Riverbears

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Originally Posted by Lawdog1972

I believe supercell owes THE BEAR EMPIRE monetary royalties for using the likeness of our female Vikings (Meg,Mags, 456 and Molly) in creating the new female axe maiden character.

Joe

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Shall we share a flask of mead whilst we sharpen our axes and fluff our pillows?

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You are absolutely right Joe. Those supercell nublets should know better than to mess with us. LISTEN TO US SUPERCELL NUBZ! No matter how soft and girlish you may make the new female axe maiden character, no matter how much make-up and feminine charm you might add, no matter how much facile hair you might remove, we BEARS will always recognise the resemblance to our beloved Megs, Mags, 456 and Molly!

BY THE GODS!

YOU SUPERCELL NOOBS have roused the ANGER of the MIGHTY BEAR EMPIRE!

AT THIS MOMENT WE ARE SHARPENING OUR AXES AND POLISHING OUR ARROW HEADS!

BY THOR!
SUPERCELL!
STAND READY FOR OUR BLOODY VENGEANCE!
As soon as one of us invents a written language you will be hearing from our lawyer!

HAIL THE BEAR EMPIRE!

Welcome yo all new members, let conquer the whole COC!

WELCOME NEW BEARS! Keep your swords polished and your axe sharpened. The River is wild and wonderful. The mere mention of the MIGHTY BEAR EMPIRE makes other clans quake. HAIL THOR!

Joe

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shall we share a flask of mead whilst we sharpen our axes and fluff our pillows?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=bMUFMz-z1Bk

There are many clans out there that claim to be the best mmmm I only know of three that truly areCAVEBEARS RIVERBEARS AND ICEBEARS ! !. I have been in all of them so I know what I'm talking about. If you are looking for a fun experience with lots of interactions come and join any one of these clans you won't be disappointed . Ice bears is a sister to both of the others clans and is in its fledgling stages. This is a golden opportunity for you to help shape and grow with the clan. Please read the rules before joining any of our clans.

Here are the donation stats for the Riverbear clan at 4.30pm Monday (NZ time)

karthi	1370
ironhead	985
gman1980	922
456	609
boogx	598
joe	578
lescrater	522
tekiladams	518
nicolas cage	460
meganMM9	429
doulton	340
evga	339	new
scusselbud	337
hozomeen	299
gandolf	289
quintrixx	259
zombielord	205
5000tears	192
justin	175
leibniz	155
iimasterp	131
aoefan	97
yuhang	95	new
molly mac	70
pacebreaker	65
ed5	65
dewittefamily	61
rowan	53	new
harper69	43
tintin klamarr	17
lord darius	15
manu	14
preston	14
thejunjun	2
the lieu	0	sleeper
boy araro	0
qrios	0	sleeper
maimunar	0

Just passiing by! Tc all!

The following players have been kicked for not meeting with our posting requirements.

Tintin Klamar
Preston
theJunJun
Boy araro

I will be hanging at the river this week to get to know some of the new members. I look forward to getting to know you and spilling the blood of our foes..... Hail THOR and ODIN. Happy raiding

:( I didn't even make it to 500 donations this week. I feel like I am slacking!

On Another note HAIL JOE, our new Leader, may your reign be bloody!

Hello,

I have started an own thread to capture information about former members that we do not want to rejoin any
of our 3 bear clans. Pls. read for yourself if interested (probably interesting for elders only):

http://forum.supercell.net/showthread.php/24097-bears-(-cavebears-riverbears-icebears)-BLACK-LIST?p=251193#post251193

(There is no expectation for anyone to actively do something differently now - but an opportunity to do so)

C U

Mayana

Hail Joe, the new leader of the river. Lets all bask in his glory and celebrate with his mead.

Karthi and all the bloodthirsty yet fun loving Riverbears thank you for bestowing upon me the title of leader. May we all spill copious amounts of our enemies blood, loot their bountiful gold and elixir storages and then greedily chug all their mead! Then we will return to our glorious river and rest in our green fields!

Joe

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shall we share a flask of mead whilst we sharpen our axes and fluff our pillows?

BY. THE. GODS!

All Hail the MIGHTY JOE! GLORIOUS LEADER OF RIVERBEARS!

Minimum Donation Requirements Discussion

Now folks, I would like to bring to your attention that the requirements for Riverbears are being reviewed. Presently we have a Zero donation requirement. We are now discussing introducing a minimal donation requirement.

To view the discussion underway please visit our Community thread "Riverbears" and look for the topic titled "Donation Discussion".

Since of course all our genuine members have posted on this thread, and since all have read the rules and understand the necessity to check this thread every now and again for updates, all genuine members will therefore not be surprised if in the future the requirements of this clan change.

