Village Guard & Personal Breaks <-- discuss it HERE!

Just watched the youtubers breakdown of the announcement. I rank them in the following order in best breaking it down and showing benefit of the change:

1. Godson
2. Galadon
3. Nickatnyte (he just read the post but didn't explain it really)

Anyone else seen a good video to help explain at a high level and the benefit of the change?

I'm not concerned about a 3 hour vs 6 hour personal break honestly cause I can only ever have the attention or ability to do one boost session at a time without neglecting life :)

Dear Super Cell, if you need two whole weeks to explain the new changes to the game, you've just killed the game. Let alone two days to explain just two changes. Are you serious? I can't believe nobody in their board room stood up and said "this is way to complicated" Has nobody ever heard the saying "less is more" Or Keep it simple stupid. This is just crazy ridiculous. I'm afraid you've killed the game for a very good number of very serious players.

I've learned to adapt with all the other updates but all the other updates really didn't change the way the entire game is played. When you said "game changing update" you weren't kidding but I think you really went to far with that. And apparently with the pages and pages of people essentially saying the same thing.... I'm not the only one who thinks so.

But of course, you won't listen to any of us. You've made your billions.

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Greedy Supercell going to pay for it in the long run!

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This i roughly how I expect it to go:

Step 1: The casual players will quit
Step 2: The farmers will enjoy their loot, but when their bases disappear from the loot pool, causing them to quit.
Step 3: Only pushers are left, the ones who are not willing to pay several thousands of Dollars per month will quit.
Step 4: 80% of the community will have quit, leaving 20% of satisfied, paying customers.
Step 5: These 20% suddenly realize that the game is no longer competitive enough due to the lack of the mass of players, and they will quit.

Have fun at ClashCon 2 SuperCell! I think you'll be rather lonely...

"A player is forced offline for 6 minutes after 3 hours of cumulative online time (or Village Guard time) without shield". please someone explain it to me. Is it straight 3 hr online or total 3 hr online in a day.

Fairly complex idea imho. Simplicity is golden. Hope it is easier in practice!

Bold moves by SC though, I applaud them!

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Originally Posted by vienfet

Man it's just a 6 minute break, and the break is to keep a good supply of available bases to be attacked.

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I can give you one example: I would like to just 'kill' free time on e.g. business trip during the weekend and to boost whole production let's say twice in a row (and to try to gain as much resources as possible).

The current personal break is after 6 hours and for 5 minutes.
Using the new mechanism I would not be allowed to play for just 4 hours without the break or paying for the guard.
Got it?

And to be honest, I was using this as a personal boost after every TH upgrade to speed up my progress at the beginning..

Not sure I'm reading this right. If I boost 2x in a row, I'll get kicked halfway through the second boost. When I return, I'll have to break my shield (if one was earned) to resume the rest of my boost--opening myself up to another potential attack. Doesn't seem right.

If this is the case, can there be a timer somewhere showing us how long we have until we get kicked off for the break so we don't waste boosts?

Edit--Just watched Galadon's video, cleared it up (I think). He pointed out that it was 3 hours without a shield before PB kicked in. Missed that.

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Originally Posted by Males

I'm a casual player who loves Clash, but this update is pretty much going to end my playing. Getting my TH sniped is about the only way I can save resources, I don't have the time to do 10-20 attacks a day, sometimes I'm lucky to do that in a season. I think I'll just place all my storages and collectors to one side of the map, defences on the other side and quit playing the game. I'll delete Boom Beach too

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^^This

Sometimes I go days without attacking; I log in to clear collectors near shield-end then go about my life. Maybe once or twice a week I'll have time for a session where I do a few attacks. But without the TH snipe protection for my loot, this new system seems like I'll lose loot every 12 hours. That's ~15 raids a week that will probably take loot. Plus there are trap re-arm costs. If I only raid 10 times a week there's no way I'll ever get ahead.

Hopefully one of the next sneak peeks has some feature to help the casual player. Or hopefully after the update I'll see that not all that much loot is being stolen from me and I can still afford upgrades. If not... then finally this will be the excuse I need to help me quit.

Explanation on how the VG works

Say you play for 3 hours cumulative (means the time online adds up, not the same thing as continous play, so leaving the game doesn't "reset" anything).
As a little proof of concept what cumulative time means:
- you play from 1pm to 3pm without leaving the game (2 hours)
- then you go and have lunch for 15 minutes. Someone might attack you, but say you haven't gotten a shield
- you've finished lunch at 3:15pm, and play for another hour
- at 4:15pm you'll be kicked becuase of the Personal Break Rule, because cumulative that's 3 hours of play.

Exception to this rule: you wouldn't be kicked if during your lunch-time someone attacked you and you've gotten a shield. Then you can play for 3 hours straight again, as it resets the "online time counter".

So, say noone attacked you and you've played for 3 hours cumulative.
You get kicked out of the game for 6 minutes, so others have chance to attack you. If someone attacks you and you get a shield, you can play again for 3 uninterrupted hours.
If noone attacked you within those 6 minutes (1st time being kicked), or someone attacks you but you don't get any shield, you have 15 minutes to get into the game and re-arm your traps, before being kicked for 6 minutes again (for the 2nd time). The same rules apply, so if you AGAIN fail to get shield within those 6 minutes, you again have 15 minutes to re-arm traps before being kicked again for the 3rd time.

After the 3rd consecutive 6-minutes-break, you can play the game normally for (3 hours + new VG time left) hours. If you don't get the shield, you don't have any free VG time added, so you can play only 3 hours again before the same annoying thing happens again.

Example
If you are in, say, Titan I league and you get a shield, you get free 3 hours of VG time, so 3h+3h = 6h of online time before being annoyed again.
If you are in Masters league, you get 15 minutes of added VG time, so 15 minutes + 3h = 3 hours and 15 minutes of online time before being annoyed again.

Alternatively, you can of course always buy VG time from the shop and thus extend your uninterrupted play time from 3 hours to, say, 5 hours.

Horrible horrible horrible. This was suppose to fix the previous problem of tinkering with something not broken. Now only the 1% of top players get free shields. Supercell you suck.