TOP SECRET: The league system takes the guesswork out of farming

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Originally Posted by hb808

And, I pose the challenge to you as well. Where was this previously mentioned that the lack of a shield benefits farmers? Up until now, all of the focus has been on reverting back to no league shields and having the level number. If you've seen in mentioned in clan chat, well, that is clan chat and not here.

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I agree, it's a good tip.

It's been discussed here:
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...or-Pumps-guide

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Originally Posted by Thomasz

Introduction
So this is a guide that will help you how to tell if your enemy's resources are in his storages or in his pumps. Some people really struggle seperating this and I will help those people by this guide, if you have anything to add: Please reply and I will add it!

League Shields

This is something you can notice very easily but you can't trust it 100%. So if a player has attacked someone in the past 2 weeks (in a season) then the player will have a shield. If he doesn't have shield then he hasn't attacked in the season yet.

Why this isn't 100% trusted:

- Some people don't attack that much
- At the beginning of a season a lot of players don't have this
- If you are at a low trophy level then nobody has a shield

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Originally Posted by Moseszator

This only works until is resets every 2 weeks...

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It actually works right now. Test it out.

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Originally Posted by hb808

It actually works right now. Test it out.

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Yep I know, but you get kicked out of league every 2 weeks and to earn that badge again you need to attack someone.

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Originally Posted by dahimi

Case two doesn't matter. If they are shielded they won't come up in match making. Case 3 likely means the loot is in fact in collectors.

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Good point on case 2, I'd agree with you there...

On case 3, though, no, I'd have to disagree. You would find loot in both the collectors and tanks... unless they drained their tanks sufficiently before vacation, which isn't likely (depends on trophy range though)... but for HB (who I recall being in Purple/Crystal), most villages are already fairly maxed, in particular Elixir upgrades, so you can't dump a few million in Elixir from your tanks. So, I tend to look at Elixir tanks predominantly rather than Trophy Badges or sleeping builder huts, when farming Crystal land.

And in the case of this pic, as just one example, I had raided 6 of the 8 tanks (see remaining two in pic), and yes, the loot was predominantly in the tanks (not collectors), and yes, this was days and days after the reset... Either lazy attacker, or on vacation.

Illustris Who Will Learn to Properly Read Empty Xbows One Day as a Sign Too...

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Originally Posted by Stitch

I agree, it's a good tip.

It's been discussed here:
Thomasz

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Ah, I see Thomasz mentioned it but didn't trust it enough. I will give him credit for mentioning it.

Here are his points which I will speak to:

"Some people don't attack that much" - Irrelevant because if they aren't attacking then the gold/elixir is building up in the collectors. Go for the collectors as they haven't moved them over yet.

"At the beginning of a season a lot of players don't have this" - True, not everybody logs on the moment the cycle resets, but if you wait 12 hours to a day you can feed on those who haven't.

"If you are at a low trophy level then nobody has a shield" - Dropping trophies to that level isn't necessary to feed on the people without shields.

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Originally Posted by Illustris

Good point on case 2, I'd agree with you there...

On case 3, though, no, I'd have to disagree. You would find loot in both the collectors and tanks... unless they drained their tanks sufficiently before vacation, which isn't likely (depends on trophy range though)... but for HB (who I recall being in Purple/Crystal), most villages are already fairly maxed, in particular Elixir upgrades, so you can't dump a few million in Elixir from your tanks. So, I tend to look at Elixir tanks predominantly rather than Trophy Badges or sleeping builder huts, when farming Crystal land.

And in the case of this pic, as just one example, I had raided 6 of the 8 tanks (see remaining two in pic), and yes, the loot was predominantly in the tanks (not collectors), and yes, this was days and days after the reset... Either lazy attacker, or on vacation.

Illustris Who Will Learn to Properly Read Empty Xbows One Day as a Sign Too...

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Where I find this method helping me the most is that it allows me to cycle through bases faster without evaluating how I'm going to attack their base. If I see collectors in an easy to nab area and they have no shield, I'm going to attack. If I see storages in an easy to nab area and they do have a shield then I'm going to attack. Once I chose to attack I will move to the next part of my algorithm on whether or not their defenses can withstand my barrage of troops.

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Originally Posted by hb808

Where I find this method helping me the most is that it allows me to cycle through bases faster without evaluating how I'm going to attack their base. If I see collectors in an easy to nab area and they have no shield, I'm going to attack. If I see storages in an easy to nab area and they do have a shield then I'm going to attack. Once I chose to attack I will move to the next part of my algorithm on whether or not their defenses can withstand my barrage of troops.

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Fair enough, certainly a valid screening tool... Agreed.

For me, given I'm a tad airborne lately, I tend to scroll looking at AD's...


Illustris, Winking

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Originally Posted by Illustris

Fair enough, certainly a valid screening tool... Agreed.

For me, given I'm a tad airborne lately, I tend to scroll looking at AD's...


Illustris, Winking

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My lvl 4 minions are my "air goblins". Absolute beasts for farming.

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Originally Posted by hb808

My lvl 4 minions are my "air goblins". Absolute beasts for farming.

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Very cool...I dont see those much. It's amazing how the game is played so many different ways.

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Originally Posted by Huddy

Very cool...I dont see those much. It's amazing how the game is played so many different ways.

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You can use them to zerg-like rush AD because the rate of fire of AD is relatively slow to a powerful minion hoard. Also, one air bomb doesn't take out a whole row of minions once you get them to lvl 4.