Boost Builders for 200 gems/day

I think it would be awesome to be able to boost builders. To make it balanced, builders should cost a good amount of gems to boost, let's say it costs 200 gems per day. After calculating upgrade times, i figured that it takes roughly 600 gems to upgrade something with 4 days left to build. Now if you were able to boost a builder, it would only take 2 days to finish the building, however, it would still cost 400 gems for that builder to be boosted. This is balanced, because you basically have the option to spend 600 gems to finish a 4-day upgrade, or you can wait half of the time and spend slightly over half of the gems.:D Does anyone think this is a good idea? While I'm at it i will tell you another similar idea my clan mates always talk about. That idea is simply being able to use more than one builder on an upgrade. We spent the gems for extra builders, we should be able to prioritize our upgrades and use our free builders.

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Originally Posted by SirKonflicT

I think it would be awesome to be able to boost builders. To make it balanced, builders should cost a good amount of gems to boost, let's say it costs 200 gems per day. After calculating upgrade times, i figured that it takes roughly 600 gems to upgrade something with 4 days left to build. Now if you were able to boost a builder, it would only take 2 days to finish the building, however, it would still cost 400 gems for that builder to be boosted. This is balanced, because you basically have the option to spend 600 gems to finish a 4-day upgrade, or you can wait half of the time and spend slightly over half of the gems.:D Does anyone think this is a good idea? While I'm at it i will tell you another similar idea my clan mates always talk about. That idea is simply being able to use more than one builder on an upgrade. We spent the gems for extra builders, we should be able to prioritize our upgrades and use our free builders.

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definitely ruled out. please use the search bar read the "ruled out ideas" before posting
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...rum-guidelines

anyway, welcome to the forums

I know that this is in the ruled out thread, but this is different then most other threads. There are too many dumb threads out there saying to boost builders for only 25-50 gems. What they don't realize is that the long build times add a particular balance to the game, and it wouldn't help you as a company either because that is how you get your money, people get impatient and gem the rest of an upgrade. That is why boosting builders should cost the amount said in my post, it is incredibly balanced if you really think about it.

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Originally Posted by TimothyH97

definitely ruled out. please use the search bar read the "ruled out ideas" before posting
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...rum-guidelines

anyway, welcome to the forums

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It's not ruled out. It's in the commonly requested section.

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Originally Posted by twister

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Note that the item is below the - - - line, hence it is a newer idea that has not been voted on or ranked. At least, not since the last time the thread was edited (January 20th, 2015).

I think that the idea submitter made a pretty good suggestion. Rather than a cheap boost that everyone would use all the time, he tried to make it reasonably balanced (compared to, say, the cost of gemming a building complete).

I guess part of my question is, do you boost the builder or the upgrade? If an upgrade is nearly complete, boosting the upgrade wouldn't make sense. So I think boosting the builder makes more sense. But then, it seems like the boost should take place at the builder's hut. Which means that each builder's hut should show which upgrade that builder is working on. Thus, once the upgrade is complete, you would still have a boosted builder to start a new upgrade. Interface issues might make this suggestion more complicated to implement than other boosts. But I still think it'd be worth it.

I guess my question is, would people rather have a 4x boost (similar to barracks), or a 2x boost (similar to collectors/mines)? Obviously a 4x boost would be more useful, but I could see a case for a 2x boost which isn't as expensive in gems.

For example, 200 gems for a 4x boost, because in 1 day, you save 3 days of build time. Well, what about 50 gems for a 2x boost? It would only save you one day of build time, and you'd have to use it multiple times to really shave down a build. Plus, I think for the really long builds, the gem cost only goes up maybe 100 gems a day or less, so 50 gems to save a day seems very reasonable.

Xitra is right it it not ruled out look at the possible ideas more closely.

OK, got the mistake of it being ruled out done and over with. :smirk:

I like the 4 hour boost better, since it is ideal for most common one to several day upgrades you see in the majority of the low to mid level bases. Which means a 6 hour boost would be best, since that fits things nicely for those day incriminate upgrades. I have suggested adding a 12 hour boost at a slightly reduced cost of two 6-hour boosts since Supercell has been known to do that with gems. (plus boost all buttons)

I gave a 40 gem cost for 6hr and a 70 gem cost for 12hr, but maybe that is too low... Or maybe it is low enough to give both what we want and what Supercell wants, which is lower times for us, and people buying and using gems more often. Just remember that basic idea in Econ 101, if you increase the cost, you lower the demand on the idea, and sell less, and may not make a profit, But if you sell too cheaply, you won't make a profit and be almost giving it away.

With that said, I'd let Supercell be the one to pick the price, since they should have better informed people on how cost and demand works. I could see though it being 'cheap' (but not really), and there being an exposition of boosted Builders... Which maybe bad for a different reason since now people are really rushing headlong towards the problematic End-Game of CoC. :facepalm: Which could reduce the gameplay time for people.

Gah! I better quit thinking. I'm making this idea more complex than people likely want to hear.