Yessss ULTRA AGREEEEDEDDDDD😄
My pumps and mines are all like lv1-3 and im th 8 xD.
I cant affort gemts to speed things up fast so i rather upgrade my defenses so the loot i take stays mine.
mines and pumps should auto level when your th levels up tbh. I will never upgrade them myself.
The best bases are balanced bases... in simple economic terms it's worth people upgrading, the argument that says I don't want to waste time building them is not a long term argument, if you have no collectors or very small collectors your game stagnates when you don't play, considering the sheer time required to level up high level buildings those collectors and mines pay for themselves thousands of times over in how much time you save yourself attacking people to try and get loots.
If you are not planning on playing the game for several months you are not going to really get anywhere in this game so there really isn't any point discussing that.
Invest in the collectors and mines early and reap the rewards, don't and every minute you play this game the more you lose.
In the end it's your play style and play it how you like but your blanket statement lacks a deeper understanding in the global mechanics of this game.
thats why, supercell as the government, should intervene.
Making it mandatory for each player to have a certain level for their collectors
TH5 must have 5 of each collectors, and must be at level 7 and above.
TH6 must have 6 of each collectors, and must be at level 8 and above.
TH7 must have 6 of each collectors, and must be at level 9 and above.
TH8 must have 6 of each collectors, and must be at level 10 and above.
TH9 must have 6 of each collectors, and must be at level 11.
If they do not meet the required level for their collectors, they cannot upgrade their town hall, simple as that.
I think it would be very difficult to retroactively change this rule, it would probably encourage more people to quit than to upgrade that said perhaps we could come up with another incentive for people who upgrade their collectors more.
maybe if your collectors are a maxed for your townhall level it give an HP bonus to all your buildings... something like that...
or maybe a 5% discount on walls (for maxed mines) and 5% discount on troops (for maxed collectors)