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I know that trophies are taken from your opponent and that whatever you gained, they lost. But following that logic there would always be the same number of trophies spread out in the game. Everyone starts with 0 trophies but there are many more players now and trophy levels are higher than before.
Does anyone know how supercell makes it so that there are more trophies are in the game now than in the past?
I don't know but maybe they started people of with trophies or if you attack someone with 0 they add more trophies
The concept you are describing is called a zero-sum game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%E2%80%93sum_game
I am not sure CoC trophies are exactly a zero-sum game. Here's a theory - trophies could get created below 200 (or some low range). For example, sub-200 if you lose, you typically only lose 1-3 trophies. However, if you win, you typically gain 20-30. So if you're on defense do you think you only gain 1-3 trophies? I don't think so, since typically sub-200 farmers get quickly pushed out to higher ranks. The opposite could be true at the highest trophy levels - a win gets you 1-3 trophies but a loss could be substantially more.
Great read. Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by stoked
That is an interesting concept but in this game i think your examples dont work. The difference in the amount you are gaining or losing is based on the difference of the amount of trophies you have at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by stoked
Some examples; if you have 4k trophies and you win vs someone with 3k trophies you would get 1 trophy, and the loser would lose 1 trophy. If the 3k person attacks the 4k person the 3k person can get 30 trophies and the 4k person loses 30 trophies. Both of these are still zero-sum.
As for low trophies.. Assume you have 200 trophies. If you attack people with 50 trophies you will get 1-3 trophies and they will lose 1-3. If you defend against someone with 400 trophies you can gain 20-30 and they will lose 20-30. All of this is zero-sum.
As I was typing this I realized there would be a problem with anyone that has 0 trophies. That is potentially a place where trophies could be created. I don't know what happens when you win against someone with zero trophies.. Do you win any trophies or is it zero? Does anyone with sub200 experience know what happens in that situation?
When i was farming to zero trophys, my game crashed and i instantly opened it, still got attacked once by level 5 goblin. Below 110 trophys you can lose maximum one trophy in a fight. So the guy who attacked me with one goblin lost one, but somehow i won 37 trophys. Maby they come to game like this. Its my opinion.
I couldn't find it but I believe it was Rauta who mentioned that under 1000 trophies the loser doesn't lose as many trophies as the winner gains, the closer you get to 1000 the less difference there and above 1000 its an even trade. However that would have been months ago so it may have changed somewhat anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pushckor
At lower trophies trophies are added to the game.
Ahhhh!! Thank you everyone!
Wow Thanks I didn't even know where trophies came from