At the moment this is a topic that is under discussion only. If there is any requirement change, then it will be posted on this thread firstly as a proposal. This proposal will then be subject to the "deadman's hand" policy of our clan. Members will then have a week to post their opposition to the proposal. If less than half the members do not post their opposition to the proposal then it will be passed and become a new rule.

mike$
Guardian of Riverbears.

All current and active bears should have no problem with a donation requirement. And new members, please remember at the River we only donate archers.

Joe

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shall we share a flask of mead whilst we sharpen our axes and fluff our pillows?

http://forum.supercell.net/showthread.php/24356

Time to see what these new wallbreakers can do. Also, when do you think they are going to introduce ships? I'd like to see some naval bombardments, perhaps even floating fortresses, and pirates of course!

Right now want to join community of riverbears. Need wait how long more for the update. Need fast get dark elixir to have the new troops.

HAIL MIGHTY RIVERBEARS

We have heard of your greatness as far away as the Icy tundra of the North.

But my toes are frozen, would that I might warm them a short while on your sunny river banks.

HAIL THE GREATEST VIKING CLAN KNOWN TO MAN

Deblet

Deblet, we welcome you from the frozen north. Grab a tankard of mead! Come warm yourself in our green fields and swim in our pristine river.
Quasi, thank you for posting and becoming a TRUE VIKING by knowing who we worship. HAIL THOR!!!
We also welcome Ashley. She's journeyed from the cave to relax in our glorious river valley.

Joe

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shall we share a flask of mead whilst we sharpen our axes and fluff our pillows?

Last night it was sooo quite in the ice cave I popped into visit the cave but it was ghostly quite there as well so I decided to join you fearsome bears and break a bottle of mead but alas there wasn't an elder home to welcome me. I took my flask of mead back to ICEBEARS and went to bed after getting roaring drunk on my mead.HAIL, CAVEBEARS,RIVERBEARS and ICEBEARS HAIL OUR MIGHTY GOD THOR

Their armies lay scattered around them in a splattering of flesh and bone. The vultures circled overhead, their shreiks now louder sensing the end was close.

The Dark Lord stood poised and ready but there was a growing sense of doom in him. He had slain many heroes before and the mightiest had broken before his axe even struck. But there was something different about this one. There was a cold-blooded frenzy in his opponents eyes that he had never seen before.

AoeFan gazed at his enemy with crazed eyes. His blood soaked body strained to support the heavy battle-axe. Every ounce of energy had been depleted from his body. The Dark One was much mightier than him. But AoeFan was the master of this arena. He had done this a million times. He knew strength did not matter here. Sheer will and blood lust would win this day.

With a loud roar that shook the very ground, AoeFan charged towards the Dark Lord heaving his axe high in the air. As he closed in to his enemy, he quickly bent his knees and swung his axe wide ducking under the Dark Lord's raised sheild. His body cleaved in two, the Dark Lord crashed to the ground. Blood spewed from his body drenching AoeFan's iPhone which promptly shut down.

The circling vultures dropped dead from the sky hearing AoeFans blood curdling scream.


In a parallel dimension, the buzzing flies continued to buzz undisturbed by the desperate screams of AoeFan who had just dropped his iPhone in the bathtub. He shook out all traces of water, dropped it into a ziploc full of uncooked rice and prayed for a miracle only one thought in his mind.. my bear clan.. my mighty bear clan!

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Originally Posted by aoefan

In a parallel dimension, the buzzing flies continued to buzz undisturbed by the desperate screams of AoeFan who had just dropped his iPhone in the bathtub.

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Reason # 23 not to go anywhere near the bathtub.

While I've enjoyed the frozen hospitality in the ice cave this week, I've always been a bear who appreciates the warmer climates.

So I look forward to meeting you all tomorrow! (after my trek through the tundra)

HAIL THOR, and HAIL RIVERBEARS!!!

We know you'll be cold and tired from your journey so we'll have a tankard of mead and smoked salmon for you to re-energize your bloodlust. We welcome you with open arms, come enjoy the RIVER!


Joe

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shall we share a flask of mead whilst we sharpen our axes and fluff our pillows?

Hello leader Joe,

This is quasi. I am traveling to Cavebears to meet my fellow bears. I'll be back later this evening.

I left the same msg on river's chat, but just in case you don't see it. Here's my note. :)

Thanks.

Quasi

We wish you safe travels as you journey from The River to The Cave and back again. We will gladly welcome you back upon your return.

Joe

This is Another Farm ... I seem to have joined without posting here first. Ooops. Thanks for letting me in.

Thanks for posting and reading the rules. You seem to be getting the hang of what it means to be a member of the MIGHTY BEAR EMPIRE.

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Originally Posted by Lawdog1972

We wish you safe travels as you journey from The River to The Cave and back again. We will gladly welcome you back upon your return.

