Top 10 Features That Should Have Already Been Added to Clash of Clans

For starters, a couple of these ideas are already ruled out, and the rest are not "must have" features. They're nice-to-have's that most of us have learned to live without, or might not even see a need for. Not sure how they made it onto a top 10 list.

With that said, the following actually does belong on a top 10 list, in my opinion. Probably not near the top of a top 10 list, but somewhere on that list:

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Originally Posted by USM999

Feature #7
Shorten Building Times With Gems - I think this will make a great idea having to exchange gems for a fraction of the time to shorten the building time instead of spending hundreds of gems to have the entire building completely finished all at once. Not everyone has thousands of gems to use up all at once when it can be divided amongst several structures making it easier to manage the building time in a scheduled manner.

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We can gem a barracks to finish the queued troops, or we can boost it. We can gem missing resources, or we can boost a collector. We can gem a hero awake, or we can boost him/her. We can gem completion of spells, or we can boost the spell factory.

It just makes sense to be able to gem a builder (i.e., an upgrade in progress). While we're at it, we should be able to boost the lab.

To those who say that people will spend fewer gems, I counter this: Who gems troops or spells to completion anyway? Who gems resources anyway? In terms of gems spent versus benefit, it's way more efficient to boost. But people still gem troops and resources. Why? Time. Sure, 4x faster is 4x faster, but if you're cooking dragons or pekkas for a war attack and you only have a few minutes to cook them, you're going to have to gem at least a few of them.

I'm sure there are die-hard players who will always be gemming buildings. Maybe it's heros for a war, or whatever.

Well, no one said the builder boost has to totally undercut build times. It doesn't have to be a 4x boost like the barracks. It could be a 2x boost like the collectors. Price it so that it's a more efficient use of gems, but not by a large margin. I think for long upgrades it's something like 10-15 minutes per gem, maybe more for really long upgrades? My longest upgrade to date was 8 days. Anyway, make a builder boost save you 30 minutes per gem. A 12-hour boost would cost 24 gems, or round it up to 25? Just an idea, I don't know what price point is viable, but there has to be one.

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Originally Posted by Xitra

For starters, a couple of these ideas are already ruled out, and the rest are not "must have" features. They're nice-to-have's that most of us have learned to live without, or might not even see a need for. Not sure how they made it onto a top 10 list. Agreed.

With that said, the following actually does belong on a top 10 list, in my opinion. Probably not near the top of a top 10 list, but somewhere on that list:


We can gem a barracks to finish the queued troops, or we can boost it. We can gem missing resources, or we can boost a collector. We can gem a hero awake, or we can boost him/her. We can gem completion of spells, or we can boost the spell factory.

It just makes sense to be able to gem a builder (i.e., an upgrade in progress). You already can. While we're at it, we should be able to boost the lab. Ruled out. And we shouldn't. Saving a month's worth of time for maybe 50 gems is crazy.

To those who say that people will spend fewer gems, I counter this: Who gems troops or spells to completion anyway? For donations, I gem troops... Who gems resources anyway? A fair amount of people, actually... In terms of gems spent versus benefit, it's way more efficient to boost. But people still gem troops and resources. Why? Time. Sure, 4x faster is 4x faster, but if you're cooking dragons or pekkas for a war attack and you only have a few minutes to cook them, you're going to have to gem at least a few of them. Agreed.

I'm sure there are die-hard players who will always be gemming buildings. Maybe it's heros for a war, or whatever.

Well, no one said the builder boost has to totally undercut build times. It doesn't have to be a 4x boost like the barracks. It could be a 2x boost like the collectors. Saving 14 days of build time for maybe 50 gems is crazy. Price it so that it's a more efficient use of gems, but not by a large margin. It takes 1000 gems to gem one week's worth of time. What about two weeks? And if it saves even 500 gems, it's a large margin. I think for long upgrades it's something like 10-15 minutes per gem, maybe more for really long upgrades? My longest upgrade to date was 8 days. Anyway, make a builder boost save you 30 minutes per gem. One- tenth the price? One hour = 20 gems. A 12-hour boost would cost 24 gems, or round it up to 25? Saving 12 hours' worth of time for well under two hours' worth of gem cost? Just an idea, I don't know what price point is viable, but there has to be one.

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I replied throughout your reply.

The gem calculation source was here:
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...m-Calculations

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Originally Posted by USM999

You really are new to gaming if you keep "debunking" everything aka making excuses. You've obviously never played Command and Conquer before as these features have existed in other games for many years and have become standard.

Even Age Of Empires has some of these features and that game came out "ages" ago. LOL!

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Hmph. I'm not new to gaming. Been gaming for more than a decade. I still do not understand any case where such a feature would even be helpful.
As I'm a Civ fan, I've never played Age of Empires. Command and Conquer sounds really similar to Civ and I tend to avoid such games for personal reasons.

