You are stuck with way too much elixer at townhall 8 and it needs to be balanced, which is why you should be able to upgrade Level 8 walls with elixer.
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You are stuck with way too much elixer at townhall 8 and it needs to be balanced, which is why you should be able to upgrade Level 8 walls with elixer.
A new thread is made about this at least twice a week.
Only if you have to hold a minimum of 500k in reserve will this ever be brought back. They tried it once, and it broke the raiding economy because you had lots of bases that weren't worth raiding for long stretches of the game, or that you'd actually lose e if you attacked because lots of players were dumping all their excess e into walls.
You will be thankful it's there once you get to TH9 and your upgrades are all 2-7 million, but this is also a strategy game. You can always go to TH9 if you want something to spend it on.
For the short time SC allowed lower walls to be upgraded with elixir it caused the game economy to crash, that is why it was reverted back to gold only.Quote:
Originally Posted by MLgLegitB
Here is the update note from SC announcing the change:
1) Upgrading Walls with Elixir is now available only when upgrading Walls to level 9 and higher.
Mid-level Wall upgrades using Elixir have become an easy and highly-available place to spend away excess Elixir, which is good for idle Villagers, but bad for active attackers. Our primary goal for Wall upgrades using Elixir was always to give players more flexibility when pushing their Walls to higher levels, so pushing the Elixir option to Wall level 9+ will help us keep this flexibility for the most expensive of Walls while still retaining more Elixir in mid-level battles for when you go on the attack.
Note that moving the Elixir option up to Wall level 9 is the only change to Wall upgrading. The prices in Gold (or Elixir) will remain the same.
You should read, as Xav mentioned, the update notes for when upgrading walls with elixir was moved to level 9; those notes should answer your question and should make you understand why this is not a good idea:
Source: New collector level and retaining more resources in battlesQuote:
1) Upgrading Walls with Elixir is now available only when upgrading Walls to level 9 and higher.
Mid-level Wall upgrades using Elixir have become an easy and highly-available place to spend away excess Elixir, which is good for idle Villagers, but bad for active attackers. Our primary goal for Wall upgrades using Elixir was always to give players more flexibility when pushing their Walls to higher levels, so pushing the Elixir option to Wall level 9+ will help us keep this flexibility for the most expensive of Walls while still retaining more Elixir in mid-level battles for when you go on the attack.
Read that topic; SuperCell thought a lot about it when they made these changes. The removal of level 7 & 8 elixir walls came with other benefits such as level 12 mines/collectors and the extra drills.
All this may seem like a pain for th8s to handle, but removing that pain for them resulted in a lot more troubles for the upper TH levels, which didn't have where to take their resources from anymore. Since SuperCell figured that out and took actions to get the economy back on track, I doubt they will ever change the walls with elixir back.
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Originally Posted by awesomness2016
what he said +1
I'm also a TH8 and now fully maxed with two exceptions Walls and Lab work. Guess what. I'm not complaining... yeah I would like to be able to make use of the 6 million elixir I have in storage every day and yes it is a pain that I still have around 90 million gold to farm to complete my walls but I have read SC reasoning and it makes sense. I will soon be a TH9 and guess who I will be farming my much needed elixir from then? Do I want this changed? No.Quote:
Originally Posted by devil9394
Solution? I sit my Townhall and one/two/three elixir stores out in the corner of the map. The number of stores vary depending on how much DE I have when saving for lab work. I try to entice those TH7 and TH9's to snipe my hall by giving this pink stuff away.
That way... raiders get a nice return.. I keep my much in demand gold/DE until I can save enough to spend it.
So they encourage TH9 to pick on TH8's stocked with useless elixir. TH9's kill TH8's and take their gold and dark too... Pretty frustrating.
Every th works this way. You, as a th8, get most of your resources from th7s. That's just how it works.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gryff
PlayClashOfClans just made a video about this, and I encourage everyone to watch it.
https://youtu.be/D7oZlOHT9RQ
They experimented with this once. It totally ruined the economy for TH8 since there was no more elixir to raid and get, since it was all dumped into walls.Quote:
Originally Posted by MLgLegitB
elixir for level 8 walls really needs to be brought back
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Originally Posted by archer7
....says the level 90 TH8 that has nothing to spend elixir on. I get it that it sucks to not be able to spend your e (thought you could...just upgrade your TH), but you're missing the bigger picture. Adding this feature removes too much loot for raiding, especially for higher level players.