Awesome updates. This gives everyone a chance to level without experiencing the game as being an inevitable “bending over” game.

Well done.

One more tip: you should include a mechanism where somebody can not attack same player again within 72 hours otherwise people will use their alts and send minimum amount of troops to trigger the next 12 hours protection.

Yes, you can not prevent people keep creating alts to game that but at some point it becomes “oh well, more users” and you don’t care too much about it since they don’t really influence much on production level. When they do... they’ve invested to actually benefit from the production.

I assume that attacking will break the protection shield?

Edit: 8hrs and raid 50% seems fairer for the balance towards whales. 8hrs is a common shield duration and allows you to introduce another resource which allows protection shield purchase.

At 30% only it feels that stacking defense and just waiting for production is a better incentive for whales than throw expensive troops against middle level players just for kills. Don’t get me wrong, kills are fun but if you look at the biggest MMOs the kills only go through the roof when resources in IAP packs become cheaper. Resource raiding is an integral part and 25% with 8hrs and 50% seems rather fair when looking at actual production levels.

8hrs shield, combined with protection shield purchase option, puts the onus on the defender. You will notice that if resource raiding is worth it, whales will employ watchers in the gang, who take note of when shields go up for possible raiding later.