Storage raids are becoming less and less though. I haven't seen any good storage raids since last week.
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Priceless, I love it. So many of us have been playing that way.
Game needs some serious balance love. No need to return to the snipe days. Just need loot increase and troop time and cost lowered. I am able to upgrade, however slow. I get hit really hard fairly often and it will happen. I was in masters and when it got to much to sustain my loot I dropped to silver and have done better. Would rather be in masters again but the cost of troops is too high to be able to maintain a profit.
With The lack of good loot and war bonus dropped I have stopped warring. The cost is far to high for war when it's often a loss. Suppose to be a gain on loot if you manage to win your attack (or should be at least a refunded war army amount) If I want to hit hard bases with war attacks I will simply go back to masters.
^^ this
Those folks with crummy rushed bases are the ones that quit and have been effectively removed from the search pool. And yes, I know they have not been removed, but given such a low % chance to find them that they are effectively gone. All that are left are folks with smart bases and decent defenses who are smart enough to sink all their extra resources into wall or only collect one resource at a time to make them less attractive.
Not sure where this pyramid scheme will end, but current model is unsustainable.
I agree, but the snipe days worked. Also, sniping allowed world records to be broken by lower town hall levels. Say I were Supercell. If something works efficiently, and it pleases the community, I would leave it alone. And if I were to change it in any way, I would make it benefit the community, not harm them. What has happened since this update: The community has been demoted to a lower level of excellence and advancement. The cons outrule the pros in this update, sadly.
I changed to red font the problem with your entire argument. It is also the problem with almost every argument I have seen.
If you are surviving completely off of dead bases then you were doing it wrong. Yeah, it is awesome to find a dead base every once in a while. I found one last night, 600k gold and 700k elixer. I was so excited. But a majority of my GG, EE, and HH are from getting inside the base and taking loot from storages. I get 200-300k/200-300k at a time using GiBarch troops that would work just as well for a TH8 or TH9 with a different ratio. Because of my reliance on spells with my heroes down I am simply treading water with elixer. I feel bad for you if you are hunting elixer. But if I were then I would use less spells and more troops or spells that use dark elixer. Kind of like now I dont use any DE.
You were relying on dead bases. It was an awesome perk but you became reliant on something that the game makers have stated that they did not intend. Now there are many more bases with more loot available and you have to go get it if you want it.