Joe

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Leader Joe,

Our fellow bears in the Cave are all very welcoming. I'm very glad I decided to visit. I wish to extend my stay there. I will return to the River later this week if that is ok with you.

Hail Thor!

QH

Hey I told Joe in Riverbears that I am cutting way back on coc, so moving over to Icebears to hibernate.

cheers, Gman1980

Attachment 4445Leech,my new walls.

How are the bears down at the river doing

Hi my in game name is Josh

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Originally Posted by Jgarcia2800

Hi my in game name is Josh

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hi Josh! I'm glad to see that you can finally post on here! :)

Quasi

Hello bears ,I was in icebears and I decided to visit riverbears so I can get meet you all :)

Hi - I'm in cavebears and stopping by to HAIL THOR!!!!

Aoefan, a very entertaining post and a reflection of the strength, tenacity, and blood lust of all the bears be they in ICEBEARS, RIVERBEARS or CAVEBEARS. HAIL ALL OUR BEARS THEY MAKE THOR PROUD !!!!

Okay so I ask to join the clan in both RiverBears AND CaveBears, and none of them accepted me! What the heck? My in game name is joshmac2001

Josh, thanks for posting on the thread. I know you said you've read the rules, so be prepared for a quiz, VIKING STYLE! Until then continue lopping off your enemies heads and bathing in their blood. HAIL THOR!


Joe

I have have spoken with the elders who were online when you LEFT THE RIVERBEARS WITHOUT SAYING WHY OR GOODBYE. If you had read the rules like an elder told you too, you would have known not to leave without notification. It is clearly stated you will not be allowed to join any clan of THE MIGHTY BEAR EMPIRE.
May THOR have mercy on you.

Joe, Leader of the MIGHTY RIVERBEARS

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Originally Posted by Lawdog1972

I have have spoken with the elders who were online when you LEFT THE RIVERBEARS WITHOUT SAYING WHY OR GOODBYE. If you had read the rules like an elder told you too, you would have known not to leave without notification. It is clearly stated you will not be allowed to join any clan of THE MIGHTY BEAR EMPIRE.
May THOR have mercy on you.

Joe, Leader of the MIGHTY RIVERBEARS

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i am very sorry, VERY sorry, I thought I said that I was leaving to give my friend a lvl 2 giant so he could see how good it was. I am very very sorry, can I please join the clan? Please?

Ignore my previous message, Josh has left Icebears. I will add him to the blacklist.

Hail! Riverbears and the mighty leaders Joe!

I will park my base here during my long holiday. Leaving to Vietnam tomorrow. Leech will look for internet there, worst case... if no internet available, leech will be out of reach.

SKAL!

Have fun Leech, not too much Mead!

Just a heads up for Icebears members.

We will be taking "overflow" from Cavebears in the meantime. Cavebears needs a bit of time to consolidate, and are so essentially "closed" until further notice. Icebears is on hold. No active recruiting will be taking place in Icebears for now, but once River and the Cave have reached stable numbers we we look to expand it again.

Once our usually festivities are completed by this Monday I am sure things will settle down.

I encourage all elders in Riverbears to check the community thread called "We should talk" by Tanys in the Cavebears group.

mike$

Have a great time Leech. We'll all have mead upon your return to the RIVER!

Joe

I have no doubt that Leech will be honing his jungle warfare skills.

Hey guys, I would love to join. Reading through, this looks to be an awesome clan.

Hope to see you guys soon,

#harry161 (GC)

The Riverbears welcome Harry to our clan.

HAIL!

We welcome Jordanftw to the clan as well.

A reminder to all our members that discussion about donation requirements for Riverbears will close on Monday. If you wish to add to or view the discussion please visit our Riverbear community thread titled "Donation Discussion", which you can find by clicking on my profile.

After the discussion has closed I will make a proposal on this thread stating the new donation rules to be adopted. Members will have one week to state their opposition to the proposal if they wish. After that, if less than half of current members oppose the proposal, it will be passed and become part of our rules.

Guardian recommendations will be posted later today.

Also a reminder to all elders to check the group discussion in the Cavebears community thread called "We must talk" by Tanys.

Looking forward to engaging in some witty reparte and mead drinking of course!

I'm Lord Loki

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Originally Posted by Mtbrat

Looking forward to engaging in some witty reparte and mead drinking of course!

I'm Lord Loki

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Lord Loki great to Welcome you to our Clan!

Hic!

