It can only be correct AFTER the storage is leveled up enough to hold up to its cap (whenever that is). Before that, it does not follow that relationship.
Exactly. It's because of the loot limits. Once they reach a certain level the % it's just spread out evenly. Same for the DE storage. Levelling it to the max level in the hope it will reduce the % of loss from lightnings doesn't make any difference once you reach a certain level of DE in the storage... it's basically overkill.
So should farmers always target the highest level storages first?
Loot is definetly not spread evenly.
If you attack lv.1 or 2 storages for instance, that shows to be full and displays topped op with gold, you often don't get any gold or close to none when destroying them, because all the lootable gold aparently is in the maxed out storages instead :-/
This really sucks when you just waste your troops going for the wrong storages :-(
This can also be from previous raids on the base though. If there's an exposed storage that can be looted, it will obviously lose more with raids. It's only evenly distributed when you collect gold so if the player doesn't play for awhile the outer storages can be empty while all the other storage loot is on the inside storages.
Loot is always spread evenly (relatively) until one of the storage reaches it's cap, in which case it obviously can't hold anymore. There are some small minute differences you obviously can see; I don't know the reason for this, but they are largely insignificant.
In my example, 2 million was the breaking point because at 2 million total, the level 10 one would be full and all gold after that would go into the level 11 one.
You can never go wrong by doing that. Anything under level 9 definitely has less, and I'm still thinking that lvl 9 and 10 storages hold the same as lvl 11s, but there is a disagreement on that.
Well, that makes sense, though. For low level storages, they can't even hold enough to provide significant loot. You just have to plan your attacks accordingly.
Shew, I thought I was really going crazy there for a sec.