This is actually a * good idea. An x amount of time shield which gives some buffs to players who are playing on servers older than Y amount of time. A shield/buff which basically gives them some improved rates for stuff, a bit more experience, a bit more coins, maybe 2 convoys instead of one so they get that tiny bit of coupons to catch up with at least the 9 tails coupons. And instead of giving each new server the new server event thing, give the new player the same event but just for them. This can't really be abused either, I don't see why. But honestly, all we are going to hear is that Tobei will just relay the suggestion to the team and never hear about this thing again until some other player brings it up so...

At the very least they need to halt making new dead servers till all existing servers been merged at least once

Yeah, that's unfortunate :( But I hope it works in programmers' and developers' minds at least because it is already a successful method used by other strategy game companies :)

This isn't a very PvP centric game, I'm not entirely sure what this "shield" is supposed to protect them from.
Plunder? Well, there is already a 15 level limit on that, so any new player won't get plundered in any remotely seasoned server as their level would be too low.
Sage? Well, sure, you can in theory protect them in sage from the big ones, but that's fairly pointless considering there probably won't be exactly a lot of target for them to hit anyway (fellow shielder) or do you mean that they can challenge the big ones at their leisure but the big ones can't hunt them back? That's silly and unhelpful(since they lose anyway) and would only lead to alt-win-feeders.
Red name? Well, they won't be red cause they won't be able to plunder in any reasonably seasoned server.
Ranked? Well, for one it's ranked so it would be rather unfair for them to have protection there. But frankly, no one really care about ranks and for the first couple days, they'd be trying to climb out of the pit of abandoned characters, so they won't be anywhere challenge is likely to happen anyway.
Masuri? In theory it would be more fair to match player of similar age in masuri, but that probably doesn't need anything of this sort but rather just a masuri matchmaking change.

So overall, such a "shield" does pretty much nothing. You know what kind of game the shields are used for? Ones where you can be attacked at any time by anybody otherwise. Because without the shield, you'd be "killed" before getting anywhere. Since the attacking anyone at anytime thing doesn't really exist in this game, a shield against it would be superfluous and accomplish nothing.

There is actually new player protection already if you sign up in an older server. In arena and matsuri for example, you can only be matched against other young players. (Which sometimes lead to hilariously long que times; such as taking 20+ mins to find a training arena match; while high levels find it instantly; or taking 10+ mins to find a matsuri match while the high level player already finish 3 fights).

15 lvl gap pretty much renders the new players immune to getting plundered anyways. Sage is the only place you can actually get bullied... but face it; unless you are the top players, you are gonna get bullied there regardless.

This is an interesting idea. But, as Belerephon said, I wish they'd stop opening new servers for the time being & start merging the existing ones.

Yeah but at least it would remove their reasoning for 'protecting' new players xD and maybe then they would stop making new servers and merge these numerous ones :)

At most they should open 1 server a month max having a new server every 3 days is insane considering most of them go dead soon after and encourage new players to join existing servers.

Well, what can I say, the servers are popping out like pop corns ;P

i agree the shield isn't what this game needs but regardless the idea behind it is great offer exp curves and bonus stuff to new or lower lvl ppl like the other person said temp extra exp coins and stuff and not opening new servers is cheap and easier and if the curve is good enough we could have low lvl ppl catching up and not so many dead servers and make events for them so they can get some ninja they missed (that are still useless to higher lvl but would at least give them something to progress through game)

Hey!

Appreciate for the suggestion offered.
I've relayed your thoughts to the developers.

Once again, Thank you.