Troops should prioritize building in spell range

While we all know that most troops target the closest building, they sometimes behave a bit weirdly/inconsistently.
e.g. archers walk past outer mortar to shoot inner archer tower,
drags choosing a target that was actually farther from another building,
pekka went merry go round when there was a close building inside of walls etc.


These are still fine seeing as we have no control, but sometimes it's just terrible when it happens inside a rage spell.
I have experienced it a few times first hand, drags fly right out of rage, pekkas walk out of it to target other buildings, queen shoots tesla behind th, archers jump out of wall and had to break walls again,
My clan mates have experienced it a few times as well

In short, my request: Troops inside of spell target buildings inside of spell (if any) and proceed to outside if there are none.

Drawbacks: Makes raid easier and might affect gameplay at higher levels.

I think they are okay as it is... They have one ai... Go to nearest buuildi that is not hindered by walls.. And if there is none they wil attack the walls... How mear the building, it is determined by the nearest tiles on where the building on... (Army camp counted as the tiles they have not how near the troops from the center of the fire)
adding ai spells will make the game really unbalance as you can easily evade defence building thus rendering them useless....

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Originally Posted by mikaru

I think they are okay as it is... They have one ai... Go to nearest buuildi that is not hindered by walls.. And if there is none they wil attack the walls... How mear the building, it is determined by the nearest tiles on where the building on... (Army camp counted as the tiles they have not how near the troops from the center of the fire)
adding ai spells will make the game really unbalance as you can easily evade defence building thus rendering them useless....

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Like I mentioned, the ai aren't always consistent.
If you pay attention to your raids, you will sometimes see strange stuff.
I'm not proposing any spells or ai spells (whatever that is), I'm just saying they should focus.
Not sure what you meant by evading defence buildings, as defences lock on with the exception of mortars.
So you can't "evade" and it won't be useless.

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Originally Posted by GonGon

Like I mentioned, the ai aren't always consistent.
If you pay attention to your raids, you will sometimes see strange stuff.
I'm not proposing any spells or ai spells (whatever that is), I'm just saying they should focus.
Not sure what you meant by evading defence buildings, as defences lock on with the exception of mortars.
So you can't "evade" and it won't be useless.

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The margin of randomness is very low... Out of all of my draid this months the time when the ai is not consistent is only like 1% of them..... The only weird ai is on dragon.. Other than that all of the other ai is okay to me.... They are focused now... To the building that is open and the nearest one... Archer may have smaller scope on finding any opening, so that's why they sometimes attack walls

probably it'll be better if you give some sort of screenshot as to the "strange" stuff that has happened to you...

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Originally Posted by mikaru

The margin of randomness is very low... Out of all of my draid this months the time when the ai is not consistent is only like 1% of them..... The only weird ai is on dragon.. Other than that all of the other ai is okay to me.... They are focused now... To the building that is open and the nearest one... Archer may have smaller scope on finding any opening, so that's why they sometimes attack walls

probably it'll be better if you give some sort of screenshot as to the "strange" stuff that has happened to you...

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You are not quite getting the point of the thread.
I'm not complaining about the ai of troops regularly.
I'm talking about when in spell effect.

Also, I do not have screenshots - I raid too many times per day to be able to see any replay.
I'll see if I get any in the next few days.
But I think many others experience this - my clan mate had it twice today.

Dragon isn't the only one.
Pekka, archers, queen and wallies all do it sometimes.
I don't use others often, but I'm sure they do have weird behaviours.

It's not about shooting a building or wall,
I gave a few examples in the original post, you might want to go through them again.

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Originally Posted by GonGon

You are not quite getting the point of the thread.
I'm not complaining about the ai of troops regularly.
I'm talking about when in spell effect.

Also, I do not have screenshots - I raid too many times per day to be able to see any replay.
I'll see if I get any in the next few days.
But I think many others experience this - my clan mate had it twice today.

Dragon isn't the only one.
Pekka, archers, queen and wallies all do it sometimes.
I don't use others often, but I'm sure they do have weird behaviours.

It's not about shooting a building or wall,
I gave a few examples in the original post, you might want to go through them again.

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Yea from the one i see i think the new one is about the archer....
dragon is as always a bit hard to control.... And pekka's AI is certainly like barb not archer... They search for nearest building that is open... So yeah, if the building is inside the walls and there is an open building they will go for the open building.... While indeed sometimes the troops ai is annoying... But i haven't really heard and feel anything about their action being randomized because of the spells... That's why probably if you can find them it'll be more clear what's wrong :)

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Originally Posted by mikaru

Yea from the one i see i think the new one is about the archer....
dragon is as always a bit hard to control.... And pekka's AI is certainly like barb not archer... They search for nearest building that is open... So yeah, if the building is inside the walls and there is an open building they will go for the open building.... While indeed sometimes the troops ai is annoying... But i haven't really heard and feel anything about their action being randomized because of the spells... That's why probably if you can find them it'll be more clear what's wrong :)

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Okay, you are totally misunderstanding the whole point.
I'm not sure how to explain it anymore…:/
Sorry..

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Originally Posted by GonGon

While we all know that most troops target the closest building, they sometimes behave a bit weirdly/inconsistently.
e.g. archers walk past outer mortar to shoot inner archer tower,
drags choosing a target that was actually farther from another building,
pekka went merry go round when there was a close building inside of walls etc.


These are still fine seeing as we have no control, but sometimes it's just terrible when it happens inside a rage spell.
I have experienced it a few times first hand, drags fly right out of rage, pekkas walk out of it to target other buildings, queen shoots tesla behind th, archers jump out of wall and had to break walls again,
My clan mates have experienced it a few times as well

In short, my request: Troops inside of spell target buildings inside of spell (if any) and proceed to outside if there are none.

Drawbacks: Makes raid easier and might affect gameplay at higher levels.

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Don't get me wrong, I hear what you're saying - when rage (or other) spells are active, you want the troops to stay concentrated on targets inside the effect of the spell. But, that would completely override the AIs. You could take 5 rage spells, just drop them on the town hall one after the other and have the troops bypass other targets that the AI would normally have them attack to focus on the buildings in the spell.

I think it's just too much of actually directing the troops versus the autonomous way they work now.

Even if you change the scenario to say only troops in the ring when spell is deployed focus on the buildings inside (and draw them from outside in) you could still lay the spells in slightly overlapping portions and basically just walk a group of dragons directly from outside to the core bypassing the other buildings to the sides.

I don't think that would be a good change for the game, do you?