Originally Posted by
Morober
I have a few problems with engineered bases. First, it is cheap and an unfair advantage. Call it what you want. Within ToS, fair play, whatever. It's cheap because people are exploiting game mechanics to give themselves an unfair attacking advantage. This might fit what is currently called "fair play" but that definition can evolve over time. I will give specific examples at the end of times where Supercell changed what we call fair play.
Second, engineering a base is something that someone can't decide to go back and do. I can decide to try a new attack strategy such as lavaloon or mass bowlers. I can try to design a new base, such as a ring style base. But downgrading buildings so I can try to attempt this engineered base strategy myself is literally impossible. The only way to try to do this is to begin another account, and more than likely spend a lot of gems to get caught up. It is something that only people with the time to begin another account from the very beginning can do, and not everyone has that.
Third, when people do a clan war, they expect a reasonable matchup. My clan has 3-4 TH10s, 5-6 TH9s, and 2-3 TH8s. We only do 10v10 because that's all we have. We expect another clan that has 3-4 TH10s, 5-6 TH9s, and 2-3 TH8s, depending on what we have. We understand if they have 1 extra TH10 and we have 1 extra TH9. That's how the matchmaking algorithm works. That's annoying at times but acceptable. But the war we had a few weeks ago where we had 3 TH10s and the enemy had 3 TH11s with TH11 level troops and grand wardens, it was totally unfair. They steamrolled us and got 30 stars. It was pointless for us to even try. That doesn't sound like "fair play" now does it?
Remember the days when people would attack a base and drop nothing but lightning spells on a dark elixir storage and then quit? Supercell put a stop to that by saying they didn't see that as a very skillful attack. Remember TH sniping and getting an easy shield? Supercell said, quite simply, that they didn't design the game to be played like that so they put an end to it. Engineered bases are next on the chopping block. I promise.
