Remove the revenge - it's useless in practice

I was first going to write about how revenging should be made easier. Just lost 2400 dark elixir and revenge would be sweet, but the first problem is that I don't want to break my shield and the attacker had less than 10k in his de storage, so I wouldn't even be able to get my de back. I just need to accept the fact that this game is all about raiding and getting raided. Accept my loss and move on. I'll "revenge" someone else instead..

There are many threads in this forum where people complain how revenging is next to impossible due to the other player being online and then a minute later shielded. All the proposed remedies would cause major problems to the game dynamics, and most of them view the situation only from one side. If revenging would have some priority, you yourself would get revenged and loose all that hard earned resource. My argument in a nutshell is that because revenge is not possible in practice, it's useless and should be removed from the game all together.

I don't know hows the situation in trophy pushing leagues (master, champion), but I would guess that when not farming players are unshielded for longer and hence revenging becomes plausible. Is revenging something that people make use of in the top leagues?

Revenging has been from the launch of the game and much later the clan wars were introduced. I think clan wars is the place where you take attacks personally and take revenge and wage war to see who's who!

If abandoning revenge does not gain support, then I propose that the time of shield left should be indicated and the revenge button should also be active for only those that you can actually revenge. Clicking the button is too much to ask for.

Please don't remove revenge from the game. Having an optional way to recover your losses is a smart and fun dynamic to the game. It can be hard to find an unshielded opponent to revenge attack but that's part of the strategy. Deciding how much time would u be willing to wait for the revenge opportunity vs. the cost-effectiveness of raiding random bases.

Being able to scout bases and develop a specific strategy and army is fun! And in clan wars we only have the opportunity to do it twice every two or three days or less depending on war frequency.

I see your point though. It does seem hard to catch a base without a shield or online chief for a revenge attack. I like the idea of showing the time remaining on a shield. I wonder if it might not make more casual players too vunerable to multiple revenge attacks in the case of the revenged not getting either a star or 40% base destruction. But a game should cater to their more dedicated players, not the casuals.

I support the idea of adding a shield timer to the revenge option. But I'm strongly against removing revenge attacks from the game completely, as I recovered 2500 dark elixer with a clever revenge attack just a few hours ago. :cool:

Remove Revenge? Nooo...its another way to get more trophies.

Hmmm - I use it all the time I would not call it useless.

However - it would have been nice to have been disabled last night when someone revenged me for 267k gold, 180k elixir and 1331 de. Yeah - I am sure that guy felt it was useless too. Althought I took more gold and de from that person so I'm not complaining...

In less than a week, I have used up half of my possible revenge targets. That is 15 out of the 30 listed in the log. that's hardly useless, at least in my case.

I use it all the time. I also break shield all the time. If I have a builder coming available I need loot! First place I look is who can I revenge! Costs nothing to search them, and then on to the next dude. Once I run out of available profitable revenges I start nexting for my next big loot, but I check back often. :cool:

Heck no, I revenge those annoying zappers almost all the time. And if they are too high level I zap them back :D

You are right. It is used by higher league members to get trophies. Remember that the ultimate goal of CoC is trophies (maxing your base? It's for the trophies eventually).

In my other two alternative short-lived accounts, I attempted a trophy sniping run to see how easy or hard it was. (it was surprisingly easy to get to crystal at town hall 6). In both, what always set me down is when someone revenges me for 59 trophies or something. (bet they're happy)

Don't remove it. But the OPs points are well taken and if he feels that way he is welcome to just ignore it.

It seems like my timing during the day seems to be key at finding these farming bases open to attack after they get TH sniped or raid.

But it has a catch. Logically if more people knew how to revenge successfully around the current issue, more of other people's targets would be rendered unavailable to attack, putting the problem right back to where it started of people finding it mostly useless to revenge attack since nothing seems available.

Also I get more than my fair share of attacks in my clan. Currently I'm the clan's present season 'record holder' of defense wins, with 30 right now, so I generate quite a few new revenge targets. I have to guess that I have a 4 out of 5 'win' rate. I put "win" in quotes since people that 'lose', still can win the battle in a way from just getting a respectable amount of loot. I don't care too much. Gold and Elixir is fairly easy for me to get with how active I am, with 100 attack wins, and even more attacks from purposeful trophy dropping loot raids.

Since I started playing, I have had my Dark Elixir storage zapped 3-4 times when my lvl2 storage was ¾ full or more. I'm actually greatly amused that I'm 'so awesome and strong' that people resort to zapping me for my Dark Elixir. I'm not too annoyed, since 'fair is fair'. I zapped a few myself after all. (feel guilty for one zap, since it was a revenge attack on a person just dumping trophies from deploying one unit, the Queen, and did not mean to attack them at all out of respect for not actually attacking. Wasn't paying attention who it was.. just going down the list and attacking)

But all in all, I get good use out of 'casually' checking bases for revenge availability while dragons and rage spells are ready. They make for good war pratice targets, and give me experience with how strong dragons are. For example, the next best defense vs dragons are archer towers and teslas, given thier higher DPS, and thier single target property isn't an issue since dragons in a mass raid tend to spread out wide across a base.

So for people that don't care about revenge attacks... good! More opportunities for me :D