Attacked and losing points while shielded

hesjingixen

So, this morning, I got up, played a few fights in Category-5 (nothing major, just trying for top 100). I got to ~560, threw up an 8 hour shield, and then went to work. Now, I just pulled up MPQ on my phone, and the first notification I got was that I've been attacked in Category-5 and lost 17 points. Wth? Isn't a shield specifically to prevent that?

Scoregasms

Happened to me as well last night, looks like the shield doesn't take quite as fast it used to go up. I shielded and about 40 seconds later, I got a pop-up saying I was attacked and lost 30 points. Then another 40 or so seconds later, the same person had attacked me but I didn't lose points that time, so I guess there's a bit of a delay somewhere (maybe a gerbil stopped running on his wheel in the MPQ machinations).

Shield definitely works, just not as quick as I would have liked.

d0nk3y

Theoretically the fix for this is to buy the shield, then immediately pull up the event standings and check your rank. This supposedly forces a server interaction to check the scores and will sync your shield state immediately.

JamieMadrox

It's likely that you were attacked just before shielding and the server hadn't updated your client app yet before you closed it. Delayed hit notifications happen all the time unfortunately.

Scoregasms

This was like 40+ seconds later where I got the pop-up saying I had lost points, which should've been more than accounted for any sort of transfer delay. I'm now thinking whatever "fix" they did for the Shielding bug when game crashes (and shield purchase was negated, but shield remained) had an unintended side effect like the ones being described here. An alliance mate just had this happen as well.

I DID check the leaderboard and confirmed I was shielded before leaving the PVP event to go back to PVE only to see I had lost points before I even got rolling in PVE (was chatting in Alliance chat). Maybe there was some bit of code client side for the shield and it's now been moved completely to the server (I have no idea, just guessing here), in any case, it's worth cautioning folks to not expect a shield to go up and provide as immediate protection as it used to.

JamieMadrox

Scoregasms wrote:

This was like 40+ seconds later where I got the pop-up saying I had lost points, which should've been more than accounted for any sort of transfer delay. I'm now thinking whatever "fix" they did for the Shielding bug when game crashes (and shield purchase was negated, but shield remained) had an unintended side effect like the ones being described here. An alliance mate just had this happen as well.

I DID check the leaderboard and confirmed I was shielded before leaving the PVP event to go back to PVE only to see I had lost points before I even got rolling in PVE (was chatting in Alliance chat). Maybe there was some bit of code client side for the shield and it's now been moved completely to the server (I have no idea, just guessing here), in any case, it's worth cautioning folks to not expect a shield to go up and provide as immediate protection as it used to.

I've received hit notifications minutes after losing the points/shielding so it can take some time. That's always an issues with client/server based game setups. If there's any hitch in the communication between the two then the client suffers.