Point of having trophies?
Let me start off by saying I'm sure this question has been asked/addressed tons of times in this forum. I even tried a search but it was so broad it brought up multiple topics. So I do apologize for asking the same thing that has undoubedly been asked before and if you feel like reading this is wasting your time please exit the thread now so I don't continue to do so.
I am a competitive person and I've tried with well intentions to have a well defended base, with my townhall in the middle. I've gone on trophy pushes and I've enjoyed moving into the top 3 of my clan. The problem was, at level 65, the people all around me were way higher level and every time I would get raided my whole base would get smashed (TH8) with all of my gold and elixer taken. Literally every time my shield would run out I'd get raided if I was trying to save up for something big (I'm at the point where the only elixer upgrades are all ~2 mil) and keeping gold/DE was almost out of the question if I were to have any hopes of not getting smashed in a raid. I would get smashed by lvl 100+, which seemed really unfair considering the fact that I was a good 40 levels below them.
So going against my competitive nature, I put my town hall in a corner away from all defenses as I've seen many people do and purposely dropped my trophy counts. The results are now mostly people lower level than I attacking my town hall and getting no resources. I lose trophies but I get a free shield and I'm free to save up gold/elixer to my desire (I went from 2k trophies to 1.4k and rarely do raids of my base even try to attempt to take my resources now).
So considering the fact that I purposely dropped trophies and am not trying to defend my town hall, you would think in the nature of this game that I'd be somehow punished; but I have only been rewarded. I know that it's been a problem in this game for a while (high level players purposely dropping trophies to avoid being attacked by higher level people) but I certainly see why. Now it's much easier for me to save up to upgrade my base/units.
So what is the point of having high trophies? The league bonuses are a joke. Being high makes me look good in my clan but there isn't even a reason for the clan itself to have high trophies... there is no real reward. Why should I try to defend my town hall when placing it outside gets me a free shield with no resourses lost? What is supercell really doing to prevent this behavior? It just really seems like ♥♥♥♥♥ing the system/messing with the whole point of the game.