Reasons for protecting or not protecting your town hall.

See end of post for the question I'm asking.

So the standard advice for farmers is to leave the town hall outside to try to get a free shield.

Personally I leave it outside because I don't want to waste valuable space on the inside of my base on my town hall. I mean the free shield is nice, but it's not the main reason why. Although when I'm high on de (more than 35-40k meaning I'm offering max amount) I usually run my th out farming base becuase it does a good job of limiting the number of storages people can get at the cost of the de being relatively easy to get (only requires about 35% destruction with tight funneling and jump spell), but if they get my de then worst case they only get 4 of my storages. When I get less de I run a base with my th inside to try to get defenses for the achievement

1st question:
Why do you guys leave or not leave your town hall outside? This mainly applies to the lower leagues. I understand the value of the free shield if you are pushing etc.

2nd question:
Ok now ignore the fact that you get a shield for getting sniped. Would you agree that it's a waste of valuable inside wall space to bring th inside? If you don't care about trophies that is.

For reference I'm a mid th9.

Any base can be at least two stared by a good player. I have saved a bundle leaving my th outside. Many hungry snipers out there:)

The only way to do it when farming, TH out and totally free to get as many free shields as possible.

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Originally Posted by SkullCracker

Any base can be at least two stared by a good player. I have saved a bundle leaving my th outside. Many hungry snipers out there:)

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True. I've done it when I went to champs. But I'm specifically talking about in lower leagues when u see weaker raiding comps. Mainly gibarch at this point by th10s. And occasionally the dumb th9.

I'm editing main thread to better state the question.

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Originally Posted by SkullCracker

Any base can be at least two stared by a good player. I have saved a bundle leaving my th outside. Many hungry snipers out there:)

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This and plus you get no league bonus for winning a defense.

Town hall in if I'm only going to log out for a short period of time.

Town hall out if I'm logging out for a longer period of time and don't want my collectors to fill up enough to be worth hitting.

I'm a new TH 8 and the only time so far I have trophy pushed was to get the 250 gems/unlock addtional builder gained at 1250 trophies. Otherwise I'm only interested in gaining resources to upgrade my base so I leave the TH outside leaving me the option to make use of any free shields or cancel them by attacking. Unless I'm missing something a TH only snipe costs me less than 10 shields which at the league level I'm at I can easily gain by raiding lower TH level bases or even snipe someone elses unprotected TH. Obviously at higher levels the situation may be different. CoC is about give and take. The first time a raider used a giant horde and healer I thought WOW. Now I do it to others.

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Originally Posted by badfish1979

Town hall in if I'm only going to log out for a short period of time.

Town hall out if I'm logging out for a longer period of time and don't want my collectors to fill up enough to be worth hitting.

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Makes sense 👍
I generally do the same.

I'm one of those dumb TH9s using Giant/Archer comp in Crystal III against mid level TH9s. It has been very lucrative for me, but boy am I dumb.

Anyway, I leave my TH outside because 19/20 raids against me are TH snipes. I'm currently finishing lab upgrades before moving up a TH. I don't know how successful attackers would be if I put my TH inside, for now though, I'm happy with keeping my loot and giving up a few trophies. After a little raiding, I have to drop a few trophies to stay in CIII. It seems that CII is a desert for me when it comes to loot.

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Originally Posted by tuesfutu

I'm one of those dumb TH9s using Giant/Archer comp in Crystal III against mid level TH9s. It has been very lucrative for me, but boy am I dumb.

Anyway, I leave my TH outside because 19/20 raids against me are TH snipes. I'm currently finishing lab upgrades before moving up a TH. I don't know how successful attackers would be if I put my TH inside, for now though, I'm happy with keeping my loot and giving up a few trophies. After a little raiding, I have to drop a few trophies to stay in CIII. It seems that CII is a desert for me when it comes to loot.

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Ya c2 is dry dry dry. Anyways what I mean by dumb is they spend about 100k elixir on an army. Use 2 to 3 spells and their heroes. And they get 4 to 6 of my storages in a really good attack usually tjey get 2 to 4 though. I don't get it. Their profit is relatively low. There are plenty of th8s offering similar amounts which require only 1 spell for me and my queen stays untouched.

Also I'm mainly asking people in low enough leaguess that the loot bonus is negligible.