Thank you for the suggestion, VampsDD11! I have forwarded it to the developers 😎

While it's suggested it will be looked at we already know the answer. A similar suggestion has been raised about automatically removing towns camped on pioneer squares when players have left the game. The answer was that this wasn't allowed under the terms and conditions of the game and i also believe data protection laws were mentioned.

This appears no different to me in that the player chose to apply all his town shields before leaving the game.

xyz: I found an inactive town that was shielded for the next 100 years - it would be funny if it wasn't so pointless. The game advances in the strength required so fast that anyone who stops playing for a couple of years ends up way behind.

I check the shields of inactive players all the time and occasionally get lucky and find one with a shield about to drop - these "ghost towns" still with troops are my best source of soul shards.  

Plarium probably can't change the existing shields players have bought but Plarium may be able to introduce a limit on future shields.

We will think on that, pipkin, thank you for the suggestion🙏