Troop donation in clan castle : display castle's content in tchat or donation popup

Hi,

It could be a good improvement to allow clan members to see what the requester's clan castle already contains in order to donate what is really needed.

As an exemple, I often use one valkyrie as tank in defense, helped with wizards.
If someone gives the valkyrie first, the castle is well filled (1 valk + N wizards / archers)
If someone (which is the most frequent) give at least 2 wizards, it's completely impossible to guess what was already given. The downside is that most of the time, I don't get the valkyrie.

Regards,
Le Grizly

If you're not sure what has already been donated ...

1. You can ask the person in chat.
2. You can visit their village and see what is in the cc.

You can also be more explicit in your request: "Please send 1 valkyrie first, then fill with wizards."

Seems like this is an easy user-fix, and not something that needs to be a feature upgrade.

An alternative could also be for the requester to select which and how many troops of each could be donated.

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Originally Posted by Uthrac

1. You can ask the person in chat.

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People usually don't ask, as typing isn't as easy as clicking on the troops to donate.

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Originally Posted by Uthrac

2. You can visit their village and see what is in the cc.

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Same answer : visiting requires that people take time for it.
We frequently have 20 or more connected clanmates with tones of wizards to donate et no valkyrie.
Each of them would then have to check manually my clan clastle's content, hopping it was not cached (outdated) by some server with a different content. It's the case when changing village, if you've just visited it, you won't see updates immediately.

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Originally Posted by Uthrac

You can also be more explicit in your request: "Please send 1 valkyrie first, then fill with wizards."

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My request is always done that way, but sometimes people just don't read all the request and only catchup "valk / wizard".

What should we do ? Ban them ?

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Originally Posted by LeGrizly

What should we do ? Ban them ?

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Up to you how to handle, but seems like a clan issue rather than an SC issue.

You could certainly sanction repeat offenders ... warning with first offense; benched for war second offense; kicked third offense. (Count resets each week or season.)

If you have consequences for not following requests, players in your clan will start following them. If there are no consequences, then you can accept that you won't always get what you want.

I believe that clans need to work out how to handle donation requests and filling those requests, and it is not something SuperCell should moderate.

(Counterpoint: In my clan, players often forget to update their requests so they will request "Max PEKKA for war." after the war is over, then post in chat "Sorry, wizards are fine." With a restrictive "restrict donations to what is requested," those players would be stuck with only getting a PEKKA until they could request again.)

While your suggestion is likely an improvement for your clan's play style, it would be a drawback for some other clans. SuperCell needs to be careful in that any feature updates don't inconvenience as many players as it would help!

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Originally Posted by Uthrac

While your suggestion is likely an improvement for your clan's play style, it would be a drawback for some other clans. SuperCell needs to be careful in that any feature updates don't inconvenience as many players as it would help!

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I gave an example to explain the "why" but this situation is not the only one where this feature could be usefull.

Let's say people would like "around half barbarians and half archers".
Here's how the chat would look like :

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Request : 15 barbarians 15 archers
A : Hey, how many B and A have you got right now ?
R : Hold on, I che...
R : Oups ... just changed
R : I've got 11 x B and 6 x A
A : k, here's a bunch of B
R : omg ... C gave me 5 B at the same time ...
R : damn chat, takes too long to type messages to handle that situation

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I completely understand your position about people not applying exactly the request (order of donations).
But you can't just say that rigor will solve completely the issue.
By the way, it seems your clanmates are even less respectful in their own requests.

IMO, this feature request (at least a display of the content, just like defensive CCs in war) would be a good improvement.

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Originally Posted by LeGrizly

By the way, it seems your clanmates are even less respectful in their own requests.

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I'd say "less picky" than "less respectful." :)

I'd also add that if a request goes down in the chat window, most of the time, people freshly logged in won't read surrounding discussion and won't be aware of what is still needed.
The other way round is also true : what if you ask some troops and then just log out ? You won't be able to answer either. ;)