Introduce the SPY to save time finding the desired village to attack.

My biggest frustration is getting a desirable match when attacking. Besides the sometimes out of proportion search cost it takes a long time cycling through villages. Hence my proposal the SPY to filther out some villages.
i havent spend much gems sofar.. Only to get all the builders.. But if the spy is introduced i would probably pull my wallet for it.
i can see a small building within your village with no defence ability.. Like the spell factory or the lab. It could look like a lighthouse with a spyglass on top. If you enter this building you open an advanced attack menu; all sort of filters to exclude specific villages in you attack search. Most filters will be blocked when you start out with the SPY, but as with everything else this can be upgraded.
Filters in my opinion should pinpoint town house levels and/or minimum loot of each resource, for instance;
- exclude all townhouses of lvl7 and lower (one of my favorites i expect)
- exclude all townhouses with less than 50k / 100k / 150k / 200k gold/ elixer
similar filters can be thought of for DE or excluding high town house lvls.

now i can hear you think... Haha this would make it to easy... Just give me th lvl7 with more than 250k... And my life in coc will be a breeze from here...
however... After you set your filters in the spy house and you engage an attack normally it states the cost in the lower right corner for skipping this town and moving to the next... In my case the steep 1000 gold every time. Now your spy has done its work and figured that the desired village is for instance 34 skips away... So instead of asking 1000 to attack.. It states next 34000. So there is no real benevit other than saving a hell of al lot of time... If your current desire is really not matching with your trophy level the cost might show huge figures.. Sow maybe you should lower your filters a little.

But what do we have to pay for this feature...? Prefferably gold... But i would agree on those expensive green stones as well. Maybe you can make combinations.. Some filters with regular resources some with gems.
this fits right in what i believe is the philosophy of the game... No real benefits for paying customers over no paying players.. You just save time... The same way as buying an extra builder... Getting extra gold to start a new upgrade or finishing one sooner. I am often 10 to 15 minuts searching for a snack... Please save me the time ans agony of this downside of the game.

i am interessted in any opinion on ths matter.
cheers,
Rolando - Holland 30+
lvl106 - TH10

Did i put my suggestion in the wrong tray... Since there is no response...? Or is it to lame to comment on...?
Rolando

I think its a great idea would make it easier to get some human work done while playing this actually 100% addicting game. I think its nothing else but the right thing of a game maker to do when they try to prevent people from spending too much time to play a phone game without supercell loosing any money.

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Originally Posted by Rolando

My biggest frustration is getting a desirable match when attacking. Besides the sometimes out of proportion search cost it takes a long time cycling through villages. Hence my proposal the SPY to filther out some villages.
i havent spend much gems sofar.. Only to get all the builders.. But if the spy is introduced i would probably pull my wallet for it.
i can see a small building within your village with no defence ability.. Like the spell factory or the lab. It could look like a lighthouse with a spyglass on top. If you enter this building you open an advanced attack menu; all sort of filters to exclude specific villages in you attack search. Most filters will be blocked when you start out with the SPY, but as with everything else this can be upgraded.
Filters in my opinion should pinpoint town house levels and/or minimum loot of each resource, for instance;
- exclude all townhouses of lvl7 and lower (one of my favorites i expect)
- exclude all townhouses with less than 50k / 100k / 150k / 200k gold/ elixer
similar filters can be thought of for DE or excluding high town house lvls.

now i can hear you think... Haha this would make it to easy... Just give me th lvl7 with more than 250k... And my life in coc will be a breeze from here...
however... After you set your filters in the spy house and you engage an attack normally it states the cost in the lower right corner for skipping this town and moving to the next... In my case the steep 1000 gold every time. Now your spy has done its work and figured that the desired village is for instance 34 skips away... So instead of asking 1000 to attack.. It states next 34000. So there is no real benevit other than saving a hell of al lot of time... If your current desire is really not matching with your trophy level the cost might show huge figures.. Sow maybe you should lower your filters a little.

But what do we have to pay for this feature...? Prefferably gold... But i would agree on those expensive green stones as well. Maybe you can make combinations.. Some filters with regular resources some with gems.
this fits right in what i believe is the philosophy of the game... No real benefits for paying customers over no paying players.. You just save time... The same way as buying an extra builder... Getting extra gold to start a new upgrade or finishing one sooner. I am often 10 to 15 minuts searching for a snack... Please save me the time ans agony of this downside of the game.

i am interessted in any opinion on ths matter.
cheers,
Rolando - Holland 30+
lvl106 - TH10

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this is exactly what a jail break h a c k does for CoC. I think the idea has already been ruled out.

