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I also thought it wouldn't be bad to spend money, but apparently it was...
This was my first GEM based game I ever spent money on, and now I got screwed for spending money and focus upgrading on my TH...
I thought the game was based on how many trophies you had... Not your TH...
Great post ! Too bad I've found out about it too late.
When I realized it might be a problem I've started researching on the web and found this.
Now, I honestly think I was ripped off ! I was penalized for spending cash !!
After spending about $400 on this game it turned all for nothing yesterday when I finally decided to quit playing. I've upgraded to a TH9 prematurely. My defense was very low with mortars level 4-5, archers towers level 7, wizard tower max lvl 2-3 and cannons lvl 7. I was lured by the unit upgrades and didn't knew about the penalties and the fact that those are relative to the TH level. I seriously thought that it's something cup based.
After hustling for about 3 weeks in which I haven't managed to make 1 million!!! of elixir I finally decided to quit the game for good. My troops were level 5 and the cost producing them was very high. For every attack I spend about 50k elixir ( giants, archers, wizards wall-breakers ). Since I've upgraded the TH to lvl9 I only get under 100k in elixir and most of those bases are fully loaded and hard to get out with all of the elixir. When I was on TH8 i was attacking mostly 200-300k elixir/gold.
I repeat, in 3 weeks of playing daily I haven't managed to make up 1 million elixir !!!. With plus and minus over a battle I usually get about 10k-20k elixir/gold which is nothing compared with what I need to buy an xbow or a defensive upgrade. In this fashion, its going to take me years to make up for my mistake by which time TH8 fully upgraded bases will be way ahead of me.
I have a friend in the same situation with about the same amount of cash spent and he is still hoping he will find a way to make up for it. He said he'll give it a shoot one more week :)
This logic of the income from the battle is definitively incorrect since the TH9 building and upgrades are far more expensive than the TH8-TH7 ones. It doesn't make any sense to win less elixir/gold out of battles. It makes sense only if you want the players to stop playing at lvl9.
Now, I've deleted the game so I don't stress about it but I really hope other people read this post before making the huge mistake of upgrading to TH9 and especially the HUGE mistake of spending cash on the process.
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Originally Posted by coder
Great post and many thanks for the feedback. I'm sorry that you quit the game. I am TH7 and was considering putting in some cash to rush the TH upgrade. But now, I have all the time in the world :)))))
This is a great post... Thanks... I hope Supercell read this.
Some of my friends stop playing due to loot penalties and loot bonus to higher TH.
Hope there is a solution for them.
Wow. This is awe-inspiring, and I completely agree with everything you said. It makes me so elated to read logical posts on the forums. :D I am a TH8, but I wouldn't consider myself premature. However, everything you said about TH9-TH10 probably has helped SO many players. Great job!
-Dirty
Premature vs. Early jump to TH9 - I hope more people are clear on this issue! You laid it out beautifully in the beginning of your post.
I went early, not premature. My mortars, Lab and SpelFactory were maxxed. My troops were all maxxed except for balloons, healers, PEKKAs, and Dragons as I do not usually use them). Some of my walls were even maxxed, so I wasn't jumping out of my TH8 prematurely, just early.
I went into TH9 early because I wanted higher level troops. I wanted Lev6-Arch & Barbs more than I wanted to be Jorge Yao (oops, I mean Kemal.) I really like attacking and don't see defense as a priority.
Here is a tip for those who are more like me: Going into my TH9, I saved the Elixer to start my lab right away. When Lab was upgraded I immediately started my Barbs and will begin to upgrade my archers any day now. Have a plan is the tip!
thee is no "restart" option
I did the stupid mistake.. Played since october.. And not starting over again.
But right now im upgrading my TH to level 10.. Should i cancel it and stay on TH9? Or does it make no different?
If this is a well known and sticky post, why isn't there an official response from supercell?
It is very bad, similar to the Diablo 3 game, and if nothing is fixing the problem, I will have to take the advice and regain my life lost in spending time playing this game soon.
Stay at TH9 until you're close to maxed. TH9 is the new TH8. Farming is quite good there at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niebling
There seems to be some difference of opinion between the forum mods (who apparently agree with the post) and SC's game design team. Supersteve (who comes closest to representing the official SC line) has intimated pretty heavily that SC will never make the loot penalties known in game nor do they consider prematurity to be a problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by darkfat