Here are the donations stats for this Monday 18th March at 1.00pm (five hours before donation count reset)

Note the addition of Sleeper, Zombie and Active status besides some members names.

ironhead	865
evga	781
manu	708
boogyx	558
acewyatt19	528
karthi	491
nicolas cage	465
meganMM9	458
tekiladams	431
mike$	341
hozomeen	320
456	296
gman1980	285
5000tears	285
mollymacsmashi	285
joe	282
gandolf	278
sidlon	270
quintrixx	245
yuhang	234
lescrater	210
pacebreaker	205
leech	164
harry	155		new
josh	145
jordanftw	139
zombielord	130
victor	129
quasihobo	118		new
another farm	109
liebniz77	85
doulton	80
lord loki	50		new
suster ngesot	47
rowan	30		sleeper1
iimasterp	20
justin	15
maimunar	15		zombie
lord darius	5		active
the lieuchenant	0		sleeper3
qrios	0		sleeper2
ed5	0		active
aoefan	0		sleeper1
Total Donations	10257
Mean Donation	233	263
Median Donation	205	234

Note the two different figures for mean and median donations. The first figure includes all members, the second figure excludes all those members who have donated zero.

Guardian recommendations for 18th March.

We shall sacrifice Ed5 for failure to post. Lets be creative. Lets tie him to a log and send him over the waterfall, you know, the one with the scenic lookout, great place for a picnic. In fact, lets make a day of it and bring the kids along, have a barbecue, play a few axe throwing games, and then stand around and have a hearty chuckle as we watch Ed5 negotiate the rapids just before the lip of the waterfall. If we stand at the lookout we will be able to catch the whole show, from top to bottom.

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Originally Posted by Cavebears

Guardian recommendations for 18th March.

We shall sacrifice Ed5 for failure to post. Lets be creative. Lets tie him to a log and send him over the waterfall, you know, the one with the scenic lookout, great place for a picnic. In fact, lets make a day of it and bring the kids along, have a barbecue, play a few axe throwing games, and then stand around and have a hearty chuckle as we watch Ed5 negotiate the rapids just before the lip of the waterfall. If we stand at the lookout we will be able to catch the whole show, from top to bottom.

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lol, you guys are hilarious. I might have to pop in for a visit sometime.

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Originally Posted by Cavebears

Hic!

Here are the donations stats for this Monday 18th March at 1.00pm (five hours before donation count reset)

Note the addition of Sleeper, Zombie and Active status besides some members names.

ironhead	865
evga	781
manu	708
boogyx	558
acewyatt19	528
karthi	491
nicolas cage	465
meganMM9	458
tekiladams	431
mike$	341
hozomeen	320
456	296
gman1980	285
5000tears	285
mollymacsmashi	285
joe	282
gandolf	278
sidlon	270
quintrixx	245
yuhang	234
lescrater	210
pacebreaker	205
leech	164
harry	155		new
josh	145
jordanftw	139
zombielord	130
victor	129
quasihobo	118		new
another farm	109
liebniz77	85
doulton	80
lord loki	50		new
suster ngesot	47
rowan	30		sleeper1
iimasterp	20
justin	15
maimunar	15		zombie
lord darius	5		active
the lieuchenant	0		sleeper3
qrios	0		sleeper2
ed5	0		active
aoefan	0		sleeper1
Total Donations	10257
Mean Donation	233	263
Median Donation	205	234

Note the two different figures for mean and median donations. The first figure includes all members, the second figure excludes all those members who have donated zero.

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Just want to note that I donated 300+ in cave before I returned to river on Friday.... ;)

Also, where should I post former request to transfer to Cave?

Thanks!

Hail the bears!

QH

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Originally Posted by Baconman

lol, you guys are hilarious. I might have to pop in for a visit sometime.

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Okay, but bring your own mead and axe.

Further to discussion in the Riverbears community group, the following proposal is made.

1) The minimum donation standard for all members becomes 50 troops per week.
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Donations are counted each week as close as possible to the donation counter reset time (Monday 6.00pm NZ time).

Any member donating less than that will be automatically removed in an excessively violent and barbaric manner.

2) The exceptions to this are as follow:

a) The members is "new" and has been with our clan for less than a week. This includes new recruits and members visiting us from our sister clans.

b) The member has "sleeper status". A member must post his intentions to be inactive on this thread to receive sleeper status. Telling someone in chat will not be sufficient. The member must have also consistently donated over 50 troops per week in the past weeks to get sleeper status. Sleeper status is intended as a way for members to take a break from being inactive, and yet remain in the clan until they are ready to resume activity. It is not intended to be a way for members to avoid donation requirements.

c) The member has "zombie status". A zombie is a member who appears to have quit the game. These zombies will be retained for various mysterious and possibly nefarious reasons. Any member who is a zombie may be kicked at any time for the purpose of creating room in our clan for new recruits. Essentially Zombies are players who would ordinarily have been kicked for inactivity but we like to keep their rotting bodies around for the meantime. They make great company at sleepovers. The Guardian will denote "zombie status" on certain members from time to time.

