The new freaking anti farm update.

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November 27th, 2015
Bacon123

The new freaking anti farm update.

I can't believe it. Millions of farmers affected. The poor innocent farmers...
November 27th, 2015
Jackdopp

Man, so many threads like this, I agree with them all!
November 27th, 2015
HeXTriX

There will still be farming, but in a different way. The reason why they are doing this because CoC is about formulating a plan to attack, not putting your town hall outside and getting a free shield to hide yourselves from getting your loot stolen.
November 27th, 2015
TheFinalCountdown

This is not an anti-farm update

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Originally Posted by Bacon123

I can't believe it. Millions of farmers affected. The poor innocent farmers...

If you understood the mechanics that are going into it, you would understand they are getting rid of a mechanic that should have never been in the game to start with. The ability to have a lot of loot, and have it "disappear" for twelve hours just for a measly 1000 gold and elixir. A statistic they pulled out is: 80% of attacks in clash of clans are TH snipes. Okay, let that sink in. That means around 80% of the bases that you see in matchmaking are gone throughout the day. Also, they're reducing reloading costs for traps and xbows. And, with the new shield system and village guard, you can EASILY gain back what you lost, usually. The only people who are being left out are: the weird accounts like Clash without walls, or like a high TH level with like level 1 defenses and walls. As long as you aren't a weird, like, really weird account, you should be completely fine. In all honesty, this is freeing most of the loot that people could never truly find.
November 28th, 2015
prosper12

I hope so

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Originally Posted by TheFinalCountdown

If you understood the mechanics that are going into it, you would understand they are getting rid of a mechanic that should have never been in the game to start with. The ability to have a lot of loot, and have it "disappear" for twelve hours just for a measly 1000 gold and elixir. A statistic they pulled out is: 80% of attacks in clash of clans are TH snipes. Okay, let that sink in. That means around 80% of the bases that you see in matchmaking are gone throughout the day. Also, they're reducing reloading costs for traps and xbows. And, with the new shield system and village guard, you can EASILY gain back what you lost, usually. The only people who are being left out are: the weird accounts like Clash without walls, or like a high TH level with like level 1 defenses and walls. As long as you aren't a weird, like, really weird account, you should be completely fine. In all honesty, this is freeing most of the loot that people could never truly find.

I really hope so.
November 28th, 2015
TheFinalCountdown

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Originally Posted by prosper12

I really hope so.

I'm pretty sure what I said will be how it goes... Key words: Pretty sure. Nothing is guaranteed, but if there is a problem, supercell will most likely fix it.
November 28th, 2015
31rambo

Why are you posting here? If you have nothing to contribute, which is what you do in this forum, then keep your comments to yourself or put it somewhere else.
November 28th, 2015
Radiating

First off, this is the wrong place to post this.

Second, farming is only harder, it hasn't necessarily killed farming.
November 29th, 2015
Redyrok

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Originally Posted by HeXTriX

There will still be farming, but in a different way. The reason why they are doing this because CoC is about formulating a plan to attack, not putting your town hall outside and getting a free shield to hide yourselves from getting your loot stolen.

If this is something they think goes against how they planned this game to be played, why wait so may years to stop it? That's my biggest issue with it. It's been around for so long and suddenly, nope it's not meant to be like this. There wouldn't be so much backlash if they hadn't given TH sniping so many years to be used by players. They could've done this in the beginning and not many would've said anything about it. The reason so many are freaking out is its become such a big part of the game, because they let it go for so long.
November 29th, 2015
TheFinalCountdown

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Originally Posted by Redyrok

If this is something they think goes against how they planned this game to be played, why wait so may years to stop it? That's my biggest issue with it. It's been around for so long and suddenly, nope it's not meant to be like this. There wouldn't be so much backlash if they hadn't given TH sniping so many years to be used by players. They could've done this in the beginning and not many would've said anything about it. The reason so many are freaking out is its become such a big part of the game, because they let it go for so long.

