It's time to say something

I have been a fairly active player for about a month now and have hit level 55 pretty quickly, spending a small amount on gems each week.
I have also spent a lot of time reading this forum, though have never felt the need to post, only read. Until now.
Supercell, can you not see that the feedback from a large % of players is getting progressively more negative with each update? I know it would be a bad business decision to be responding to all this negative feedback with constant replies, but from what I can see, there is basically no replies to any negative statements anymore (and their is many of them).
This would all be made ok, if you just gave us one post, with a bit of acknowledgement that these updates just maybe didn't have the desired effects that you originally planned for the top end players (not that i even consider myself one, but it is very concerning seeing them all feel so cheated by this game).
And at the end of the day, i understand that matchmaking in this game is no easy task to perfect, and this game is a work in progress. But you have now created a game that originally appears to gauge skill on trophy count, until you reach the conclusion the hard way that it is basically pointless to build any sort of trophy level until your base is maxed. Aiming for trophies before that point, is doing nothing but slowing down your progress to upgrade your base. Anybody that disagrees with this is moronic and doesnt understand the game.

You guys keep saying that you want to make the matchmaking more fair, and challenging at the same time. But I just dont understand how you can watch such a large % of the game community trophy dump as the only viable way to collect resources. That is not fun.... There should be more resources available WHERE IT IS NEEDED, and that is up the top. Not down the bottom.
Rant over. Now i can continue being a silent viewer of the forum now that I have gotten that off my chest.

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Originally Posted by Bon

I have been a fairly active player for about a month now and have hit level 55 pretty quickly, spending a small amount on gems each week.
I have also spent a lot of time reading this forum, though have never felt the need to post, only read. Until now.
Supercell, can you not see that the feedback from a large % of players is getting progressively more negative with each update? I know it would be a bad business decision to be responding to all this negative feedback with constant replies, but from what I can see, there is basically no replies to any negative statements anymore (and their is many of them).
This would all be made ok, if you just gave us one post, with a bit of acknowledgement that these updates just maybe didn't have the desired effects that you originally planned for the top end players (not that i even consider myself one, but it is very concerning seeing them all feel so cheated by this game).
And at the end of the day, i understand that matchmaking in this game is no easy task to perfect, and this game is a work in progress. But you have now created a game that originally appears to gauge skill on trophy count, until you reach the conclusion the hard way that it is basically pointless to build any sort of trophy level until your base is maxed. Aiming for trophies before that point, is doing nothing but slowing down your progress to upgrade your base. Anybody that disagrees with this is moronic and doesnt understand the game.

You guys keep saying that you want to make the matchmaking more fair, and challenging at the same time. But I just dont understand how you can watch such a large % of the game community trophy dump as the only viable way to collect resources. That is not fun.... There should be more resources available WHERE IT IS NEEDED, and that is up the top. Not down the bottom.
Rant over. Now i can continue being a silent viewer of the forum now that I have gotten that off my chest.

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you say a large % of players are giving negative feedback. then you say they are "at the top", and dumping trophies to get resources.

maybe you didnt read the forums as much as you thought. the only complaint the top players had before the last patch was unable to find village to attack. the only complaint from them after the patch was the clan castle getting one shot by the santa spell.

one is only a "top player" after they have maxed bases and walls and are in the top50. the rest of us are all bottom feeders, and thats where the complaints are coming from.

"There should be more resources available WHERE IT IS NEEDED, and that is up the top."

I see alot of very filled storages at top20. anywhere below that is not top.

Forgive me for not being more specific. When i say top players i mean base level, not trophy level.
I see so many people complaining about the matchmaking. But not that they cant find bases to attack, it;s that they cant find bases WORTH attacking to counteract the large troop costs and gold costs to find matches. Thus, resulting in everybody farming until they max their base.

Each update resources are being nerfed or hard to gain. But they aren't gone. Just hard and slower to obtain. I agree about the fact that you have to dump trophy to get them for a TH9 owner and now they made it none worthy hard to hit zero trophy. Something really wrong is happening about resources. But things are still achievable. Hust gets slower and slower everytime. Can't be mad.

I don't see how they are killing the game. I actually think they are catering too much to baseless whining.

People got all sore from the santa-nuke (which is freaking awesome) and they nerfed it's effectiveness on Clan Castles in less than 24 hours of it being the focus of butt-hurtedness. Then they whined about how "omg now it just takes more to kill clan castles!"

Screw all that. The game still rocks. I'm having fun annihilating bases and can't wait until the next update. I don't need a "have a great weekend on FB" sign to keep me going or know who the top 3 clans are-because it never changes significantly.

First of all, thanks for the constructive feedback.

The matchmaking changes we made were indeed quite big. As we've changed a fundamental system of which players were already used to, we knew we would get a lot of feedback. Unfortunately, we can't answer all feedback one to one. I've been on these forums writing some posts over the last week, but these tend to get buried quite fast.

But still, these changes were needed. The old system didn't scale with the current number of players, which lead to worse and worse performance of the servers during peak hours. After the new matchmaking went live, we've been seeing quite good performance, which basically means better gameplay experience for ALL of our players. So on the technical side, the matchmaking was a great success, as Borat would say it.

About the quality of matches; When we went live, the matchmaking tried to match you with other players in your trophy range quite narrowly. We've already once loosened that range in order to give a bit more diversity to the matches (check this). We're now going over the data from the weekend's battles and will make more adjustments if needed. While this might feel like it's moving slow, it's better to take some time, collect and analyse data and then adjust the values.

Also, in the future versions we're looking into ways to make the trophies be more desirable. Clash of Clans is still far from complete and we've got some pretty awesome stuff coming up ;)

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Originally Posted by hb808

I don't need a "have a great weekend on FB" sign to keep me going or know who the top 3 clans are-because it never changes significantly.

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Love you too ^^

Threads are read , re read, mulled over, discussed then if its something that the tech nerds and project leads are able to do , then Bam, it's maintenance break time.

Aside from the items that won't make it in game, using gems to remove a segment of wall. Most, and I use that term liberally are awesome ideas , just they don't fit in the vibe of clash.


kind regards . sneaky.

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Originally Posted by Rauta

First of all, thanks for the constructive feedback.

The matchmaking changes we made were indeed quite big. As we've changed a fundamental system of which players were already used to, we knew we would get a lot of feedback. Unfortunately, we can't answer all feedback one to one. I've been on these forums writing some posts over the last week, but these tend to get buried quite fast.

But still, these changes were needed. The old system didn't scale with the current number of players, which lead to worse and worse performance of the servers during peak hours. After the new matchmaking went live, we've been seeing quite good performance, which basically means better gameplay experience for ALL of our players. So on the technical side, the matchmaking was a great success, as Borat would say it.

About the quality of matches; When we went live, the matchmaking tried to match you with other players in your trophy range quite narrowly. We've already once loosened that range in order to give a bit more diversity to the matches (check this). We're now going over the data from the weekend's battles and will make more adjustments if needed. While this might feel like it's moving slow, it's better to take some time, collect and analyse data and then adjust the values.

Also, in the future versions we're looking into ways to make the trophies be more desirable. Clash of Clans is still far from complete and we've got some pretty awesome stuff coming up ;)

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Cant wait for the zombie Viking hordes ............mmmmm brains.......

I do agree with you Bon..;)