Voting

Voting will take place over the next week starting from now, Monday 18th March (NZ time).

Voting is in accordance with the Deadman's hand policy of our clan, described on the first page of this thread.

If you do not agree with this proposal then you may vote against it. To vote against it you must vote in this thread. Simply say "No to donations standards" If more than 50% of current members vote against, it will not be passed.

Stating "no" in our clan chat will not be counted. You must post your vote on this thread.

If you do not vote then you will be counted as a "yes".

Therefore if no one votes, then the proposal will be considered as passed with a 100% agreement by all members.

Note that I have updated the rules to address interclan movement between us and our sister clans. This is rule (10) on the front page of the thread.

Well, apart from being violently barbaric of course...

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By Guardian proposal the leadership term is now increased to two weeks.

This is effective immediately.

This proposal will be overturned if at the end of one week from today 50 % of members register their opposition by stating "no to increased leadership term" here on this thread.

If less than 50% of members do not vote "no" then it will become a permanent feature of our clan rules.

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Okay, but bring your own mead and axe.

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I'll be sure to do that. What flavor mead do you like?

Hi, I've read through lots of this thread and would like to join Riverbears, look forward to chatting with you all!

Welcome and thanks for reading the rules and posting! We're glad to have you join our band of MEAD CHUGGING, SMOKED MEAT DEVOURING, BLOOD BATHING VIKINGS.

HAIL RIVERBEARS! HAIL THOR!!!

Joe

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Originally Posted by Baconman

I'll be sure to do that. What flavor mead do you like?

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Joe (our glorious leader) is the best person to ask, but I hear he likes smoked meat flavours.

Is it just me or do there seem to be a lot more recruitment threads recently? Also seems to be heaps of "Player looking for a clan" threads? Silly fools! If they had any sense they would join us!

I wonder if those "looking for a clan" players have what it takes to be a member of THE MIGHTY BEAR EMPIRE? As for the mead, any flavor will do.

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Originally Posted by Baconman

I'll be sure to do that. What flavor mead do you like?

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Personally Mr Bacon, I like mine flavoured with the blood of my prey!

id like to join i sent a request

I assume your in game name is RC?

matchstickx




Wb ai lol

HAIL BEARS,

Some of you may recall my panicky message on the forum a week or 2 ago about the new WB AI.

I immediately started rethinking the way my base was designed and ended up with something completely different, as did most players I believe. Before the update my base design was outfitted with "spikes", for the players that don't know what these are, they are extra wall segments protruding from your main wall towards the edges of the map.

These functioned as Wall breaker traps, as the wall breakers would target these spikes instead of the main wall. Thus rendering a Wall Breaker utterly USELESS (unless you had about a gazillion of them :o)

The update promised to improve this and in the beginning it seemed like Supercell had indeed improved all this epic idiocy... But soon I started noticing something strange. Yes, the little buggers indeed now ignored spikes and ran straight past them to the bulk of the wall, but after they had destroyed that, something strange happened...

It seemed that, rather than running to the second layer of walls (which is present in pretty much every base design, the wallbreakers now target the "strut walls" (out of lack of a better name I just invented this, I am referring to walls connecting separate layers of walls in your base.) HA HA HA, Supercell, nice fricking try...

So, after I started noticing this, I went onto the forums and found the picture I have placed below.
Another player noticed the same thing I did and redesigned his outer wall, creating REVERSE SPIKES, bloody brilliant if you ask me, and hilarious... The idiotic little kamikaze can STILL be fooled, (the lines represent the paths the several wallbreakers took) it was indeed simply a matter of creativity and logical thinking.


http://forum.supercell.net/attachmen...124174&thumb=1

Anyhoo, I wanted to share this information with you guys, since I will, more than likely be applying something of this sort to my own base design shortly, and I thought this could possibly help. If not, please ignore the ranting of a drunken and smelly old viking ;)


Hail Cavebears

Hi,
Can I join? I've made (/am about to make) a request to join. My screen name is AuhA.

Hi, I like to join the clan.
My ingame name is Jaap

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Originally Posted by Cavebears

matchstickx

Wb ai lol

HAIL BEARS,

So, after I started noticing this, I went onto the forums and found the picture I have placed below.
Another player noticed the same thing I did and redesigned his outer wall, creating REVERSE SPIKES, bloody brilliant if you ask me, and hilarious... The idiotic little kamikaze can STILL be fooled, (the lines represent the paths the several wallbreakers took) it was indeed simply a matter of creativity and logical thinking.


