Village Guard & Personal Breaks <-- discuss it HERE!

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Originally Posted by Genbu

So why, oh why, nobody at sc comes out of the bunker and explains what's going on? C'mon guys, are you stupid or are you idiots? Yesterday's update made people unhappy, today's update made people raging! Maybe a lot of people will quit or maybe not, but getting everyone to yell against you is not really a good marketing move to me...

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Don't just boycott buying gems, boycott even using free gems on the clan guard. Use them on other stuff just nothing directly related to this update. I forsee someone loosing a job at SC. The idea is great but it is greedy for a company already making millions that would continue to force this on everyone. SC is not the big oil companies where purchases are a necessity and they can do and say what ever they want, we play out of choice. Please repost boycott suggestion everywhere if you agree.

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Originally Posted by Mistermind

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Then you have three conditions to make it three hours again.

1. Gain a shield (get hit for 30% by 50% of your troop potential)
2. Be Offline without VG for 3 hours
3. The Mercy Rule (last three 6-minute periods and two 15-minute breaks in between to reset traps and CC troops and the like). The 6-minute periods end if you are raided and don't receive a shield.

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Thanks, it's now clearer what happens. The 'Mercy' rule is effectively a way to force your way back into continuous play by forcing you to endure 3 annoying logout login 15min/6min sessions.

sounds like its going to be worse in titans for finding bases. Glad I'm not up there. I bet there will be a tone of people buying the village guards and hunting for bases up there.

I have a hard time playing 6 hours..... not opposed to moving it to 3, but would rather see it go to 4.

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Originally Posted by Gunthar

Okay, I applaud the concept of the timer as a way to fight the bots. It's needed. However, the one thing that really bothers me is that you might get locked out of the game completely and not be able to make war attacks because of some timer. I get the concept and think in principle that it is fine, but it is complete ♥♥ that you might not be able to make a war attack. As leader of my clan I spend a lot of time helping new players, reviewing attacks, providing feedback, etc. All online time that has nothing to do with raiding. Also I spend a fair amount of time sizing up a base before committing. I have literally looked at a base for 20 minutes to visualize all of the steps in an attack before committing and it's complete ♥♥ to think that I could be thrown off in the middle of prepping a crucial war attack. Especially for top seeded players in the clan who typically hold their last war attack until literally the last few minutes so we know strategically the best place to target. Along those lines sometimes players actively farm to help get the resources to fill war CC during prep day. Also, if I'm in the middle of trying to mentor a junior player it would really suck if all of a sudden I get the boot.

Does this online timer count for all time online or just online without a shield? My impression is that it's just the latter. But it's really confusing and could be hard to manage. I don't quite get how the village idiot, err guard plays into this if you need to get on to make a war attack. It says I can buy village idiot time with gems but if the game doesn't let me on, how do i get to the shop?

This issue is especially relevant for clans that are farm/war hybrids like ours. I think there should be some consideration for war built into this personal timer.

I would strongly suggest the following to the developers:

1. No one can be booted during the last hour of preparation day.
2. No one can be booted during the last hour of the actual war/battle day.
3. Players being forced to take a personal break have a change in clan symbol so others in the clan know what's happened.

It would greatly simplify a lot of issues while still maintaining the whole concept of personal breaks.

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the funny thing is the bunnies and mods / bots will find a way around this too... the normal players and genuine addicts will get fed up...

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Originally Posted by Warp3dM1nd

Quit being a self entitled dbag! How about you try that? Oh wait nevermind you are a stockbroker who apparently thinks the world owes your self inflated ego something. Don't you have something better to do such as robbing people for everything they have saved?

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Excuse me? I never attacked you. I commented on the company who runs the game we both play.

You can pretend to know what may or may not be my job, but instead you just come across as an ignorant fool.

I expect the people who run my hobby to be competent. Sorry you don't feel the same.

Personally I think this whole situation is being blown out of all proportion. When you actually look at the facts the longest you will be offline for is 18 minutes spread over three six minute periods, is this really that bad? You all chastise using 10 gems to be able to be online for a further 2 hours but is that really any difference to using 10 gems to boost your spell factory or barracks??

And what about the plus sides no-one has really considered these, there will be a lot more bases available to attack with more loot available, and you wont get punished for stepping away from your device for a short period of time. We have no knowledge of tomorrows loot bonus changes and everyone is making this out to be the end of COC when in essence it may be the injection it needs to get people attacking more. More attacks actually means more loot in the system from win bonuses so this really isn't as bad as people are making it out to be.

So racking my brains to find other names starting with V G other than village guard.

Heres a few.

Vicious Gemming.
Vulnerable Gamers.
Vexed Gameplay..

what are your suggestions.

Im just having a joke here. Honestly i need to see how it all works and what the entire update is before i can decide on my final thoughts on the changes.