These days, everyone is always protected all the time.

Trophy of Arms seekers are all ravenous and hit everyone in sight at all times. Thus everyone is staying shielded, always.

They should at least add a cooldown to shields, so if you go unshielded you have a 30sec delay, maybe a minute, before the next can be applied.

These days, everyone is always protected all the time.

Trophy of Arms seekers are all ravenous and hit everyone in sight at all times. Thus everyone is staying shielded, always.

Best best would seem to be look for inactive unordered towns - many have a few scouts or troops left that could get you where you're trying to go.

WWO said:

Better they add a buffer (extension) of 2 minutes to a dropped shield to give you time to re-establish it.

Why? The game is already too risk free, especially for those that hit tiles then shield immediately, or those that port in beside someone whose shield dropped while they slept or something. Should also not allow porting for 5 minutes after unshielding.

Hersheysquirts said:

WWO said:

These days, everyone is always protected all the time.

Trophy of Arms seekers are all ravenous and hit everyone in sight at all times. Thus everyone is staying shielded, always.

Best best would seem to be look for inactive unordered towns - many have a few scouts or troops left that could get you where you're trying to go.

I haven't found any idle towns. Can I only attack in my kingdom?

It would be extraordinary if you had no idle towns. A great complaint here is that they never go away and just obscure everything.

If it isn't shielded, isn't in an order, is under L21, and has been idle for a few hours, send a scout, see what happens. Be ready to shield. (Key 'B', scroll down fast ...)

On a lark, I went to 100:100. Front and center was:

Hersheysquirts said:

So it must have been like a prerequisite cooldown. Like i have to be an account for so many days before i can attack. Nobody has shields now.

Doubtful. I have seen no such thing. New players can attack immediately. Not a good move at that point, but they can do it.

Until recently I have never seen any cooldowns in the game. Even now I know of only 2:

1. Cardinal 'recuperation' (for lack of a better term).
2. 24h before you can rejoin your order.

If there are no shields, they expired.

Check the player's idle time.