Reinforcing troops. Why or why not?

This has been an idea that has been brought up quite a few times.

Essentially it is where you requeue up the same army composition you used before.
People want a way to do this.

I also have seen people request reinforcing in the same way as Boom Beach. However reinforcing wouldn't be done the same way as boom beach. Boom beach has Boats that you fill up with one type of troop. If you go into a battle, don't lose those troops of that particular boat you can come back to your docks and you could "refill" that boat with those lost troops. I have only played Boom Beach so much so if I explained it wrong please correct me.

The problem with reinforcing in CoC is that you can't simply reinforce army camps like you do boats. Unless there is a preset Army Composition you have set up. So when there is such a preset your barracks can train troops according to that preset and to train the proper amount of troops you wanted. I hope that makes sense.

In in that way, you could "reinforce" your army even when you didn't use them all in one attack.

To to make it bit clearer, let's say you have an Army of 100 archers, and 100 barbs and 6 Wall breakers.

that would be your army preset as an example.

when you go to attack you only use 67 archers, 40 barbs and 4 wall breakers.
There would be a button you could use to reinforce that army preset back up to their preset amounts or just remake the entire army if you used them all.

Now with all that said about the idea that I've seen requested quite a few times before, I wanted to see the reasons why this should or shouldn't be a feature.

The reason I didn't post this in the idea feature requests section is that this idea has been requested many times and I felt the discussion as to "why or why not" part was more important than the idea.

I don't see any reason as to why not, rather why hasn't it been added?

To clarify: you want a button of a preset army, which you hit and that army starts to train again?

How does this help in anyway? Saves you a bit of time, is that it?

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Originally Posted by beards

To clarify: you want a button of a preset army, which you hit and that army starts to train again?

How does this help in anyway? Saves you a bit of time, is that it?

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I assume the idea is to make it so that when an army is cooking while you are nexting you will finish your battle and come back to full army camps with the exact army composition you desire.

It's my biggest annoyance in CoC at the moment.

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Originally Posted by beards

How does this help in anyway? Saves you a bit of time, is that it?

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I also like answering my own questions.

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Originally Posted by beards

To clarify: you want a button of a preset army, which you hit and that army starts to train again?

How does this help in anyway? Saves you a bit of time, is that it?

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It would be quite a bit of convenience.

It would save quite a bit of time too if the barracks distributed the training among barracks as a certain app I've found has.

the app itself is a guide to CoC. If you have access to an apple device you can search it by name "CoC guide" and should be the first one. Within that app is something called an Army Planner which I find very very handy and useful. Not only does it tell how to distribute training your troops according to level of barracks and much more but it even tells you how much elixir you will use. It's very very efficient. I myself would love something like that in CoC right now instead of a separate app. Check for yourself and explore it it bit if you are interested. It even takes into account of your army camp, barracks, and units lvls as well.

Would it save time? Yes, very much so, and efficiency is the goal.
some people have said in the past that this shouldn't be implemented because it isn't needed and it is lazy. I would like to say if something improves the enjoyment and experience of a game the game itself will benefit. thats what games are supposed to do. Bugs decrease enjoyment (sometimes) as well as added features (sometimes) however I see no way that this would directly affect a person's enjoyment unless bugs came with it which to be honest is to be expected anyways.

Bugs I've come to find are the nature of introducing new things to a game until the kinks are ironed out. But there really is no telling what kind of bugs there would be. That we would have to see. If the bugs are just within this "Army Planner" itself that just means it just needs tweaking most of the time.

Never really thought about this feature in Clash although it would really add to the convenience SC have already implemented such as village editor, re-arm all, etc. I enjoy the feature in boom beach and think it would be an appreciated feature if introduced in clash

I really don't see how that would work with CoC.

I guess everybody would love this function, but the way the army training currently works while looking for a raid and attack and the way most people happen to not use their whole army, I'd guess that the only thing that wouldn't be impossible to make a working algoritm for is...

