I know there are a ton of smart people on the forums so I know im not the first to think this but i'll just put it out there.
This game is built on collectors. That is what SC doesn't realize. (or theyre trying to get people to gem but lets stick to them not knowing...)
If u think about it where does all the beginning loot come from?
COLLECTORS
I know SC is tired of the complaints, so am I, and the forums are polluted. I am putting up with these complaints, because I also experience terrible loot.
So to start off, this thread is a complaint about loot in a rather more indirect way in a calm, nice, and angered tone. Please don't be mean and insult each other cuz that's not the point of this thread. I don't want it closed, and that will just close it. Anyways, back on topic.
This is before the update. (a bit of my history)(kinda off-topic)
the only part of he game I believe is truly 100% balanced is the first few THs (TH1-TH3/4/5). not too much difference in gold and elixir upgrade costs for the TH and times are nice. u don't have to raid half the day in order to afford upgrades to keep all ur builders busy. These are the glory "times/ages". TH7 is when loot started getting bad for me. I admit, I started getting greedier and stopped looking for 130K of each and went for 200K of each. and that was also when I had plenty of time to raid. also my upgrades were cheap (mainly cuz I was a premmie).
now im TH8. I look for the same 200K. upgrades cost more, upgrade times are longer, and I have less time to play. this is when I realized the loot problem. it was hard enough finding good loot already. around this time I had to spend 50K to find at least a raid whether its from easy collectors to hard storages finding at least 200K of each.
The update comes out. The worst update yet in my opinion, cuz of the loot system change. (id say everything else was so-so though). I have to search using about 80K gold to find 180K gold. Elixir is pretty decent now with new update, but gold has gone downhill, DE I say its about da same. so, b4 even though I didn't really like 100K gold I could still find it about 90% of the time b4 the update. now I find that same 100K gold about only 10% of the time. I've been going all over gold league, no great place to be.
OK, SO all the loot originally comes from collectors. But SC pushes those raids really far back. So lets say originally I could raid a collector raid spending 50K each time to find a 200K one. Then lets say you spend 200K to find a 500K one. it feels really good, but u still did better before cuz there the ratio is 1:4 but now its 2:5 which is higher, meaning that loot is worse. Plus, u waste TIME! TIME! a huge factor to the game and complaining.
We already have the builder time lag, but now theres even time for raiding. Unfortunately we aren't so developed that we can stop time in the real world so we can play clash w/o wasting any real-life time. I'm telling you, if we had unlimited time to play, the complaints would go far down, bad loot wouldn't be as annoying, and lotta people would suck it up, and the forums would be a happy place again. But we don't.
All of us have a life, so we can't just sit down and play like 24/7 unless we're an old retired person with no life, a spoiled person, or a Jorge Yao (no offense ur pretty awesome:cool:). And it seems like to afford upgrades to keep all 5 builders busy at times, you can only do one of those three things. Quite unfair.
There are only 3 things in this game that keep it "fun" and going:
1. raiding (where the biggest problem comes from [loot])
2. buying upgrades/ them finishing (which really comes from raiding 99% of the time)
3. clans (which can get really annoying)
SO, these are the only things which each have their disadvantages as well.
Obviously you're going to have to improve loot SC to fix all this. Don't tell me you're doing this so the game isn't too easy. Yes, it shouldn't but you guys are making it too hard. And it's not really the game is too hard. Loot is too hard. To find. Which sucks. And I can 99% agree that SC originally made this game to make some nice money and keep players playing, but obviously they're getting greedy and I have evidence to back it up. And if they're trying to deny it, they're making the most minimal adjustments to fix it (reduce collector, SF, barracks, DB gem boost and increase lasting time). Most people still don't even use it anyways cuz it costs gems to do it which is too much, and its too easy if it costs resources.
Here's my evidence: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...36873973130670
according to this, SC had made 3 BILLION DOLLARS IN 3 YEARS! im pretty sure SC games haven't even been around for even 2 whole years, bets go with their statement anyways, cuz it only helps them. So I did 365*3+1 for the 2012 leap day and got 1096. I divide 3 billion by 1096 to get SC making about $2,000,000 a day rounding DOWN to the nearest MILLION! I mean 2M a DAY! Aren't you guys already happy with ur mansions made out of gold SC I mean like really? Plus u guys have few employees so that about like $20K per employee each day! And you can make that number go up with Boom Beach! More evidence:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstens...any-supercell/
http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/...ws.asp?c=50169
http://www.businessinsider.com/super...illion-2012-11
http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/17/cl...ation-of-770m/
http://www.theguardian.com/technolog...rcell-freemium
http://pando.com/2013/04/17/holy-cra...ng-2-4m-a-day/
OK enough now with the accusations, framing, confronting and making SC feel bad and lets go onto simple fixed that have been mention thousands of time and will make the game a million times better.
1. More levels to collectors.
2. Give more collectors.
3. Make an achievement for leveling up collectors. (So people are encouraged to level them up)
Notice how all of these have to do with collectors...:eek::rolleyes:
This would be nice and fair to the players, help proves u aren't so greedy:
1. Lower price of gems, and give more.
2. Lower price of boosts, making them last longer is optional I'd say.
And some other nice ones:
1. On default, you have no troop selected. (when searching for a base)
PLEASE REMOVE AND FIX THE BUILDER TIME BUG!!!!!!!
I may have forgotten some things will edit if I remember...
Thank you for reading this long post and please don't close it down mods. Thanks you.
-Pranav
