Pause boosts when forced to take "personal break"?

Ok, So I didn't know there was such a thing as a personal break, I've never seen one in the 7+ months that I've been playing this game.

Anyways, Last night I had some free time and figured I would play clash for a while.

I spent gems on boosting my barracks and heroes - my goal was to raise the 2.5mil to upgrade my tesla to lvl 5.

Anyways, I was at 2.41 mil with 20 minutes left on my boosts when I am forced to take a personal break for playing too long??


First off I see nothing in the ToS stating they can make you take a personal break, but maybe I missed it.

Second - I got raided for 300k/300k/1250 during that time I couldn't log in.

To make things worse, My boost was almost done - I had time for 1 attack and now needed 400k instead of 90k to get my upgrade.

1 attack in crystal with my barch army that I had trained was not going to bring in 400k unless I searched for a long time - in which case I would use too much gold and need another couple raise again anyways.

I send Super Cell's customer service a complaint on this and was told that the personal break is put in so people with high trophies can't sit at the top of the leader boards without being attacked. So why does it apply to people in the 2100 trophy range that have spent gems to use a boost!?!?


Fixes for this issue:

1. Pause the boost while being forced to take a break.
2. WARN the person who is using their hard earned gems that they have a certain amount of time before they will be forced to log off.
3. Wait to force a personal break until after the boost is done - and don't allow more gems to be used on boosts during this time.


Pick one or all of those and I will be happy but the fact that it wasn't stated anywhere that this can happen is complete ♥♥♥♥.

The point of the break is to stop the guys using bots to stay on full time for protection. Shielding during the break would undermine what they are trying to do.

its rare that they catch out a guy that stayed legitimately on being active for 6 hours straight, that is actually a tough feat. (Don't eat, don't sleep, take device with you to...) In all but very few cases when they cut off a 6 hour session it is a bot so I can see their point to play the odds that way.

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Originally Posted by rwelshjr

The point of the break is to stop the guys using bots to stay on full time for protection. Shielding during the break would undermine what they are trying to do.

its rare that they catch out a guy that stayed legitimately on being active for 6 hours straight, that is actually a tough feat. (Don't eat, don't sleep, take device with you to...) In all but very few cases when they cut off a 6 hour session it is a bot so I can see their point to play the odds that way.

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I wasn't asking for a shield, I was asking for my boosts to get paused like they would do in maintenance.

It just so happened I had time after work where I was cleaning the house, cooking dinner and watching the college football championship game with no one home. Checking in to make sure I wasn't raided every 5 minutes wasn't a big deal.

I understand why they do the breaks but those 3 points I mentioned could make things better for legit players - especially those who are using gems to boost their barracks.

EDIT: Also there were times last night that I had to reload due to inactivity... I guess that doesn't stop the personal break from happening?

Edit #2: Would bots be boosting? Seems like they wouldn't be.... That's a good way to tell if its a legit person playing maybe?

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Originally Posted by ThePeskyDingo

I wasn't asking for a shield, I was asking for my boosts to get paused like they would do in maintenance.

It just so happened I had time after work where I was cleaning the house, cooking dinner and watching the college football championship game with no one home. Checking in to make sure I wasn't raided every 5 minutes wasn't a big deal.

I understand why they do the breaks but those 3 points I mentioned could make things better for legit players - especially those who are using gems to boost their barracks.

EDIT: Also there were times last night that I had to reload due to inactivity... I guess that doesn't stop the personal break from happening?

Edit #2: Would bots be boosting? Seems like they wouldn't be.... That's a good way to tell if its a legit person playing maybe?

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So this would only be a 5 minute pause every 6 hours? What you made in those 5 minutes was negligible. The bulk of the loot you had stolen was accumulated during the hours before that. So I am not sure then why the 5 minutes is enough to matter nor why your boost status for those 5 minutes pertains to the big raid that got done on you. (Which I understand to be the crux of your complaint?)

Dude!!!! This is just a game! Who plays for 6 hours straight!!

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Originally Posted by wasee2870

Dude!!!! This is just a game! Who plays for 6 hours straight!!

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Originally Posted by rwelshjr

So this would only be a 5 minute pause every 6 hours? What you made in those 5 minutes was negligible. The bulk of the loot you had stolen was accumulated during the hours before that. So I am not sure then why the 5 minutes is enough to matter nor why your boost status for those 5 minutes pertains to the big raid that got done on you. (Which I understand to be the crux of your complaint?)

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Well, to be honest I was going to go to bed as soon as I hit 2.5mil regardless if my boost was done or not and the "break" was longer than 5 minutes. It wouldn't let me search for 5 minutes prior to being kicked out and then it was 10 minutes or so thereafter before I could log back in.

When I got back in there wasn't enough time on my boost to make up for the stolen loot unless I wanted to wait for normal training times and stay up an extra 45-60 minutes which I did not.

Also that meant breaking my new shield without being sure that I would make up for the raid in a reasonable amount of time before sleep.

If I had my 20 mins worth of boost my army trains in 5 minutes or so and I would have been able to make it up quick before bed.

I think we should be able to pause boosts whenever we want... sometimes I'm not on for 2 hours and only 1 and I don't like that boost going to waste...

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Originally Posted by wasee2870

Dude!!!! This is just a game! Who plays for 6 hours straight!!

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I didn't necessarily play 6 hours straight. My army takes 20 minutes+ to train before I decided to boost. I wasn't playing during that time - just checking to make sure I wasn't getting raided while I was cleaning my house and cooking dinner.

That is ~3 raids every hour which I wouldn't consider playing non stop.

The boost came at the end of the night.


This is the ideas and suggestions section so I was giving some ideas to make their system better in case this comes up again.

Like I said in my first post, I have played this game 7+ months and haven't ever played long enough to see this message. It just so happened that last night I was able to, and it the message came when I was towards the end of a boost and getting ready for bed. Bad timing I suppose. I wouldn't have cared as much if it was during any other part of my night.

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Originally Posted by ThePeskyDingo

1. Pause the boost while being forced to take a break.
2. WARN the person who is using their hard earned gems that they have a certain amount of time before they will be forced to log off.
3. Wait to force a personal break until after the boost is done - and don't allow more gems to be used on boosts during this time.

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#1: This seems reasonable. Even better would be a warning message that states you've been online for longer than 4 hours, so if you start this boost you won't be able to finish it if you stay on an extra two consecutive hours. But that may be pushing it.

#2: Oh, I guess I just addressed this one in the last comment above.

#3: This will not, and should not happen. This would effectively be a "workaround" to players being able to delay the personal break by an extra 1hour and 59 minutes by waiting until the very last minute before getting kicked out for personal break before starting a boost. SC would never allow such an obvious method of ♥♥♥♥♥ing their pb system.

I get your frustration and you're among the very small minority of players that have experienced the PB, but never knew about it beforehand. There's a first for everything.

It was also bad timing because you were about to go to sleep. Normally the PB only lasts 8-10 minutes (so I've heard, haven't experienced it before) so a small chunk out of your 2 hour boost shouldn't be devastating. The fact that you got raided hard sucks for sure.