Obstacle spawn rate as a function of available space

Hi!


First and furthermost, this is NOT about Christmas trees, so keep them out of the discussion, please. It doesn't have to do anything with gamebreaking game mechanics either, in fact, it's not even related to anything that will help you get better loot or win more defences. It's about something which nevertheless is a part of your base, every day, presumably every 8 hours - it's about Obstacles.


Now, I like my Clash garden to be aestethically pleasing, which for me means a nice forest of small (spruce type) trees around the perimeter of my base, at the very outskirts of the map square. I have taken necessary actions with building placement: I have placed any buildings one square away from the map edges (due to the one square pushback), and filled out empty spaces with decorations as needed - these I have placed right next to the border, and interspaced them one square from each other. This limits the spawn areas to the couple of squares outside the map border.


My problem, however, is that it seems I only get one or two obstacle spawns every 24 hours, despite the stated one per 8 hours (http://clashofclans.wikia.com/wiki/Obstacles). I didn't find any info on this on the wiki, so I was wondering if anyone else has the same problem? Note that there is still plenty of space for 2x2 obstacles on my map perimeter, and I am not anywhere near the 40 obstacle cap. Because from my observations it seems that obstacle spawn rate becomes more limited as the total available space decreases, rather than spawning once every 8 hours for as long as there is still space and the cap is not met. Some of the lull in daily spawns can surely be explained by the possible spawn being "wasted" on a 3x3 tree which tries, but fails, to spawn - although these only have an added respawn weight of 10%.

So, anyone with some personal experience, input, or comments? Patience is not an issue of mine, I am just trying to get a clear understanding of the spawn mechanics. Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for any (non-Xmas) input!

One of my clan elders has gotten a nice ring of trees just like you. Hes been saying that hes ben getting a bit less as well, using safe strategy to force the trees to perimeter. It might just be some king of server lag ot glitch.

Isn't this the time lag in CoC? I'm trying to get pine trees all around the perimeter of my base, but I get one tree every 10ish hours or so. Is it a bug?

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Originally Posted by ThatoneguyIknow

Isn't this the time lag in CoC? I'm trying to get pine trees all around the perimeter of my base, but I get one tree every 10ish hours or so. Is it a bug?

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wow. Time lag everywhere. At least shields arnt affected...yet

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Originally Posted by ThatoneguyIknow

Isn't this the time lag in CoC? I'm trying to get pine trees all around the perimeter of my base, but I get one tree every 10ish hours or so. Is it a bug?

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As far as I know time lag affects building projects, never thought about this affecting obstacle spawns - interesting thought.. I have gotten one obstacle (fallen trunk) in 22 hours now. Keeping my eyes on the game in 2 hours.

I've noticed that the spawn rate drops for me if I am more active in the game. Not sure if it is 1 obstacle for every 8 hours you are offline

It could be some sort of timer like the queued troops training in the barracks.

Example- I log on to the game and see that a new obstacle spawned. The counter resets to 8 hours. After around 30 mins or so, I log off to do something else. Then, I log back on to CoC 7 hours and 45 minutes after the counter reset to 8 hours. After playing for 15 minutes, the count would be at 8 hours, but because obstacles don't spawn when the owner is online, the counter again resets itself to 8 hours after you log off

Just a theory, but it may be true

I normally get 1 or 2 obstacles per day.
I have 26 pine trees on the outer boundary.

I'm not sure if it's the number of obstacles or my base layout. I suspect it's my base layout as almost all of my obstacles pop in one area on the top left. I'm actually not sure I can remember ever getting obstacles anywhere other than that one spot even though the other corners have some free space. I'll start keeping track

Yes, the spawn rate depends on available space. I made my base a while back so only a single small area was only free. Three days and nothing spawned there (or anywhere else for that matter). So I got the feeling, that the system is made so that if the spawned obstacle cannot appear, instead of randomizing a new spot, it just resets the timer and tries again after a while.

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Originally Posted by OJM

Yes, the spawn rate depends on available space. I made my base a while back so only a single small area was only free. Three days and nothing spawned there (or anywhere else for that matter). So I got the feeling, that the system is made so that if the spawned obstacle cannot appear, instead of randomizing a new spot, it just resets the timer and tries again after a while.

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So when the timer resets it tries to find an open spot but if there isn't one it just goes again and tries to find an open spot in 8 hours?