League Bonus -> Time Multiplier

So on my way to work today I had a crazy thought that I don't believe has been posted here before. What if leagues imparted a time multiplier to building construction as a trophy incentive? Basically the higher the league, the bigger the bonus.

For example:

Gold III -> Buildings build 1% faster
Gold II -> Buildings build 3% faster
Gold I-> Buildings build 5% faster

Crystal III -> Buildings build 6% faster
Crystal II -> Buildings build 8% faster
Crystal I-> Buildings build 10% faster

Master III -> Buildings build 11% faster
Master II -> Buildings build 13% faster
Master I-> Buildings build 15% faster

Champion -> Buildings build 20% faster

In theory perhaps a similar bonus could apply to troop construction too.

I haven't thought about this a ton, but I don't see any immediate problems with it. Thoughts?

Edit: I had the league ranks reversed...changed III->I and I->III.

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Originally Posted by dahimi

So on my way to work today I had a crazy thought that I don't believe has been posted here before. What if leagues imparted a time multiplier to building construction as a trophy incentive? Basically the higher the league, the bigger the bonus.

For example:

Gold I -> Buildings build 1% faster
Gold II -> Buildings build 3% faster
Gold III-> Buildings build 5% faster

Crystal I -> Buildings build 6% faster
Crystal II -> Buildings build 8% faster
Crystal III-> Buildings build 10% faster

Master I -> Buildings build 11% faster
Master II -> Buildings build 13% faster
Master III-> Buildings build 15% faster

Champion -> Buildings build 20% faster

In theory perhaps a similar bonus could apply to troop construction too.

I haven't thought about this a ton, but I don't see any immediate problems with it. Thoughts?

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About the idea, I don't see anything wrong with it, and it would encorage people to climb...

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Originally Posted by dahimi

So on my way to work today I had a crazy thought that I don't believe has been posted here before. What if leagues imparted a time multiplier to building construction as a trophy incentive? Basically the higher the league, the bigger the bonus.

For example:

Gold I -> Buildings build 1% faster
Gold II -> Buildings build 3% faster
Gold III-> Buildings build 5% faster

Crystal I -> Buildings build 6% faster
Crystal II -> Buildings build 8% faster
Crystal III-> Buildings build 10% faster

Master I -> Buildings build 11% faster
Master II -> Buildings build 13% faster
Master III-> Buildings build 15% faster

Champion -> Buildings build 20% faster

In theory perhaps a similar bonus could apply to troop construction too.

I haven't thought about this a ton, but I don't see any immediate problems with it. Thoughts?

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1. You have it reverse it should be
Gold III 1%
Gold II 3%
gold I 5%

for all of them...

2. What would be SC's incentive to do this? It takes their money away from people gemming, because after all a lot of gemming comes outta champion league. I think maybe tone it back a bit as well. A 14 day upgrade would only take 11.2 days according to my calculator:/

In principle I like, and this could be a subtle solution to the builder lag :p

I don't know that current Champions care about buildings, although I guess they would care about troop/spell/hero times.

However, this would make farmers push to Champion, giving lots of exposed THs for Champions to snipe.

:rolleyes:

It's a good concept, increasing builder speed would be a good bonus up to a point but maybe other speed ups could be incorporated and stacked. So Gold gets builder boosts, Crystal get barrack and builder boosts, Master get barrack, builder, and spell boosts. So you wouldn't keep getting faster and faster builders but your ability to progress overall would increase.

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Originally Posted by Ranger3399

1. You have it reverse it should be
Gold III 1%
Gold II 3%
gold I 5%

for all of them...

2. What would be SC's incentive to do this? It takes their money away from people gemming, because after all a lot of gemming comes outta champion league. I think maybe tone it back a bit as well. A 14 day upgrade would only take 11.2 days according to my calculator:/

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Heh you're right. My mind always wants the higher number to be the higher league.

SC's incentive for doing this would be happier players and more player focus on trophies which is something the community and SC seems to desire. Also it wouldn't reduce the total time persay. If a building took 14 days, it'd still cost the 14 days worth of gems to rush. Instead the time would count down faster based on what league you're in. Most of the folks that instagem buildings do it immediately once the building is released.

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Originally Posted by Golden119

In principle I like, and this could be a subtle solution to the builder lag :p

I don't know that current Champions care about buildings, although I guess they would care about troop/spell/hero times.

However, this would make farmers push to Champion, giving lots of exposed THs for Champions to snipe.

:rolleyes:

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The whole idea is to provide players more incentive and rewards for trophy hunting. That is encourage folks who are not in champion league to get there. The current champions may not care (although I suspect a number do), however a bunch of other folks that are not champion league care about this a great deal.

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Originally Posted by Zombiebender

It's a good concept, increasing builder speed would be a good bonus up to a point but maybe other speed ups could be incorporated and stacked. So Gold gets builder boosts, Crystal get barrack and builder boosts, Master get barrack, builder, and spell boosts. So you wouldn't keep getting faster and faster builders but your ability to progress overall would increase.

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Certainly possible. My intent here is to open up a bit of a discussion on the topic as I don't believe it has been explored before.

I'm not really in love with the concept of decreasing building times. I think many many players already have the desire to get to champion league, or however high they can get, but resources remain the problem. I don't care if my buildings finished instantly at 3200 cups, I'm not going there if I can't make enough loot to actually afford the upgrades.

The only way to get more players to move up in trophies is by combatting lack, specifically lack of time and resources. But with time, it seems to be much more about train times (troop training, spell making, hero regen) than it does with the upgrade times of buildings. An across the board decrease in these times would have a much greater effect. Faster raiding is really a way of increasing loot in high leagues. If I could raid with balloon/minion in champ league about as often as a BAM farmer could in gold league, that might actually push me up there.

Even in that scenario, though, I'm not sure if this would A) be more effective than increasing loot directly or B) Be more cost effective for SC than increasing loot directly. Perhaps it is, and if so I could support reduced train times.

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Originally Posted by zachUVA

I'm not really in love with the concept of decreasing building times. I think many many players already have the desire to get to champion league, or however high they can get, but resources remain the problem. I don't care if my buildings finished instantly at 3200 cups, I'm not going there if I can't make enough loot to actually afford the upgrades.

The only way to get more players to move up in trophies is by combatting lack, specifically lack of time and resources. But with time, it seems to be much more about train times (troop training, spell making, hero regen) than it does with the upgrade times of buildings. An across the board decrease in these times would have a much greater effect. Faster raiding is really a way of increasing loot in high leagues. If I could raid with balloon/minion in champ league about as often as a BAM farmer could in gold league, that might actually push me up there.

Even in that scenario, though, I'm not sure if this would A) be more effective than increasing loot directly or B) Be more cost effective for SC than increasing loot directly. Perhaps it is, and if so I could support reduced train times.

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It doesn't necessarily have to be one or the other. They could increase loot a bit and decrease waits in attack times a bit too.

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Originally Posted by dahimi

It doesn't necessarily have to be one or the other. They could increase loot a bit and decrease waits in attack times a bit too.

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Yep, certainly possible. I'm just not convinced that doing both is best from SC's perspective. As long as we see the desired effect we should be happy however they get us there, but SC still has to concern themselves with making any changes in a way that reduces high level gemming the least. I have no way of knowing what that would be really, but I'm guessing that increased resources would be cheaper for SC and should be the dominant change (not necessarily the only one though).