wreckingball personal claim

[Hollogodis]

Can i wreck an active personal claim with a wreckingball? Abandoned base with still active claim and dunno how long is left on it.

[MagicManICT]

If it's active... If I understand the rules right, yes. A wrecking ball doesn't attack the shield, but does have a 24 hour cooldown after assembly where anyone can come along and break it. Vandal scents will be left, of course.

[AntiBlitz]

no, the wrecking ball still attacks the shield. I can confirm this, as near the start of my play, i spent 13hours or so bringing down a palisade because i was unaware of the shield and decided to go for it anyways. Sieging is quite horrible i might add, maybe not for the defenders, but certainly the attackers. If the claim is no longer active, then you wont leave scents, and the shield wont work, and will damage the structure as normal. Actually now that im questioning it, is this only for palisades? because if you begin just attacking a fence or destroying random items, you just get vandal scents and it penetrates the shield. Does the shield only work on stopping siege equipment like cata's destroying stuff over walls and equipment used on pali's?

[MagicManICT]

Right, shields only protect from siege equipment.

I wasn't aware of the wrecking ball damaging the shield, but I may have missed a change on it somewhere.

[Hollogodis]

So im wrecking balling an active personal claim. The claim is popping up purple numbers each strike and the claim shield is going down. So now it started giving me like very high numbers and its gradually going down and now the personal claim is showing numbers 1 and 0 what does this mean? That there is some kind of cooldown to siegeing a claim and making more damage?

[DreadDawson]

Yes, only a certain % can be taken off every 4 hours or so.

The siege mechanics page in C&I could give you better information than I.

[AntiBlitz]

read my post where i explain that it took like 13 hours to siege a place. Yes, you can come back every hour, irl, and continue the siege. if you inspect the ground on the claim, you can see how much shield is left. Just click "A" and "S" to get the magnifying glass.