An analogy for the Gold Economy in CoC

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)
It's an indoor pool, so it's never filled with rain either!
TRANSFER:
You can take gold out of someone else's bucket with a dipper (raiding)
Bizarrely, you never know how big your dipper will be until you look in someone's bucket!
You can randomly choose from only some of the buckets near your buckets.
It takes time to reuse your dipper again, depending on how you play.
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 spigots draining as much as they can to use as they see fit. (spending gold on their bases)
These spigots 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)

PURCHASE: (edit, thanks OJM)
So, this is a separate section to IN because this water is never seen.
People buy a bottle of water that comes in whatever size you want and drink from the bottle instead.

The water company makes all their money from selling bottled water (literally ALL of their money) so why would we expect them to give us more than a minimum amount of water?

So the ONLY thing supercell have done is change the size of the dippers and how the dipper size is decided.
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 Spigots 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.

I don't want enough water to irrigate a farm, wash my house, water my garden or have a spa bath.
I'd just like to have enough to drink, maybe make a few ice cubes, flush the toilet, and shower daily.
Is that a lot to ask?
I don't mind paying for bottled water occasionally, I just don't want to have a standing order with a water cooler company.

The loot system was outdated. The resource system is also outdated. They acknowledged the fact the loot system was outdated so i'm guessing they will eventually add more resources into the game but only once everyone starts leaving. They're almost there...

The one gem boost helped with elixer...

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Originally Posted by nathannathan1232

The one gem boost helped with elixer...

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That's the thing with boosts though. It's a temporary fix to a permanent problem. They will more than likely add a boost for mines/drills soon also and the loot will be around again. So basically SC are getting us to spend gems to make the game functional. It's ridiculous...

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Originally Posted by facescraper

That's the thing with boosts though. It's a temporary fix to a permanent problem. They will more than likely add a boost for mines/drills soon also and the loot will be around again. So basically SC are getting us to spend gems to make the game functional. It's ridiculous...

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I see your point. There should be lvl 12 collectors.:D:):rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by nathannathan1232

The one gem boost helped with elixer...

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And made gold worse, because all it did was make it take less time to use your dipper again.

@OP great post, but you forgot one minor thing in your analogy... SC sells bottled water for a living -> water shortage = more sold bottles (well, that's what they hope it will)

This patch increased the transfer I am still confident the next will increase the supply.....if not there is going to be a serious shortage soon and only those who are already very strong will be able to continue to progress

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Originally Posted by OJM

@OP great post, but you forgot one minor thing in your analogy... SC sells bottled water for a living -> water shortage = more sold bottles (well, that's what they hope it will)

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This...also the taps are leaking, and we're on prepayment, not a water meter.

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Originally Posted by PhilISuppose

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)
Bizarrely, you never know how big your dipper will be until you look in someone's bucket!
You can randomly choose from only some of the buckets near your buckets.
It takes time to reuse your dipper again, depending on how you play.
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 and how the dipper size is decided.
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.

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This had me laughing, it's brilliant! Totally agree.