Vacation(NPC?) Mode for Inactive Bases

First off, yes, it sounds at first like I'm shooting myself in the foot with this idea, but it is a relatively simple idea, with some complex effects in game. Please read the whole idea, because part way into it, it sounds broken and exploitable, but that is addressed further down.

When a base is inactive for so long, or a player knows they can't play for a long time, the base will go into this mode (working on name). When in this mode, instead of resources piling up in resource buildings, and being an easy to loot base, it collects resources and puts them in storage every now and then, as if they the player collected them. The rate of collection can just be regular intervals, or dependant on if the base is lossing or gaining trophies, adjusting collection rates to help maintain the trophy count at the time it was activated. Traps will randomly be reset, as well as if they were active, with Tombstone removal. If not too unbalanced, it could ask for troops with it's default message.

The net effect would be a base that is less of an unhealthy surgar rush of easy to get loot, to base that is more interesting, and rewarding to raid, as if raiding an active player's base. The trophy count will not just steadily decay away, since this could put the brakes on that to some degree. I don't know if artificaly maintaining the trophy count is a good idea, but that might be done as well.

If or when a player returns, they return to almost no loot. They will have startup funds, with a set amount based on Town Hall level, or percentage of resource building storage, or whatever is a fair value. Trophy loss (or gain if built well?) from attacks and loot loss is the cost of going into this mode. It would be kind of broken to turn this on, passively hord loot, and come back to full storage with no effort. Besides, the original loot they may have had could easily have been taken anyway if inactive for so long without this mode anyway. Trophy count and loot is recoverable, since it is the time invested in the base that matters after all.

Of course this mode will not make new upgrades for you, let alone attack other bases.

Ideas? Thoughts? This would remove those loot fat abandoned bases, which I know people love (I love them too), but it is unhealthy in a gameplay standpoint for people to constantly hit the next button in hopes of easy loot with so much minimal effort. It cheapens the win of getting loot, and makes the game boring in the long run, and just addictive with reduced enjoyment.

Ok, so first off: 100% NO.

1. Often times, I will get bored of clash, so I will simply log on just to collect resources. When I log on, I see my troops are ready, so I attack. Then, oh look: my friends are active on the chat, so I chat. Whereas if it would automatically collect resources, I never would have logged on.

2. ARE YOU TRYING TO RUIN THE CLASH ECONOMY...
There are two ways to gain loot from multiplayer mode: From the storages and from the collectors.
There would be no inactive bases... aka: bases with hundreds of thousands of resources in the collectors...
Also, the champs league is terrible right now...and it is hard to imagine a way yo make it even worse, but you managed... now the people in high champs would simply turn on [inactive mode] and they would't lose any cups while they're offline for an hour.
So, no. I would never support this idea. It would encourage players to be inactive.

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Originally Posted by XProGamerX

Ok, so first off: 100% NO.

1. Often times, I will get bored of clash, so I will simply log on just to collect resources. When I log on, I see my troops are ready, so I attack. Then, oh look: my friends are active on the chat, so I chat. Whereas if it would automatically collect resources, I never would have logged on.

2. ARE YOU TRYING TO RUIN THE CLASH ECONOMY...
There are two ways to gain loot from multiplayer mode: From the storages and from the collectors.
There would be no inactive bases... aka: bases with hundreds of thousands of resources in the collectors...
Also, the champs league is terrible right now...and it is hard to imagine a way yo make it even worse, but you managed... now the people in high champs would simply turn on [inactive mode] and they would't lose any cups while they're offline for an hour.
So, no. I would never support this idea. It would encourage players to be inactive.

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1. Doesn't apply to you. If you are active enough to collect resources and attack, why would you even turn this mode on? This mode is not meant for that, and I don't know why you would think it is.
2. Turn it on for hours? Do you know what Vacation Mode even means? This mode is to be used when totally inactive for weeks or months at a time. And if you use it, loot is resets to just seed money so you can start raiding again when you return. And keeping trophies is not guaranteed via this mode, since it is based on thier base layout anyway. They would have lost (or not lost) trophies anyway, active or not. And Champ league isn't the major of the players. You can't just make changes to help only them.

