How the change in wall upgrades screwed TH8's ability to keep GOLD.
Ok as a TH8, I agree this update change to walls does screw us in regards to elixir, but not because of the walls!!!!
The real issue is there isn't anything to spend the elixir on, since you can’t upgrade walls to level 9 until TH9. So I constantly have 6 million elixir or near that amount in my storage at all times. This causes an even bigger issue as it makes keeping the gold that is so insanely valuable at this level that much harder to hold on to. With nothing to spend elixir on, if my shield is ever down I’m going to be attacked by a TH9+. They might not even care about the amount of gold I have but they still end up taking it, forcing me to be online constantly or not attack if I can't be because the random battles every 30 minutes or so will net to 0 gold (or close to it) once I get attacked.
So how did I solve this issue? Every time I have a builder come up, I start building my barracks 10 upgrade, or one of the dark barracks upgrades and then immediately cancel them, effectively throwing away the elixir that helps the TH9+'s but right now is hurting TH8's. This honestly saves me so much gold in random battles that it is worth it unless I need to start a research upgrade soon.
Basically what this update really did was make throwing away elixir the best strategy for a TH8 who has done most of elixir upgrades of the TH8, which most have after the first few weeks. Why are TH8's complaining about the wall changes you ask? Well some of it is lazy players, but a lot of it is this “Economy Balancing” upgrade hurts TH8's a heck of a lot more than it helps with the extra DE drill.
Supercell you need to find a solution to this, or we will just keep throwing away all that elixir you want us to keep for the TH9's and 10's.
Sincerely,
TH8's