Please kindly explain to me how HUD (I don't know how to properly use it in a sentence, so excuse me on that) would be useful in Clash.

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Originally Posted by Xitra

For starters, a couple of these ideas are already ruled out, and the rest are not "must have" features. They're nice-to-have's that most of us have learned to live without, or might not even see a need for. Not sure how they made it onto a top 10 list.

With that said, the following actually does belong on a top 10 list, in my opinion. Probably not near the top of a top 10 list, but somewhere on that list:


We can gem a barracks to finish the queued troops, or we can boost it. We can gem missing resources, or we can boost a collector. We can gem a hero awake, or we can boost him/her. We can gem completion of spells, or we can boost the spell factory.

It just makes sense to be able to gem a builder (i.e., an upgrade in progress). While we're at it, we should be able to boost the lab.

To those who say that people will spend fewer gems, I counter this: Who gems troops or spells to completion anyway? Who gems resources anyway? In terms of gems spent versus benefit, it's way more efficient to boost. But people still gem troops and resources. Why? Time. Sure, 4x faster is 4x faster, but if you're cooking dragons or pekkas for a war attack and you only have a few minutes to cook them, you're going to have to gem at least a few of them.

I'm sure there are die-hard players who will always be gemming buildings. Maybe it's heros for a war, or whatever.

Well, no one said the builder boost has to totally undercut build times. It doesn't have to be a 4x boost like the barracks. It could be a 2x boost like the collectors. Price it so that it's a more efficient use of gems, but not by a large margin. I think for long upgrades it's something like 10-15 minutes per gem, maybe more for really long upgrades? My longest upgrade to date was 8 days. Anyway, make a builder boost save you 30 minutes per gem. A 12-hour boost would cost 24 gems, or round it up to 25? Just an idea, I don't know what price point is viable, but there has to be one.

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The problem with boosting lab and buildings is that the boost lacks one aspect of the other boosts- you spend gems to boost (2 hours on barracks for example) and most likely will finish whatever you were doing while boosting (you need to be training 3 pekkas in one barracks for an exception). This means some of the boost is leftover. Especially in the case of the heroes, the player is encouraged to play some more or go attack so they can use the rest of the boost (this gives SC money). But for labs, unless you want to spend an exorbitant amount of money (1200 gems) for a 10 day boost or something, I highly doubt this will come in. Boosts are unprofitable for Supercell unless some of it is wasted and/or further spending is encouraged.

So I don't think this will come into the game. Also, it seems like you are trying to play up the "Clash isn't logical" tricks, but I'll let you go this time.

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Originally Posted by EmeraldRange

Hmph. I'm not new to gaming. Been gaming for more than a decade. I still do not understand any case where such a feature would even be helpful.
As I'm a Civ fan, I've never played Age of Empires. Command and Conquer sounds really similar to Civ and I tend to avoid such games for personal reasons.

Please kindly explain to me how HUD (I don't know how to properly use it in a sentence, so excuse me on that) would be useful in Clash.



The problem with boosting lab and buildings is that the boost lacks one aspect of the other boosts- you spend gems to boost (2 hours on barracks for example) and most likely will finish whatever you were doing while boosting (you need to be training 3 pekkas in one barracks for an exception). This means some of the boost is leftover. Especially in the case of the heroes, the player is encouraged to play some more or go attack so they can use the rest of the boost (this gives SC money). But for labs, unless you want to spend an exorbitant amount of money (1200 gems) for a 10 day boost or something, I highly doubt this will come in. Boosts are unprofitable for Supercell unless some of it is wasted and/or further spending is encouraged.

So I don't think this will come into the game. Also, it seems like you are trying to play up the "Clash isn't logical" tricks, but I'll let you go this time.

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"HUD" = "Heads Up Display", I think.
It shows your health, recharge time for items, enemy position on the map, etc.

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Originally Posted by Ataraxia

"HUD" = "Heads Up Display", I think.
It shows your health, recharge time for items, enemy position on the map, etc.

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Ohhhhhhh!!! Now I understand what this means. Yeah, I see where this would be useful and I have seen such at feature around in other games....

But I still think a sidebar is useless because in the case of Clash, you just simply need to click in a spot that has no unit and tada! No more HUDs to block your view. It might just be a convenience issue for OP, but I still don't think a sidebar is neccessary, nor do I think it will be implemented.

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Originally Posted by EmeraldRange

Ohhhhhhh!!! Now I understand what this means. Yeah, I see where this would be useful and I have seen such at feature around in other games....

But I still think a sidebar is useless because in the case of Clash, you just simply need to click in a spot that has no unit and tada! No more HUDs to block your view. It might just be a convenience issue for OP, but I still don't think a sidebar is neccessary, nor do I think it will be implemented.

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Neither do I. Glad I could help.:)


Good night, Emerald.

The ninth feature you want is stupid.So u don't know what day it is?if it is Monday,and the building fineshes in 4 days,what day is it?or do u need a calendar?