The Most Important Change this Game Needs

... is to incentivize defensive wins. Here's my reasoning:

I've always thought that the exposed TH to get a cheap shield strategy is sort of against the spirit of the game. But there's no doubt it is the best way for farmers to conserve resources. However, this means that almost every smart farmer who is holding loot is almost constantly under shield. So with most good collector raids in the back of the search queue, and most good storage raids cheaply shielded 24/7, it's no wonder why loot is scarce. The loot system isn't the problem, it is the type of base that is most ofter in the attack queue. All those raids with 50k of each are bases that are holding less than 500k of each resource in storages. For active farmers, this hardly ever happens. So, when searching for attacks, most bases coming up are loosely active players who never really save up resources, but just log on occasionally.

Now to the defensive wins part. Imagine if there was some incentive to protect the TH, and win on defense. Perhaps all traps and CC troops are rearmed after a defensive win. Or a portion of loot stolen is refunded for a win. Or maybe a league defense win bonus, like the offense win bonus. It just needs to be enough to make cheap shielding not worth it. This would mean that heavily active farmers would appear in the attack queue much more often, giving attackers plenty of good loot options that they have to work for. This means less nexting, more loot choices, but more strategizing involved on offense and defense.

Right now everyone is online as long as possible in champ league, making gameplay highly frustrating and unappealing.

Not bad thinking there. Considering the ridiculous ' unbreakable ' achievement as well, is welcome an incentive for def wins and I am one if those farmers with th out usually

I like the idea of free traps and bombs after a defensive win. It wouldn't make me put my TH inside, but I still think it is a nice idea.

In full agreement.

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Originally Posted by AThor

... is to incentivize defensive wins. Here's my reasoning:

I've always thought that the exposed TH to get a cheap shield strategy is sort of against the spirit of the game. But there's no doubt it is the best way for farmers to conserve resources. However, this means that almost every smart farmer who is holding loot is almost constantly under shield. So with most good collector raids in the back of the search queue, and most good storage raids cheaply shielded 24/7, it's no wonder why loot is scarce. The loot system isn't the problem, it is the type of base that is most ofter in the attack queue. All those raids with 50k of each are bases that are holding less than 500k of each resource in storages. For active farmers, this hardly ever happens. So, when searching for attacks, most bases coming up are loosely active players who never really save up resources, but just log on occasionally.

Now to the defensive wins part. Imagine if there was some incentive to protect the TH, and win on defense. Perhaps all traps and CC troops are rearmed after a defensive win. Or a portion of loot stolen is refunded for a win. Or maybe a league defense win bonus, like the offense win bonus. It just needs to be enough to make cheap shielding not worth it. This would mean that heavily active farmers would appear in the attack queue much more often, giving attackers plenty of good loot options that they have to work for. This means less nexting, more loot choices, but more strategizing involved on offense and defense.

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it wont work & reason being, look at the bonuses of wins we get ??? 2k, etc starting from low trops ??? who cares about this amount ??? not a real farmer... infact most hardcore farmers wont bother to even upgrade their pumps & mines considering that the output being hardly comparable to even one raid... thus no one will really care about the cheap bonus or whatever compared to protecting their loot...

in fact SC has a tini reward for defenders... Unbreakable... you get gems for certain amount of wins.,. go check how many have it done..

In fact I am a th10 with all max besides walls... but in that achievement I have one star...

I am a farmer and even when I push I often put my Th outside

Why?

The way I see it there is no advantage to keeping your TH outside unless your in a trophy range where no one is going to even attempt your base.

What does defending your base get you?

Trophies?
-Maybe, again depending on your level. Ironically sometimes the best way to prevent massive trophy losses is to kick that TH outside and hope for a snipe. Low trophy loss, and loot goes untouched

Resources?
-Defending your base legitimately is largely punished in this regard. Traps need to be rearmed, defenses need to be loaded, and there is no economical reward for actually winning a defense. To top it off, the worse case scenario is that your attack gets 39% - leaving you wide open to the next attacker



When I went to champs I kicked my th outside after 2850 because defending myself drained my resources too fast and often did not result in any actual wins. Between 2600 and 2800 I will defend my TH because people just won't try. Lower than that and I get farmed.


Anyway, defense is largely broken in the game. Unless its clan wars, you get nothing out of truly trying to defend yourself.

I am with the OP 100%. One possible solution is to have the TH store more then 1k of each resource. If it held up to 100k at TH10, people might protect it more.

The other ideas you proposed are good too.

I would also add that the someone "NEXT" over your base you get the associated cost. So if a TH10 get paired up with me and decided to use the next option I get the 1000 gold instead of the gold disappearing from the game.

People usually have better offense than defense, so they get higher in trophies and get crushed. If you want to win on D lower your trophy count. Above 2400 there are few exposed THs...