Please go back to allowing Elixir to be used for wall upgrades

I understand that Supercell made the decision to not allow elixir to be used to for upgrading walls lev 8 and below, but the result has not been good and I'd really like to see if changed back for the good of the game. There is now a pretty massive imbalance in value between gold and elixir (at least at TH8 where I am). I don't believe this is just something I'm noticing, the majority of active bases I see have far more elixir than gold. For my base my elixir is maxed at a good amount of the time. I actually moved my elixir storage's outside of my town walls because they have high hit points and because I don't care if someone raids them. This is a tactic I've seen this in a number of other bases I've attacked as well. This was very rare in active/well designed bases before the change but it has become quite prevalent.

If I had to guess I think the change was likely made as a way to push players away from BARCH and into using some higher cost troops. The problem is that for farming BARCH is still the most efficient way to obtain resources. If the goal is still to push people into trying different troop configurations then maybe Supercell should consider changing the time it takes to train these higher value troops. Its the low training times just as much as the low cost that makes BARCH so widely used. I tried doing mass dragon attacks with all my extra elixir but in the end the the mass dragons attacks were fun but not worth it. With all the wait time, I spent far less time actually playing the game and dragons were far less efficient in gaining resources.

Sorry, but many threads have been requested like this please use the search bar before making a thread. They made it so you couldn't upgrade walls with elixir for a reason. I can't understand why you people can't live with that fact.

Have you maxed EVERY SINGLE troop in your lab??

If so, use it to make more armies to get more gold per raid for all these gold upgrades you're talking about. Change leagues if you're not finding much.

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Originally Posted by rhound50

. . .Supercell made the decision . . . for the good of the game. . .

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Remove a few of the words from your original post and you have explained why SC rescinded the folly that was elixir for walls in the first place. SC gave it a try and found out that it was a horribly failed experiment. I would prefer raising it to lvl10 walls instead of lvl9 but the recent rollback has at least slowed the bleeding and perhaps it will be enough to stabilize the economy.

It was making L8 walls too easy to attain by players who never would've built level 8 walls in the first place. Walls are not meant to exist as a resource dump. I don't see it as pushing away barch because barch existed long before the initial update.

There's nothing stopping you from barching since it's still efficient at getting the gold you need. Your excess elixir is only temporary. Trust me, you'll have plenty to spend at TH9 and higher.

Makes lv 8 walls to easy. To be honest. I upgraded around 115 lv 7 walls when that was in play with other various th 8 upgrades. In that short time i got 115 walls to lv 8 and before the update I already had 50. By the end of the update I only had 50 to go. 500,000 is not a lot of gold if your defenses are maxed before trying to get lv 8 walls. Its not like lv7 walls suck they are good. I see many max th 9's that only have lv 7 walls. So it depends are they worth it? Do you think they will help? Are you ready to spend the time upgrading them?

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Originally Posted by scoop263

Makes lv 8 walls to easy. To be honest. I upgraded around 115 lv 7 walls when that was in play with other various th 8 upgrades. In that short time i got 115 walls to lv 8 and before the update I already had 50. By the end of the update I only had 50 to go. 500,000 is not a lot of gold if your defenses are maxed before trying to get lv 8 walls. Its not like lv7 walls suck they are good. I see many max th 9's that only have lv 7 walls. So it depends are they worth it? Do you think they will help? Are you ready to spend the time upgrading them?

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Bingo. Level 7 walls function just fine. Skulls are the turning point in wall building. If you plan on building high level walls, you have to get them done before TH9. They don't add a huge benefit over L7 walls since it still takes 2 L5 wall breakers to get through them. It's why most players don't bother going beyond L7 walls. The cost is too high for a negligible gain in strength.

Hell, they could add elixir back to L7 and below for all I care. Those walls are easy to attain anyway. But I think it's crucial L8 walls have to be built with gold.

Also I don't think it's necessary to make L9 walls gold only, however I wouldn't argue with it if they determine those need to be gold only as well.

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Originally Posted by mmf01

Have you maxed EVERY SINGLE troop in your lab??

If so, use it to make more armies to get more gold per raid for all these gold upgrades you're talking about. Change leagues if you're not finding much.

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I have had my lab upgrading elixir troops non-stop since I got to TH8, The problem is that upgrading Dragons to lev 3 costs 3 mil but takes 10 days. In the same time 3 mil in gold gets me 6 of 225 skull walls. My issue isn't that I'm not finding enough, my issue is that I'm finding about a 1:1 ratio of gold to elixir but I need far more gold than I do elixir so my elixir piles up and eventually has no value.

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Originally Posted by iceageg

Remove a few of the words from your original post and you have explained why SC rescinded the folly that was elixir for walls in the first place. SC gave it a try and found out that it was a horribly failed experiment. I would prefer raising it to lvl10 walls instead of lvl9 but the recent rollback has at least slowed the bleeding and perhaps it will be enough to stabilize the economy.

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Awesome if I take out the inconvenient words I could probably find a post that claims that pigs fly spaceships to mars and the earth is flat, does that make it true? My point which is either didn't read or chose to ignore is I don't see how making elixir totally invaluable at TH8 improves the game in any way or balances the economy. My experience is that the balance of the economy has swung massively in the other direction. I can happily go on pissing away elixir because it has no value or I could post something here explaining why I think this change was bad. Maybe there is something I am missing, or maybe it makes a difference at a higher level that I haven't reached but randomly taking words out of my post to try to make a point doesn't really do that.

For what its worth, I'm just as happy if there is a different change made that allows me to have a use for my elixir, I'm not saying walls are the only solution. My point is that where I am in TH8 the balance of the economy has massively over swung where the elixir I'm raiding I'm not keeping it since I'm already maxed probably at least half the time. If there is some other use that can be added for my my elixir I'd be just as happy with that. I just feel like its a waste and a bad game play experience to be completely dumping a resource because it has almost no value to me for an entire TH level.