Players putting the townhall outside of base is just a sign for wrong gameplay design

[cyro99]

Many players put their townhall outside of theirbase for better protection of ressources and to get a shield when their townhall is destroyed. This is a quite common habit among Clash of Clan players ...
why do you make this possible? Isnt it just wrong to make such a central component of the base so vulnerable to attacks?

And there is now another issue due to this in clanwars, because many players dont adapt their base to clanwars, it is possible for very low ranked players, to just put some archers in front of the townhall of high leveled player that put his townhall outside of base and thus gain a great loot bonus. Why is this a problem you may ask? Because he only gets one star ... other players in the clan have to go the hard way and use a lot of ressources to build an army and spells to get 2 or 3 stars in order to make the clan win ... and this one player just puts 20 archers in front of the townhall and gets even more loot bonus for free ... because the other players in the clan have fetched enough stars already ...

In my opinion this is just stupid gameplay design. Just make every player have to protect the townhall.
Why dont give any player who destroys the townhall automatically 25-50 % of the available loot?
Then this habit of putting it outside of the base will come to an end. To see all these townhalls outside of base just feels so awkward and unlogical.

[ProudZiggy]

Just kick the member if you don't like him sniping the THs..

[Phoenix64]

Many players put their townhall outside of theirbase for better protection of ressources and to get a shield when their townhall is destroyed. This is a quite common habit among Clash of Clan players ...
why do you make this possible? Isnt it just wrong to make such a central component of the base so vulnerable to attacks?

And there is now another issue due to this in clanwars, because many players dont adapt their base to clanwars, it is possible for very low ranked players, to just put some archers in front of the townhall of high leveled player that put his townhall outside of base and thus gain a great loot bonus. Why is this a problem you may ask? Because he only gets one star ... other players in the clan have to go the hard way and use a lot of ressources to build an army and spells to get 2 or 3 stars in order to make the clan win ... and this one player just puts 20 archers in front of the townhall and gets even more loot bonus for free ... because the other players in the clan have fetched enough stars already ...

In my opinion this is just stupid gameplay design. Just make every player have to protect the townhall.
Why dont give any player who destroys the townhall automatically 25-50 % of the available loot?
Then this habit of putting it outside of the base will come to an end. To see all these townhalls outside of base just feels so awkward and unlogical.

Yeah.. it's "ILlogical", but I will agree, it feels wrong. However, It just makes sense. Also, in clan wars, if they only one star you, there's no problem.

[SorrowCat]

As the way I see it people can play as they want, the way they want
Nothing wrong here
(the title made me laugh for some reason )

[xtalx]

Rarely if ever see any TH outside now. Clan Wars appears to have almost totally eliminated this tactic.

Which is good, considering SC refused to do anything about the general cheapness of doing it (and sniping it).

[Coldfury]

There's two aspects to CoC. You have the "farming" aspect, where it's all about obtaining loot quickly and more importantly holding onto it. You then have the "trophy pushing" aspect where trophy's are the valuable resource and loot not so much.

Would you say the same thing about a player putting their storages outside to entice somebody to "snipe" their resource storages and give them the "easy loot" with very little resources expended and the defender "free trophy's"? It's the exact same thing as putting your TH outside for a "free shield".

Just because you put your TH outside doesn't mean you're not going to get steamrolled, it's just playing the odds. If you put your TH inside then you'll likely have 10-20 people skip past your base before the guy with the strong army comes by and steamrolls you. If you put your TH outside then every one of those 10-20 can snipe your townhall and get some easy trophy's and give you a free shield.

I'm not sure why it bothers you that every player has a choice of what's important to them. Loot or trophy's

[Coldfury]

Rarely if ever see any TH outside now. Clan Wars appears to have almost totally eliminated this tactic.

Which is good, considering SC refused to do anything about the general cheapness of doing it (and sniping it).

I still put mine outside in between CW's. It's pretty cool now because before CW I would sometimes sit for quite a while before getting a shield, but now that very few players are doing it I get one almost instantly. ;-)

[cyro99]

Just kick the member if you don't like him sniping the THs..

That wouldnt be diplomatic, its the first time I see a low ranked player doing this.
Maybe wait until the next war ... but our clan is open for anyone to join ...
so there will always some guy like this who happens to join us I guess

[Darktitan]

I disagree. Farming is valuable part of the game and without it players could never get their bases maxed out in a timely manner. Now you might say "yeah just farm with you town hall inside you base" or something along those lines but the problem with that is your trophies would go up too fast and then before you know it you yourself are having to attack other players that are maxed out. Also whats the point of the game if its only about getting trophies? It'd be kinda boring if everyone was doing the same thing. I will agree that it is annoying when someone leaves their town hall outside when doing a clan war but all that needs to be done is give them the boot.

[BoomBeachBum]

Farming in crystal 1 you dont see many townhalls outside...if any.