My solution to spying and engineering

Spying:

Create 1 more rank in clans in between elder and member called warrior. This position would have same benefits that member currently has. Member would be allowed in clan, able to chat, but would not have access to view war bases. That way all the constantly warring clans would be able to recruit without worrying that someone is trying to cheat them. Just do not promote anyone to warrior until you are comfortable with them. Spying is now gone.


Engineering:

Town Hall penalty in War

For every level Town hall that you 3 star above your current Town hall level you gain an extra star. This would stop people from building defenseless bases. These bonus stars would only be available for the first 3 star on any base and only if the base is 3 starred.

If TH8 attacks defenseless TH11 and 3 stars it = 6 stars for clan.
If TH9 attacks defenseless TH11 and 3 stars it = 5 stars for clan.

I know it is severe but it would make people defend their base not just sacrifice their villagers. We are supposed to be their chiefs, right? Doesn't that mean they are trusting us to defend them?

Interesting ideas, not sure if they've been suggested before or not. I could see the warrior idea being a workable thing. I don't have much problem with spies personally, but I wouldn't mind something like this.

Interesting idea about the town hall penalty. But maybe you should cap it at a 2 base level difference. You don't want a fully maxed Th9 attacking and 3 starring a one day old TH10 and reward that Th9 with 4 stars.

Why does spying need a solution? If joiners aren't in you're global or you haven't spoken to them at the forums don't admit them, simple.

Really this is simple and plays along with other things SC has done to fix other issues. Adding bonus/penalties for attacking up/down TH lvls was applied to raiding and kept people from drastically abusing weaker opponents.

I like it. +1

spying isn't really a problem, but I wouldn't mind an option to recruit random people during war without the chance of spies. Might help the social issue some clans are facing

I feel that this only solves part of the problem of engineered bases. There are a wide variety of different kinds such as mentioned defenseless, minis and .5s.

Off the top of my head I feel that lowering Xbow war weight and increasing the weight of heroes would help too.

It is not only stars against defenseless. If you war with a mini or .5, you face the same chance of adversely effecting your clan by giving up bonus stars. It counters the offensive advantage that defenseless, mini, or .5 are getting. This is a strategy game so if you are getting advantage somewhere there should be a negative somewhere for the trade off.

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Originally Posted by BlayneLee

Off the top of my head I feel that lowering Xbow war weight and increasing the weight of heroes would help too.

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Increase hero weight?! It's already too high imo. We have had wars where the enemy clan had 8 inferno bases and we had only 2 because our th9 have got strong heroes.

First idea would work +1

Second idea would help with defensless bases, but there are many forms of engineering, roster sandbagging would still be around, it would also not stop the .5 problems (1 tg11 and 2 10.5s vs 1 th11 and two 10s). This last one I'm seeing a lot of recently even when the roster isn't sandbagged.

I also like the sabotage idea that was expanded upon not too far back, though I was the one expanding that idea :smirk:

Only thing is SC would need to recognize what an engineered base is vs a basic low level base, so it would need a double list system to pin point who is who.