Base design differences? Farming, war, etc.

So I'm pretty new to Clash and obviously brand new to the forums, but I was wondering if someone could explain the reasoning behind the different base designs, and best ways to make those types of bases (basics, of course)?

I'm pretty sure the basics are:

Farming Base - protect gold, elixir, and especially dark elixir storages. Set up your base to make sure those are the last things that get attacked, if possible.

War base - prevent stars, and therefore the Town Hall gets the best protection.

I guess my question ultimately is why is the Town Hall outside the main base on a farming base? Is it to intentionally get people to attack and then not try to destroy the rest of the base? Is it impossible/very difficult to make a base that defends both the Town Hall and storages very well? I guess why would you sacrifice trophies if it's preventable?

Thanks.

The town hall outside the base is to give a "free shield." if someone snipes your base, you have no loot taken for 12 hrs because of this. It drastically decreases the amount of loot you lose at each logoff, if any.

EDIT: There are bases that can defend th and storages well, but not really until town hall 9.

Great question. The only real way to protect your loot is being online or having a shield. Putting your TH outside allows people to easily take it, and give you a 12 hour shield. Most don't care about the small trophy lost, because most are purposely staying lower in trophies in order to "farm" easier targets in a specific range. In differs for every player, but to me, trophiies only really start to matter around 2600 or so (and even then I often put my TH outside).

Thanks!

So if I leave my Town Hall outside my base, then, what is to prevent people from also destroying the rest of my base once they've destroyed my undefended Town Hall? Is that just a, "Why waste the troops?" type of thing? Essentially I should either have a shield or spend most of my gold and elixir on upgrades before going offline, so when I am vulnerable to attack, the only thing I lose is a few trophies?

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Thanks!

So if I leave my Town Hall outside my base, then, what is to prevent people from also destroying the rest of my base once they've destroyed my undefended Town Hall? Is that just a, "Why waste the troops?" type of thing? Essentially I should either have a shield or spend most of my gold and elixir on upgrades before going offline, so when I am vulnerable to attack, the only thing I lose is a few trophies?

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Nothing really prevents that type of attack, the benefit though is that most try to ensure they have the win first so you get a shield regardless. If you have a lot of loot, someone is bound to go after it but by having your town hall outside, you can either reduce the chances as well as avoiding that nasty "fail" of an attack below 40% with some of your loot stolen, traps triggered, clan castle empty for an easier attack from the next attacker. In essence, it's giving your loot one shot to be taken every 12 hours.