Building Graphic Changes with Damage

Here's my little idea...

Right now, when an attack is in progress, the building's health indicator drops, and then the building suddenly disappears to be replaced by a pile of rubble. How about a series of increasingly degraded graphics for each building that get successively more "damaged looking" with holes, pieces missing, structure sagging etc, before it finally turns into a pile of rubble (along with the current health bar.) You could have 3 degraded graphics that kick in at 75%, 50%, and 25% health, providing a nice visual cue as buildings get damaged, beyond the simple health bar, which can be easily cluttered as the building is swarmed by troops that are themselves being damaged by defenses.

Then, when the village owner signs on, the same graphic progression happens in reverse as the buildings "heal" due to user interaction 25%, 50%, 75% graphics, followed by the 100% graphic when the building is fully restored.

I think this could be done without seriously hampering the game's processor demands. I have seen it in other real time strategy games, such as Command and Conquer and I believe it is a very satisfying visual effect, akin to actually causing damage vs. popping a soap bubble.

Thoughts?

Sounds like a lot of work for a detail that wouldn't be very noticeable.

I think it was Twister that posted that additions like this would increase the download size and potentily restrict it to wifi only. This in particular would quadruple the art necessary for each building and it wouldn't really change gameplay. It might look cool but there might be practical reasons for not doing it.

That's a very realistic concern.

How about just for the TH? It's the "central building" of the base, and it wouldn't add much to the download size.

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Originally Posted by sevenhelmet

That's a very realistic concern.

How about just for the TH? It's the "central building" of the base, and it wouldn't add much to the download size.

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About as close as I remember anyone asking for something like that was in the bug bug forum where they complained the Town Hall rubble graphic isn't the same color as the Town Hall itself.

Zombiebender is right about all the buildings having multiple views/graphics - it would almost guarantee the game would grow beyond Apple's imposed "Over the air" update size.

There are a lot of "Neat" ideas in the sub-forum that never make the sticky because well, honestly, as neat as they are, they don't really improve game play. I mean, will a different graphic make you deploy troops different? I don't really look at the health bar now, but maybe I play different.

It's the community's sticky for the most part, if the community thinks having a 100/75/50/25/0% graphic for the town hall would enhance gameplay, I will add it for the devs to see.

What do you all think?

I stick with my no. It might look neat briefly, but thats 40 more pieces of art someone would have to make and it wouldn't make the game ply different. On the other hand, way back in the CoC we couldn't tell a level one archer from a level five and that didn't change the game play either.

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Originally Posted by twister

About as close as I remember anyone asking for something like that was in the bug bug forum where they complained the Town Hall rubble graphic isn't the same color as the Town Hall itself.

Zombiebender is right about all the buildings having multiple views/graphics - it would almost guarantee the game would grow beyond Apple's imposed "Over the air" update size.

There are a lot of "Neat" ideas in the sub-forum that never make the sticky because well, honestly, as neat as they are, they don't really improve game play. I mean, will a different graphic make you deploy troops different? I don't really look at the health bar now, but maybe I play different.

It's the community's sticky for the most part, if the community thinks having a 100/75/50/25/0% graphic for the town hall would enhance gameplay, I will add it for the devs to see.

What do you all think?

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Hi Twister, I reached this thread using advanced search for "Building hp indicator".
IMHO when player managed to get 49% with only few troops/dmg spells left, the info about remaining building hp helps.
Is it possible to have just a "show all building hp" button during battle, or something similar, instead of graphical changes which cause performace issues (perhaps) ,please?
thank you very much.

I think that you should also be able to see these changes when building buildings. It would make it much more pleasing to the eyes and your able to tell basically where the building is holding in building without having to look at the little tiny numbers and letters that tell you specifically.

please don't give hate if your a high level guy that doesn't have any more buildings to build because hey I'm level 73 and am still building buildings.
For all of u high level guys out there that will still give hate---it should also be able to show where the progress is in upgrading a new building. Don't say that that will be too many pics that will make the download much bigger, because every lvl building has it's own amount of being destroyed (25%, 50%, 75%) pics anyway so supercell can just put those pics instead of completely new ones showing the transformation---but new ones would still be better.:cool::D:cool: Tell me what you guys think about this.