Ringus: An Early-Mid TH9 Farming Hog-Cleansing Design

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Originally Posted by abcdeer

How much money did you waste on this game? What about time? Did you come to a realization that it's impossible to "win" this game without wasting your money? Im glad I came to that realization a long time ago. Your going to be glad you quit this gold digger.

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I didn't waste any money. I think I used a few itunes cards for Birthday / Christmas. Your use of the word 'win' is telling. My goal was to have a great time in my clan, mess around with designs and have fun with them in the game. I was winning every day. So, I didn't waste any time.

But it begs the question, if you hate it so much, why on earth are you burning your time away posting on the forums? Go do something you enjoy!

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Originally Posted by abcdeer

How much money did you waste on this game? What about time? Did you come to a realization that it's impossible to "win" this game without wasting your money? Im glad I came to that realization a long time ago. Your going to be glad you quit this gold digger.

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I wasted way more money and time on Call of Duty. Not to mention, way more sleep sacrificed on the PS3/4.

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Originally Posted by peabak

Just a quick note to say I retired from the game this week. More of a fizzle-quit than a rage quit. I've parked myself in "Azure Retired". I will pop on once a week to keep myself in the search queue and see where my retirement base is in cups.

I wanted to say thanks to everyone who followed this thread and contributed to it this year. I started it with the notion of giving base designers a few ideas regarding ring bases. Almost 600k views later... woah!

I wrote some thoughts about the layout here... http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...=1#post3350872

Thanks again.

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Just admired your bases over my time on clash! Thanks for supplying the community with so many valuable ideas, and some amazing bases! :):thumbsup:

Hey, Great base.

Currently sit in masters 3 comfortably. Highest trophy count with this base was 2767.
Im almost a maxed TH9!

Nice Base! :D

Defenses can by all means get you trophies….and actually get you more than u would get from attacks. This base must not protect trophies too well if one was to make a comment as that.

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Originally Posted by peabak

December 3, 2014
Being a TH9 a year ago, when I started using it, was a very different place to today. Hogs were three-starring us left, right and center. It was the #1 threat. I was a huge fan of the Anti-Hog mode variant of The Black Whole, because it was the first time I'd seen an anti-hog where the ring was hidden in what looked like a traditional design. But I was a new TH9, without the powerful upgraded Teslas so I wanted a Black Whole which didn't rely on these in the core. I spent 3 weeks in CoCBuilder endlessly creating Black Whole variations until in the third week found myself creating the same design again and again. That was Ringus.

Then came the testing. I tested it for about a month before doing the official thread, and then as anyone who followed it knows, carried on testing it for my entire TH9. What became apparent is the design had some great strengths I never saw when first setting it up. The flexibility in moving stuff around while upgrading was powerful. The TH10 farming army then was mostly L6 Giants without many breakers. Ringus was great at defending this. Look at the original design. It is essentially just four long death funnels that bring armies into the middle of a side and lead them to a corner (importantly, away from the core).

If I could go back a year, I would probably...

a) Lose every mention of 'hogs' - It was the big threat of the day but the layout was all about defence-led troops.

b) Push the abstract nature more - Ringus wasn't normal in the sense that 'this mortar goes here' and 'that wizard tower goes there'. Ringus just stated that defences go here and here and non-defences go there. I tried all sorts of different layouts. Bows on the outer ring. All Wizard Towers in the core. They all defended differently. I wish I would have encouraged people not to copy the design to the letter and experiment more. I guess most are seeking the perfect design, which of course is impossible, like winning a constantly moving game of rock, paper, scissors.

c) Ignore what people said - I said at the time "Nobody knows anything" and I really meant it (and still do), but it's so easy to be swayed by an opinion from some prat on the internet.

Anyway, great to see it still being useful.

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Never saw this post until now, is one of the best bases ever though :)

I've looked at this thread before and used this base. To this day, I still use ringus farm, war, and trophy forms. So I can confirm it's a great base design to use, no matter what form it's in.

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Originally Posted by sambo37343

I've looked at this thread before and used this base. To this day, I still use ringus farm, war, and trophy forms. So I can confirm it's a great base design to use, no matter what form it's in.

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Hahaha! Crazy. Great to hear it is still some use. I stopped playing around a year ago. It must be a totally different game now.

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Originally Posted by peabak

Hahaha! Crazy. Great to hear it is still some use. I stopped playing around a year ago. It must be a totally different game now.

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You're ALIVE!!!!!! lol

The game meta has changed but the basics are still the same. New game changers were added recently (Earthquake/Poison spell, Air Sweepers, healers not affected by air traps etc) that have made base designers stumped on how to counter nearly every new change.

Wanna give it a try if your account is still alive :)