Why ever protect TH? Why penalize for successful defenses? Game flaw

I've now pretty much gone through the game where I'm about to reach Champion league and am finishing last few defense / town upgrades. At this point, I've tried and experimented with most combinations of attack units as well as town layouts.

One conclusion I have and give as advice to all others is this: For standard setup, the TH should be outside the base unprotected. Period.

Why would anyone put TH in center of base?
- TH outside of base is a chance at a free 12hr shield saving collector loot - essentially costs only a few trophies
- Save trophies - lose only 1 star, which you can make back with a single attack next time on. Do multiple attacks in a row and you come out ahead. This is the strategy me and many others used to go up to champs
- Save loot - the best way to save your loot is to make sure a single attack gives you shield. Making sure TH is destroyed is the easiest way - and with all the barchers, with TH outside, guaranteed storages in center of base are safe
- Worst scenario in the game is when you have numerous attacks on your base each taking loot, but failing to set shield, leaving your cc troop less, heroes dead, and defenses depleted, opens the door for an even bigger attack to center dark storage..

In conclusion - I can't think of a single reason why in the non-war setup anyone would ever place the TH in the center of town. Now if somehow everyone was smart, and everyone placed TH on outside, there's no more strategy as you could just bounce from TH hit to TH hit and profit from win bonuses, which is the new trend.. This is a flaw with current incentives.

So, the bonuses need to change. Players should be rewarded (with loot) for successful defenses, not penalized as they currently are.

I don't know how anyone could disagree with any of this.

Yes, I always wonder why I see people with the TH inside the middle of the base. Just pointless unless you are at the end game already.

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Originally Posted by guile91

Yes, I always wonder why I see people with the TH inside the middle of the base. Just pointless unless you are at the end game already.

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I just finished maxing out my TH8, and I've noticed that most TH7s keep their TH centered (not true for TH8s). I feel like people start to figure out the game at TH8!

I am only TH 7 and this thought has occured to me several times.

In standard play why not? It makes total sense to let someone do a quick 1 star. Except for those times when someone want to get your loot. Then they one star you AND thrash your outer ring anyway.

I am actually planning to keep TH outside once I hit TH8 no matter what. It will be standard for my regular game play.

Now in war... different game totally. TH must be protected! lol

In my experience, now just under a month into TH 8, I have had zero success with placing my TH in the open. When I have excess loot a bigger badder player with maxed troops will hit my resources hard. I have not had luck with a sniper taking down my TH first ignoring the loot. So because of that I like the hybrid base setups.

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Originally Posted by bouges

In my experience, now just under a month into TH 8, I have had zero success with placing my TH in the open. When I have excess loot a bigger badder player with maxed troops will hit my resources hard. I have not had luck with a sniper taking down my TH first ignoring the loot. So because of that I like the hybrid base setups.

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I guarantee that if you leave your TH outside that you will get sniped (saving your loot) more often than if you put your TH on the inside and just hoped that your defenses save your loot.

His point is that it's basically idiotic to put your TH on the inside thus allowing yourself to lose a ton of loot in order to get a shield, and even IF you're able to defend chances are that during that defend that you lost some of your loot and now someone else can come along and steal MORE loot because you don't have a shield from the first time you got attacked.

Everyone should put their TH outside ALL of the time unless you are in a clan that is trophy pushing and trying to get top 200 or something.

If you don't you are going to lose a LOT more loot. Which, if you're not pushing, is the most important thing.

As i was typing this I got sniped, saving 300k of both gold and elixir.

As a th 10 farming in master 2, there are tons of reasons to keep my th inside. The most obvious one is trophies, which to many is the whole point of the game. My base is good enough to win defenses, which helps me keep my trophies up when farming if I string a few bad attacks together, and obviously helps me when pushing. Furthermore, when I'm below 2850, I can log off between attacks (40 minutes, give or take) with my th inside and not get touched.

Putting your th outside has its disadvantages too. The most crucial one is that it does not prevent other people from continuing their attack. Someone who uses GoWiWi or GoWiPe will probably take the 1-star, but balloonion or barch users may well try to get 2. In addition, farmers may try to go for the center and the storages, having already locked up the league bonus with the town hall. Of course, it also hurts your trophies, as there's no guarantee that you will first be found by someone in Champ and only lose 1 trophy as opposed to 10 or 11. Thus, while putting your th outside is often the correct thing to do, it's not always a good idea.

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Originally Posted by bouges

In my experience, now just under a month into TH 8, I have had zero success with placing my TH in the open. When I have excess loot a bigger badder player with maxed troops will hit my resources hard. I have not had luck with a sniper taking down my TH first ignoring the loot. So because of that I like the hybrid base setups.

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If the bigger badder player is going to hit your base, you are going to lose your loot anyways - it doesn't matter where TH is. By having TH on the outside, you have a chance of a weak player giving you shield before the big bad wolf has a chance at you, or maybe convince him to just hit TH and move on. It's a pure benefit.. The hybrid base doesn't help in any scenario here.

yea. makes no sense to me. if someone is pushing, they will either 50% or 2 star you and take your loot. people who have their town hall in the middle probably don't understand the game or maybe they dont know what farming is. if you aren't max, you should be farming unless your clan tells you have to push or give you the option to push with them