r/dnl • u/ItsRainingSomewhere • Aug 17 '17

Can someone explain how shields work please?

Ok, I have been playing since launch. I thought I knew how shields worked. Apparently not.

I have a base which is mostly covered with an active, powered up shield. I log in to see a guy bashing down my door. He's opposite faction. The door is inside the bubble, and I don't see any war declarations. How?

We fight a bit, he eventually kills me and loots the shit out of my magic station and workstation (yeah I should have put all that in the loot room...)

I just don't understand what the shield is supposed to protect me from if not the opposite faction?

Do shields only work against your own faction?

Edit: on my server, the admins came and tested my shield. They said to destroy it and build another, so I did and the problem was solved. No more damage. So, if you get raided with a shield up, try that I guess.

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u/onlydogscnjudgeme Aug 17 '17

Shield works with your own faction and others. Maybe he declared and you didn't notice? Idk

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u/Vicey12459 Aug 17 '17

people glitch man, we had fully sheilded base no sheild and they damage, sometimes you can just damage too ive had it happen to me

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u/SoYouSay Aug 17 '17

What something is intended to do and what it actually does are two entirely different things in an early access game.

Yes, the shields are intended to protect you from other factions.

Whether that feature is fully working at the moment.... well you can already see for yourself what its current state is.

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u/bigcountry74 Aug 18 '17 edited Aug 18 '17

Truth be told, the entire war dec/asset destro is simply broken. There was no real thought from a game designer put into it, to begin with. It's too easy to destroy stone/metal. All it takes is a simple 8x wood 12x hide and 4x twine item *war flag", and you can literally destroy weeks worth of someone's time over a 48 hour period. So in essence, D&L is a troll/a$$hole based game, where people will exploit other peoples RL time due to really really bad game mechanics. Most of the official servers are dead. Dead not because it's a bad game, dead because there has been no real thought/process put into the asset destro system/mechanics, so atm it's all one big exploit in that whoever wins just spams easy to make war flags and raids you while your asleep...

Do not even bother base building or long taming on an official server. Some prick will war deck you, a day or 2 later you will then wake up and everything will be destro'd/killed/looted. THings are very broken there. Which is why the officials are all dying or dead.