Gold and Elixir Refund/Full Customization

There should be an option to downgrade walls, barracks, collectors, army camps, defenses, etc in order to get your Gold/Elixir back so you then can use that Gold/Elixir to upgrade other things. It's basically like a complete new way to customize your base. Also be able to completely downgrade everything to start over and just upgrade what you need to in order to make a completely new base without the wait time of building things unless you haven't reached that level for that object. For example: Say your cannon was level 10 before you downgraded, you wouldn't be able to upgrade to 11 unless you waited the amount of days required for it to be level 11. Example on how I would use this new idea: I would downgrade my walls and use that gold to buy inferno towers. Makes my base weaker but also stronger at the same time. It would revolutionize the way people customize their bases, and people LOVE TO CUSTOMIZE! Also you couldn't do this all the time. You could only do it once a week so that way it can't be abused.

So basically, what you would like is a way to essentially hide all your resources in your walls, and then pull them out of your walls when needed.

A big fat huge no way, no how, never. What you're describing would completely break the economy, and leave essentially no gold in storage ever, and very little elixir in storage at TH9 and 10.

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Originally Posted by LaserMchicken21

@awesomness2016 .-. You're dumb.
You won't be able to put all your gold into your walls. If you actually read the whole thing you would see that I said you can't go past what you haven't upgraded yet.
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I'm dumb? I can upgrade walls at any time as long as I have the loot and a builder free, and it takes no time for my builder. So like right now, I'm a TH9 with mainly level 7 walls and some level 8. So as long as I have a builder free (which at this point in my game is almost all the time), every time I get at least 500k gold or 1m elixir, I dump it into my walls before I log out.

Then, when I'm ready to do a larger upgrade, I just downgrade walls until I have the loot to do whatever build I want. The result is that I'll NEVER have to log off with more than 1 million gold or elixir in storage until I have a completely maxed defense TH10, and am ready to start working on level 10 walls.

Similarly, a TH8 would never have to log off with more than 500k gold in storage, a TH7 with 200k, a TH6 with 75k, etc. It's not dumb, it's without a doubt what would happen.

Now, it would certainly slow your progress at later THs if you were trying to more or less always have a builder free when you log off, but it seems like a decent trade-off for making it so you only ever have a small fraction of what you currently have available for stealing at any point in the game.

The ONLY way your proposal would work is if there was a substantial penalty for downgrading. You already only get a 50% refund if you cancel a build, so it should be at least that, but I'd say you only get 1/3 to 1/4 the cost back. I also think you should still have to wait through the build again if you want to downgrade and then upgrade again...otherwise it becomes far too easy for players to experiment with bases to try and game the war matching system at no cost at all.

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Originally Posted by awesomness2016

The result is that I'll NEVER have to log off with more than 1 million gold or elixir in storage until I have a completely maxed defense TH10, and am ready to start working on level 10 walls.

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Actually, now that I think about it, I could get almost entirely maxed walls without ever holding more than 1m of anything too. I just have to keep like 4 pieces at level 9, then downgrade them to level 8, dump my gold and e into them 1m at a time, and then downgrade them again to buy a level 10 or 11 piece.


Also, since I can upgrade walls with e or gold, will the system keep track of what I'm using on each piece, or will I get to choose which I want when I downgrade?

Awesome response... awesome....

That would be exactly how people would abuse it.

Yes, you can always implement a penalty like only 50% is returned, but then why would you ever want to do that? Would not be worth it just to "reset" your village.

Why would you want to reset your village? What purpose of a reset would be to downgrade your Level 3 Xbow to level 2, just so you can have level 8 archer towers instead of level 7? Once you upgrade, there should be no legitimate reason to want to downgrade.

The only reason would be to take advantage of the X.5 concept in war.