Lightning protection.

Hi, guys.
Personally, I hate the filthy little zappers who drop lightning spells on your DE storage. I'm trying so hard to save up 60K so I can upgrade my golems, but whenever I get to around 50K, I lose 1,500 - 2,000 to a zapper, often 2 or 3 times before someone gives me a shield. Increasing the ratio of damage done to the building to DE taken helped a bit, but it's so frustrating losing 2,000 DE to someone who hasn't even gone through my defenses to earn it. I wouldn't mind so much if they actually earned my DE and wiped me out completely!! Some filthy zapper literally just dropped 4 spells on my DE storage and left, with 989 DE! Nothing else! He didn't even have the decency to send 4 archers to my undefended TH on the outside of my farming base and give me a shield.
But I also know that people use lightning spells to take out other specific things, like air defenses and CC reinforcement troops.
Could SuperCell make a defense item like a lightning rod, 1-tile in size, similar to an air bomb, that could react to lightning spells in the area? People could use it to defend what they wish from lightning spells, maybe halving the effect of the spell or negating it completely in a protected area?

Many thanks.

then what would be the point of a lightning spell

Yea what hippo said!

The forum thread at the top of the list when you posted this was the exact same topic. It contains all of the information you were hoping to find ranging from emotional reasons to support it and logical reasons why zapping is good for the game and should not be stopped. In the future please use the search feature and contribute to an existing conversation instead of starting a new, identical one. We all benefit from having our conversations together rather than scattered across the forum in numerous small threads.

To expand on the topic you will find a link in my sig to SC's official response stating that they do not consider it a problem and have no intention to change it. The last several polls show a majority of players actually don't want zapping to be changed. It is only a vocal and emotionally motivated minority that create all these new threads. Zapping is good for the health of the overall game and easy to prevent by pushing into crystal 2 and above. Up there other truly useful spells are needed for effective raiding so most people don't waste their time or elixir on lightning.

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Originally Posted by Rukh80

Hi, guys.
Personally, I hate the filthy little zappers who drop lightning spells on your DE storage. I'm trying so hard to save up 60K so I can upgrade my golems, but whenever I get to around 50K, I lose 1,500 - 2,000 to a zapper, often 2 or 3 times before someone gives me a shield. Increasing the ratio of damage done to the building to DE taken helped a bit, but it's so frustrating losing 2,000 DE to someone who hasn't even gone through my defenses to earn it. I wouldn't mind so much if they actually earned my DE and wiped me out completely!! Some filthy zapper literally just dropped 4 spells on my DE storage and left, with 989 DE! Nothing else! He didn't even have the decency to send 4 archers to my undefended TH on the outside of my farming base and give me a shield.
But I also know that people use lightning spells to take out other specific things, like air defenses and CC reinforcement troops.
Could SuperCell make a defense item like a lightning rod, 1-tile in size, similar to an air bomb, that could react to lightning spells in the area? People could use it to defend what they wish from lightning spells, maybe halving the effect of the spell or negating it completely in a protected area?

Many thanks.

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Well some people hate it, some people like it, I like zapping, personally and you should look at other threads and comment there before posting new threads, there you will find the answers. And although it is not on the ruled out list - it has been confirmed by development staff that their are no plans to change it.