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by TheLurkingRage » Tue Sep 05, 2017 5:04 am
No, the shield was intentionally supposed to protect players. It is there to have some sort of balance so that there's enough loot going around in the game. If you gave the players too much protection, they'd log off having spent all their resources, but if you gave them too little protection, then they'd be getting hacked too often to make any significant progress in the game. That's not to say that this can't be used to your favour, but some sort of protection is indeed necessary. Some have suggested the shield to work only if you're Hacking or compiling, which I think would certainly be an improvement, however it wouldn't change a thing for me because I already altered my sleeping patterns to fully take advantage of the shield. I sleep anywhere between 15 minutes - 3 hours at a time and I could leave the game on compiling Maniacs until I wake up, and keep going. With the way the game was designed, there's ultimately no way of "fixing" everything without rebuilding it from the ground up.
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