Supercell is great.
Updates are great.
The game is great.
However, I feel it is some major ♥♥♥♥ I can't upgrade my lvl7 walls to lvl8 with elixir.. C'MON!! Almost everything uses gold to upgrade PLEASE CHANGE BACK!!!!
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Supercell is great.
Updates are great.
The game is great.
However, I feel it is some major ♥♥♥♥ I can't upgrade my lvl7 walls to lvl8 with elixir.. C'MON!! Almost everything uses gold to upgrade PLEASE CHANGE BACK!!!!
People complained when they changed it in September, I'm glad they changed it, the majority of people farmed their walls with gold
Yes, "economy balancing"....Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeyBaggz
The ability to use elixir to upgrade level 7 walls may be beneficial to you as an individual.
However, it was detrimental to the overall economy.
i never even used elixir to upgrade walls when we still had that option. farming gold is way easier than farming elixir. in my personal experience anyway.
Lvl 8's are easy...
Brilliant post.Quote:
Originally Posted by badfish1979
Given the huge investment in game analytics SC has, they almost certainly noticed a non-trivial drop in gem purchases due to people being able to 'too easily' upgrade walls (gem purchases rise and drops are often only indirectly related to other areas - I'm not stipulating that users were using gems necessarily to upgrade walls). Walls became a good dumping ground to ensure that your base was as unappealing as possible before you went to bed/work.
SC's official reason may be one of balancing the economy, but this December's update/correction was surely precipitated in large part by a drop in gem IAPs this Q4. Also regarding balancing, no such balancing would be required if both non-premium currencies in the game were equally useful, and equally useful along the same timeline (i.e. yes, lab upgrades require a large amounts of elixir, but over a very long period, allowing you to always be running a surplus typically). Moreover, after all buildings/troops/spells are upgraded, you are done with elixir (except for armies of course) - BUT you have 10s of millions more gold that has to be farmed for walls, all the while with full elixir coffers.
Regarding "why don't you just create really expensive armies now that you have all that elixir": this would be ideal, except for the massive cooking and barracks time...not practical (see timeliness-cost comment above).
Gold has once again become a huge limiting resource for the mid-levels and newcomers. Like many who started CoC early on, I didn't benefit from the Sept update, but my son did, and now he's constantly complaining about its removal:)
Do that as an overnight army, I miss been able to do that when I had extra elixir to burn. Cooking Balloonion or Giant/Wizard/Healer with extra elixir.Quote:
Originally Posted by hdm
I used to donate a tonne of Wizards when I was not in a raid session to use excess elixir.
You also have more of a freedom licence with spells.
I actually miss that, it is one good thing about having spare elixir. Now I need it for walls and cannot find as much as I used to.
I don't like it, actually wish elixir walls did not exact AT ALL.
It's because of the "max everything" chorus we see everywhere, people see maxing walls as somekind of obligation. Mostly, it's only kind of bonus, not required at all and a real pita unless you're planning to go beyond 4300 trophies (at which point farming wasn't the only issue whatsoever).
im a th8 i have almost all level 8 walls because i did my farming when we still had elixir for walls :) now you don't...
could've just farmed walls like me. oh well your loss my gain SUCKAS!