Create your own or Copy base design?

Do you guys create your own design or just copy someone elses?

i create my own so people won't be able to exploit it off the interwebs

I hate building bases and mine always look ugly so I just copy always

it's easier to copy and then throw in some of your own tweaks than rather build it from scratch.

I usually copy my war base and make minor tweaks, only use original farming bases though.

If it's for war copying a design will only hurt you. You should always build your own war base.

Why use someone's base thats splattered across the web? Personally base designing is half the fun

I copy other's and make some change.

mine are not total copies of the ones i find online, more like derivative work

Designed my own. It nice you see a few of the same style bases, you know how to attack exploiting weaknesses and avoiding strengths. That and the more used patterns are AI trick designed, where I rely on tricking the player in attacking where I want