Nobody enjoys getting looted by lightning spells

I have a theory that a lot of players are not good at raiding and thus can not stay in a good clan long because good clans weed out poor players for poor attacking skills. Skills are developed by practicing. Instead there are people who choose the easy way out of looting (especially dark elixir) by using lightning spells. I do not think that this enhances the game.
My idea.
Lightning shield.
When you purchase a lightning shield, when you log off to defend, it creates a shield above your storages ONLY(not collectors). This shield will be invisible to attackers.
-cost: just like purchasing a regular shield it could cost gems according to duration. OR you could purchase it with elixir, again, could cost more for longer durations.
-purpose: village owner can spend extra resources to protect again cheap play. Thus forcing people to learn how to attack a base instead of making 3-5 lightning spells, which in turn will enhance the game because people are properly learning how to attack a base for a desired purpose(trophies/resources)
Making the purchased shield invisible will evolve the game because if it's visible, players can just go on to the next village and do the same thing.

Some naysayers:
People use lightning for killing cc troops.
-the shield can protect JUST storages so if it was active and when you attack a village, let's say the defending cc troops come out and confronted the attack next to a storage. At this point a lightning is used. If the shield is active, none of the resources will be stolen by the Lightning but the defending cc troops will be hit by this spell.
People use lightning for final % to get trophies(usually when you push)
-no one uses lightning on storages for final percentage. It's always used on builder huts or where the hero stand is.

This shield gives a chance for people who spend their time and resources to farm the hard way to not being looted by people who want to farm the easy way. Not buying the shield at all is an option because this problem usually occurs in gold and lower crystal league.

For the most part, people that DO do this will know that these shields exist so they can't complain when they get no loot for using lightning spells. They will now loot with lightning spells at their own risk.
Another note on this:
One could use lightning spells and get little to no loot on a base.
How many times do people attack a base to loot and leave with little to no loot because of good defense/traps/cc? This is a natural occurrence in the game so I do not think that the games integrity changes at all.

Send me some gems if you like this ;)

But everyone enjoys looting DE with Lightning Spells. For ♥♥♥♥s sake people, get over it.

That wasn't too tactful of a way to answer it. :rolleyes:

But it is easy to guess that this is an old, often brought up, growing ever more annoying topic.

If you want to bring up something about blocking the Lightening spell, do a search first. You'll likely get hit with more than a few page full of threads, often repeats.

These threads just keep coming. Terrible idea. No need for a defense to lightning. Play the game and stop crying about such a lame brained attack. Zaps happen, revenge them or get over it.

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Originally Posted by LukeNQ

These threads just keep coming. Terrible idea. No need for a defense to lightning. Play the game and stop crying about such a lame brained attack. Zaps happen, revenge them or get over it.

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It isn't that simple, mostly because people can just choose not to play anymore, thinking CoC is a stupid game. We may hear a small percentage of people complain about it, but there is no doubt many that just had it after one too many raids or DE zaps and rage quits.

As 'nice' as it is that there are abandoned bases out there to loot, it also means less people playing, more people giving it a bad review, and that can eat at SC's income.

When I think about all the issues CoC has, I'm surprised SC has been able to keep the thing going so strong and for so long.

So, one way or another this DE zapping consern needs to be addressed so that most people would be at least tolerable of it (preferably fine and accepting); and almost regardless of how stupid the playerbase reaction may seem.

If SC can make big bombs do 1.5 damage to hogs, then SC can make LS do .5 damage to DE storage.

I bet that the vast majority of people complaining about getting zapped have done the same thing to others at least once since they started playing CoC. If you want to ragequit because you are not smart enough to use a farming layout and/or change your league in order to avoid zappers, feel free to do it.

In response to the title, you are wrong. I love it when people zap me. 99% of the time they snipe my TH also. I loose a few hundred DE for a 12 hour shield instead of a few thousand DE and few hundred thousand gold and elixir. Getting zapped is a MUCH better deal. With that in mind . . .

I'll just leave this hear . . . again.

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Originally Posted by iceageg

. . . First you must understand that zapping is very inefficient for ALL players. For the amount of elixir it costs and time it takes to build all of those lightning spells you could very easily get a boatload more DE with a decent army and attack strategy. This is simple fact supported by elementary school math and years of gameplay proof. For this reason zapping is self-punitive. So why then would anybody do it? There are two basic reasons why people zap.

