How hard is it to keep a shield up? I've played this kind of game before and it quickly became miserable to engage with. It was costly to keep a shield going so you'd inevitably be attacked, usually by a whale, and more than once. You'd often wake up the following day to all of your items and troops having been wiped out. I'd like to give this a go but if I'm going to get notifications at 3:00am of an incoming whale attack night after night, I dunno...

Originally posted by cherryvanilla:

How hard is it to keep a shield up? I've played this kind of game before and it quickly became miserable to engage with. It was costly to keep a shield going so you'd inevitably be attacked, usually by a whale, and more than once. You'd often wake up the following day to all of your items and troops having been wiped out. I'd like to give this a go but if I'm going to get notifications at 3:00am of an incoming whale attack night after night, I dunno...

I don't know, I haven't played this game in particular. They're all pretty much the same though.

However, If you've ever played a kingdom/base builder game you'll easily find out within a month or whenever the first PvP event is that "peace" is just wishful thinking by f2p who don't want to be burned or zeroed out.

Depending on what your whales are like in a server, they can be either opportunistic or just so full of ego they feel like being slighted is proper justification to zero out an entire hive or two so they get a dopamine rush. I have zero hopes for this game being any different, other than being a ported version on steam. I'm happy to be proven wrong though.

Originally posted by DeliSubs:

Originally posted by cherryvanilla:

How hard is it to keep a shield up? I've played this kind of game before and it quickly became miserable to engage with. It was costly to keep a shield going so you'd inevitably be attacked, usually by a whale, and more than once. You'd often wake up the following day to all of your items and troops having been wiped out. I'd like to give this a go but if I'm going to get notifications at 3:00am of an incoming whale attack night after night, I dunno...

I don't know, I haven't played this game in particular. They're all pretty much the same though.

However, If you've ever played a kingdom/base builder game you'll easily find out within a month or whenever the first PvP event is that "peace" is just wishful thinking by f2p who don't want to be burned or zeroed out.

Depending on what your whales are like in a server, they can be either opportunistic or just so full of ego they feel like being slighted is proper justification to zero out an entire hive or two so they get a dopamine rush. I have zero hopes for this game being any different, other than being a ported version on steam. I'm happy to be proven wrong though.

I played one back in 2017 and what you describe was basically my experience. I'm open to buying items, especially since it's a F2P game and devs have to make money somehow, but the amount of spending required just to stay afloat with no real growth was too high. The game was very clearly built for whales only so I quit. I launched this game without fully realizing what it was, and then when I reached the part of the story where you can see your outpost on the map and I saw the shield up, I was immediately like, "Well, crap..."

So I've only played a little bit but you start with a 3 day shield and after doing the first mission you gain another shield and so on. So its probably not to hard to get free shields just from playing.

Originally posted by DeliSubs:

Can't wait for the chinese whales to show up out of nowhere to zero your entire guild hive as everyone lives under a permanent 24/7 shield bubble.

Yup, thats EXACTLY what this game is. a Whale gank-fest. Someone who tosses a grand at the game can wipe out THOUSANDS of F2P players without even trying. I've seen it hundreds of time in this cookie-cutter mobile crap.

On a positive note, did you guys know there was one of these mobile s**t games released on steam that had ZERO P2W in it? The chinese studio that made it (using the same cookie cutter engine they all use) had a legal dispute with the publisher and couldn't make money with game, So they removed ALL the macrotransactions and released it.

Sadly I don't recall the name anymore, but it was pirate themed and was really cool to experience what one these trash games would look like when it's not designed to extract every penny from you. Had a hilarious UI, since it had the thousand "BUY NOW P2W!" buttons these all have, but they just lead to a normal game market using common in-game currency.

I'm havin' fun since day 1 and spent less than 5 dollars