Another problem with your implentation is that you pay for what is guaranteed knowledge (the base fit your criteria) whereas now, you have to keep spinning the wheel and paying up. To keep it the same as the existing platform, you should not know how much is going to be spent searching for the next base until you click next and commit to the unknown loss. Basically you see the next base that matches your criteria, and you notice that you just lost 100k in searching fees.

The idea of a search filter has been ruled out. This particular instance of it doesn't make much sense either.

It's not very practical to indicate that the target is a certain number of skips away. Each base is chosen at random when next is hit. I get that it hits next until it finds the base, but that is kind of over simplification on how the whole thing works.

Also, what if your proposed target comes online?

Also search filters would quickly remove all high value targets from the game. People would simply choose the most advantageous bases to raid and pay the search fee. The fact that you don't know what is coming up forces you to evaluate each base and sometimes settle for a less than optimal target.

I am not sure what the value of this would be. Since your barracks cook while you search, you really don't lose a lot of raid time by searching if you keep your barracks full.

Perhaps the spy building idea could be used to reduce the cost of each search. So instead of forking over 1k gold per search, a maxxed out spy building would let you search for only 500 gold or even less.

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Originally Posted by omindar

I am not sure what the value of this would be. Since your barracks cook while you search, you really don't lose a lot of raid time by searching if you keep your barracks full.

Perhaps the spy building idea could be used to reduce the cost of each search. So instead of forking over 1k gold per search, a maxxed out spy building would let you search for only 500 gold or even less.

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Meh...that would be a mostly useless building. Buildings should actually perform some sort of function.

If they want to lower the search costs, they should just do it.

Thanks for the feedback... I wasnt aware that it already has been ruled out. Honestly besides your statements i am still not aware that it is ruled out....

I understand that the surprise effect and constantly wonderering whether to jump this village instead of spinning again will lose its charm.
On the other hand.... Maybe i am picky about which town to attack... But it really often takes me more time than i was willing to invest...
And i understand that the cycling time is not waisted... I am cooking new troops simultainiously... However... I would rather use this time to hang in the clans chatbox instead of looking at numerous town which are absolutely not interesting...
Maybe it does create an upside... But if you are willing to pay cash for this upside and coc is willing to accept this payment... Why not explore the upsides a little bit further...

Thanks again
Rolando

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Originally Posted by Rolando

Thanks for the feedback... I wasnt aware that it already has been ruled out. Honestly besides your statements i am still not aware that it is ruled out....

I understand that the surprise effect and constantly wonderering whether to jump this village instead of spinning again will lose its charm.
On the other hand.... Maybe i am picky about which town to attack... But it really often takes me more time than i was willing to invest...
And i understand that the cycling time is not waisted... I am cooking new troops simultainiously... However... I would rather use this time to hang in the clans chatbox instead of looking at numerous town which are absolutely not interesting...
Maybe it does create an upside... But if you are willing to pay cash for this upside and coc is willing to accept this payment... Why not explore the upsides a little bit further...

Thanks again
Rolando

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I explained why. What do you think most people would do if this was implemented? Think about what effect that would have on the availability of loot.

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Originally Posted by dahimi

I explained why. What do you think most people would do if this was implemented? Think about what effect that would have on the availability of loot.

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What you are actually expecting is that many players would change behaviour.. And go for bigger fish than the are going for now...
i have thought about this before i posted the original idea...and i do not think it would change that much... Or if it does... We conclude that the majority of the players are now following a dumb strategy... And smartening them is not benificial for the happy few today... The conclusion would be that setting a mental target today and skipping until it shows up is more benificial than judging at the moment a new target shows on the screen...

you have pointed out a flaw in my original idea; the choice not to press next if the cost are to steep.. For instance if your desirable village is 204 next buttons away from you... You will not press next for 204k...
maybe the answer for this... And introducing the surpise effect... Is in not showing the cost before hand... But deducting the amount after you have pressed next... This way you will not set you ambition to high... Because you might not like the consequences...

thanks for the feedback dahimi...!

Rolando...