A button to reque barracks with a preset army composition which balance out the right time. Which for su're would save alot of time and I don't know why it's not implemented yet. That would though more or less only save more then seconds for those who use a mix of barch troops etc "farm comps".

f I got the OP right on the other hand then i guess that he want to be able to press a button with preset troops before he raids and if he comes back after only using half the army then the barracks will remove the amount of troops of certain troops in the queue that he had left after the battle to efficiently train the exact same comp that he just used for example without him having to replace troops that otherwise would be too many off in the current mechanics? That is what I think is almost impossible or not worth time to develope an algorithm for.

Hope I didnt confuse you guys too much :D have fun debating!

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Originally Posted by HamsterGubben

I guess everybody would love this function, but the way the army training currently works while looking for a raid and attack and the way most people happen to not use their whole army, I'd guess that the only thing that wouldn't be impossible to make a working algoritm for is...

A button to reque barracks with a preset army composition which balance out the right time. Which for su're would save alot of time and I don't know why it's not implemented yet. That would though more or less only save more then seconds for those who use a mix of barch troops etc "farm comps".

f I got the OP right on the other hand then i guess that he want to be able to press a button with preset troops before he raids and if he comes back after only using half the army then the barracks will remove the amount of troops of certain troops in the queue that he had left after the battle to efficiently train the exact same comp that he just used for example without him having to replace troops that otherwise would be too many off in the current mechanics? That is what I think is almost impossible or not worth time to develope an algorithm for.

Hope I didnt confuse you guys too much :D have fun debating!

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Probably could have done it in fewer words but yes that's essentially what I was going for. That's also pretty much the most advanced version of the idea I've seen so far so it's really not my idea.

I'm not familiar with algorithms so why would it be impossible to do?

This is a very good idea.

Lets say I drop 4 barbs to snipe a TH. Once they are dropped, each of my barracks should start training 1 barb each. By the time I have sniped the TH I am back to full strength.

Basically the algorithm should:

1) Distribute the troops between all the barracks according to the training time.
2) Should have manually modifiable limits so that our army composition stays the same. For example: No. of barbs should not exceed 60 etc.

SC, make us spend gems for this if you want. It will save a good 5 - 10 mins depending on how many next's you click.

Imagine boosted barracks, always cooking troops ensuring ou army comp stays the same, even when you are raiding. So that you can raid more.

Wait why was my thread moved to Base Design, Tactics and Strategy?

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Originally Posted by vekool

This is a very good idea.

Lets say I drop 4 barbs to snipe a TH. Once they are dropped, each of my barracks should start training 1 barb each. By the time I have sniped the TH I am back to full strength.

Basically the algorithm should:

1) Distribute the troops between all the barracks according to the training time.
2) Should have manually modifiable limits so that our army composition stays the same. For example: No. of barbs should not exceed 60 etc.

SC, make us spend gems for this if you want. It will save a good 5 - 10 mins depending on how many next's you click.

Imagine boosted barracks, always cooking troops ensuring ou army comp stays the same, even when you are raiding. So that you can raid more.

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and as far as the idea goes it's just a more hashed out and advanced version of someone else's I found of the general idea of requeing troops. Thing is I don't remember who's but I still don't want to take credit.

but it would make me feel even more inclined to use gems on barracks. Having army preset would be nice. But I think the reinforce button should only go by the preset you've made. I think there will be times where we should be able to manually choose which troops on the occasion.

I also feel this preset should include the capability to queue up spells for those who like to bring spells along as well.

as far as the location for the button goes I feel that when you click on a barrack/dark barrack/spell factory there should be a button alongside the buttons that show up. I think the "Reinforce" button should show up besides the options to "Train troop" and "Create Spells"

but those all are just all additions to the idea to make seem more convincing. I think there should be more people providing more of the "whys and the why nots"
As it is what the thread is about.