24hr Boost for Defenses?

This has probably been brought up a million times before, but I didn't see it listed in the "canned ideas" sticky.

Right now, for a few gems you can boost gold mines and elixr pumps for 24 hours; how about the same thing for defenses?

Instead of the item having a green swirl like the resources currently have, make defenses have a purple swirl... like a rage spell.

The exact boost percentage and gem cost I leave up to the developers.

This would be an alternative to buying a shield, and would still allow you to raid for resources, but help (hopefully) deter folks from attacking you while you frantically try to save 8mil for lvl4 dragons, etc.

Hidden teslas and bombs would be available as well, but would not show the purple boost swirl to the attacker until the trap has been sprung.

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Originally Posted by TheRealRerock

This has probably been brought up a million times before, but I didn't see it listed in the "canned ideas" sticky.

Right now, for a few gems you can boost gold mines and elixr pumps for 24 hours; how about the same thing for defenses?

Instead of the item having a green swirl like the resources currently have, make defenses have a purple swirl... like a rage spell.

The exact boost percentage and gem cost I leave up to the developers.

This would be an alternative to buying a shield, and would still allow you to raid for resources, but help (hopefully) deter folks from attacking you while you frantically try to save 8mil for lvl4 dragons, etc.

Hidden teslas and bombs would be available as well, but would not show the purple boost swirl to the attacker until the trap has been sprung.

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I would like this a lot, as a th8 in gold 2-3, trying to save DE for Hogs and my King, TH9s always steal my DE with a maxed army. My defenses are just about maxed but still need work (especially my walls :rolleyes:) but if i could boost my defenses i would definitely do so

Seems like a money grab to the top players though, if they make boosting too OP then they would probably need to introduce better offences as well. (Imagine max infernos boosted...)

Even if they got the balancing just right (so the current offensive force could still win), then player in high champs would still constantly be boosting their defence. Another potential issue I see is for relatively low leveled players in higher leveled clans. The leadership may put pressure on them to spend more money on Clash during a clan push or whatever, keeping their defences constantly boosted.

I dont imagine the boost would last longer than a day, so that's what 24 defences at TH9, boosted everyday for 10ish gems/boost that five bucks every couple of days...

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Originally Posted by Denrochee

Seems like a money grab to the top players though, if they make boosting too OP then they would probably need to introduce better offences as well. (Imagine max infernos boosted...)

Even if they got the balancing just right (so the current offensive force could still win), then player in high champs would still constantly be boosting their defence. Another potential issue I see is for relatively low leveled players in higher leveled clans. The leadership may put pressure on them to spend more money on Clash during a clan push or whatever, keeping their defences constantly boosted.

I dont imagine the boost would last longer than a day, so that's what 24 defences at TH9, boosted everyday for 10ish gems/boost that five bucks every couple of days...

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Good point(s).

I wouldn't imagine this applying to clan wars.

I'm thinking that the cost of the boost would be proportional (scale TBD) to the level of the defense. Who knows, maybe the boost percentage follows a similar inverse proportion as well.,

Regardless, the boost would/ should be expensive enough to force someone to consider which particular defenses to boost, versus just boosting everything. Something along the lines of "it's available, but it's gonna cost ya" kind of gem pricing structure. Each individual defense boost cost should be set high enough so that the total cost to do all defenses (excluding traps) would make someone go "ouch, that's expensive".

That said, if someone were to fork over the gems to do all that, it should be pretty darn difficult to win an attack against them. Not impossible mind you, but someone would have to bring some serious troops to the party (not just archers, barbs, and gobs).

Yes, I definitely think this would benefit lower level player who are willing to spend, however think about the entire player base. What about those in the 4k range who, for the most part, are already pay to play. It would turn into everyone just boosting their defences, and everyone being too afraid to raid against unbeatable maxed boosted bases.

That is the main reason I don't think this will ever be a thing in Clash, Supercell caters to those that pay their bills (as they should, I see no issue in that at all) and boosting defences is simply going to incur more costs for those guys.

I think it may be too hard to balance though. Too cheap a cost and everyone will have it to protect their stash. Too expensive and people would just pay to gem their upgrades anyway. I like the idea, just maybe on a smaller/limited scale, i.e. only mortars or cannons can be boosted, or one of each or something along those lines...

As another option, for the same price as a shield, you could boost your defenses.

In turn ALL of your defenses would be increased by a modest percentage, like 30% or so.

You could get more in depth and develop a scale based on TH level; or not.

The whole point is to still allow you to raid to save for big ticket items, but reduce the chance of attack.

It's not really the details I'm pitching here, but the concept. Let SC work out the exact details,l. :)

Love this idea! This is best for my village!

Love this idea. I have all max stuff so if I had it all boosted too there is no possible army that could beat it. It would allow me to simply buy a war victory, not have to earn it.

I think this is good. Although it should only apply in reg village and not war base during clan war as the point is to be better not buy better. I completely agree with the but about it being s good alt to buying shields. Props.