Idea to possibly help the loot problem

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Originally Posted by Madd

If you're still saying loot is bad then you need to just stop playing the game, it's so boring coming on forums everyday to see at least 2 threads about 'Bad Loot' '1,000,000 next's later'. Push to a higher league or drop down.

Come visit Altar of Heroes and we'll show you how it's done :rolleyes:

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Then stop coming to the forums, that simple. I don't need lecturing on how to farm/play the game. I've farmed in all leagues from gold to champion. My post was not intended to be a complaint, rather a suggestion. Reading comprehension eludes you, clearly. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Biggie862005

So we all know that loot sucks at the moment, and the idea dawned on me yesterday as I was endlessly skipping through bases trying to find something worthwhile. As I was skipping through I noticed a decent amount of abandoned bases, but they had very low level collectors and only offering a few thousand of each resource. So my idea was that collector upgrades should be mandatory before progressing your TH. Ex all resource collectors need to be lvl8 before TH5, LVL9 before TH6, LVL10 before moving to TH7, and they should be maxed before moving to TH8. It is incredibly annoying seeing TH9's and 10's with level 4-5 collectors. They arent contributing anything to this already dismal economy. Do it SC, you wont.

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This is another take of an idea some have already had where a sweet victory type achievement would be given for maxing collectors. Still a decent idea since the issue is not really a lack of dead bases, but a lack of dead bases with good mines for those who only barch/bam.

Making an achievement for collector upgrading is probably the best thing supercell can do. What is the biggest way loot gets injected into the system? Collectors and clan wars. Collectors, clan wars, and the loot bonus are the only way loot gets injected into the system. When you raid someone, you are not adding loot (excluding loot bonus, which only starts getting good at crystal and up), you are only moving it from them to you. Collectors add more loot for people to raid. I also really don't like seeing higher town halls with low lvl collectors. They are feeding off others and complaining that loot is bad (which is true though) while they add nothing to the system. Additional ways to solve loot using collectors are probably these:

1.) Lower the time for upgrading collectors. This is the biggest reason why people don't upgrade them.
2.) Make collectors produce a bit more or add higher collector levels
3.) The achievement. Preferably 20-50 gems as a award or more, to motivate people to upgrade.
4.) More 1 gem boosts. The 1 gem boosts reward you the most at higher levels

I don't really like the idea of forcing you to upgrade collectors to go up town halls though. I feel that achievements should be in place instead of that. And I know, my points have been brought up numerous times already, just adding them in.

Agreed, they definitely need to up collector production, or add more levels. They cap off at TH7, yet upgrade costs do not. I know this has been suggested numerous times before, yet SC continues to turn the other cheek. I'm beginning to feel as if all these ideas are better heard by brick walls.

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Originally Posted by Pete82

Only if you aren't naturally filling your storages on your own. Some people enjoy farming. If your walls are maxed before your defenses it means you farm very quickly, and you have to move to the next TH quickly to gain a new gold sink (new wall level). This is a special occasion for a active type player, but it definitely happens.

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Id be willing to wager this type of player is a very small minority. Well developed bases with noob level mines and pumps are an epidemic. Simply putting in a acheivement with a worthwhile amout of gems would seem to be an easy fix. Fingers crossed that one day Supercell does this.

Other ideas to reduce loot issues (not serious but it'd definitely increase loot help)

1. Remove a builder - If people don't have free builders to upgrade, they can't spend and will have fuller storages
2. Remove TH10 - If people have less things to upgrade, they won't be taking the loot that you'd want.
3. Remove walls - They're a black hole for resources. People working on walls will just waste your gold as you skip their bases
4. Limit login time to once a day - If players can't log on, their collectors will fill up and give you more loot to take
5. Randomly ban players - If players can't play, there'd be more collector base for others to get easy loot

To be serious, it would be helpful if people get more collectors at higher level too. The top THs must rely on the lower THs to have an excess of loot so they could get resources because TH7/8 collector bases aren't too great for TH10. Instead of trickle down economy, it's like trickle up. I don't think that SC wants to have upgrade requirements though

All supercell has to do to fix the loot problem is not take out inactives from the search que. staff have even said they take out inactives. Loot didn't suddenly get bad. Supercell made it like that.
i have had the game for over a year and I can confirm there is a loot problem for the people who say there isn't. My gg is 700 million so I have experience farming.

If the vast majority of players left their THs outside of the walls for one weekend for easy picking this would infuse tons of loot into the game.

Adding restrictions like this to the game won't be received very well by everyone.

However, they can add a gem achievement for maxing collectors. That would push people in the right direction.

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Originally Posted by BlueBoss

Adding restrictions like this to the game won't be received very well by everyone.

However, they can add a gem achievement for maxing collectors. That would push people in the right direction.

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I like the idea of the gem achievement, but I still don't think that would coax enough players into upgrading them. It would still likely make the situation better than it is at the moment though.