"Take a break"

Today I was playing Clash Of Clans since about 4pm and it's now 1am, until 11pm I was training troops to donate to people and talking to some clan mates in the chat. One of my clan mates said that the loot was good and I should drop some trophies and attack, so I did. I stopped training wizards and started to train archers and started attacking, after about 10 attacks I figured I'm going to be on for a few more hours farming for some gold as my builders will be free soon, so I boosted my barb king and a single barrack as I was low on gems, after about an hour or so I had done maybe 10 or more attacks and then I got a message saying "you have been playing for too long, you will be kicked off soon" or something along those lines, I thought it would be best to just go off straight away and wait for the game to let me back on instead of being kicked off forcefully, but before I was going to go off I went to say I'll talk later to some of the guys in the clan chat but as I was typing the game booted me off. Once I had been kicked off within only minutes of not being on I got a message saying "... is attacking your village" and I thought it's a cool new feature I'll watch this guy attack me and see if he can get to all my loot I've just farmed up, but no I got a message saying "Take a break - You have been playing for too long and your villagers need to rest for a few minutes." So I couldn't even see what this guy had done to my base or what he had gained. I waited for 5 minutes or so and then tried to get back on, at last I was able to play again but my boost carried on going and I had no way of using the boost while I was not allowed on. So what I was thinking was Supercell could make it so your boosts pause while you're not allowed on, and then when you're not allowed on if you get attacked you can watch the attack live and then once it finishes you can be kicked back off and wait 5 minutes while your villagers rest. Because honestly that whole boost pause feature is useless, I mean seriously the chances of you boosting buildings and then a maintenance break happens, I just hope that they will do something with this to stop your gems going to waste while you're being forcefully kept off Clash Of Clans.

If you've been on for 6 hours you get this. So dont gem at the end of a marathon or log off for 10 min then go back in.

You should know you can be on 6 hours at a time, before you are kicked off for about 5 minutes. You should boost accordingly and/or take a few breaks in between. If not, it's only 5 minutes

Its 7 minutes OP, you'll live without 7 minutes of boosts.

Why would you want to to pause? If it was in the middle of building troops, you just added 7 minutes before your army is ready.

Yeah, that was a lot of words. But that feature has been requested, like, a million times.

I think the general consensus is that they offer the 1-gem boost promos as a way of saying "Sorry we might have wasted some of your boost".

They also announce most of the maintenance breaks, so keep an eye on FB or the Announcements Forums if you're going to do an all-nighter.

Unlike a maintenance break, you can work out when you will be kicked off (after six hours of playing). Therefore it's not Supercell's fault that you wasted your boost and they don't need to do anything about it.

I think they should add a message about the six hour limit to the loading screen so more new players would be aware of it. :)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by TreeBranchTwig

Unlike a maintenance break, you can work out when you will be kicked off (after six hours of playing). Therefore it's not Supercell's fault that you wasted your boost and they don't need to do anything about it.

---

And the forced break lasts minutes whereas a maintenance break can last hours. I'd hardly call pausing boosts during a sudden break of several hours useless.

I don't understand why the pause isn't whenever SC force you off. If nothing else it would stop the players who don't know about it being annoyed. I, for example, only know because I joined the forums.

Because being booted off after 6 hours is essentially a punishment. They are forcing you to take a break because you are clearly trying to avoid bring raided. Well, theyre gonna make you available. This isn't to give your villagers a rest or to try to make you go get fresh air, it's to make you available to a raid.

So rub some dirt on it and drive on. 7 minutes...

Get a life. You shouldnt be playing clash for 1/4 of the day. I sense addiction...:rolleyes: