Shielding -What really happens?

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edited February 2014 in MPQ General Discussion
So I'm 99% convinced that shielding puts you in some kind of invisible bracket not to be attacked. Once again I try to gain a few points in the off hours of the Magnetic tourney. For nearly an hour a nonstop trad-offs, I gain 22, lose 23, gain 24, lose 45, etc. etc. Nearly every single win came with an attack and a loss of more points than I gained. I finally gave up (and ran out of health packs) threw up a 8hr shield and now 2 hours later I've yet to be attacked once. Not once! Not even the guy that retaliated 4 consecutive times went for another go. Did he and every other person I was fighting give up at the same time? Doesn't seem likely.
Has anyone else experienced something like this?

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Sorry, just realized I posted this in the wrong thread. Sorry all.
  • Puritas
    Puritas Posts: 670 Critical Contributor
    Once you shield people can't queue you up.
    If you were already queued up or in their retal queue they can hit you, but that's it.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Puritas wrote:
    Once you shield people can't queue you up.
    If you were already queued up or in their retal queue they can hit you, but that's it.

    Not true, but you do appear much less frequently than normal. You actually can disappear from people's queues if you shield while they are relogging, also.
  • Puritas
    Puritas Posts: 670 Critical Contributor
    Wait really?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    The queue of opponents is generated quite a bit in advance. For example, one time I joined Lightning Round and have the usual BaconMagic and friends lined up. I forgot about the event, so I came back with 30 minutes left, beat BaconMagic, and the next guy on the queue was Kicksthatkick. Clearly, there's no way the LR needs the seed team at this point, so those guys must have been queued up as soon as the the tournament started. So even though you're shielded, you may still be in someone's upcoming queue that was already formed.

    I'm guessing quitting the game removes all ineligible guys who are already queued up (shielded guys, seed team when they should no longer be showing up).
  • Puritas
    Puritas Posts: 670 Critical Contributor
    makes sense
    also fits in with the fact that if you shield for a long period of time, people just stop attacking you after the first couple hours
    regardless of whether it's one long shield or several 3-hour shields

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