Donating for level up - Jerk or Tactic

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Originally Posted by winders

Calling these donators "generous" makes no sense!

Scott

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LOL.

Seriously!

I am surprised there are so many people on both sides of this issue. I thought for sure everyone would hate, as I do, the OP.

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Originally Posted by bruc3y

I thought for sure everyone would hate, as I do, the OP.

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Yep, not everyone is in your shoes mate !

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Originally Posted by Thalric

This is a Jerk tactic. Giving people crappy troops just to lvl up. Our Clan has kicked many people for this.

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uhhhhh he wouldn't be going to he clan seeing as its active but u do have an awesome clan

And I almost always request for anything but its mostly wizzies

Clan troops are best for offense than defense. For offense, giants are very useful, unless you are using all-air forces. For defense, you can't rely on CC troops, since they DIE during the battle.

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Originally Posted by Cjdolan

And if you need your CC for defense because you are trophy pushing and your archer/drag/wiz request got sent to hell because some idiot decided clanhopping and giving you 4/5 giants (even though you didnt want them) was cool?

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Originally Posted by RegaliaRemix

Do you have Level 5 Wizards? Can you donate 3k donations consistently per season? If not, I don't want you in our clan either. I'm just calling out the clans that think Archer are troops that work out on every situation, but really they don't. They are flat out horrible on offense CC. They are a ton better if you deploy them manually.

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He has level 6 balloons and level 5 minions so he probably has level 5 wiz

Any problem? I once donated 200+ dragons during a two-week session. 10m is nothing.

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Originally Posted by Herpacleese

Not knowing what level you are nor knowing what level your giants are, I will use level 4 giants and level 50 as an example.

A fresh level 50 with zero experience wants to achieve level 60 through donating giants.
You will need to donate 5,090 level four giants at a cost of 2,000 per.
That's 10,180,000 elixer that may be able to be used elsewhere.

That being said, if you are donating to requests that have been open for days, it's debatable if this is a poor tactic. Seems to me that these players need defensive troops like dragons or wizards, not giants. You still get your experience, though it will cost more time and elixer, but you've done a considerate thing. If you happen to be joining clans to spam your giants, regardless of the requested troop type, well I need not say anything more. I realize this is not what you have described, however, the temptation remains.

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Hate to say this, but it is one of the cheapskate move I've ever seen. Every single time I put "Barbarians, Archer or Minions only, and no giants", a clan hoppers joins in and starts donating giant & leaves;

or another cheap way, this type of guy got warned 3 times & keeps repeatedly saying sorry but still donates giant.

These are the type of the people I'd hoped for his fingers to break to the amount of numbers he donates giant. I've seen many idiots that don't read & see what other ppl needs. A tactic you say? possible, only if you do at the same time respecting what other needs.

considering the people pretty much will never play i think they will deal with it and they will nvr know it was u!

Interesting thread, but as many discussions like this go, the problem is too many people are seeing this as a black and white issue, when it's not.

People who do this are not entirely generous saints. Their primary motivation is that they want to jack up their donation stats to get free gems. If this was not the case we would not be here.

These same people are not total jerks IF the requests they fulfill are days old (I'd say 1 day, but this is open to debate too). A request 5 minutes old can be ruined if you put five wbs into someone's CC when five archers would have been better. But for something days old, these are people in nearly dead clans, probably not playing constantly, and probably barely have a strategy. If your strategy is to hang out in an open clan and wait 3 days for fifteen archers, then you don't have much of a strategy, and you don't know how to pick a clan. As this is a game, it is all about competition, and part of the competition is finding a strategy and a clan that work to advance you. There's no social aspect to requesting troops.

That said, creating a feature that blocks certain donation types sounds like a good idea, not to block situations like this, but more edge cases were people are in more active clans with people who sometimes mess up or who sneak into a clan and deliberately troll donate (i.e., donate goblins to get donation points and ♥♥♥♥ people off). There's another point. Going around donating giants is marginally better than going around donating goblins, so if you do it with giants, you are at least helping people by giving them offense.

I think said feature is going to be tough for Supercell. Most features they do either encourage more gem spending or are minor interface tweaks. They might do it, but now you have to put a place in the interface to actually create said blocking feature and there's not a lot of room for it. That said, it makes it harder to get gems from achievements which might encourage more gem buying... I dunno.