The Gravity Trap

I'm not sure if anything like this has been suggested before, and I didn't see anything after a quick glance over the search menu, so I'm making a thread on it.

The gravity trap is a new trap which has a simple mechanic: it makes troops "heavy". This trap would:
- Activate when a unit passes within one tile of it
- Cause 15-20 unit space (depending on trap level) to become "heavy" for a period of time (depending on trap level)
- Not affect flying troops
- Wear off if the unit affected is split (golem)
- Not affect units summoned by an affected unit unless the new units are also hit by the trap (skeletons)

A heavy unit has its speed cut by a certain percentage, and would be unable to jump over walls, either with the jump spell or by innate ability. If the trap is placed behind a wall and is activated while the unit is jumping, the grounded effect takes place after the jump is completed. The trap, once activated, would emit pulses every .5 seconds for a duration of 3 seconds or until it has affected the maximum amount of unit space. This trap may seem a little unfair considering the hog riders have had two nerfs now, but in my opinion they are still a very strong troop and can easily be used to take out most bases. However, the number of these traps is limited, and they may not even be activated early enough in the raid to be helpful. Plus, the effect does wear off, and there are a limited number of traps.

Number of Traps per Town Hall Level:
Town Hall 8 - 2
Town Hall 9 - 3
Town Hall 10 - 4

Stats
Level 1:
Speed Drop: 25%
Effect Duration: 5 Seconds
Cost to Re-arm: 2,000 gold
Space: 2x2 Tiles

Level 2:
Speed Drop: 50%
Effect Duration: 5 Seconds
Cost to Re-arm: 3,500 gold
Space: 2x2 Tiles

Level 3: (Town Hall 9 and 10 only)
Speed Drop: 50%
Effect Duration: 8 Seconds
Cost to Re-arm: 5,000 gold
Space: 2x2 Tiles

Seems kinda cheap. Nice idea, though. What would it look like?

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Originally Posted by 966souchou

Seems kinda cheap. Nice idea, though. What would it look like?

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I was thinking maybe like a black pad for the people who can see it. When it's activated it shoots a black, kind of rain-textured beam into the air while shooting out smaller pulses to the sides.

And yeah it's a little cheap, but it's pretty big so you can predict where it will be, and there aren't that many of them. Plus, it doesn't do any damage and the effect wears off.

I think it should cost around 15 000 - 25 000 gold and its a great idea because hog riders are still over powered and this will finally be the trap that counter acts this. Because there is no actual trap that affects hogs in specific or counter acts their abilities
For instance

(talking about general defenses,obviously x-bow and inferno are most effective against most troops,but what I'm talking about at the moment is common,most found and in all base type of defenses aswell as higher defenses later on. X-Bow and inferno apply to all,but I will state specifically when applicable)

**Note that tesla applies for all of the troops because it targets anything and has a high damage per second

-pekka
•weakness:
•Tesla (double damage)
Trap weakness-N/A (Giant bomb is rather ineffective to her)

-dragon/healer/balloons
weakness:
•Air defense(in general)
•archer towers
•teslas for dragons and healers
•wizard tower is most effective against balloons
Trap weakness-
•Air bomb
•Seeking air mine

-Wizard
weakness:
•archer towers
•cannons
•wizard tower
•mortars(for mass murder)
~but this is all relevant for the wizards damage per second and low hitpoints,they are balanced in my opinion
Trap weakness-
•Bombs(in bulk or 2-3 weakens it a lot)
•Giant bombs
•Spring pads

-Giants
Weakness:
•Archer tower
•cannons
Trap weakness:
•Spring traps
•Giant bomb

-Wallbreakers
Weaknesses:
•Archer tower
•Cannons
•wizard tower
•tesla
•mortars
Trap weakness-
•spring pads
•Giants bomb(rarely helps)

-Archers-Barbarians-Goblins
Weakness:
•Wizard tower
•mortars
•archer towers
•cannons
•tesla
Trap weakness-
•spring pads
•Giant bombs
•bombs

-minions
Weakness:
•Wizards tower
-(multiple targets *splash damage*)
•air defense (single target)
•archer tower/s (single target)
•tesla (single target)
~most are useless when this troop is used in bulk
Trap weakness-
•air bomb

-Valkyrie
Weakness
•same as giants
Trap weakness-
•giant bomb
•spring pads

-Golem
Weakness
•inferno tower
•X-Bow (not as much as inferno)
Trap weakness-
•N/A

-Witch
Weakness:
•everything except air defense
Trap weakness:
•spring pads
•bombs
•giant bombs

