shields off option

I want to evaluate my bases defences, but the first attack against me does 40% and trips my shields.
so when I wake up in the morning I only have one data point to look at and it doesn't realy show me a good attack.

so if I can set my shields to not activate I can get more/better information

yes...this would mean I could loose a lot of resources over night, but if I am willing to take the risk it would me my decision and my responsibility.

other shield options that could be similarly useful could be...

a shield threshold setting so I could set my shield to activate only after an attack that did 75%
or
an option to limit my shields to 1 hour

this (in my opinion) would also address some of the 'sandbox' requests from people who want to evaluate their bases.

just an idea...
even if you don't like it I hope it inspires good ideas in you

this is easy to bring in. good idea, won't benefit anyone and is defenitly not OP. i would like less shields too.

If I had a really tough base that was trying to gain trophies, I would want to set shields off also.

When people are hunting for bases to attack, that would mean more and more of the bases would be those with shields set "off" ... so I was just thinking that the end effect of a shields off option would be to make resource hunting harder, or at least you would find a lot more good bases rather than bad ones.

Personally, I think you ought to be able to test your own base defenses with your current army (but without actual loss of troops, spells, resources.) That would allow you to test your defense somewhat, and the only side effect would be that people might be able to practice attacking and improve their skill "for free."

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Originally Posted by Snivell

I want to evaluate my bases defences, but the first attack against me does 40% and trips my shields.
so when I wake up in the morning I only have one data point to look at and it doesn't realy show me a good attack.

so if I can set my shields to not activate I can get more/better information

yes...this would mean I could loose a lot of resources over night, but if I am willing to take the risk it would me my decision and my responsibility.

other shield options that could be similarly useful could be...

a shield threshold setting so I could set my shield to activate only after an attack that did 75%
or
an option to limit my shields to 1 hour

this (in my opinion) would also address some of the 'sandbox' requests from people who want to evaluate their bases.

just an idea...
even if you don't like it I hope it inspires good ideas in you

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Great idea.

This is half of the idea I came up with on Banked Shield time. A fraction of the Shield duration is stored, instead of wasted, while out raiding, and likely to need to break the shield right away anyway. Later you can activate it and would act like a regular shield from then on, as in can't be turned off, and attacking wastes it all again. It would of course have a reasonable limit of 12-16 hours, with likely a ¼ to ⅓ ratio of stored time, maybe ½... but that's as high as I think would be allowed for such a controllable shield.

This would allow for any number of attacks a day to happen and without being stopped by a shield (but did suggest along side this, a Grace Period Shield of 15-30 mins, minimum, in cause a shield wasn't awarded.)

Basicly the idea was to allow people to game and not stress about CoC at bad times of the day. No need to check right that very moment it buzzes you have been attacked to try to get CC troops and traps reset, and the Banked Shield time would be ideal for blocking overseas people, or night shift people, from raiding you and making revenge attacks near impossible, since they would have a shield during times she you are awake, and active when asleep.