Make sniping Dark Elixer harder

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Originally Posted by cloudybrain

sigh.. ur right. Maybe supercell can check out my idea and maybe get a better idea of it is. I gave been raiding constantly.. lol.. 130 winning raids so far..

i don't want lightening spell to change. Just the effects of attacking DE container..

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i know. i am sure it is frustrating. but when you get attacked, and dont lose, you earn cups. so there is that

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Originally Posted by Seth1299

I'm pretty sure that you cannot defend against a lightning spell. There absolutely no way you can shield against a lightning spell.

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I meant that if ur th is on the outside of ur base ur th will be sniped. When ur th is destroyed u get a 12 hr shield and thus no one can lightening strike ur de storage for 12 hrs.

Let me add my 2 cents. If you zap DE you fail at life and CoC. It's laughably easy to get DE, it's all over the place and people carelessly forget to empty pumps or leave their DE storage on the edges. It shows 0 lack of skill. Also, you can get zapped in any league. It's complete ♥♥ to spout off about only getting zapped in G3 or G2. I have friends in Masters who get zapped by mid-TH10's.

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Originally Posted by WoWnoMore

Let me add my 2 cents. If you zap DE you fail at life and CoC. It's laughably easy to get DE, it's all over the place and people carelessly forget to empty pumps or leave their DE storage on the edges. It shows 0 lack of skill. Also, you can get zapped in any league. It's complete ♥♥ to spout off about only getting zapped in G3 or G2. I have friends in Masters who get zapped by mid-TH10's.

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Let me add my 2 cents as well. I've spent a ton of time in crystal, master and now finally champs and it has been MONTHS since I've been zapped, and up here I make enough DE that if someone that cant raid my base wants to trade cups for DE then so be it, I have no issue. Zapping is most prevalent in gold through low crystal, and once in a blue moon you'll get hit up higher. Your friends may have had one zapper, if they are even semi active they should be making more than enough to cover their loses.

To the OP, the reason I believe it is in the game and has gone so long unchanged (despite hundreds of new forumers that ask for zapping to be removed) is because it is the only way for lower leveled players to combat farmers. Now I'm not saying you skulk around in low leagues preying on weak bases, but plenty do, with good reason. Farming is a great, arguably necessary, tactic in advancing your base as far as possible. The majority of farming is big beefy bases beating up people who can do nothing in return, hence the need for DE zapping. TH7s and 8s can do very little when attacking TH10s with maxed infernos and high level walls, so they if they wish to take any sort of revenge they need to zap.

TL;DR The pros: Lower leveled players have some means of revenge against otherwise impenetrable opponents

far outweigh the cons:

You get zapped for 3k de, which if you raise trophies you can easily make that back and more.

As a final note, I'm not making assumptions about you, but the majority of the player base where farming is concerned.

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Originally Posted by Denrochee

Let me add my 2 cents as well. I've spent a ton of time in crystal, master and now finally champs and it has been MONTHS since I've been zapped, and up here I make enough DE that if someone that cant raid my base wants to trade cups for DE then so be it, I have no issue. Zapping is most prevalent in gold through low crystal, and once in a blue moon you'll get hit up higher. Your friends may have had one zapper, if they are even semi active they should be making more than enough to cover their loses.

To the OP, the reason I believe it is in the game and has gone so long unchanged (despite hundreds of new forumers that ask for zapping to be removed) is because it is the only way for lower leveled players to combat farmers. Now I'm not saying you skulk around in low leagues preying on weak bases, but plenty do, with good reason. Farming is a great, arguably necessary, tactic in advancing your base as far as possible. The majority of farming is big beefy bases beating up people who can do nothing in return, hence the need for DE zapping. TH7s and 8s can do very little when attacking TH10s with maxed infernos and high level walls, so they if they wish to take any sort of revenge they need to zap.

TL;DR The pros: Lower leveled players have some means of revenge against otherwise impenetrable opponents

far outweigh the cons:

You get zapped for 3k de, which if you raise trophies you can easily make that back and more.

As a final note, I'm not making assumptions about you, but the majority of the player base where farming is concerned.

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If you care about cups, I personally don't. People run farming bases to protect resources, not cups. If people are using zapping as a tool for revenge because they can't possibly revenge a player for the reasons you listed, that's a different scenario. Your average zapper is, well, I've said how I feel about them already.

thats why you protect it lol

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Originally Posted by Spinner7980

yes. you and the hundreds of other people on here who have had the same idea. that has been shot down by supercell. you dont like your DE getting zapped by lightning spells. tough. this is not a game mechanic that needs to be improved because it does what it is supposed to do. YOU just dont like it. well, suck it up buttercup. its probably not gonna change.

zapping is not that big of an issue. most of the people on this forum do not think it is that big of an issue. supercell has said that they do not have any plans of changing anything in regards to the lightning spell, making DE storages immune to it, etc.

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Perfect response

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Originally Posted by cloudybrain

Well i was thinking 50% including raids.. not just lightening spells. Haha. When i reach DE container in a raid.. I always destroy it.. It's never partially destroyed.

The game actually "kinda" does what I'm asking. If a DE container has less than 200 or something (forgot the number.. but its a small amount) .. You won't be stealing anything until you damage most of it.

That's actually how I got the idea. I don't mean to trample on anyone's way of getting loot by tactic.. but all im saying.. having ways to have a preventative measure would be nice to counteract multiple hits?

Like.. what preventative measures can you take.. to prevent 10 guys from sniping your DE.. not putting you in a shield.. stealing 10k? There really isnt.. no matter what you do.. There's always a possibility no matter how small.

You can take preventative measures against gobs.. or stronger bases.. and you do so by base design.. even if you are weak.. Going down in trophies help. But the problem I'm talking about can happen to anyone.. Regardless of what you do.

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But there is an alternate solution, if the attacker gets more than X loot off any kind you get a shield, that is also a solution.

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Originally Posted by KLHF

Perfect response

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From a LV77 TH9...Way to preemie

Sigh...Just gonna keep posting this.
Zapping is a viable strategy bc it works the way SC want it to. Lightning spells deal damage. Resources are lost from storages that take damage. Hence, when a lightning spell deals damage to a DE storage, DE should be lost. It works in SC's eyes so what is there to fix?