Spell factory needs to be usable during upgrade

tl,dr version: Completely offline is bogus, reduce its efficiency instead

No, this is not a request to make it free or painless. The developers have indicated spells and active play elements are intended to be battle-changing tools. Right now with the spell factory being 100% offline during upgrade this means that your second attack during a clan war will be at a heavy disadvantage.

This disadvantage is also unique compared to the other direct offense buildings: An individual barracks being upgraded is not usable, but the others still are, resulting in barracks overall being 50% to 75% operational; Camps are 100% operational during upgrade.

So my suggestion is this: Make the spell factory only 12.5% (meaning spells take 8x build time) operational during upgrade. This would give most folks enough time to cook spells between first & second clan war attack. If gemmed, the factory would then be 50% operational. This should preserve the value of rushing the upgrade, and create new value when gemming the spell factory.

You take the chance when upgrading the spell factory to not be able to use spells. I would like this to happen, but its like the Barracks, You aren't able to train stuff while it's upgrading, same with the spell factory, it wouldn't make sense. The Army Camps are fully functional because you don't have to create anything with it, your just storing troops.

Regarding barracks - since you can have up to 4 barracks, having 1 barracks non-functional means you still have up to 75% of your normal capacity to train troops.

With the single spell factory non-functional, you have 0% capacity.

It's worth the wait upgrading the factory and waiting until you can use it again.

You can't make use heroes or barracks while they upgrading, same goes for the spell factory. It is a pain in th sack while it is upgrading, but you can only upgrade it once at not even every th level. It isnt that big of a deal, and it promotes gem spending which sc digs.

Exactly. Really.

I've already addressed barracks (multiple times) & gem spend. I know it may be long, but please read the original post & then provide feedback. Really.

It's true, I haven't addressed heros -- and I'm not going to. My proposal for the spell factory includes balancing that I just don't have enough experience with heros to do well. If someone has a balanced proposal to have heros be functional yet severely limited during upgrade I encourage them to submit it.

This is done intentionally. They want you to be impatient enough to gem it.

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Originally Posted by AxionXD

This is done intentionally. They want you to be impatient enough to gem it.

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Yup. It worked on me. Luckily, with the new increased gems per obstacle removed, additional achievements, and the addition of gem boxes, I was able to insta-build my spell factory with only gems I collected in-game (no money used). No reason why others can't do the same. What else do you need to spend gems on after all 5 builders, just spell and barrack boosts really, and the occasional hero boost. The rest you can be patient on and save gems for occasions like these.

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Originally Posted by AxionXD

This is done intentionally. They want you to be impatient enough to gem it.

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Is this true for Heros too?

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Originally Posted by HappyNDing4U

Is this true for Heros too?

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Ofcourse it is. This is how a freemium game brings in money.

Welcome to the forums! Next time you post, look at the date of the post you're replying too. This thread is over a year old ;)

How much time to you really actually spend upgrading your spell factory? You will just be out of war for a week.