The first is because they are TH7 or late TH8 and have way more elixir than they can use. They also do not need heal, freeze, rage or jump spells to farm effectively. Add those two factors together and you get prime conditions for spending elixir in wasteful ways and a reason to have lightning spells ready to use at all. Add those two factors together and ANY dark elixir they can get from lightning ends up being a good use of their elixir and time. They can't do anything else with their elixir and have no practical use for spells anyway. TH9-10 on the other hand need both their elixir and a spell or two for attacking other TH9s and TH10s. All of a sudden wasting elixir, time and space on lightning spells actually hurts your gameplay. More about this later.

The second main reason people zap is good old fashion revenge. Almost the ONLY time that zapping is efficient as a TH9 or TH10 is when you have somebody on your revenge list with a full DE storage and you have excess elixir that you can justify burning. You may not want to have a full army sitting around purpose built for the moment you can revenge them so instead you continue farming and keep 3 or 4 lightning spells on hand just incase they are available to revenge. Eventually you get your sweet reward. TH7 and TH8 however have a very different reason for zapping revenge. Keeping in mind that it makes sense for them to zap in the first place, they have another factor to consider. TH9s and TH10s artificially drop trophies so that they can farm easier bases. They do this for the logical economic reasons that a cheap/fast army can get lots of loot and because there is a much lower chance of somebody strong enough to take it finding you before your TH gets sniped. That's right, as a TH9 or TH10 you get to have ALL weaker villages that have zero chance of revenging you effectively on your log AND you are surrounded by them giving you cheap shields quickly. You are INVINCIBLE!!! There's nothing those weaklings can do to stop you!!! MUAHAHAHA!!! . . . except zap the snot out of your DE.

That's right. The ONLY drawback to farming is that those puny little weaklings you have been picking on all along can zap you. It's the ONLY bad thing about farming. Without that you would be able to play completely risk free. Your loot would be safely removed from the economy because nobody could get to it. It would be AWSOME . . . except that the very concept of being invincible and able to hide all of your loot is game breaking. Nobody should ever be safe from attack and nobody should be able to hide all of their loot. Ever. Zapping is the only reason you might want to consider moving up in trophies to play where your TH9-TH10 counterparts exist without artificially dropping trophies.

Which brings us back to the "move up in trophies" response that you discredit so vehemently. Remember when I mentioned that TH9's and TH10's rarely benefit from zapping? That is why moving up in trophies works. Heck, zapping encourages you to move up in trophies. If you WANT to hang out where zapping is effective you should be zapped and often. You are choosing to sandbag so you can pick on the easy targets. I'm not saying that is a bad thing. I do it too and I should be zapped for it. I could do the "honorable" thing and move up in trophies but I choose not to for the same reason you do. Because when I log off I would rather loose 1000 DE to a zapper, or even 3000 DE to three zappers than loose 300k gold, 300k elixir and 3000 DE to the first attack that comes along. Getting zapped and snipped is VERY beneficial.

There are of course a few TH9s and TH10s who do not understand basic math and zap aggressively like they learned to do at TH7. They are their own worst enemy. Wasting their own time and resources, thus slowing their own progression. As Ron White so eloquently put it, "You can't fix stupid." Altering game play to compensate for a very small % of players who are of below average gaming ability is just bad policy at face value. They are already punishing themselves even if they don't realize it. They are certainly not a good or justifiable reason to compromise the health of the game.

In sort, if SC made it possible for you to get all the loot you wanted with no risk of loss they would call the game Hay Day. In a game like CoC nobody should be safe beyond their shield. Ever. Zapping is the only thing that makes danger at every level possible. It is good for the health of the game BECAUSE you don't like it. Not sure if you read it all or not ChicagoSpartan, but it is everything you don't want to hear or acknowledge.

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Just saying what can likely happen. :straightface:

Much of the rage (quit) in-game could be prevented by possibly adding something to it to give players a prospective on things, because it's very easy to look at the negatives, and totally neglect to even wonder about any positives. I can tell people just how much SC (semi-secretly) helped players out by changing small, but very significant, stats around. However I have no hope of letting the entire playerbase know just how much effectively unseen work SC put into things.

Or ratio of how much loot is lost, compared to what they have currently, and how if it wasn't for storage loot caps, players would lose much more when fully loaded storages, and then they'd really cry (and break thier Iphone :rolleyes:).

Zapping usually farms 800 or so DE units at best. With a single baloonion attack I can get up to 2000 DE, while getting 1000+ being pretty common. Most people complaining about zapping do so because they don't put their brains to good use and/or keep breaking the shields that they get in order to revenge zap. Complain about it to karma then, not to SC.