Has anybody ever thought about having a "resource village" like there is in Boom Beach where people can attack it and it can bring loot to your main village with the ocean side of the map. You might be able to go to it and upgrade Gold Mines and Elixir Collectors to get more gold/elixir/dark elixir per hour. This base might be able to be looted but might be better as just your own personal resource village that you will get a guaranteed profit on just to help out.
Reply to this if you have more ideas about the resource village.