just a thought: casuals are why whales whale

Real quick, but think about it: casual players are why whales whale, I'm not much of a whale at all, in fact I pretty much have a static account, but I was eating a bit of food the other day and playing a little clash while I waited on my catfish hash, and the dud esitting next to me asked about it. He asked what town hall I was. I decided not to explain th9.5-1+0.75 so I just showed him my phone. He wasn't too impressed, he pulled out his th10 and showed me, it was an awful account, but in his mind it was better than my 1000 war star POS with no infernos...

Now if you were a whale and an experience like that occured, you had all shiny magma walls (zaps were cooler), then I suppose you would garner a great deal of attention in that situation right? And while i don't frequent global, I imagine if you whaled up a max base you'd be the life of the party there too.

But the bottom line is, without people to admire whales, won't whales stop whaling?

Whale will stop whaling soon.

make like japan and slaughter them wales :p

so, to finish, if casuals are why whales whale, then casuals are absolutely critical to the game.

or else I smoked too much crack again and fell down the stairs and hit my head? but it makes sense to me.

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Originally Posted by Humbob

so, to finish, if casuals are why whales whale, then casuals are absolutely critical to the game.

or else I smoked too much crack again and fell down the stairs and hit my head? but it makes sense to me.

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Nope, you are spot on 👍🏻😉

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Originally Posted by Chris4stars85

Nope, you are spot on 👍🏻😉

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ok, ty, 1 more thought.

luxury items of any kind sell to allow people the chance to impress others. Thats the only reason a luxury item is ever sought, its always an ego trip. Clash is of course a luxury item, aside from the team of shrinks they probably employ to try to make it an addiction as well...

take away any knowledge of any given luxury item and nobody would want it anymore. Is my rolex actually good? no its horrible, it never kept perfect time at all and then it completely quit ticking, getting it repaired would be easy enough but I find it quite funny to wear it dead and on the wrong time.

The point being, its the popularity among the general masses that would ever lead a whale to whale, take that away and you're pretty much down to whales impressing each other, but if you take away that real world reinforcement of whaling... It just won't be enough to really justify significant whaling.

So, maybe thats what they had in mind. Make it hugely difficult for non-whales to sport the big artillery, to give whales a chance to stand out more. Big gamble on their part.

And thats why ... thats why the fabled, arrogant, and ridiculous "war community" gets no love. You can't really whale a thousand war stars, you can buy trophies, but you can't buy war wins or war stars. So it is ignored.

Was meaning more about the need for ther non whale players... I'm not overly sure that the motives are to impress others - but then again, the mindset and mentality of some of the forum users I've seen baffles me so maybe it is so

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Originally Posted by Humbob

Real quick, but think about it: casual players are why whales whale, I'm not much of a whale at all, in fact I pretty much have a static account, but I was eating a bit of food the other day and playing a little clash while I waited on my catfish hash, and the dud esitting next to me asked about it. He asked what town hall I was. I decided not to explain th9.5-1+0.75 so I just showed him my phone. He wasn't too impressed, he pulled out his th10 and showed me, it was an awful account, but in his mind it was better than my 1000 war star POS with no infernos...

Now if you were a whale and an experience like that occured, you had all shiny magma walls (zaps were cooler), then I suppose you would garner a great deal of attention in that situation right? And while i don't frequent global, I imagine if you whaled up a max base you'd be the life of the party there too.

But the bottom line is, without people to admire whales, won't whales stop whaling?

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Agree!! Which is why we casuals, and others, need to stop giving them recognition when they come onto global chat with a legend badge!! After all, most of them have brought their way to such high trophy levels and are likely to have minimal skill. These same players haven't had to "play the game" by raiding for resources for upgrades etc I would much prefer to give recognition to the player who has genuine skill and genuinely made their way to the top. After all , one just needs to look at their profiles to have an idea of wich ones are legitimate.

furthermore, the blame for the update changes should be placed firmly on the whales. If no one gemmed, the game would be back to the pre update because SC would recognise that they would be going backward financially.

Just a thought. They want to replace the fish with fish who will pay more.

Superman is very super on earth as he is a whale compared to everyone else here, but on Krypton Superman is probably your average librarian. Without casuals, whales would just all be Kyrptonian librarians.