Toggle hero troop preference (WHEN DEFENDING!) i.e. Closest to th, strongest, etc.

Alright- this is a BRAND NEW IDEA!

DISCLAIMER: This ability is only when the hero is defending. Not when attacking.

We all know that you have the option to toggle heroes to 'defend' or to 'sleep'. What I'm suggesting is that we have the ability to toggle what troop heroes will attack. (NOTE! This does not mean that you can toggle your archer queen to attack only hog riders. Read on for more info...)

By entering the heroe's info page, you have the option to toggle what troops it will attack. Toggle options are below:

Toggle Town Hall: Hero will target the troop that is closest to the town hall.

Toggle healthiest: Hero will target the troop with the most hitpoints. (NOTE! Heroes will only target troops that are 'on their level'. A barbarian king will not follow a dragon around waiting for it to be killed just because it has the highest hitpoints)

Toggle AI: Standard hero AI.

Please leave a comment, concern, or question! If you have any more toggles that you would like to see,let me know with a comment!

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

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Originally Posted by Julezwatts

Alright- this is a BRAND NEW IDEA!

DISCLAIMER: This ability is only when the hero is defending. Not when attacking.

We all know that you have the option to toggle heroes to 'defend' or to 'sleep'. What I'm suggesting is that we have the ability to toggle what troop heroes will attack. (NOTE! This does not mean that you can toggle your archer queen to attack only hog riders. Read on for more info...)

By entering the heroe's info page, you have the option to toggle what troops it will attack. Toggle options are below:

Toggle Town Hall: Hero will target the troop that is closest to the town hall.

Toggle Strongest: Hero will target the troop with the most DPS (NOTE! Using a rage spell will not make the hero target affected troops. When toggled to 'Strongest' heroes will attack based standard troop stats, not enraged troop stats.)

Toggle healthiest: Hero will target the troop with the most hitpoints. (NOTE! Heroes will only target troops that are 'on their level'. A barbarian king will not follow a dragon around waiting for it to be killed just because it has the highest hitpoints)

Toggle AI: Standard hero AI.

Please leave a comment, concern, or question! If you have any more toggles that you would like to see,let me know with a comment!

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

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Good idea Julezwatts! I've never seen anything like it before... I think it would be a great addition to CoC! It would really help me with my base, and also I do have another idea I don't know if you will like it or not but I was thinking to toggle it against troops attacking your storages, similar to toggling it to attack troops near your town hall. This would be good for people who are trying to protect their resourses.

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Originally Posted by Julezwatts

Alright- this is a BRAND NEW IDEA!

DISCLAIMER: This ability is only when the hero is defending. Not when attacking.

We all know that you have the option to toggle heroes to 'defend' or to 'sleep'. What I'm suggesting is that we have the ability to toggle what troop heroes will attack. (NOTE! This does not mean that you can toggle your archer queen to attack only hog riders. Read on for more info...)

By entering the heroe's info page, you have the option to toggle what troops it will attack. Toggle options are below:

Toggle Town Hall: Hero will target the troop that is closest to the town hall.

Toggle Strongest: Hero will target the troop with the most DPS (NOTE! Using a rage spell will not make the hero target affected troops. When toggled to 'Strongest' heroes will attack based standard troop stats, not enraged troop stats.)

Toggle healthiest: Hero will target the troop with the most hitpoints. (NOTE! Heroes will only target troops that are 'on their level'. A barbarian king will not follow a dragon around waiting for it to be killed just because it has the highest hitpoints)

Toggle AI: Standard hero AI.

Please leave a comment, concern, or question! If you have any more toggles that you would like to see,let me know with a comment!

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

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Good idea Julez! +1
These toggles wont be OP, so this might be an addition that I at least help me when raidng.
Overall, I support this idea

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Originally Posted by Saltin

Good idea Julez! +1
These toggles wont be OP, so this might be an addition that I at least help me when raidng.
Overall, I support this idea

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I disagree, I think it would be very OP, up in champion league. Just set it to strongest to wipe out the golems and pekkas.

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Originally Posted by dominic115

I disagree, I think it would be very OP, up in champion league. Just set it to strongest to wipe out the golems and pekkas.

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Hmm... I do see your point, this would ruin golem raids and maybe pekkas to... maybe that toggle can be removed because that really would effect higher leagues that attack with golems and such

Pretty interesting idea. It would definitely make me put my heroes somewhere where they are harder to lure. For the HP one would it target the highest HP then attack until one of them dies or would it switch when something is higher? Maybe the different targets would give smaller ranges, although that may make them tougher on defence.

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Originally Posted by dominic115

I disagree, I think it would be very OP, up in champion league. Just set it to strongest to wipe out the golems and pekkas.

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They most commonly target golems there anyway since they are the tanks of choice.

Personally, I think the (most) OP mode is the "strongest" one. If you had a whole pack of wizards behind a golem, guess what dies? That would difficult to deal with.

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Originally Posted by Julezwatts

I could make it so that 'strongest' toggle has 1/2 the range of a standard hero. That way, the troops have to be considerably further into the base to trigger...

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That makes it even worse. Heroes are easy to lure because of the large range- cut that down and you compound the problem.

I suppose you could play with other stats as well, maybe if the are targeting high HP the hero has less HP. Closest to the TH then they a slower.

I think these would be interesting ideas, but honestly I'd much rather have them cut down the range of the heroes by about 10% and have an option so they stay on their altar, that way they'd be much harder to lure, but still I like the idea.

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Originally Posted by Julezwatts

As zach said, part of the exploitability of heroes is their long range- making them easier to lure out using barbarians or archers. If you give heroes the ability to have limited or NO range, you just have a larger issue to deal with (as an attacker) later on in the battle. (As the hero would attack troops in addition to core defenses, or troops would be massed in one area, making it easier for the hero to kill large numbers.)

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It wouldn't make them OP. Heroes suck on defense for one reason, they can be lured 95% of the time.

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Originally Posted by Mufasa

It wouldn't make them OP. Heroes suck on defense for one reason, they can be lured 95% of the time.

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Indeed, many just let them sleep on defense as a result. Why lose 2 hrs regen time when they are so easily lured and slaughtered?

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Originally Posted by SirColeman

Hmm... I do see your point, this would ruin golem raids and maybe pekkas to... maybe that toggle can be removed because that really would effect higher leagues that attack with golems and such

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What about having all of the triggers in place, but they only trigger if the person attacking you is at least 1 TH above you.
That would solve the problem for TH10's attacking each other (it would stay as it is now), but would still give a slight edge to a poor TH9 being attacked by a TH10 (or a TH7 being attacked by a TH8, etc).

I like it. Will make my barb king way more useful when defending. Right now...not so useful exctep for wasting my attacker's time.