Hail Cavebears

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Hi Mike, I personally feel that the reverse spikes don't really work. They might appear to work, but I don't think they do. Here is the most awesome tutorial video ever, posted by flammy (whoelse?)

http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...-Breaker-Guide

The gist is that, WB no longer target walls. They target the nearest fully / partially enclosed building and break the walls that are enclosing it. I have noticed this (and got burned by this) in my raids as well. Karthi.

Sorry Match, I didn't realize that it was your post from Cavebears that Mike was quoting - about the WB AI. Karthi.

Yes to donation standards!

Just thought I would chuck my opinion in there xD


Cheers guys, see you in-game!

HAIL BEARS! Now that my vacation hangover has finally subsided, I return to battle!

I have enjoyed reading your posts and would like to join your clan. My in game name is SummerStarter.

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Originally Posted by loosu

Sorry Match, I didn't realize that it was your post from Cavebears that Mike was quoting - about the WB AI. Karthi.

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Mmm,

I'm at the office right now so I can't watch the youtube vid but I will watch it when I get home.
However in my experience they seem to be targeting the nearest inward T with a BUILDING behind it, which is the nuance, just a spike won't do. It needs to be protecting something!

Will get back to you on this.

Exactly right match. If you deploy two wb at the same time, one blows up the initial wall and the second seeks new target from the new location. From the new location, the inner 'T' will be the closest. Karthi.

Hi all, fellow Vikings!!!
just joined and I like what I see. Must go and attack someone, laters.

We welcome the mighty Summerstarter and the mighty Lou into the Riverbears.

BY THOR!

ceemonstuh would love to join either cavebears or riverbears, i am farming!

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ceemonstuh would love to join either cavebears or riverbears, i am farming!

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No thanks, we dont need an infiltrator here.

Bears is it ok to come and join you by the river I need a break from the cave.

After reading the posts that have been flying around in iMessage I have decided to stop playing for a while. Make THOR proud with lots of barbaric raids.

no way mags...You don't have stop playing cause of iMessages.

Nothing bad is being said nor is anyone telling you to leave so you shouldn't.
If anything stay at river and continue to play..enjoy the game.

everyone is going to give their 'IMOs' just turn off iMessage.

Having received explicit permission from CB Leader Mayana to depart, I am requesting entrance to RiverBears. Hail The Bear Empire!

Just a heads up on the state of Riverbears

At present we have 47 members.

Of these 3 have sleeper status and 2 have zombie status.

This means we presently have 42 active members.

For various arcane, nefarious, Machiavellian, necrotic and thoroughly disreputable reasons, I wish to retain our reliably unliving zombies.

Of course it goes without saying that our sleepers will also be retained until such a time it becomes painfully obvious that they have "crossed to the other side" and inhabit the realm of the walking dead as well. Once a sleeper has been on sleeper status for over four weeks and we have not heard from them, then we shall consider that they are no longer spiritually present in life and have decided to walk the Earth as one of the undead.

In addition it appears that none of our members will be kicked this week. The following week may be a bit different though as our new donation rule of 50 per week comes into effect. but even so there would only be one or two members currently affected by this new rule (presently no one has voted against the donation rule, so it seems highly likely it will pass).

So what does this mean?

It means that we are running out of room. DONT PANIC! Keep calm, its okay. All I want to suggest is that Riverbears does not accept any more sleepers from Cavebears. Any members from Cavebears can go and sleep in the Icebears clan instead.

This would have two benefits. Firstly it would ensure that that Riverbears does not become too weighted with sleepers (I think three or four is the max number of sleepers we would ever want to carry). Secondly it would mean that Icebear gets "prepped" with members who are in fact sleepers. As you are aware numbers play a critical role in determining the attractiveness of a clan to new recruits during active recruitment phases. Having a few active members in icebears backed up with sleeper members "on the books", so to speak, would assist in a new recruitment drive when we decide its time to reactivate Icebears. It certainly wouldnt do any harm anyway.

So, in summary, this is what I intend. Riverbears ceases to become a sleeper clan for Cavebears and its own members. All members intending to sleep should in future now move to Icebears. Existing sleepers are unaffected and will remain nice and cozy where they are. (Until they become life-challenged and turn into zombies)

mike

PS. I have no intention of reactivating Icbears just yet. Both Cavbears and Riverbears must be just about bursting at the seams until that happens. In other words, when we run out of room. Then we will deal with that if and when the need arises.

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Originally Posted by kc99

Having received explicit permission from CB Leader Mayana to depart, I am requesting entrance to RiverBears. Hail The Bear Empire!

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We look forward to treating you horribly again KC. Bring plenty of bandages for your own personal use.

We'll have plenty of mead and smoked salmon and deer. And then more mead. And of course we'll lop of the heads of some enemies and dance on their corpses!

HAIL THOR!!!

