How to get a lot of resources quickly - a zero trophy guide
Hello everyone! This is a guide of playing in zero trophies. As I've experienced it's the ultimate best place to get resources (gold and elixir), and with correct playing you get them fast. If you have never tried it you should definitely try! :)
I'm going to speak about gold later in this post because it's the most important resource for me. This works with elixir also. For dark elixir... Well, you really shouldn't be looking DE from zero trophies. ;)
Some general warnings: You have to be really active for the whole playing session! Do not go offline. If you want to go to the toilet for example, just let your iDevice to be open and ensure that CoC is running. Otherwise you will get around 100-300 trophies from other trophy droppers. If you have a busy day do not do this. The loot will also be a lot worse for th9 players so I wouldn't recommend this to them.
More advanced info about the optimal th levels.
1. Trophy dropping
First, you have to drop your trophies to zero. The most efficient way to do is to fill your barracks with barbarians. Once your army camps are full of barbarians, go to multiplayer and do this: deploy one barbarian and press the next button at the same time. You should hear your barbarian deploying sound at the same time you get to your next battle. Your trophies have dropped. In the next battle that comes up, rinse and repeat. It's going to take a bit of practice (sometimes you only hit the next button and sometimes you deploy only your barbarian) but it's really going to save a lot of time.
This is important: DO NOT USE YOUR HERO(ES) TO DROP YOUR TROPHIES! If you manage to do the next button trick with a hero, your hero will glitch and it's going to sleep the whole regeneration time.
2. The raiding
When you are at zero trophies, you want to start raiding. This is how you do it.
Army: Your army is going to be very simple. 100 % goblins. If you wish, you can mix in some archers for donations. You're also going to fill your barracks with goblins after every raid so there are goblins training all the time.
The opponents: So, I guess this will be the most interesting part of this guide. Some of your opponents will be other trophy droppers like you, with their base in a good shape and stuff. Do not attack them. The goal is to attack very very weak bases. I'm going to add pictures of these weak bases, but what I mean is typically a town hall level 6 player with lvl1-3 walls and some low-level defenses. Usually the walls aren't really protecting anything and in rare cases there are splash tower(s). I know, these bases are really weird, but they are going to be the source of your gold.
All about the loot: The goal is to attack these earlier mentioned weak bases that have 30k+ gold in their storages. Sometimes the gold storages aren't in any defense's range, then you can accept lower amounts of loot and pick them with one goblin. My typical raid is a 30-70k gold with 1-50 goblins. If you get lucky you can find a 100k one, but they are really rare. The gold is going to be in the storages in 99% of the bases. The problem with the loot being in mines is that after destroying them it's possible to get 50% and then you win --> you won't be in 0 trophies anymore.
Other important things about low-trophy raiding:
1. Try to surrender before 40 % so the opponent doesn't get a shield. It's very important and useful for you because you can get the same opponent again if he's shieldless. Just today I found an opponent with 70k gold and I raided it. Next raid, same guy, now with 60k gold. Third raid, same guy again, now I got 50k gold. Then I didn't find him anymore (maybe because someone gave him a shield).
2. You should avoid 50 % even more because it will raise your trophies usually with 10-15. Not good.
3. Try to raid non-stop, or maybe keep max 2 minutes break between raids. If your barracks are always producing goblins you should have no problem in this.
Pictures of the typical opponents and raid results:
Raid 1#
Before:
http://i41.tinypic.com/2w6as5z.jpg
After:
http://i39.tinypic.com/cusr9.jpg
Raid 2# (same guy as the raid 1#)
Before:
http://i44.tinypic.com/35k90jr.jpg
After:
http://i39.tinypic.com/invcll.jpg
Raid 3#
Before:
http://i41.tinypic.com/2saj9tc.jpg
After:
http://i41.tinypic.com/2uzs7lh.jpg
3. The results
http://i42.tinypic.com/eijfxy.jpg
This picture speaks for itself. I got all that gold in three hours of non-stop playing. ;)
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I hope you learned something new from this guide and if you decide to test zero trophy raiding please post your results. Any kinds of comments or questions of this guide would also be super appreciated!
