Lack Of Resources To Loot ......... Scrap Troop Protection In Army Camps???

There is so much chat about the lack of resources to loot when we attack.

A major factor in the lack of elixir when attacking has to be the Halloween Troop Protection update.

You can build an army for X amount of elixir and then queue up to a maximum of 75 troops per barracks x4 behind them.

The most expensive troops per space for me is wall breakers at 3000 elixir.
I build an army for 80k elixir to fill the camps.
I queue 225 wall breakers at 3000 elixir each and keep 675,000 elixir safely stashed away from looting attackers.
When i log back on I cancel the troop queues in each barracks to reclaim the elixir.

If there was no troop protection, i wouldn't want an army of wall breakers to be made if the troops in the camps were destroyed.

I know this is widely done to protect elixir but must be having a negative impact on the available loot when we attack.

Troop protection is convenient, but is it at the expense of gameplay?

EDIT
This isn't a complaint thread about the lack of resources as I've changed tack and don't have a major problem any more. The thread is an observation based on various clan chats on the subject.

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Originally Posted by CoupeSe

There is so much chat about the lack of resources to loot when we attack.

A major factor in the lack of elixir when attacking has to be the Halloween Troop Protection update.

You can build an army for X amount of elixir and then queue up to a maximum of 75 troops per barracks x4 behind them.

The most expensive troops per space for me is wall breakers at 3000 elixir.
I build an army for 80k elixir to fill the camps.
I queue 225 wall breakers at 3000 elixir each and keep 675,000 elixir safely stashed away from looting attackers.
When i log back on I cancel the troop queues in each barracks to reclaim the elixir.

If there was no troop protection, i wouldn't want an army of wall breakers to be made if the troops in the camps were destroyed.

I know this is widely done to protect elixir but must be having a negative impact on the available loot when we attack.

Troop protection is convenient, but is it at the expense of gameplay?

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Not trying to brag, but maybe you are doing it wrong then? I have so much elixer that I just log with it all in my collectors. I frequently have over 3 million units in my coffers. It is not just me, everyone I attack also has the max amounts available. Aim higher to get more loot.

I'm sure it'll settle down.

if everyone is doing that, then pretty soon, they can't hide anymore, and so the excess will be available again.

Also consider that if troop protection was off, sure, people couldn't 'hide' elixir in the barracks, but then they would end up spending it on rebuilding the troops that got destroyed when they were raided so would still end up with no elixir for you to raid anyway.

Granted, level 13 Collectors (say 10k per hour?) would be a nice help too though.

Griffey...... i'm not sure what point you are trying to make?

Under old system i would log off leaving 675k MORE elixir available to loot.
Under Troop protection though this is hidden and i leave little or no elixir for attackers to loot there percentage from.

The hundreds of thousands of normal players who less than 500k elixir spare can hide it from attacks to a great extent ....... leaving little to loot for the normal mid range players.

Removing troop protection seems a simple cheap fix to release a little more available elixir into the game and i'm surprised it hasn't been done.

Troop protection is probably the best thing that happened to those people who don't have much game time. The main issue is the lack of resources itself. But there are ways. Maxing pumps and dropping trophies. The major issue arises when people didn't want these very limited options.

Im not sure that this is the "whole" problem, other threads today have come out questioning where the inactive Players Bases are... however im sure this does not help matters.

Im Farming currently and Elix is not really an issue for me either. Im always maxed out.. And i dont try and keep it hidden... I often lose 180k per attack... and i dont mind.

However if i was trying for trophies i would be doing exactly as described and storing as much as possible in my Barracks.. difference is that I can build Build Peeka so would be "hiding" approx 127k on 3 Lvl2 Peeka.

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Originally Posted by billwinkiesbear

Im not sure that this is the "whole" problem, other threads today have come out questioning where the inactive Players Bases are... however im sure this does not help matters.

Im Farming currently and Elix is not really an issue for me either. Im always maxed out.. And i dont try and keep it hidden... I often lose 180k per attack... and i dont mind.

However if i was trying for trophies i would be doing exactly as described and storing as much as possible in my Barracks.. difference is that I can build Build Peeka so would be "hiding" approx 127k on 3 Lvl2 Peeka.

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There is a theory that these inactive players are left in the previous update and not carried on until logged in.

However, TH9 issue is the lack of elixir. We need to make a 90k troops to fight heavily giarded bases which doesn't have 100% win guarantee. It is practically better to wait for pumps especially for those who don't have 12-16 hours game time.

^{there is loads of elixir to loot, every village I go to has full purple balls. Gold is the problem, people are upgrading their walls and leaving none to be looted.}

The point I am making is that your perception of lack of elixer is incorrect. There is tons of it. Last night I looted 1.8 million worth in 3 hours. I have no need to hide it as people do not normally attack for elixer. My base is in the 1500+ range so I would not consider it farming area. I have been over 2k, and been down to zero in this patch. The loot is there, just have to look for it. As a matter of fact, I just pulled in 261k gold and 224k elixer on my last hit. Sorry for the size, but I don't Know how to make it bigger.

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