KC was welcomed into our clan. I immediately kicked him in the shins. A bloody fist fight ensured. Tables were smashed and axes were thrown. KC was hit over the head, from behind, with a pot full of lukewarm porridge. He then had a bag of brown sugar emptied over him, and discovered that the brown crunchy things embedded inside the porridge were cockroaches, an important source of protein. The pigs were let in and proceeded to mistake KC for their daily tucker, as was intended and much to the amusement of onlookers.

But the affection was not one way. I received a severe arterial wound to the heart following a jab to the chest by KC, who, if you remember, had his pinky replaced with a small yet surprisingly vicious dagger. Fortunately the pigs ate out the affected part before it became infected.

To be discussed: Guardian Proposal for a new rule.

The overwhelming majority of our members are excellent. The make sure they have archers in reserve to donate and always check the chat to see if anyone needs troops before they ask for troops themselves. When they log in they say "hi" and thank people for their troop donations.

However, from time to time we get a member who starts off well, but then as time passes begins to actively avoid their clan responsibilities.

One of the things that really seems to grind the gears of many people is when they see someone constantly asking for donations and yet they are obviously not donating in return.

Donating troops to others is a very simple thing which means paying attention to your barracks to ensure you are making archers in at least one barracks so you have some ready to donate. Sometimes it is necessary to change the production of your barracks to ensure that this is the case.

However it becomes obvious that the occasional member of our clan will ignore the chat and the troop requests. Such a member will log in, perhaps say "hi", put in their troop request, ignore all other troops requests, and that is the last you hear of them until the next time they ask for troops. They will donate troops, but sparsely. While others are donating 300, 400, 500 even more troops per week, they will be donating 30, 50, 70, something like that.

THAT REALLY ANNOYS US. Yes. Really. It becomes very noticeable very fast. And when I say "us" I am talking about the vast majority of our clan members including myself.

We hear various sorts of excuses for this sort of behaviour.

"I don't use archers in my attacks so I don't build them"

TOUGH BICKIES SUNSHINE! You joined a clan with explicit rules which you were required to read as a condition of joining. You are expected to make archers and have them ready to donate, if not always then at least 99% of the time. Simple. Do it or get out.

"But I donate as many troops as I receive!"

No you don't. We are not idiots. We know how big your clan castle is. When we see you ask ten times we know how many troops you have received. We can see perfectly well what is going on and we communicate between ourselves to check. How do you think we have forged such a strong and effective clan? Going to lie to us? Simple. Get out.

"I was doing something else and didn't see the troop requests"

You are expected to check the chat for troop requests, if not, then don't ask for troops yourself. Simple. Do it or get out.

"I was concentrating on raiding"

Yeah so? So are many of the rest of us, yet you expect us to feed your raiding habit and not give anything in return? If you think filling your clan castle is a one way street, its simple, get out.

We have emplaced some rules to avoid leechers taking advantage of others. Chat activity requirements and the now pending donation requirements. Yet there seems to be always one or two people who will do the bare minimum to comply with these rules and take every opportunity to avoid participating in the spirit of of generosity which is the keystone ethos of our clan.

Therefore.

Proposed new rule.

"A player may be kicked if they are observed to constantly ask for donations without donating first to outstanding donation requests in the chat. This requires the agreement of at least three Elders."

In other words. If a member logs on, ignores troop requests in the chat and then proceeds to ask for troops for themselves, that will be grounds for kicking at the end of the week. An Elder must secure the agreement of at least two other elders to effect this (three elders in agreement). We must be sure that no mistaken misuse of this rule occurs. Better to carry one bad apple than to unjustifiably kick one member by error.

I will await your feedback on this new rule before putting it into effect.

Love it mike. i cant stand when someone asks for troops while leaving two other requests untouched. It is not viking like to leave someone hanging while you stand with your hand out.

Even though I haven't been playing I try and keep up with what's going on. Mike your new rule has my full backing.

I have been doing some reading on the forum and came across this snippet of information which some of our members might not know me included.

Guide to Calculating Loot ( by zacHUVA )

Gold/Elixir Loot:

The percentage of gold/elixir that can be stolen from storages is 25% and is capped at 198k. This means that if more than 792k is being held in storages, it is subject to the cap.

The percentage of gold/elixir that can be stolen from mines/collectors is 50% and is capped only by the storage capacity of the mine/collector.

There is an additional 1k of each resource that can be stolen inside the Town Hall.

Therefore, calculated loot = (25% x stored resources, up to 198k) + (50% x amount in mines/collectors) + 1k.

This means that the maximum calculated loot, for each resource, that can be stolen from 1 opponent (with maxxed mines/collectors and full storages) is: 198k + (6 x 75k) + 1k= 649k.

