http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...=1#post5850389
"Conversely, players who try to work around the shield system will get no shield at all."
A very effective way to earn money is to push trophies - by sniping town halls - and taking advantage of the win bonuses awarded by higher level leagues. This can be done every 5 minutes and doesnt require spending 90 minutes building a proper war attack army.
A very solid way to get a shield - so that you can prepare for clan war - is to leave a th outside and let it get sniped easily.
I can see by the decisions made by supercell in the past; the powers that be want to make it so that they encourage giant full powerhouse style army camps - that take ages to build... to promote players to use GEMS to speed up the process... because supercell - is a business - and wants to make money.
This shield decision has nothing to do with improving game play - it is being implemented to improve the companies bottom line.
Getting 1 star - and a shield - and a win with sniping the TH is a staple of the game play.
You should not take this away from us.
-What about those of us who use Super Queen walk? 4 healers - high level queen - we can kill 60% of a base using just those units... that is 20% or less of our army capacity -- so your telling us that we will not get a shield every time someone does that to us?
This decision your making is NOT going to improve gameplay; I think it will hurt it significantly.