Loot System: Give people incentive to stockpile loot

Currently, people are spending their gold as soon as they get enough for an upgrade, and less loot is available for most matches as a result of the lower loot percentages. We are spending way too much time and gold hitting the Next button.

The solution? Have a portion of the Available Loot be based on the Defender's loot, and a portion of it be based on the Attacker's Loot. This would give everyone an incentive to keep a good amount of loot in storages, and would create better loot all around.


Here's an example of how the system could work (from a TH9 perspective):

Available Loot = Component A (defender's) + Component B (attacker's)

Component A (based on defender's loot)
Available Loot = 12% of Defender's storages
Component A Cap = 175,000


Component B (based on attacker's loot)
Available Loot = 12% of Attacker's storages
Component B Cap = 175,000


Total Available Loot = Component A + Component B
Total Available Loot would be capped at 20% of the defender's loot, so this would prevent someone with a bunch of gold from completely wiping out someone with a little bit. Since Component A and Component B are each capped at 175,000, the Total Available Loot cap would effectively capped at 350,000. Anything in collectors would be added to this amount.

A few nitty gritty details: The current Loot Penalty for attacking a lower TH level could be applied at the Total Available Loot level. The percentage of Available Loot in each of the components could vary by TH level, as is the case in the current system. Also, I just took 20% as a total cap because that's what the old system was, but it could be changed. A lot of details from this proposal could be changed, but the important part is to encourage people to save loot and not spend it as soon as they get it.

hmm, an interesting idea

This is an interesting idea. I think it would help the game greatly. Essentially, it boils down to "The more loot you have, the more you can get." I agree this will help the economy a ton. I'm all for it. I wouldn't mind this being in the game. In fact, I would love it!

So if you successfully get all the loot from the defender you basicly get the same amount of loot that you had before

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Originally Posted by Danster813

So if you successfully get all the loot from the defender you basicly get the same amount of loot that you had before

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Ooops I didn't read it all so you get double the loot

This would be a very nice change to the systems. Cycling through about 20k or more gold to find someone with enough loot to cover your army costs and the cost of finding a decent opponent is really frustrating. Not to mention the now you have no shield and you end up getting raided and losing even more of your resources. I like this idea a lot.

I like the idea overall, but I think that this will still encourage raiding in sessions, spending, and logging out. Maybe instead of using current loot for a component, it could be some kind of average of the amount you have when raided. That might be a confusing calculation to some, so maybe something simpler is needed, but I think you have to reward people for not only keeping a large amount of loot on hand, but also offering it to attackers.

Why would how much a village has to loot have any basis on how much loot I currently have?

Why wouldn't ANYONE, regardless if this idea is implemented, not start an upgrade as soon as they have the cash for it?

Why would anyone, with free builders and upgrades available, not start the upgrade regardless of this incentive?

Is the incentive worth more than having an new upgrade started and dropping your tastiness from potential attackers?

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Originally Posted by landfillcache

Currently, people are spending their gold as soon as they get enough for an upgrade, and less loot is available for most matches as a result of the lower loot percentages. We are spending way too much time and gold hitting the Next button.

The solution? Have a portion of the Available Loot be based on the Defender's loot, and a portion of it be based on the Attacker's Loot. This would give everyone an incentive to keep a good amount of loot in storages, and would create better loot all around.


Here's an example of how the system could work (from a TH9 perspective):

Available Loot = Component A (defender's) + Component B (attacker's)

Component A (based on defender's loot)
Available Loot = 12% of Defender's storages
Component A Cap = 175,000


Component B (based on attacker's loot)
Available Loot = 12% of Attacker's storages
Component B Cap = 175,000


Total Available Loot = Component A + Component B
Total Available Loot would be capped at 20% of the defender's loot, so this would prevent someone with a bunch of gold from completely wiping out someone with a little bit. Since Component A and Component B are each capped at 175,000, the Total Available Loot cap would effectively capped at 350,000. Anything in collectors would be added to this amount.

A few nitty gritty details: The current Loot Penalty for attacking a lower TH level could be applied at the Total Available Loot level. The percentage of Available Loot in each of the components could vary by TH level, as is the case in the current system. Also, I just took 20% as a total cap because that's what the old system was, but it could be changed. A lot of details from this proposal could be changed, but the important part is to encourage people to save loot and not spend it as soon as they get it.

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Great idea, unless your me just doing walls with less than 1 mill gold. haha

An interesting and original idea, well presented and articulate. I thank you greatly for the effort. I will have to give this one some thought and run it though a few scenarios in my mind. Well done sir.