How Does Supercell Feel About Farming?

Here is something that has been on my mind for a while.

When originally designing this game, I believe Supercell intended for everyone to protect their Town Halls. See the image below.

http://i.imgur.com/SZXLGxN.png

As we all know, it is much harder to keep resources while protecting our Town Halls. Most attacks will take some of our resources, and we would have to pay for trap rearming costs along with X-Bow and Inferno Tower reloading costs, which can all end up being quite expensive.

Some crafty players came up with the idea of a farming base. By leaving our Town Halls unprotected, others can snipe them, giving us a free shield and keeping our loot safe.

Did Supercell ever intend for this behavior? I can't imagine that they did. It seems like more of a broken game mechanic to me. It also has some side effects. The most noticeable one being that lower level players can snipe Town Halls and climb high in trophies. Lower level players really have no business being in higher leagues unless they have the attacking skills to get there.

I am curious. Has Supercell ever stated if this was all intentional? Or have they been silent about it because they don't want to admit to overlooking such a large flaw that they couldn't fix? :rolleyes:

I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts.

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Originally Posted by Janz

I am curious. Has Supercell ever stated if this was all intentional? Or have they been silent about it because they don't want to admit to overlooking such a large flaw that they couldn't fix? :rolleyes:

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An easy fix would be to make TH store more resource. If it could give away 100k, I wouldn't leave it out... maybe

I guess it wasn't intended. Supercell have been aware of that, and launched Boom Beach. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Sirix

An easy fix would be to make TH store more resource. If it could give away 100k, I wouldn't leave it out... maybe

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Oddly enough, I would welcome that idea. Instead of 100k I would propose 80k or 75k, with the same type of loot penalty 90% 1 th below 50% 2 th below. It would still offer the cheap shield but no more freebies. And this is from a guy that's almost a max th9 with only 100 ish defensive wins (th always out)

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Originally Posted by Sirix

An easy fix would be to make TH store more resource. If it could give away 100k, I wouldn't leave it out... maybe

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If the Town Hall stored more resources, plenty of farmers would still leave them out. Snipers would just get more loot on top of the league bonus.

Or they could remove the 12 hour shield for destroying the Town Hall, but I don't think either of those would be viable solutions.

Farmers everywhere would rage quit.

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Originally Posted by hongdongdonald

I guess it wasn't intended. Supercell have been aware of that, and launched Boom Beach. :rolleyes:

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Lol, seems legit.

Another side effect is far fewer bases with resources to raid. With cheap shields so easy to get, bases rarely stay in the "next" que for more then a few min. This impacts the overall loot problem.

People seem to not realize that the easier it is to get cheap shields the harder it is to find bases to raid.

Why are you guys trying to fix what's not broken

It wasn't intentional or predicted by SC. When the game was launched there were no loot penalties. A famous forumer at the time by the name of PedroLee made a popular thread explaining how he maxed his lvl 8 walls farming low lvl players. The thread gained a lot of popularity and the next update they released loot penalties as a result (bah!).

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Originally Posted by Drewbiedoo

Why are you guys trying to fix what's not broken

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It seems broken to me. You wouldn't happen to be the DrewbyDoobyDoo that was in my clan, would you?