Suggestion: 5 minute delay on shield neutralization

[Szentasha]

The original concept documents I read for Notum Wars gave the defender the advantage, but it really hasn't worked out that way.

- Neutralizers were supposed to be costly, but they aren't.
- Attackers can blitz a controller and take it down in about 10 minutes, with no time for the defenders to stage an effective defense. This is especially a problem with ql150 controllers being attaced by lvl200 players.
- A coordinated attack involving many attackers is very effective in terms of being able to establish full teams with maximum buffs.
- In contrast, defenders arrive in partial teams, needing buffs, and are easily dispatched by coordinated attack teams. The defenders have little choice because if their controlelr is being blitzed, they can lose their base in 10 minutes.
- The tower attack channels are not working. Many organizations are being attacked and don't even realize it. This severely hampers a coordinated defense.
- Defenders have been burned by calling allies to defense when there was a small attack force (1-3 people) that virtually dissapears when any defenders show up. This means that defenders have to wait to assess the situation to know how many defenders to call.

The bottom line is that the attackers have the upper hand. Aggressive organizations and griefers are experiencing more success than defensive organizations that are just trying to hold on to the one or two lands they have.

A simple suggestion would be to have shield neutralizers take 5 minutes to do their work. 5 minutes is not a long time, but it would give defenders at least a small jump on calling allies and mounting a defense. It would also be a deterent against griefers who are just causing havoc and doesn't really have any intention of attacking the controller.

If the entire system wasn't so lopsided in favor of attackers, such a suggestion would not be necessary. But as it is, I feel that this would be an effective way to level the playing field until needed fixes to the tower channels and other problems are resolved.

[Turin]

Agree and BUMP

[Khazidhe]

Yeah, same... agree and *bump*

[_____________Rebbeca]

I very much agree.

[_________________Roe]

hear hear .. eh .. I mean *BUMP*

[______________Serath]

Build lower qlvl control tower!!!

That protects u from the high level people

[Kithraks]

bump

[____________Travesty]

The attackers having teams already formed is such a huge advantage, this should be a no brainer. Add in the coming change to disallowing healing beyond pvp range and this becomes an overwhelming advantage. The defenders in multi level tier guilds wont be able to organize teams fast enough that 'fit' into the small pvp windows. Also, the system as it stands is very alliance/cooperation unfriendly. We, as defenders, need more time to organize. Five minutes to prepare is not too much to ask.

[Darkbane]

I tend to agree.

As soon as the disabler is used on a tower, the whole org should get a message (Shield is being probed - x minutes before it will fail), the disabler should then take several minutes to actually bring down the shield - requiring that the person using it not move in that time. Once the shield is down a second message should go out to the owning org (Shield failed, towers under attack). If the disabler user moves or is otherwise interrupted before completing the process, the org should also get a messag telling them that the shield has been re-established.

The changes in 14.7.5 should help a bit by making controllers tougher, but some 'warning period' would still be very helpful.

And an in-game mechanism for formal alliances is also needed, which would treat members of allied orgs as if they were in your own org for purposes of the 5% PvP rule and ideally for org tower messages too (but not for area tower buffs, though also not for area tower debuffs )

[______________Serath]

Its good as it is.....

People just goto base same second it goes 25% and takes down shields...

Then they attack 5 hours later... u think anyone is still at the base?

Soo 5 min delay is kinda useless...

If someone can take down a 150 base in 10 min... well i guess u need more than control tower at the base

[Jynne]

Notifications need to be fixed.

A delay for attackers needs to be implemented so that defenders can team up.

The controller should be invulnerable or effectively invulnerable as long as there are more than <insert a fairly reasonable number here> support towers on the base.

That stupid change about healing should never go forward as it is currently being envisioned by FC.

[rubina1]

I like the idea of a 5 minute "alarm period" before the attackers can engage the towers. Everybody in the defending org should be alerted. But even so the attacker will always have the advantage. That's the nature of a "sneak attack".

[Detonate]

How the hell does the shield neutralizer work anyways?

I bought a whole bag of them, but have never had to actually use one.

Just walk up to base, press Q. Go have a smoke.

[Darkbane]

Having not actually attacked a base, I've never seen one used, but I was under the impression you had to use one before you could attack... if you don't have to, then that sounds like it is very broken (pretty sure you get a message whan a disabler is used, but if you don't have to use one, you may never get a message your under attack...) This might explain the issues surrounding the towers channels...