Because this kind of stuff ruins the economy. Did you not hear that 80% of attacks are TH snipes? Hypothetically speaking, that means 80% of the bases that probably have decent loot are gone. Think about it.
November 29th, 2015
awesomness2016

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Originally Posted by TheFinalCountdown

If you understood the mechanics that are going into it, you would understand they are getting rid of a mechanic that should have never been in the game to start with. The ability to have a lot of loot, and have it "disappear" for twelve hours just for a measly 1000 gold and elixir. A statistic they pulled out is: 80% of attacks in clash of clans are TH snipes. Okay, let that sink in. That means around 80% of the bases that you see in matchmaking are gone throughout the day. Also, they're reducing reloading costs for traps and xbows. And, with the new shield system and village guard, you can EASILY gain back what you lost, usually. The only people who are being left out are: the weird accounts like Clash without walls, or like a high TH level with like level 1 defenses and walls. As long as you aren't a weird, like, really weird account, you should be completely fine. In all honesty, this is freeing most of the loot that people could never truly find.

Thanks for this. You pretty much nailed it. I hate all the whining when we haven't seen how it is going to work yet. And all this farming is dead ♥♥....protecting your loot by putting your TH out for a free shield (which only works 80-90% of the time anyway) is NOT farming. Farming is the act of focusing on gaining loot rather than trophies when you attack a base. So really, this seems like it will help farmers more than it hurts because yes you'll get hit for loot more often, but you'll be able to find bases with loot more easily, and you're guaranteed to be able to get at least 3 attacks in for every 1 time you get attacked.
November 29th, 2015
TheFinalCountdown

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Originally Posted by awesomness2016

Thanks for this. You pretty much nailed it. I hate all the whining when we haven't seen how it is going to work yet. And all this farming is dead ♥♥....protecting your loot by putting your TH out for a free shield (which only works 80-90% of the time anyway) is NOT farming. Farming is the act of focusing on gaining loot rather than trophies when you attack a base. So really, this seems like it will help farmers more than it hurts because yes you'll get hit for loot more often, but you'll be able to find bases with loot more easily, and you're guaranteed to be able to get at least 3 attacks in for every 1 time you get attacked.

Finally, someone gets it, rather than trying to mindlessly argue with me when they don't think outside of the box.
November 29th, 2015
Indestructable

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Originally Posted by Radiating

First off, this is the wrong place to post this.

Second, farming is only harder, it hasn't necessarily killed farming.

It might not have even made it harder. It's hard to tell right now but if those 80% of bases are put back into the matchmaking, I'm sure finding more loot will actually be much easier. Plus, there will always be inactive bases.
November 29th, 2015
Porkloin

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Originally Posted by TheFinalCountdown

If you understood the mechanics that are going into it, you would understand they are getting rid of a mechanic that should have never been in the game to start with. The ability to have a lot of loot, and have it "disappear" for twelve hours just for a measly 1000 gold and elixir. A statistic they pulled out is: 80% of attacks in clash of clans are TH snipes. Okay, let that sink in. That means around 80% of the bases that you see in matchmaking are gone throughout the day. Also, they're reducing reloading costs for traps and xbows. And, with the new shield system and village guard, you can EASILY gain back what you lost, usually. The only people who are being left out are: the weird accounts like Clash without walls, or like a high TH level with like level 1 defenses and walls. As long as you aren't a weird, like, really weird account, you should be completely fine. In all honesty, this is freeing most of the loot that people could never truly find.

Hey, all fine and good, so why limit me to playing only 3 hours before I get kicked off? They want people to play more, to attack more, so they kick them out of the game?

I think you're right that farming will not really "be dead." That said, nobody really knows what all will happen. Eh, "interesting times" if nothing else.

On the "80% of attacks in clash of clans are TH snipes" - surely this must mostly be at higher League levels....? The League Bonus gets to be a meaningful and substantial deal in Masters and above, while for Crystal it helps if attacking the base and I guess with many attacks would still add up nicely. But for all of Gold, Silver and Bronze the bonuses are so puny that most players past a certain point in game progress would be better served by actually hitting entire bases.