Stop Complaining You Casual Farmers
Most of the threads currently on global complain about the "death" of casual farming. They say SuperCell have ruined the game. Well, think about it this way: SuperCell are a business, and they have running costs for their game servers.
They want everybody to be addicted to the game, and spend money on it. They also don't want to have to maintain those players who aren't going to make them profit. What better way to do this than to make life more difficult for them?
But however, I do understand from a player's point of view it can be frustrating. So I have a tip.
Stay away from 1100-1600. 1100-1300 is full of Zappers and Th8-10. 14-1600 is the prime Th9 Farming Zone (and I mean farming PROS).
So, if you are casually farming, either go up to Gold 1 and Crystal, or alternatively farm in bronze. There is no other way to avoid this rush of elite farmers. If you stay here and are carrying a lot of loot - I WILL wreck your base.