Those fat abandoned bases are currently the only thing propping up the clash economy. If you want to get rid of them (which makes no sense really) you need to come up with ideas to make the economy based off active play instead of passive play.

+1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by WarrenJames

First off, yes, it sounds at first like I'm shooting myself in the foot with this idea, but it is a relatively simple idea, with some complex effects in game. Please read the whole idea, because part way into it, it sounds broken and exploitable, but that is addressed further down.

When a base is inactive for so long, or a player knows they can't play for a long time, the base will go into this mode (working on name). When in this mode, instead of resources piling up in resource buildings, and being an easy to loot base, it collects resources and puts them in storage every now and then, as if they the player collected them. The rate of collection can just be regular intervals, or dependant on if the base is lossing or gaining trophies, adjusting collection rates to help maintain the trophy count at the time it was activated. Traps will randomly be reset, as well as if they were active, with Tombstone removal. If not too unbalanced, it could ask for troops with it's default message.

The net effect would be a base that is less of an unhealthy surgar rush of easy to get loot, to base that is more interesting, and rewarding to raid, as if raiding an active player's base. The trophy count will not just steadily decay away, since this could put the brakes on that to some degree. I don't know if artificaly maintaining the trophy count is a good idea, but that might be done as well.

If or when a player returns, they return to almost no loot. They will have startup funds, with a set amount based on Town Hall level, or percentage of resource building storage, or whatever is a fair value. Trophy loss (or gain if built well?) from attacks and loot loss is the cost of going into this mode. It would be kind of broken to turn this on, passively hord loot, and come back to full storage with no effort. Besides, the original loot they may have had could easily have been taken anyway if inactive for so long without this mode anyway. Trophy count and loot is recoverable, since it is the time invested in the base that matters after all.

Of course this mode will not make new upgrades for you, let alone attack other bases.

Ideas? Thoughts? This would remove those loot fat abandoned bases, which I know people love (I love them too), but it is unhealthy in a gameplay standpoint for people to constantly hit the next button in hopes of easy loot with so much minimal effort. It cheapens the win of getting loot, and makes the game boring in the long run, and just addictive with reduced enjoyment.

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i like this for guys not able to participate in war because they r going on vacation and won't have wifi and other things of this nature

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Originally Posted by dahimi

Those fat abandoned bases are currently the only thing propping up the clash economy. If you want to get rid of them (which makes no sense really) you need to come up with ideas to make the economy based off active play instead of passive play.

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Yeah... :( That's a different issue, loot fat abandoned bases, and it's sad really. I'm sure Supercell didn't intend that to happen. Much of the economic fixes are based on current factors, which include such bases. I did say there were complex effects, and this is one of them.

Now that I think about it. Those bases would not be 'rid of'. They would still be there, generating loot, just the loot would be better protected. and having them look less appealing to attack, at first. But! most bases will be holding more loot as both resource buildings and storages fill up! This would make even abandoned bases with crappy resource buildings look better and better as thier storages fill up as well.

That seemed self solving... I don't know. Anyone else see this as well?

Yes please.

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Originally Posted by WarrenJames

1. Doesn't apply to you. If you are active enough to collect resources and attack, why would you even turn this mode on? This mode is not meant for that, and I don't know why you would think it is.
2. Turn it on for hours? Do you know what Vacation Mode even means? This mode is to be used when totally inactive for weeks or months at a time. And if you use it, loot is resets to just seed money so you can start raiding again when you return. And keeping trophies is not guaranteed via this mode, since it is based on thier base layout anyway. They would have lost (or not lost) trophies anyway, active or not. And Champ league isn't the major of the players. You can't just make changes to help only them.

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2. He'a talking about resources. No one gives a ♥♥♥♥ about losing trophies.


Some people rely on collectors and this will totally ruin barch. It will ruin the economy. As abandoned bases do have good loot.

You should be able to opt out of war but stay in a clan, nothing else. This would effect way too much.