New Multi-player War Base Search
I'm the clan leader of an established war clan that's been going to war since literally the day clan wars were introduced (our overall record is 200-21-5). Needless to say, my clan is not new to wars and has a pretty good understanding of war strategy and war attacks in general. However, we understand our limitations as players; I would say most of our clan members are average to above average with very few who are truly talented. One thing we do pride ourselves in is striving to be better. Our clan's leadership is an extension of myself, a grinder who believes the only way to really get better is to put in the work, in this case: practice. Given the game's clan war mechanics, it's very difficult to practice war attacks. Yes, normal bases are available to attack at any time, but we all know that most of those bases are mostly designed to protect loot and not stars. It hit me the other day that a very simple solution to this problem could be the following:
Add a new war base search that mimics the existing normal search, with one big difference - instead of searching Home bases, it searches War bases. Practically every player has at least one base of each type. The Normal base obviously is active for normal search. However, the war base is only active during war and totally useless when the player is not in war. Why not put it to use in a new war base search?
Obviously, there are details that would need to be worked out such as loot, shields, and how to handle the CC for war bases. But the idea is to allow players to legitimately practice when they want to. And defensively, players can easily try out new war base designs before activating them for actual war. To me, this would be a very simple way to improve the quality of war-centric players offensively and defensively at all levels.
The existing search would still exist and work the same, of course. This would simply be a new option available when a player clicks "Attack".