Originally Posted by
madben
The server kicked me out for the first time because "You have been playing for too long and your villagers need to rest for a few minutes." so I decided just to post my experience here and hope to get some suggestions and comments.
I started to play Clash of Clans exactly 4 weeks ago after I saw somebody else playing. At the beginning, the one thing that I think did very right is to save all the gems for builders. It allowed me to have the 3rd builder when I was upgrading my town hall level to 5.
I didn't attack anyone when I had the initial 3 days shield. The builders were working almost around the clock. When the shield was almost off, the town hall's upgrade to level 4 is also done, and I started to raid so I could get enough resources to upgrade walls and other defense units.
As long as you keep raiding (be patient and choose the easy bases), resource is not really an issue at the early stage. I ran in to situation multiple times that the storage is full yet all builders are busy, which indicated me that I should take a break.
I later joined a clan so that I can get supplemental troops to help raid or defend. It is really helpful to join an active clan as the donations you received often made a difference. the clan leader Rohil (sorry that I mentioned your name with your permssion) asked us to push for trophies.
There is one easy strategy to get trophies, which is just to find the farmers (who exposed their town hall without defense or with minimal defense). All you need to do is just place a few archers, and you can easily get a star.
It took about one day for me to jump from Silver 2 to Gold 3, and then took another two days from Gold 3 to Crystal 3. Once I entered Crystal league, the percentage of farmers is significantly less and it took longer to get to to Crystal 1, while I also need to deal with the loss of trophies when others revenge which made the journey harder.
Now I still have a non-matured town hall level 6 and I have been in Crystal 1 for one day. Tried to push trophies to master league but it seems extremely difficult, if not completely impossible, for town hall level 6 to get to Master league. There is just no longer farmers at this level. It took me about 40 minutes to go through 552 bases to find one farmer, which only gave me 5 trophies.
Honestly, the motivation for me to go to Master league is for the 1000 gems so that I can have my 4th builder. For those who have been in Master league long enough, what is the lowest town hall level you've seen? Do you see any farmers in Master league at all? Is there any chance to just get trophies from farmers to get to Master league?