 12 hour shield, people would complain about it when they were attacked and the enemy got 33% or 30%.

My resources are very well defended. Each collector is right next to the walls, so my defensive structures can attack looting troops. Each storage is in a separate compartment, and they are all on the inside of the base, so attackers have to break through 2 sets of walls and a layer of defensive buildings to get to them.

What happens is, attackers rush one side of the base and take out two collectors, but I kill them before they get to 40%. Maybe the problem is that they're too well defended. If I defended a bit less, I'd get a shield.

Also, I get your point about this making looting harder, but it is too easy right now anyway. Within 20 clicks, I can usually find a base with 150k each. Lowering the shield requirements would make the game a little more challenging; you could still find juicy bases, but you'd have to look a bit harder for them. It would also protect those who have already taken large losses.

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Originally Posted by paddyflynn

Also, I get your point about this making looting harder, but it is too easy right now anyway. Within 20 clicks, I can usually find a base with 150k each. Lowering the shield requirements would make the game a little more challenging; you could still find juicy bases, but you'd have to look a bit harder for them. It would also protect those who have already taken large losses.

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Then why are you complaining? I don't get it. These losses should be trivial for you to recoup. I'm not sure what TH you are, or if you're just really lucky but most TH10s would not describe the game as too easy to loot.

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Originally Posted by dahimi

Then why are you complaining? I don't get it. These losses should be trivial for you to recoup. I'm not sure what TH you are, or if you're just really lucky but most TH10s would not describe the game as too easy to loot.

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I'm th 8. I don't think I'm that lucky. I sit around 12-1300 trophies and such bases are fairly common. Maybe I was exaggerating when I said I could get 150k in 20 clicks, it's probably more like 50, but it isn't hard to find a ripe base. Still, the losses aren't trivial. It takes about 25 min. to cook and army, and I need to do at least 1 more raid to replenish the gold and elixer. Not to mention the dark, which will take much longer. When this happens several times a week, it amounts to a lot of time being wasted.

Also, I don't believe this would encourage cheap shielding any more than is already done. Anyone with 4k trophies is pretty hard core. If they are gonna help each other get cheap shields, I doubt they care whether they need to get 35 or 40%. Plus, probably less than one in ten thousand players has 4k trophies, so that shouldn't be Supercell's main concern.