Suggestions For A Different Usage Of Gems

We all use gems for in-game advantages, whether to finish upgrades sooner, boost barracks, resource collectors, or fill our coffers. It all gains us an advantage in one way or another in the game. But the end state of our village is one and the same. By this I mean the #1 ranked player globally at the present (BossHog) has the exact same village the 200th ranked player has. There is very little uniqueness to either aside from some minor decorations. They are both maxed out TH11's. Of course they spent tons of gems to be maxed out quickly enough to protect their rankings. Those rankings are what stand them apart from the rest of the clash world. But how do the casual gamers that play this regularly stand out? What would be our incentive to buy gems to add something unique to ourselves, to our experience?

I think the answer is in our own achievements, albeit small. If there were items in the village shop that correlated to our in-game achievements that unlocked after we hit a certain plateau, we'd be more than happy to purchase that for display in our village. A symbol of our proud work. For example, the Heroic Heist achievement pays the gem bonus once you've raided 1,000,000 dark elixir. What if at 10,000,000 dark elixir a specific flag unlocked that only you could purchase for 500 or 1,000, or however many gems, to place in your village.

This type of acquisition might motivate players to spend gems more toward obtaining these specific goals as well as the item itself once accomplished. Currently the only way to see what someone has accomplished is to look through their profile. Neat, but not very fun. An actual decoration in the village stands out more, it makes the village itself more unique. Something to boast about because the item is only available to the player that unlocked it through actual play. Personally I would see it more as a reward I'd be happy to purchase and display. The target audience includes the grinder that wants to achieve as much as possible while spending as little as possible or nothing at all. These items would not grant any advantages in the actual game. Their sole purpose would be to add a unique rewarding experience. No gem bonus would be given in order to purchase these. A player would either save up gems collected or make a purchase.

If you believe there is merit in this I'd love to hear feedback, criticisms, tweaks, etc.

Interesting... So basically a reward only you can unlock once you achieve a certain level in a certain reward? Cool. :)

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Originally Posted by Cheeserman

Interesting... So basically a reward only you can unlock once you achieve a certain level in a certain reward? Cool. :)

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Thank you very much man. I hope it catches. A LOT of players don't want to spend to get ahead, but in my opinion they would spend to show what they accomplished.

I like the i dea of being able to show off your achievements by adding some kind of decoration to your village home screen, the only thing I would say it should be bought with a low number of gems, I don't think players would want to spend large quantities of gems if they could be going towards say the extra builders but for example

I really like this idea, the only thing is that SC said they won't be adding more flags to the game since it takes quite a bit of space.

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Originally Posted by PureEnergy66

I really like this idea, the only thing is that SC said they won't be adding more flags to the game since it takes quite a bit of space.

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Luckily they've expanded the map XD And I'd agree that there are too many flags. Some players are quite attached to them. Maybe there could be a compromise as this might add gem purchases whereas the national flags are essentially free at 100k gold.

I want a scary looking AngryNeeson "Revenge Attacker's" pike, with messy bits of Elixir spigots and broken storage locks dangling from it to show who they are really messing with if they think about attacking. :cool:

You get it by having progressively fewer revenge buttons on your (somewhat) fixed amount of entries on your defense log. You get little bits added to it, correspondingly to what you got a significant amount of, like dangling trophies from major wins, and recognisable pieces of storages for large loot hauls, and maybe even some pieces of enemy Town Hall decorations for doing many attacks that actually got to the Town Hall.

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Originally Posted by Rue73

I like the i dea of being able to show off your achievements by adding some kind of decoration to your village home screen, the only thing I would say it should be bought with a low number of gems, I don't think players would want to spend large quantities of gems if they could be going towards say the extra builders but for example

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I'm glad you like the idea and that's a good point. The choice would ultimately be on the player. My point of view might be skewed a little since I've unlocked all 5 builders by saving my gems after my achievements, namely advancing in Leagues. But also, I am assuming most that would be eligible for these decorations would be in a good enough position in the game after having already achieved 3 stars on a majority of their achievements.

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Originally Posted by WarrenJames

I want a scary looking AngryNeeson "Revenge Attacker's" pike, with messy bits of Elixir spigots and broken storage locks dangling from it to show who they are really messing with if they think about attacking. :cool:

You get it by having progressively fewer revenge buttons on your (somewhat) fixed amount of entries on your defense log. You get little bits added to it, correspondingly to what you got a significant amount of, like dangling trophies from major wins, and recognisable pieces of storages for large loot hauls, and maybe even some pieces of enemy Town Hall decorations for doing many attacks that actually got to the Town Hall.

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I LOVE IT! Count revenge as a measurable statistic!

Maybe it would be cool to have badges on your profile?