No you don't lose your shield after maintenance.
Active players are however removed from the system, which pushes the inactives forward to fill up the queue. (less chance of staring at clouds)
Lack of a golden hour this time is likely due to the fact that nothing in game has changed therefore not requiring a full re-cycling of the server farm thus not all players were kicked.
(Only things different is 1 gem boost has stopped - which is a config file in the client on your phone & the app store says there is an update today but despite it saying halloween is over we very much still have the theme on our devices.)
EDIT: App Store now tells me there is an update to clash and Halloween is gone.
Taking loot from dead th8's is common for th9's and not a result of any perceived 'golden hour'.
Congrats though!![]()






