Damage Protection screwed again?

[malaspina]

Problem: Logging in to find you have been attacked 10's of times by the same person in an hour OR that you can never access your base because it is constantly under attack.
Short term solution: Give the player 1 hour protection if someone attacks them 4 times in 1 hour.

Can you think of a better but equally quick to implement solution?

Glad you finally logged in. Unfortunately, this isn't working the way you are saying. There are countless reports here of DP triggering for every attack starting with the fourth from a guy. Or triggering for less than four attacks in an hour. I myself experienced both; I'm currently under 2 days of protection from 3 attacks which destroyed almost nothing. There's a bug David, and it's making the game unplayable.

[TGN]

I like it when I come back to see my base has been attacked that many times, it makes me proud that I survived it.

[David Scott]

We did add 2 new rules a few days ago:

1. If you are attacked more than 10 times in a 24 hour period we give you 24 hours protection. Of course this is only if you don't get damaged enough to trigger the regular protection. This was added to fix the problem of people constantly attacking you but making no progress.

2. If you are attacked by a single person more than 10 times in a 24 hour period we remove you from their map room. This is to fix the problem of a single person picking on another player, again, only if they are not given regular protection so this only affects people who get attacked 10 times a day by someone who does not do enough damage. Attacking them adds you back to their map room of course.



I guess you could be triggering rule 1 if you are the 10th person to attack them within 24 hours.

[Lara Leise]

Nice thoughts, David.

But the protection is still bugged. Just read the posts above. I attacked a person for the first time that day, and she got exactly one hour protection.
And once i got 2 days protection without any building damaged. Just for an empty attack.
And last but not least: one hour protection for any attack beyond the third, even if the attacker waited more than 1 hour before the 4th attack.

And 10 attacks is not enough to flatten a well defended base. Maybe the number of attacks should be based on the level of the defender. Or people should be able to work together.

[malaspina]

1. If you are attacked more than 10 times in a 24 hour period we give you 24 hours protection. Of course this is only if you don't get damaged enough to trigger the regular protection. This was added to fix the problem of people constantly attacking you but making no progress.

I have exceeded the 10 attacks/24 hours limit, but I got 48, not 24 hours protection. UID 12307. And there's also the issue of every attack after the third triggering hourly protection no matter what. It's been reported numerous times so I guess it can't be people mistaking the new 24 hours protection for this.

(I also don't agree with the rule change, as we need a way to make attacking easier, not harder, unless you want this game to turn into fantasy Farmville.)

[David Sacco]

Not sure if I quite understand you David but I can tell you what I've been experiencing...

4 attacks period... 1 hr damage protection. Doesn't matter the time frame but appears to be 24 hrs.

Every subsequent attack (after 4) automatically sends them back into protection for an hour.

This is without any other attacks from other players and the only damage being done to towers or no damage at all.

Right now I get 4 attacks... wait an hour... get 1 attack... wait another hour... get 1 attack... wait an hour... etc.

Sorry, but I've stopped playing the game because of this. Attacking has been taken out of the game... except if you only want to make 4 or less attacks on a base.

Finally, if you made changes to DP, would have been nice to at least make a post about it.

[David Sacco]

2. If you are attacked by a single person more than 10 times in a 24 hour period we remove you from their map room. This is to fix the problem of a single person picking on another player, again, only if they are not given regular protection so this only affects people who get attacked 10 times a day by someone who does not do enough damage. Attacking them adds you back to their map room of course.

This makes sense when it comes to 'farming' a single player. But it certainly appears that "regular protection" is busticated.

[stevoju]

Here's two examples of what's been happening to me. Both times I spread the 4 attacks passed that one hour period. But, the 4th attack puts them in DP.

[David Sacco]

We did add 2 new rules a few days ago:

1. If you are attacked more than 10 times in a 24 hour period we give you 24 hours protection. Of course this is only if you don't get damaged enough to trigger the regular protection. This was added to fix the problem of people constantly attacking you but making no progress.

If a player is constantly attacking me and making no progress where's the problem?

[elculo]

Well, I attacked someone twice 11 hours ago. He came back and repaired his base.
10 hours later, I started my second attempt. Someone else had taken out 1 tower, nothing more. I attacked him twice again, taking out all towers except 2.
Suddenly, he was in protection. I thought, ok, maybe that someone else has attacked him twice so it makes 4 attacks in one hour.
An hour later, the protection was gone. I took out the last 2 towers with one attack, and now he's in damage protection again, and I'm pretty sure nobody else has attacked him since I just took out the towers when the one hour protection was gone...
:/