The Social Aspect: Friends, Chats, PMs
I'm not one for making many suggestions on a game. But this is one of the aspects of a multiplayer game I feel strongly about. There are plenty of interesting games on the market that gets me interested in playing, CoC included. But it's often the lasting connections that you make in a game that keeps you playing, and one of the reasons MOBAs and MMOs are so popular and holds such sway for many such as myself.
Friend System + PMs
Personally I really enjoy the depth of the game mechanics that's been developed and I feel they've done a great job so far. However the game feels very lacking on the social aspects. I would really like to see a friend system that is already very prevalent to pretty much every MMO on the market, where you can send an invite and they can decide whether or not to accept. And buddies can send private messages to one another freely, where as I think strangers should still be allowed to send PMs, but should be restricted to one/x hours to reduced the amount of potential harass/spam.
The reason I ask is because I find it difficult to contact or even keep touch with people I meet in this game unless we were in the same clan, and that in itself takes a lot away from the game experience. Not to mention it can be really frustrating sometimes when you really need to get a message to someone and just cannot!
New chat for global
I also feel we need a new tab in global chat just for socializing for people who are bored/waiting, as currently global chat is dominated by people who are recruiting/looking for clans. I propose we get a separate tab for just that purpose so the rest can use it for what it's really intended for, chatting.
Clan bulletin and trading
A few more things that I personally would love to see implemented. A trade/donation system in the clan for spells/gold/elixirs/dark elixirs because sometime I just wanna help or had extra I don't need or want to trade for other resources, would be so helpful and help build up friendship amongst clan mates. A bulletin or forum for posting war strats and other important messages/points of discussions would also be helpful and not let important bits of information get buried in clan chat.
p.s. your chat/message filter system is so dysfunctional. It's full of loop holes for the words that you want to be filtering, and sensors many random words that I cannot even begin to guess why. It's really more of a hinderence than a help, especially for your more mature audiences. Please have an option somewhere (perhaps where you can confirm their age) to allow for it to be turned off, at least for viewing if not for typing/posting for the love of anything holy.
Thanks for anyone who read through this lengthy post. I don't really expect all or any of my demands to be met, as with anything in life, but I do hope you will take some of my opinions into considerations. Let me know if you guys agree? Disagree? What you think
