Defensive Range Reveal & Village Name Edit

Hello fellow members of the Clash of Clans community, SkyeHigh01 here with a suggestion. Before you decide to jump to conclusions and post, please read the entire thread before posting useless information that I'm already aware of. I know what has been ruled out and what has already been suggested.

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Defensive Range Reveal
I'll keep it short and simple. You know how when you click on a defensive structure, it shows the range of that structure? If you don't, then you aren't playing Clash of Clans.

My suggestion is to simply have that as an 'automatic' function, but only in Village Edit Mode. When you enter Village Edit Mode, all of your defensive structures' ranges will be revealed. This will enable the ability to efficiently find the best way to setup your base, so that your defenses cover the preferred areas.

Ranges that overlap would become brighter, to show that it is covered by multiple defenses. For example, if the range of two archer towers were revealed, and they happened to overlap, the overlapping area would become brighter (think of it in the sense of a venn diagram). The same would apply if three archer towers overlapped, although the overlapping area that contained all three ranges would be brighter than if only two ranges were overlapping. Simply put, great addition.

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Village Name/Username Edit
As my other topic was locked, I will continue on here because those who posted don't seem to understand my reasoning. I believe that it is necessary to allow the option to change your village name/username in some way. I understand that this has been ruled out, which I believe is an atrocious decision.

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Originally Posted by jakewebs

I don't think this would be good. Your villagers wouldn't know where they lived and other players wouldn't know it was you unless you were in their clan or told them IRL. Imagine how confusing it would be it the top players changed their names.

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Dear jakewebs, you posted the following on my latest topic. I just wanted to know if you even bothered to read my topic, because I highly doubt you did. My whole point was to clear confusion. Your post displeases me. Please make sure you read the topic before posting.

Okay back on topic. I will try to make this clear so that players will understand why I'm suggesting this, despite it being ruled out and against the forum rules to suggest. I'll start with a simple example:

- You have a clan.
- Your clan has 50 people.
- 5 players have the same village name/username.
- All of their names are 'tyler'.
- All of the players named 'tyler' in the clan are in Bronze I.
- 'tyler' asks a question.
- Another 'tyler' is being very rude.
- Another 'tyler' said he would be back in 5 minutes.
- Another 'tyler' is still sleeping.
- Another 'tyler' responds to the question asked.
- The 'tyler' that was sleeping is kicked for rude language.
- The 'tyler' that was being rude says "I'm back" as a coverup.
- 'tyler' appeared to be talking to himself and was then kicked.
- Members of the clan without the name 'tyler' are confused.

My point is, do not allow a player to chose a village name/username if already in existence. This causes confusion among clans and players sharing similar usernames. I'm not sure exactly how to accomplish this, but a simple way that could possibly work would be that accounts in which are linked to Facebook would replace your village name/username with your Facebook name/nickname.

To make this clear, the name that shows up in the chat box when you type is the name that I'm suggesting for the ability to edit and or change, even if only possible once.

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Thank you for your time an consideration in reading my post. Please post any comments or further additions below.

I think this is a wonderful idea, and I know it's been on everybody's mind, regardless of what the forum rules are. Not only because of the example you gave for the clan chat, but also a matter of security.

What if you named your village after your real name, perhaps not just your first, and you didn't want people to know exactly who you are? I mean, 'tyler' isn't too bad, but if your name is 'tyler jones' and so is your village, then it becomes a matter of security. Another reason could be if your game center email is 'tylerjones123@gmail.com', it might be easier to access your village because your village name is in your email. If that makes sense.

I like your idea the ranges.

I am thinking if it isn't possible to change village name then here are a couple of ideas for identification the ideas are system generated:

• Identical names could be displayed in different colours. (so under your example of 5 tylers, the first tyler in the clan would be standard colour, each successive tyler has their name displayed in a different colour font, like red, blue, yellow, green, grey ......( you get the point) the colour displayed on chat should be identical the colour displayed on the clan roster.
• Number or alphabet letter next to the name if the system detects same name.

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Originally Posted by SkyeHigh01

Village Name/Username Edit
As my other topic was locked, I will continue on here because those who posted don't seem to understand my reasoning. I believe that it is necessary to allow the option to change your village name/username in some way.
I understand that this has been ruled out, which I believe is an atrocious decision.

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There may be a reason for this....

opinion on defense range reveal: this isn't bad, but I think that this could be enabled by the push of a button so that there is much of a mess on the screen at all times

opinion on village name edit:
-say my name's 'tyler'
-someone else changes their name to 'tyler'
-confusion

I don't find the fact that many ppl have the same name as an issue, my clan has 2 'drew's of a similar league. these are just opinions though, defense range reveal::D... village name edit::confused:

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Originally Posted by doomjuice20

There may be a reason for this....

