An answer, maybe?

It came to my mind that there are several who probably have no idea why SC allowed the boosting of elixir pumps, but not gold mines! At first it would seem only logical to boost god mines because more people have less gold than elixir. Well, since boosting barracks for one gem is part of the holidays, way more people are going to be boosting barracks. With troops training faster and raids happening more, elixir is going to drain nearly 4x as fast out of storages, and the amount of elixir available in raids would drop quite noticeable after a few days. Since elixir pumps can be boosted for only one gem now, many more people are going to do so, this equalizing the amount of elixir in the system while still increasing the amount of raids and enjoyment for everyone.

Well, that's my take on the reason why. Anyone else got some theories?

I say thats a plausible theory:cool:

A few Champ League players have said elixir is getting quite rare up there. They spend a lot on troops and with spells costing elixir also they run at a loss every battle. That might have something to do with it, but obviously it was to make sure all players had enough elixir for troops while boosting.

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Originally Posted by facescraper

A few Champ League players have said elixir is getting quite rare up there. They spend a lot on troops and with spells costing elixir also they run at a loss every battle. That might have something to do with it, but obviously it was to make sure all players had enough elixir for troops while boosting.

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Haha Face, I absolutely love your "Next" avatar

didn't supercell say they would be doing something about other boosts next week? I bet gold mines will get some love shortly, just not as much as elixir collectors because A) with the recent spell swap, a lot of peeps have been crying over elixir, and B) gold is the more important resource, so it won't be given away as freely.

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Originally Posted by stripclub

Haha Face, I absolutely love your "Next" avatar

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thx huf ;)

They said they would boost other collectors next weeks.

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Originally Posted by JumpyLumpy

It came to my mind that there are several who probably have no idea why SC allowed the boosting of elixir pumps, but not gold mines! At first it would seem only logical to boost god mines because more people have less gold than elixir. Well, since boosting barracks for one gem is part of the holidays, way more people are going to be boosting barracks. With troops training faster and raids happening more, elixir is going to drain nearly 4x as fast out of storages, and the amount of elixir available in raids would drop quite noticeable after a few days. Since elixir pumps can be boosted for only one gem now, many more people are going to do so, this equalizing the amount of elixir in the system while still increasing the amount of raids and enjoyment for everyone.

Well, that's my take on the reason why. Anyone else got some theories?

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You'd run out of gold due to clicking next before you would have run out of elixir anyways ;)

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Originally Posted by JumpyLumpy

It came to my mind that there are several who probably have no idea why SC allowed the boosting of elixir pumps, but not gold mines! At first it would seem only logical to boost god mines because more people have less gold than elixir. Well, since boosting barracks for one gem is part of the holidays, way more people are going to be boosting barracks. With troops training faster and raids happening more, elixir is going to drain nearly 4x as fast out of storages, and the amount of elixir available in raids would drop quite noticeable after a few days. Since elixir pumps can be boosted for only one gem now, many more people are going to do so, this equalizing the amount of elixir in the system while still increasing the amount of raids and enjoyment for everyone.

Well, that's my take on the reason why. Anyone else got some theories?

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A few things, but overall SuperCell clearly need an economist on staff.

I think they have decided that boosting barracks needs boosting collectors and fair enough, it does, or we wouldn't be able to afford to use it.
But they haven't considered the consequences...
When it is faster to raid, and we can take on more bases with cheap strong armies players get the gold they need eventually - then they spend it.
Because of this the gold available in the system becomes progressively harder to get as every base you see has less gold in it than elixir, which you probably don't want because you have boosted collectors anyway!


There's clearly no desire to revise the rate at which gold is created in the game.

Overtime the group of ALL players goes up in level and gets better bases with more expensive upgrades required
These cost more to upgrade.

However players from TH7-TH9 have the same earning capacity from Mines, this is surely where it mostly comes from.

So since TH8 was the highest base they have done nothing to address the fact that loot isn't created any faster.


They can revise the bonus/penalty system as much as they like, add league bonuses etc
But until they fix this fundamental flaw the loot will only get worse.

The scenario is this:

There's 20,000,000 buckets of water (gold) sitting on the floor of a giant swimming pool (two for each player)
Everyone has two buckets. One gets filled with a tap (collectors), the other gets spent from (storages).

IN:
There are 10,000,000 taps pouring in water (mines)
People get given extra cups of water occasionally (league bonuses mainly)
TRANSFER:
You can take gold out of someone else's bucket with a dipper (raiding)
You can randomly choose from only some of the buckets near your buckets.
LOSSES:
A full bucket (usually collectors) just overflows
You slop water around while you are looking for a full bucket to steal from (raiding costs)
There's a crack in that swimming pool and you're never getting that water back
OUT:
There are 10,000,000 players with straws drinking as much as they can (spending gold on their bases)
These straws keep getting bigger as we all need to spend more on defenses (e.g. upgrade a L5 air defense for 2M then a L6 for 4M)

So the ONLY thing supercell have done is change the size of the dippers.
Why would we expect things to have gotten any better?
Gold is transferred faster (dippers) so it's more common that an active player will get the gold they need and spend it. Gradually as this happens the gold in the system (buckets) will decrease.

The size of Straws just keep getting bigger.
They don't seem to want to change the size of Buckets.
Cups are a tiny amount coming in (try thimbles!)
Slop is getting worse.

We need bigger Taps!

I don't see what is so hard.