Decentive for Exposed Townhall

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Originally Posted by fife

I've fought several villages where the town hall (TH) was deliberately exposed. People obviously do this to get a quick shield while suffering very little in cost. In fact, most people who have deep coffers (for a pending upgrade) do this. In most games, when your main unit or main center is destroyed, there are usually dramatic consequences. Here are some ideas (to be considered separately):

Loot-Based Decentive:

• Place more loot (that can be lost) in the TH
• Losing your TH gives a fraction multiplier increase for the amount of loot you can lose (e.g. 25% increase means that a gold storage that would otherwise give you 100,000 gold now gives you 125,000)

Building/Generation Decentive:

• After losing a TH, all generation/research either stops or is slowed down (e.g. 50%) until town hall is repaired--requires 1 worker working for TH level * multiplier (e.g. TH1 requires 2 minutes; TH5 = 10 minutes; TH10 = 20 minutes)
• After losing a TH, all generation/research either stops or is slowed down until town hall is repaired--requires a sizeable amount of gold and elixer to repair (tantamount to repairing traps)

Battle-Disadvantage Decentive:

• Making all building units, towers, and walls suffer 50% (halved) hp when the TH breaks
• Destroy x random towers
• Make towers attack at half-speed or half-power (or both)
• Give attacking army a haste/power/healing buff
• Or, introduce "Berserk" spells; players select 1 of many powerful berserk spells to bring to battle--which can turn the tide of war, but only become active if the town hall is destroyed (e.g. replenish some of your dispensed units so you can deploy them in the same battle [but these bonus units expire after the battle is over]; make your units invulnerable for x seconds; refresh your spell(s) for the duration of the battle; destroy x random towers; etc.

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Soooo complicated. just make it really easy. make TH a storage with capacity of 2mil Gold, 2mil Elixir and 10K DE.
those who are willing to sacrifice 20% (assuming you have 4 other maxed storages) of their resources for a shield can continue to leave their TH outside. Those who dont can move them in...

By the way why is it an issue for you, that people leave their th outside???

Maybe because a town hall represents your capital, the heart of your village, the place where you research upgrades, where you make decisions about war, policies, commerce, law, etcetera, etcetera. It bothers me only a little because in war, you don't put your pride outside for people to ravage. Apparently you do in this game. But like I said, it's just a game--and it's fun nonetheless.

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My TH has lived outside for a loooong time, to the point where I only have the first star of the 'unbreakable' achievement but I still support the idea of more loot in the TH.

one of the biggest issues IMO is that its far to easy to stockpile stuff due to snipers without any desire to actually raid a base.

recently I've regularly sat in C1/C2 with significant amounts of loot stored and still get sniped 80% of the time, how someone can see 350k+ of g&e and think 'no thanks, ill just take some trophies' is beyond me.

I know it would make my life harder and effectively kill barch but I dont care - i suspect that the game wasnt meant to be played this way in the first place anyway.

I'd like to see something like 100k of g&e available for destroying the TH.

there would still be a few folks that would leave their TH outside for that.. and fair play to them.

lots wouldn't though, and more real raiding would ensue.

Mostly I disagree with the OP. Its a strategy - stop whining about how a game is played and either play or quit. I would prefer you quit so your base is inactive and available. Do you change the rules to suit you when you play chess, checkers or cards (well established games)? If yes - you must suck to play games with.

However, I would agree to increasing the loot stored in the TH. Not a lot. Keep in mind the TH only stores 1000 of Gold/Elixir and 100% of it is available to take. So 2 million is way too much. But I think 20k each that is fully available would be appropriate. I think many would still expose their TH and some would stop. Its on that edge where maybe you will or wont expose your TH.

I'd like to see you play chess with your king out in the front.

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Originally Posted by fife

I'd like to see you play chess with your king out in the front.

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You're missing the point entirely. You're focusing on the TH as the central point of play. Its not. You can defeat an opponent without having touched their TH.

There are multiple ways to play CoC and its all around the strategy you plan to use to achieve your goals. You may be focused on trophys and the percent you defeat your opponent and whether or not you get their TH is important. Or, you may be focused on all the loot and you may not even care about trophys. I have attacked bases where I stole all their loot and intentionally stopped at 49% so I could lose the trophys too. Or, you may be driving for DE and your strategy may be totally wrapped around that.

Its all valid and all part of the strategy of the game. You are letting yourself get all worked up about the TH when there really is no reason for you to. Its not central to many strategies.

The point about chess was not about exposing your King, which unlike CoC *IS* all about the King. It was about a game where the rules and strategies have been established. People dont play chess and seek to change the game because they dont like the rules. They play it because they love it, or they dont play it if it bothers them.

Also - should we change the game to prevent people from starting an attack by dropping a single troop and then leaving? They are manipulating the game in much the same way - intentionally doing something to lose a battle with ease. Maybe those cowards (not my real opinion) should be punished for not engaging in a full scale battle like CoC intended?

No..No..No.. I like Farming.

all of gamul1's replies illustrate why the OP's suggestion is a poor one.

As for the OP, please don't be a hypocrite. If you have a problem with the "TH outside" strategy, don't use the strategy YOURSELF and also come here to complain about it.

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Originally Posted by fife

Trust me, I understand the strategy. I have my th outside too, unless it's my war base.

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