Too much elixir on hdv 8, need to use it on walls

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Originally Posted by Ephe

Thanks for your answer iceageg, i did realize these two points in my previous answer, thats why I proposed to add level 7 army camps for th8 players instead of wall elixir upgrades, it will help them a little and not affect much the game dynamics for th9 and 10 players.

We're dangerously heading towards rushed th9 after completing th8 elixir upgrades which is actually the only way for th8 users for not wasting their elixir. I know thats what I'll do even if I depsise rushed th but I despise even more wasting my ressources. Sadly, i'm pretty sure that's what will happen in the next months.

It will affect clan wars (which is the true purpose of the game for me...) as well because clans tends to prefer having a max th rather than a higher rushed one.
So let's forget the walls and consider a compromise,army camps level 7?

I'm TH8 now, so I wouldn't mind some extra camp space.;)

Honestly, TH8 is the worst TH level, in terms of resource balance. Every TH before TH8 was imbalanced, in the sense that it required more gold to upgrade walls than to upgrade defenses. But all TH levels before TH8 were tolerable, because the balance of elixir upgrades and gold upgrades was pretty close. In most cases, you would finish upgrading defenses around the same time as elixir upgrades, maybe even before. So all that was left was walls.

At TH8, the gold upgrades (exluding walls) cost about twice the elixir upgrades (including research). And the research takes so long, that you run out of elixir buildings to upgrade long before you finish research.

So, what can Supercell do to fix this? Well, two simple solutions call out: Less stuff to spend gold on, or more stuff to spend elixir on.

More elixir research doesn't help, because lab upgrades are a bottleneck. It would need to be buildings. Army camps seem like a logical choice. Fairly harmless as well. Sure, 10% more troop capacity would allow TH8's to further overpower TH7's. But who cares about lower TH's? It's the effect on TH8's and TH9's that matters.

I'm still an early TH8, haven't unlocked golems or pekkas yet, still in my early dragloon phase for wars and GiBarching to farm. So I can't comment on the effect on balance between TH8's and other TH8's or TH9's. I can say that adding 20 more camp space won't break the balance much on early TH8's. It might help early TH8's with level 2 dragons take out maxed TH8's with drag-loon in war. Not a big shift in power though, and that's more a problem with dragons than with camp space.