*FINALLY FOR THE HOGS*

-Hogs rider!!
Weakness:
(Barely when the hogs are higher lvl)
•archer tower
•cannons
•tesla
•X-Bow
•inferno
None of the above directly deals with the hog riders effectiveness and their abilities,inferno will target mainly golems and X-Bow will be first thing in sight...
Trap weakness-
Really nothing counter acts the jumping ability or their high damage per second and relatively high hit-points

So as shown every troop has a strongest weakness that mainly counter acts their ability (eg. Golem-inferno/ Minions-wizard tower) wether it be traps or defense towers

There is nothing that particularly counter acts the jumping ability of the hog riders or their ability to survive so many hits. there is no tower,nor trap,nor hero that counter acts their abilities directly and I honestly think that that should be implemented to finally have something to defense against these fearsome,over powered warriors! Its time for a trap or even tower to counter act this!

Clasher out-
Please implement something like this!

Took me a really long time to write this,ease read it and take it into consideration and implement something like this!

I actually think this should be a air troop trap only. The gravity trap would land air troops making them land in a net removing them from battle. Air troop attacking is overpowered and needs something to balance it out.

at 50% speed some troops would barely be moving. and it should include air troops. they can still fly over walls but they can now be targeted by ground defenses.

what you should say is if a flying unit comes across it, the heavy gravity pulls it down and makes it crash! good idea?

I think it should bring air troops down to ground level so that he can be targeted by cannons and mortars and can't jump Walls but will be hidden from air defences

Cool post! I like people who spend time and effort to make a idea become actually considerable, I like the idea aswell.

sounds cool (σ⌂σ)

Seems like it would be cool if you would add a part where it slows down flying objects kinda like a gravitational pull

Seems like a good idea, though in my opinion the ability to slow something by 50% for 3 seconds, that is so cheap to rearm and buy seems overpowered. I believe that a a slightly reduced time or % slowness effect would lead to a great addition to the game.

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Originally Posted by MrKokobean

at 50% speed some troops would barely be moving. and it should include air troops. they can still fly over walls but they can now be targeted by ground defenses.

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I assume you are referring to the golem. The golem is not affected by this trap because it is over 20 housing space, and the PEKKA is also immune. I decided not to include air troops because the recent updates have already nerfed them plenty, from the upgraded air mines to the new archer towers and wizards towers.

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Originally Posted by MoHandles

I'm not sure if anything like this has been suggested before, and I didn't see anything after a quick glance over the search menu, so I'm making a thread on it.

The gravity trap is a new trap which has a simple mechanic: it makes troops "heavy". This trap would:
- Activate when a unit passes within one tile of it
- Cause 15-20 unit space (depending on trap level) to become "heavy" for a period of time (depending on trap level)
- Not affect flying troops
- Wear off if the unit affected is split (golem)
- Not affect units summoned by an affected unit unless the new units are also hit by the trap (skeletons)

A heavy unit has its speed cut by a certain percentage, and would be unable to jump over walls, either with the jump spell or by innate ability. If the trap is placed behind a wall and is activated while the unit is jumping, the grounded effect takes place after the jump is completed. The trap, once activated, would emit pulses every .5 seconds for a duration of 3 seconds or until it has affected the maximum amount of unit space. This trap may seem a little unfair considering the hog riders have had two nerfs now, but in my opinion they are still a very strong troop and can easily be used to take out most bases. However, the number of these traps is limited, and they may not even be activated early enough in the raid to be helpful. Plus, the effect does wear off, and there are a limited number of traps.

Number of Traps per Town Hall Level:
Town Hall 8 - 2
Town Hall 9 - 3
Town Hall 10 - 4

Stats
Level 1:
Speed Drop: 25%
Effect Duration: 5 Seconds
Cost to Re-arm: 2,000 gold
Space: 2x2 Tiles

Level 2:
Speed Drop: 50%
Effect Duration: 5 Seconds
Cost to Re-arm: 3,500 gold
Space: 2x2 Tiles

Level 3: (Town Hall 9 and 10 only)
Speed Drop: 50%
Effect Duration: 8 Seconds
Cost to Re-arm: 5,000 gold
Space: 2x2 Tiles

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you might of forgotten, but CoC is placed in medieval times, thus a trap that is hundreds of years ahead of its time is outlandish.

Not necessarily medieval, but if you think of it that way there are some other things that don't follow the rule:

• Lv. 10/11 Walls
• Tesla Towers
• Inferno Tower
• Air Defense

If there is any problem with this, it isn't the idea.

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Originally Posted by Mcgraw

you might of forgotten, but CoC is placed in medieval times, thus a trap that is hundreds of years ahead of its time is outlandish.

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True, but I'm sure SC could, with its team of highly skilled developers, figure out a way to make rename and change the appearance of this trap to fit the CoC theme. ;)