Why I don't buy gems

The reason I don’t buy gems isn’t because I can’t afford them, or because I’m cheap. There’s just nothing in the game that makes me want to buy them.

Most things you can buy with gems are too overpriced. Buying resources directly is a total rip off. You would need to spend $20 to have enough gems for the gold needed to upgrade 1 wizard tower from level 6 to level 7.

Boosting collectors is more reasonable, but the process is too slow. It might be worthwhile if they produced 3 or 4 times the usual amount. As is, boosting maxed collectors will only get you an extra 500k per day. You’d need to boost them for an entire week just for one upgrade, and half of that loot would be stolen in raids anyway.

The only boost that really makes sense is to boost your barracks and farm non-stop. The problem with that is the boost lasts two hours, and people have real-life responsibilities. It’s hard to find a 2 hour chunk of time to use for non-stop raiding. A one hour boost that could be used during lunch break or on the bus ride home from work would be much more attractive.

In another thread, someone suggested an across-the-board timer boost. For example, perhaps you could spend 150 gems per day, or maybe 700 gems per week, to have all your timers move twice as fast. Troops would train at double speed, builders would build twice as fast, heroes would heal in half the time, etc. I would definitely want to buy something like that.

In sum, I would buy gems if there was something worth buying them for, and I'm sure many other free players would as well.

I agree with all of these points, but Supercell is a business, and so they don't care what us lower or middle class people think. They charge as much as they want because they know rich people will pay whatever they want.

The best idea you have though is the 1 hour boost for barracks. I would also do heroes too. Cut the price in half, cut the time in half, works out great

Yeh I agree for sure boosting barracks is def the only thing other than having 5 builders that is.

I posted a thread awhile back about 1 hour barrack boost for half price. It received little interest. I would actually do 1 hour boost more often. 2 hours is extreme on a phone.

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Originally Posted by mlb2005

I posted a thread awhile back about 1 hour barrack boost for half price. It received little interest. I would actually do 1 hour boost more often. 2 hours is extreme on a phone.

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I have as well mentioned it or even a pause button but ppl believe it's a def no go shame really cause yeh 2 hrs on a phone is brutal luckily I just bought n iPad ha ha

this is why people dont use gems on money that you can get from attacking or upgrades. they use on barrack boost.

this fits in General section, why not post there?

you'll get responses, an admin/mod/SC staff might respond on it too :thumbsup:

this is a pretty good subject

But Supercell loves Arabians' money.

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Originally Posted by Hound1616

I have as well mentioned it or even a pause button but ppl believe it's a def no go shame really cause yeh 2 hrs on a phone is brutal luckily I just bought n iPad ha ha

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A pause button is a horrible idea. Just watch this.

Starts a 2hr boost. makes a gowipe army
Pauses it
Comes back on tomorrow turns on boost. Makes a gowipe army in a snap pauses
Next day same thing
Day after same thing.

See how this can be abused?

Well you have to look at it from SCs perspective. They want to make money, sure. But they also want to make a fun game and try and have people play how they envisioned it. Your first point was buying recourses directly with gems. This has to be expensive, or else too many people would just buy all the upgrades and ruin the point of the game. Buying recourses directly is really only intended for the wealthy. Next is boosting collectors. Cheaper than directly buying recourses, but still expensive enough to discourage people from doing it all the time, because again, it ruins the point of the game by getting all the recourses you need without attacking. Now onto boosting your barracks. This is definitely the best deal, because it encourages raiding, which is the heart of the game. Now onto the 1 hour boosting. I would love this to be implemented. Finding an hour to sink into the game is a lot easier than finding two. But I don't think SC will do this, and this ties in with the motive of making money. The more gems you spend the more money they make, and if you pay the price of 2 hours of boosting and only end up using 1 hour of it, more money in the bank.

That's my thoughts on the matter.