Overall Changes Needed In Clash Of Clans
Current Problems:
- Casual players driven with boredom
- War players feel left out with no new features
- Very little communication and community events/representation
- Specific game balance issues and tweaks needed
Keep in mind all these are broad problems that will be expanded into branching problems.
Solutions:
For casual players, make the game more appealing by adding new features, game modes, clan chat extensions, etc.
- For example, daily quests to earn gems (yes, they need a quicker way to earn gems like this)
- More single player maps with seasonal changes to keep active
- Clan chat extra features to make in game chat more appealing (perhaps a co leader+ only section for chat)
- More community showcasing. Create new leaderboards for different types of achievements and goals to grow community excitement!
For war players, much is needed. Firstly, never leave them out and always have something ready for them to develop with.
- A big focus: balance at Townhalls 10/11. At these townhalls, three star attacks, which they love, very difficult. This can be fixed by adding some more time at town hall10 and 11(Perhaps +15 for TH10 and +25 for TH11), constantly balancing troops and perhaps Making new troops and spells to make it easier. Since it is hard, many elite players resort to cheating to help bring the fun back at these levels.
- War players also need new war features such as arranged wars, clan war tournaments, and speed wars. This can be easily done by perhaps adding a new button to start war search, type in the clan tag of the clan you want to face, then if the other clan leader accepts, both leaders can pick and choose their players to put into the war. Speed wars should be implemented where you can pick a size for an inter clan type of scrimmage where you have let's say, 5 attacks (reduced training time and cost) to attack a base with traps. This can bring strategy into the game easier and is the “fair way” for what a modder would do. Clan War tournaments are also very easy using the same arranged war feature, just pick multiple clans and it will create brackets to make a tourney.
- Represent high level war players in a leaderboard fashion so they community feels acknowledged for their hard work into the game. (Ex. Leaderboard for most number of war wins, or maybe highest level clan type of race)
Communication problems and poor community representation
- The in-game support team needs to be a real group or people, not some automated robot. There has been positive change to this recently, so keep that up and always be as helpful as possible
- Always launch pre-update details early so the communities can prepare for change and input their feelings about it.
- Get in update testers from each community to help plan or balance an update before it launches. For example, Jake from OneHive in the war community would be a great rep to help you out with war changes.
- Always acknowledge people for their hard work into the game such as youtubers and posts on reddit. Also, ads about petty “Achievements” does not mean anything, showcase the true achievers
- Stop changing things that were never a problem just to have a change, it only creates more problems.
- Create more events! Clash Royale had a tournament that went perfect. For CoC tournaments with the best war clans out there should be made and streamed to get the community and representation alive again
Specific needs and tweaks
- Bowler unit should be either decreased in housing space, or get a buff in hitpoints and damage. This will give it use in the balance of TH10/11
- Or perhaps make it also stun the target it hits
- War matchmaking suffered a huge issue after latest update; search takes much more time only to end up with great mismatches which are frustrating.
- More on screen beautification to make clicks and shortcuts more nicer to navigate. Adding a little plus sign in an upgrading troop in player overview is a handy tool. Also an undo button in war layout screen is useful
- As stated before, make leaderboards for war player achievements.
- Witches suffered way to big of a nerf, increasing spawn unit, damage, or letting it trigger traps again will be beneficial for it and balancing of TH11
- Add Level 7 balloons for TH10/11 and reduce Valk movement speed. This allows for less valk spam and more variation in attacks up there
- Upgrading heroes eligible to use in war is a feature many have wanted for years. It's really not a bad idea to implement it
- Updates need to happen quicker to keep the community Alive, even small features are a difference
Overall guys (and gals?), This is probably FEW of the many requests people have to make your game a better game. Please Please Please listen to the communities and watch their videos to fix their desires. Following guidelines like this will aid you. Hopefully you guys(supercell team) have read this far and if you have, thank you so much for your time.
Sincerely, Your Clash Players :)
