Alternative builder use?

Hi, guys. Take a read and see if anyone thinks this is a good idea...
I'm at TH9 and don't want to go to TH 10 until, literally, everything is maxxed out, including walls and heroes. The trouble is now, I have maxxed out all buildings that require gold and elixir, so I have 5 builders that are constantly sleeping unless upgrading a hero, which any sensible person would only do one at a time, or removing trees and such. Walls are done instantly as long as a builder is free, so all 5 of my builders a mostly idle now.
So here's the idea...
Could builders be converted (with the option to convert back, of course) to army trainers, perhaps to halve the time it takes to train troops, making raiding quicker? Or maybe convert them into lab assistants to reduce the time it takes for those 14-day upgrades? Maybe not halve it, but knock a day off, or something? What about converting them to miners, so one of your drill, collectors, or mines can be on a permanent boost, one per builder?
It just seems a waste that I paid to get my fifth builder, and now they are all idle, except 1 occasionally, for the foreseeable future.

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Rukh80

Hi, guys. Take a read and see if anyone thinks this is a good idea...
I'm at TH9 and don't want to go to TH 10 until, literally, everything is maxxed out, including walls and heroes. The trouble is now, I have maxxed out all buildings that require gold and elixir, so I have 5 builders that are constantly sleeping unless upgrading a hero, which any sensible person would only do one at a time, or removing trees and such. Walls are done instantly as long as a builder is free, so all 5 of my builders a mostly idle now.
So here's the idea...
Could builders be converted to army trainers, perhaps to halve the time it takes to train troops, making raiding quicker? Or maybe convert them into lab assistants to reduce the time it takes for those 14-day upgrades? Maybe not halve it, but knock a day off, or something?
It just seems a waste that I paid to get my fifth builder, and now they are all idle, except 1 occasionally, for the foreseeable future.

Thanks.

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I think builders are meant to be just builders.
As for the barracks, you can boost it.
As for the lab, you can gem it.

You pay for your builders just once
but if you want to boost your barracks, you can boost more than once!

Oh, I understand that that's the way things are, but the place I posted this is called "Ideas and Future Requests".
Things can change. It wasn't long ago when everyone was categorically saying that Supercell would NEVER stop "zappers" from targetting DE storages, but hey-presto, now that has changed.
All I ask is that the idea is given proper consideration, instead of being told "that's the way things are".
Apologies if that comes across as rude, but there are a lot of "No, because that's the way it is" replies to posts out there, and if we all took that as final, nothing would change, the game would not evolve, and people would become bored.

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Originally Posted by Rukh80

Oh, I understand that that's the way things are, but the place I posted this is called "Ideas and Future Requests".
Things can change. It wasn't long ago when everyone was categorically saying that Supercell would NEVER stop "zappers" from targetting DE storages, but hey-presto, now that has changed.
All I ask is that the idea is given proper consideration, instead of being told "that's the way things are".
Apologies if that comes across as rude, but there are a lot of "No, because that's the way it is" replies to posts out there, and if we all took that as final, nothing would change, the game would not evolve, and people would become bored.

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No, no problem.:thumbsup:
I just gave you my opnion with the reason.:smirk:

My opinion: builders should stay the way they are.
why: because you just pay gems once for them while for boosting you can pay more than once. In other words, profit loss for SC. Because you will get benefit from the builder more than its price.

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Originally Posted by Rukh80

Hi, guys. Take a read and see if anyone thinks this is a good idea...
I'm at TH9 and don't want to go to TH 10 until, literally, everything is maxxed out, including walls and heroes. The trouble is now, I have maxxed out all buildings that require gold and elixir, so I have 5 builders that are constantly sleeping unless upgrading a hero, which any sensible person would only do one at a time, or removing trees and such. Walls are done instantly as long as a builder is free, so all 5 of my builders a mostly idle now.
So here's the idea...
Could builders be converted (with the option to convert back, of course) to army trainers, perhaps to halve the time it takes to train troops, making raiding quicker? Or maybe convert them into lab assistants to reduce the time it takes for those 14-day upgrades? Maybe not halve it, but knock a day off, or something? What about converting them to miners, so one of your drill, collectors, or mines can be on a permanent boost, one per builder?
It just seems a waste that I paid to get my fifth builder, and now they are all idle, except 1 occasionally, for the foreseeable future.

Thanks.

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That's actually a good idea, I doubt SC would actually try this, but I would luv this 👍👍

Its not one of the best ideas.... But your creativity is really.... Really... Bad!! I mean.... Ok...see... Super ell just takes only one out of our million ideas and of the top.... Ur idea is somewhere at the last Frome their point of view...

This would be nice, but this would definitely cut on profits, so I don't see this happening.

Well, maybe make a cost to convert the builders to whatever other role. A cost that is, of course, gem-based. A figure off the top of my head is 50 gems to change a builder to another role. Proper planning would be needed if you had to use gems to change their roles; no point having all your gold mines with a refiner in you don't have enough gems to convert one back to a builder. People caught out could always buy more gems to change them.

Personally I feel that builders are already valued fine as they are. There is no need to buff them, and the whole 50 gem thing to knock off a day? Think that would cut profits too as 50 gems for a day knocked off is pretty cheap, and if you do it with 5 builders you're saving a ton.

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Originally Posted by Rukh80

Hi, guys. Take a read and see if anyone thinks this is a good idea...
I'm at TH9 and don't want to go to TH 10 until, literally, everything is maxxed out, including walls and heroes. The trouble is now, I have maxxed out all buildings that require gold and elixir, so I have 5 builders that are constantly sleeping unless upgrading a hero, which any sensible person would only do one at a time, or removing trees and such. Walls are done instantly as long as a builder is free, so all 5 of my builders a mostly idle now.
So here's the idea...
Could builders be converted (with the option to convert back, of course) to army trainers, perhaps to halve the time it takes to train troops, making raiding quicker? Or maybe convert them into lab assistants to reduce the time it takes for those 14-day upgrades? Maybe not halve it, but knock a day off, or something? What about converting them to miners, so one of your drill, collectors, or mines can be on a permanent boost, one per builder?
It just seems a waste that I paid to get my fifth builder, and now they are all idle, except 1 occasionally, for the foreseeable future.

Thanks.

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Builders have a sole purpose in game and should remain that way.

You purchased a 5th builder to use get your base to where it is now, how can it be a "waste" if you used it? You got what you paid for, the use of the builder.

It is sitting idle now because you choose not move to th10, so it can still be used, you just choose not to use it.