Fix TH 9 and 10 resource shortage through collector upgrades

This is a long post, so I’ll start with the main idea first. If our collectors cover the losses we sustain from being raided, then the game improves because we don’t have to worry about breaking shields.

Here’s an example: The problem with this game is that, at TH 9 and 10, upgrades are too expensive and resources are too easily lost.The main reason for this is that what is lost through raids can’t be made up by collectors. When you are trying to save up for an upgrade, you might have 4 or 5 million in storages, and when you get raided, they can steal 300k. Additionally, you need to spend resources rearming your traps, bows and towers, building armies, and nexting to find a base.

What ends up happening is something like this. You get raided for 300k. Then you spend another 100k rearming.

You could attack again, but 300k bases are hard to find, so you’d probably have to settle for a base that has 150-200k of each (and spend another 75k on the army and nexting, and another 100k rearming if you had to log out and got hit). So you decide to ride out the shield. During that time, your collectors (at TH 9) make about 250k, so you end up losing about 150k.

The solution is that breaking a shield needs to be a neutral proposition. That can only be done if collectors produce enough during the course of the shield to offset the losses from being attacked. Since losses from an attack can be about 400k, collectors should produce that much during a 12 hour period. That way there is no dis-incentive to breaking a shield, and any money gained by raiding can be used for upgrading.
This means that, by TH 9, max collectors should be producing about 35,000 per hour.

The way to do this is as follows: collector lvl 12 should produce 4k per hour. The 7^th collector should be available at TH 9, and there should be a collector lvl 13 that produces 5k/hr.

This is genius and very well thought out. I so agree. I hate being raided and losing a good chunk of the gold I'm saving for that last xbow level 3...

I posted a similar suggestion before, with hard numbers to back it up. I spent almost half an hour digging through my old posts, searching the forum, even googling, and couldn't find it.

Basically, as it currently stands, TH4 through TH10 cannot make enough income from collectors in 12 hours to cover what they risk losing from a single raid (assuming 12-hour shield is given).

At TH5, for example, you risk losing up to 200k from storages, but your collectors only make 150k in 12 hours. At TH6, you still risk losing 200k, but that 6th collector gets your income up to 180k, so you can almost cover your losses. TH9 and TH10 have it the worst, making up only 72%-74% of what they stand to lose in raids.

I proposed that a level 13 be added, and given to TH9. Additionally, I suggested increasing the output of level 8 and higher collectors.

Collector level	Current Rate	Proposed Rate
1	200	200
2	400	400
3	600	600
4	800	800
5	1000	1000
6	1300	1300
7	1600	1600
8	1900	2000
9	2200	2500
10	2500	3000
11	3000	3500
12	3500	4000
13	n/a	4500

Note that with this proposal, TH6 could make 216k every 12 hours, which would actually allow them to stay ahead of raids, even if they never farmed, and always got attacked immediately after a shield expired.

TH7 could make 252k per 12 hours, just slightly ahead of the 250k (251k with TH) that they stand to lose every 12 hours. However, every other TH level would still stand to lose loot. But instead of only making up 72%-86% of what they stand to lose, they'd be making up 92-96% (except for TH6 and TH7, as I mentioned).

Alternatively, unlock level 13 only at TH10, and give the 7th collector to TH9. The math works out about the same.

Or just leave everything the way it is and remove the TH loot penalty for collectors and leave the loot penalty in place for storage raids.
There are inactive TH7s for everyone.