Losing interest in the game for specific reasons
I really loved this game, been playing for many months now. But it's starting to get boring 1) Everything now costs too much and takes too long: It's almost impossible to save enough as I keep getting raided - e.g. I have 2.3m elixir and coins, then get raided down to 1.9. get up to 2.4 and get raided down to 1.95. repeat, repeat, repeat. I need approx 12m to upgrade defences, troops, and at this rate will take months literally. I will then need close to 20m of each to upgrade walls, spells etc - and base costs are 7m just for the base.. it will take a year to get to that point at this rate. 2) Raiding - When attacking I search for villages that will give me 150K+ of each but only getting anything from 4K to 60K no matter how many times you skip to the next.. its costs me between 200K and 500K to train the troops - so raiding is now pointless source of income. I love this game but the game play is now tedious, slow, frustrating. Only option - spend real money on gems.. I've already bought lots and although SuperCell need to make money - kind of the point! - the only way to progress now is to spend spend spend.. I think I'll be uninstalling this unless things change. thanks. FE
Hmmm...anyone remember Elite for the Spectrum?
Working for months and years to no real conclusion, sounds very similar to the old Spectrum game, made, I think by Phoenix. in the 80's.You never 'won' but you stole (raided), traded (donate/receive) and upgraded lots and lots.
I played it well into the early 90's, altogether for about 5 years with no real way of winning...I never even stopped playing, my Spectrum gave up on me and I didn't replace it.
Even back then, open ended gameplay wasn't to everyone's taste, many of my friends tried it and went back to Track and Field pretty quickly which gave instant feedback. Me, I always loved this type of loosely structured game where you can play how you like. Be 'good and noble' and donate lots of highly prized troops, or be a bit more 'morally flexible' and Hop or Troll for whatever you can get. All bring something to this highly sophisticated, intelligent (not really for kids) game...come on, who doesn't love booting Hoppers and trolls once you're on to them? ;)
If you're more a Track and Field guy, then go and play those sorts of games but don't criticise this game just because it's not to your taste, when it is to many other peoples.
Could trade Slaves in Elite by the way...imagine that nowadays!