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Thank you Captain Obvious. I wonder if you bothered reading the entire thread before posting useless information that I'm already aware of. Hah.

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Originally Posted by JKL2207

I like your idea the ranges.

• Identical names could be displayed in different colours. (so under your example of 5 tylers, the first tyler in the clan would be standard colour, each successive tyler has their name displayed in a different colour font, like red, blue, yellow, green, grey ......( you get the point) the colour displayed on chat should be identical the colour displayed on the clan roster.
• Number or alphabet letter next to the name if the system detects same name.

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Now there's a start. That could be done fairly easily to avoid confusion without actually changing the names. Something like this would work well in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by SkyeHigh01

Hello fellow members of the Clash of Clans community, SkyeHigh01 here with a suggestion. Before you decide to jump to conclusions and post, please read the entire thread before posting useless information that I'm already aware of. I know what has been ruled out and what has already been suggested.

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Defensive Range Reveal
I'll keep it short and simple. You know how when you click on a defensive structure, it shows the range of that structure? If you don't, then you aren't playing Clash of Clans.

My suggestion is to simply have that as an 'automatic' function, but only in Village Edit Mode. When you enter Village Edit Mode, all of your defensive structures' ranges will be revealed. This will enable the ability to efficiently find the best way to setup your base, so that your defenses cover the preferred areas.

Ranges that overlap would become brighter, to show that it is covered by multiple defenses. For example, if the range of two archer towers were revealed, and they happened to overlap, the overlapping area would become brighter (think of it in the sense of a venn diagram). The same would apply if three archer towers overlapped, although the overlapping area that contained all three ranges would be brighter than if only two ranges were overlapping. Simply put, great addition.

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Village Name/Username Edit
As my other topic was locked, I will continue on here because those who posted don't seem to understand my reasoning. I believe that it is necessary to allow the option to change your village name/username in some way. I understand that this has been ruled out, which I believe is an atrocious decision.


Dear jakewebs, you posted the following on my latest topic. I just wanted to know if you even bothered to read my topic, because I highly doubt you did. My whole point was to clear confusion. Your post displeases me. Please make sure you read the topic before posting.

Okay back on topic. I will try to make this clear so that players will understand why I'm suggesting this, despite it being ruled out and against the forum rules to suggest. I'll start with a simple example:

- You have a clan.
- Your clan has 50 people.
- 5 players have the same village name/username.
- All of their names are 'tyler'.
- All of the players named 'tyler' in the clan are in Bronze I.
- 'tyler' asks a question.
- Another 'tyler' is being very rude.
- Another 'tyler' said he would be back in 5 minutes.
- Another 'tyler' is still sleeping.
- Another 'tyler' responds to the question asked.
- The 'tyler' that was sleeping is kicked for rude language.
- The 'tyler' that was being rude says "I'm back" as a coverup.
- 'tyler' appeared to be talking to himself and was then kicked.
- Members of the clan without the name 'tyler' are confused.

My point is, do not allow a player to chose a village name/username if already in existence. This causes confusion among clans and players sharing similar usernames. I'm not sure exactly how to accomplish this, but a simple way that could possibly work would be that accounts in which are linked to Facebook would replace your village name/username with your Facebook name/nickname.

To make this clear, the name that shows up in the chat box when you type is the name that I'm suggesting for the ability to edit and or change, even if only possible once.

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Thank you for your time an consideration in reading my post. Please post any comments or further additions below.

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I like the Defensive Range idea (on off switch would be great)

Not a fan of name change due to hoppers would go crazy with this. If this were a adult only game, I might change my mind, but there are too many pranksters out there who would abuse this...unless it costs Gems to do it...then SC makes money...and we know how much SC likes their moolah.

Bump, anyone else have any comments?

The first idea is gonna be quite chaotic, imagine a lot of circles and it won't really be that useful. The second idea, even though ruled out, makes sense, and if you can change your name change it to ur facebook name, but that could have privacy issues, because people don't want to reveal their full nme to a bunch of strangers

Yea there's a reason your name changing post was locked, it's ruled out.

While I wouldn't mind a name changing option, I think if they do ever allow it, it should costs about 2000 gems. Or more.

I changed my name. My old IGN was my full name so i changed it to Chief Jono

http://i61.tinypic.com/4vfuo0.jpg

Name change probably won't happen but bumping for the Defensive Range Reveal idea.

A fix that SC could do instead of changing people's names is to add a suffix at the end of the repeated name.

Such as "mike" would be the original, and any other mike to join after would be "mike[2]", then the next would be "mike[3]" and so on.

that way their name doesn't change, but they can still be referred to in a unique way.

If they change clans to a new clan with no Mike's, then it goes back to just "mike".

Make sense?

The defense range thing is also ruled out.

Bumping- against forum rules.
Reposting closed threads- against forum rules.

Both ideas are ruled out; please see the sticky: http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...rum-guidelines