Language setting has no bearing on available loot - PROOF

Anyone with a basic understanding of client-server architecture and access to two devices connected to the same account can see clearly that changing languages will not affect the potential loot you can find when searching for a raid.

It's extremely simple:

Log into your account on device A and change your language to Chinese, and log off.
Now, log into device B. You will see that the language setting you selected on device A has no effect on device B.
You can do the same thing with music and sound effects with the same result.

What this means is that client settings (language, music on/off, sound effects on/off) are stored on the client, not the server.

Furthermore, every base you come across on a raid search is a base of someone that is offline. If the language setting is stored on the client only, what function would cause them to be placed in a queue in which only devices with a certain language setting would be able to find them?

Myth debunked :)

MAYBE.. what they think is by changing the language setting to (ie Chinese), they will be moved to a different server that houses most of the chinese COC community and when you go to the world chat you'll see more chatters from China instead of a different country.


Edit : About your post. regarding servers, it could be that when you log in to your device A (english), it connects to US or other countries who speaks/chats in English while logging to Device B (chinese) it gets you a Chinese server or queue.

I dont know the technicality but here is why i think i get exceptional loot on switching to random language. You go into lets say japanese lang. when its really late at night or very early morning(in japan) and you will always find amazing loot there. Maybe supercell has quota system of pushing semi inactive accounts towards the zones where people are playing lesser. This also achieves the aim of keeping the interest alive in that zone because we all would agree unarguably, loot is the single most satisfying reason to keep playing.

Hasn't there been a really long explanation to debunk this myth previously? I vaguely recall one

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Originally Posted by HellfireJoey

About your post. regarding servers, it could be that when you log in to your device A (english), it connects to US or other countries who speaks/chats in English while logging to Device B (chinese) it gets you a Chinese server or queue.

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It matches clients with the same language setting for global chat only.

Searching for a raid does not connect you to other clients - those bases are offline and are stored on the server. It doesn't matter what the owner of each of those bases had their language setting set to before they last logged off because that setting is stored on the client device only.

If you are implying that those bases in the queue have a geographical location - how is this possible? You would have to assume that when a client connects to an account, the server records the geographical location from where the client connected through their ISP and then store that base in a queue with similar geographical locations when they log off.

Ignoring the fact that there is no reason to do this, how then would changing your language affect which queue of bases grouped by geographical location you would be matched with? What does language even have to do with geographical locations? For example, if a person that lives in Spain and had their language set to Spanish logs off (making his base become available to be raided since he is offline), and you (living in the United States of America) change your language to Spanish, does this mean the possibility of finding the Spanish player's becomes available? Does this also mean that all countries whose primary language is Spanish (countries in Latin America, Spain) are all grouped together?

And what if - although being from Spain - that same player had selected German in his settings on his device before logging off? Is the fact that he connected from Spain the primary factor of which queue his base will be grouped with, since the server does not store his language setting (it is only stored on his device). In fact, the owner of that account might even have his account on 3 devices - his iPhone set to German, his iPad set to Russian, and his Android tablet set to Swedish. But these language settings are stored only on these three devices, not the server.

To put it simply, there is no "Chinese queue" because there is no language associated with the bases in the queue.

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Originally Posted by VermaJi

I dont know the technicality but here is why i think i get exceptional loot on switching to random language. You go into lets say japanese lang. when its really late at night or very early morning(in japan) and you will always find amazing loot there. Maybe supercell has quota system of pushing semi inactive accounts towards the zones where people are playing lesser. This also achieves the aim of keeping the interest alive in that zone because we all would agree unarguably, loot is the single most satisfying reason to keep playing.

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What does language have to do with geographical location?

People in Spain speak Spanish. So do people in Mexico.

People in Portugal speak Portuguese. So do people in Brazil.

But once you understand that language settings are not stored on the server, this is irrelevant anyway.

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Originally Posted by Lloopy14

Hasn't there been a really long explanation to debunk this myth previously? I vaguely recall one

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That thread used a port monitor to show the server location doesn't change.

I'm showing that language settings are not even stored on the server, which is further proof that this is a myth.

The server side is load balanced in the Amazon cloud. SC likely has servers in multiple Amazon data centers. For instance they likely have servers in the US, UK, and Asia. If you are in America then you should be directed to the American Data Center for better response. When you change your language you are forced to restart the game. The new connection is made to the local Data center. You are placed on a server based on server load and some algorithm for language selection.

That's why when you select a language during their late night\early morning hours (logged out, sleeping, and shield running out) you find better collector raids. The new connection puts you on a server that is not very busy based on basic cloud load balancing principles plus the preferred server for that language. Of course, the longer you stay on that server, more folks are added to that server and Collector raids begin to disappear due to competing searches.

That's my theory anyways.

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Originally Posted by Randalthor

The server side is load balanced in the Amazon cloud. SC likely has servers in multiple Amazon data centers. For instance they likely have servers in the US, UK, and Asia. If you are in America then you should be directed to the American Data Center for better response. When you change your language you are forced to restart the game. The new connection is made to the local Data center. You are placed on a server based on server load and some algorithm for language selection.

That's why when you select a language during their late night\early morning hours (logged out, sleeping, and shield running out) you find better collector raids. The new connection puts you on a server that is not very busy based on basic cloud load balancing principles plus the preferred server for that language. Of course, the longer you stay on that server, more folks are added to that server and Collector raids begin to disappear due to competing searches.

That's my theory anyways.

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Who are you referring to when you say "their late night/early morning hours"?

If those bases are offline and the language setting they had selected before they logged off is not stored on the server, how does this affect anything at all?

Again, there is no language or geographical location associated with an offline base.

Switching languages does nothing to loot. At most all it does is change the queue you're in (which you can do just by reloading your game, because switching language forces you to reload) but any myths that tell you that switching it to a region who is sleeping or morning or whatever for collectors is wrong.

But hey, if it ups your spirits/expectations and makes this game more enjoyable for you because of this, then go for it. It is quite a popular placebo effect :p

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Originally Posted by Randalthor

The server side is load balanced in the Amazon cloud. SC likely has servers in multiple Amazon data centers. For instance they likely have servers in the US, UK, and Asia. If you are in America then you should be directed to the American Data Center for better response. When you change your language you are forced to restart the game. The new connection is made to the local Data center. You are placed on a server based on server load and some algorithm for language selection.

That's why when you select a language during their late night\early morning hours (logged out, sleeping, and shield running out) you find better collector raids. The new connection puts you on a server that is not very busy based on basic cloud load balancing principles plus the preferred server for that language. Of course, the longer you stay on that server, more folks are added to that server and Collector raids begin to disappear due to competing searches.

That's my theory anyways.

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i think THIS is the most probable explanation.

It works, for whatever reason, so those that try to argue it, it is a losing arguement.