These figures are BEFORE the multiplier is applied. The multiplier is what is behind the loot "penalty" and the loot "bonus". The amount of AVAILABLE loot= calculated loot x multiplier. The multiplier is determined as follows:

5% for attacking someine with a TH 4+ levels lower than the attackers.
25% for attacking someone with a TH 3 levels lower than the attackers.
50% for attacking someone with a TH 2 levels lower than the attackers.
90% for attacking someone with a TH 1 level lower than the attackers.
100% for attacking someone with a TH level equivalent to the attackers.
110% for attacking someone with a TH 1 level higher than the attackers.
150% for attacking someone with a TH 2 levels higher than the attackers.
200% for attacking someone with a TH 3+ levels higher than the attackers.

Maximum loot after the multiplier is applied is [(200%) x (198k + 6 x 75k)]+1k = 1.297 million of either gold or elixir. This is almost impossible for someone to actually raid, though.

The comprehensive foruma for finding available loot is:
(multiplier percentage) x [(25% x storage amount, capped at 198k) +(50% x mine/collector amount) + 1k]=loot

NOTE: The 1k that the TH stores is subject to the PENALTY, but not the BONUS, as 1k is the most it can ever store.

Dark Elixir Loots:

Dark elixir storages have 5% available for raiding and dark elixir drills have 75% available for raiding. The cap for raiding from the storage is 2k, while the drills are raidable according to (75% of uncollected DE) x (loot multiplier) or the maximum capacity of the drill, whichever is lower.

The formula for dark elixir loots is:
(multiplier percentage) x [(5% x storage amount) + (75% x amount in drill(s))]= loot

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Originally Posted by Cavebears

To be discussed: Guardian Proposal for a new rule.

The overwhelming majority of our members are excellent. The make sure they have archers in reserve to donate and always check the chat to see if anyone needs troops before they ask for troops themselves. When they log in they say "hi" and thank people for their troop donations.

However, from time to time we get a member who starts off well, but then as time passes begins to actively avoid their clan responsibilities.

One of the things that really seems to grind the gears of many people is when they see someone constantly asking for donations and yet they are obviously not donating in return.

Donating troops to others is a very simple thing which means paying attention to your barracks to ensure you are making archers in at least one barracks so you have some ready to donate. Sometimes it is necessary to change the production of your barracks to ensure that this is the case.

However it becomes obvious that the occasional member of our clan will ignore the chat and the troop requests. Such a member will log in, perhaps say "hi", put in their troop request, ignore all other troops requests, and that is the last you hear of them until the next time they ask for troops. They will donate troops, but sparsely. While others are donating 300, 400, 500 even more troops per week, they will be donating 30, 50, 70, something like that.

THAT REALLY ANNOYS US. Yes. Really. It becomes very noticeable very fast. And when I say "us" I am talking about the vast majority of our clan members including myself.

We hear various sorts of excuses for this sort of behaviour.

"I don't use archers in my attacks so I don't build them"

TOUGH BICKIES SUNSHINE! You joined a clan with explicit rules which you were required to read as a condition of joining. You are expected to make archers and have them ready to donate, if not always then at least 99% of the time. Simple. Do it or get out.

"But I donate as many troops as I receive!"

No you don't. We are not idiots. We know how big your clan castle is. When we see you ask ten times we know how many troops you have received. We can see perfectly well what is going on and we communicate between ourselves to check. How do you think we have forged such a strong and effective clan? Going to lie to us? Simple. Get out.

"I was doing something else and didn't see the troop requests"

You are expected to check the chat for troop requests, if not, then don't ask for troops yourself. Simple. Do it or get out.

"I was concentrating on raiding"

Yeah so? So are many of the rest of us, yet you expect us to feed your raiding habit and not give anything in return? If you think filling your clan castle is a one way street, its simple, get out.

We have emplaced some rules to avoid leechers taking advantage of others. Chat activity requirements and the now pending donation requirements. Yet there seems to be always one or two people who will do the bare minimum to comply with these rules and take every opportunity to avoid participating in the spirit of of generosity which is the keystone ethos of our clan.

Therefore.

Proposed new rule.

"A player may be kicked if they are observed to constantly ask for donations without donating first to outstanding donation requests in the chat. This requires the agreement of at least three Elders."

In other words. If a member logs on, ignores troop requests in the chat and then proceeds to ask for troops for themselves, that will be grounds for kicking at the end of the week. An Elder must secure the agreement of at least two other elders to effect this (three elders in agreement). We must be sure that no mistaken misuse of this rule occurs. Better to carry one bad apple than to unjustifiably kick one member by error.

I will await your feedback on this new rule before putting it into effect.

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Nic Cage approves of this rule, while laughing maniacally and firing a semiautomatic pistol into the air.

If you don't have archers to donate, go make some. I don't use them all that often at the moment but always have 10-15 baking for those in need.