Wall upgrade options

Usually one of the nice things about upgrading walls is that it's instant. However I think an interesting change would be an option to upgrade the wall at a discount but would require an actual build time.

For example the level wall I am upgrading to cost me 1mil a brick. The option would be an upgrade cost if 500k but them take 2 days to build (or some other time that would be deemed balanced)

thats not a bad idea

Walls serve a specific purpose and function being instant builds. It's the reason why people leave a single builder free, in order to dump gold into walls whenever they don't want to carry that much loot before bed time, for example.

Walls should remain an instant build so people always have the dumping option whenever they choose to leave one or more builders available.

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Originally Posted by hawdog

Walls serve a specific purpose and function being instant builds. It's the reason why people leave a single builder free, in order to dump gold into walls whenever they don't want to carry that much loot before bed time, for example.

Walls should remain an instant build so people always have the dumping option whenever they choose to leave one or more builders available.

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They are suggesting an alternative option not a replacement. If you wanted to instabuild walls you still could.

lol waiting 2 days for a single piece of wall to finish..great idea

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Originally Posted by djsurfzz

lol waiting 2 days for a single piece of wall to finish..great idea

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The time isn't set in stone, and it would still let you build 5 walls every two days from half the price.

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Originally Posted by djsurfzz

lol waiting 2 days for a single piece of wall to finish..great idea

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You would still have the option to insta build at full price

I see. This would've been great at TH9 when I spent the final month doing nothing but upgrading lego walls and had 3/5 builders always free (the only time builders were busy were for heroes).

I wonder what affect this would have on the wall progression of all bases in the game, would we start to see a massive influx of bases suddenly having much stronger walls, causing an even greater shying away of using ground troops, and moving even further to the side of flying and wall-hopping strategies more so than we already have, with the vast majority of high crystal league attacks being hog raids, dragon raids, or balloonion raids? Seems lob-sided as is already, would this further that trend? Will we completely give up on using valks?

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Originally Posted by hawdog

I see. This would've been great at TH9 when I spent the final month doing nothing but upgrading lego walls and had 3/5 builders always free (the only time builders were busy were for heroes).

I wonder what affect this would have on the wall progression of all bases in the game, would we start to see a massive influx of bases suddenly having much stronger walls, causing an even greater shying away of using ground troops, and moving even further to the side of flying and wall-hopping strategies more so than we already have, with the vast majority of high crystal league attacks being hog raids, dragon raids, or balloonion raids? Seems lob-sided as is already, would this further that trend? Will we completely give up on using valks?

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It's hard to say. On one hand the walls would be cheaper, but on the other they would take a lot longer to build. It certainly would not have to be a massive influx suddenly having much stronger walls. With 250 of them, 5 builders, and two days per wall you're still looking at 3-4 months to upgrade an entire set. That's if you keep all your builders on them and save none for upgrading anything else.

For walls up to level 9, that's actually a longer period of time than it takes most really active farmers to do it.

Personally I think it's a reasonable tradeoff provided they set the build time right. Level 10-11 walls would have to have longer build times probably. If this were an option I'd probably do it. It provides for a much more relaxed pace to be honest.

One thing to consider in all of this is gem cost. Can't have people buy resources for half priced walls and then gemming the build time with an overall cheaper cost.

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Originally Posted by dahimi

It's hard to say. On one hand the walls would be cheaper, but on the other they would take a lot longer to build. It certainly would not have to be a massive influx suddenly having much stronger walls. With 250 of them, 5 builders, and two days per wall you're still looking at 3-4 months to upgrade an entire set. That's if you keep all your builders on them and save none for upgrading anything else.

For walls up to level 9, that's actually a longer period of time than it takes most really active farmers to do it.

Personally I think it's a reasonable tradeoff provided they set the build time right. Level 10-11 walls would have to have longer build times probably. If this were an option I'd probably do it. It provides for a much more relaxed pace to be honest.

One thing to consider in all of this is gem cost. Can't have people buy resources for half priced walls and then gemming the build time with an overall cheaper cost.

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I just checked the gem calculator. Buying 500,000 gold and gemming a 2day wait costs 719 gems, whereas gemming the straight 1 mil without any buildtime takes 600 gems. So really, the people who would benefit from this would be the non-gemmers.