League update: FEEDBACK here

[ryskew]

I'm not a fan of the low loot bonus, I have played this game since november and can barely sustain being over 2200 trophies. This is why the loot bonus should be greater. That said, well done on integrating the league into the game.

[Vilehelm]

I know I'm a broken record on this but ....

Having the bonus be a small multiplier of what you raid would be way better than the current fixed bonus.

Higher the trophy level the larger the multiplier.

This would give a small reward for a small efforts, like TH sniping, and encourage farmers to push to higher trophy levels.

[Stitch]

How about:

1) Extra loot bonus for win series? ie: if you win 2 in a row you get loot bonus + 10%, 3 in a row would be loot bonus + 15% etc.

2) Start with a larger loot bonus but then it drops each time you press search? The more you search the less you can get as bonus.

3) Small loot bonus for successful defence?

4) Tiny DE bonus for lower leagues? ie: Gold III would get 10 DE for winning.

[RKO]

We should get the dark elexir bonus at a lower trophy count

[Docxylo]

The other big source of $$$ for supercell are the "whales". Google clash of clans whales and Wired magazine had a good article. The "whales" are the players that spend thousands of $$$ playing every month.

First of all this is a business and as such it has to focus on making money.

My guess is that gems are mostly purchased by new players rather than by experienced ones, since the marginal value of elixir and gold decreases as you advance in the game (costs increase exponentially)

Therefore in order to keep making more money, Supercell needs to increase or at least maintain the flow of newcomers into the game.

I think this update goes in the direction of:
- Making it easier for new players
- To incentive experienced players to fight for trophies rather than resources.

My opinion of the update is a total failure given those objectives.

Some suggestions for supercell:
- To increase the production ratio of goldmines and elixir collectors por TH9 players so resources accumulate faster and players concentrate on fighting for trophies.
- To increase the loot bonus so higher level players do not attack smaller ones.
- To incorporate the experience level into the equation for calculating the available loot so that attacking more experienced players posses an incentive and viceversa.
- Come up with promos for buying gems cheaper (during christmas for instance).
- Come up with a new type of gem that can give you much more than the regular gem but it is only available for players with a certain level of experience, TH and trophies. And make it such that it can be stolen.

[QueenCandy]

The other big source of $$$ for supercell are the "whales". Google clash of clans whales and Wired magazine had a good article. The "whales" are the players that spend thousands of $$$ playing every month.

I read on a site where a high level player was saying, "Big spenders are paying Supercell's bills and we are their bosses"

Here is the Wired magazine link on COC's "Whales"
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/1...he-whales/all/

[OrbitalFox]

I am glad this thread has included some points referring to the gem players.

Although I don't gem myself my concern would be the reductions in time for upgrades made to the mines in the last update, along with previous reductions for other buildings over previous updates.

Whilst SC may be able to argue the point "you buy a car, then a month later you see the same car cheaper. It doesn't entitle you to a refund" I think these reductions are done differently.
The reductions, in my opinion, are an acceptance of the fact that the upgrade times for these buildings was previously too long.

Whilst this is mildly annoying to me that my builders were busy for this extended period of time, whilst others can now achieve this quicker, I would feel more aggrieved if I had used gems - and therefore REAL money - to speed these up. The admittion of setting the timescales too long and reducing them should not see customers out of pocket.

The leagues are not worth talking about. They are a non-entity. I have been relegated twice already as I see no benefit to ensuring a win other than those that were already in place.

To make the leagues work players need some kind of reward, not necessarily financial - even bragging rights are enough, but the league doesn't categorise players as you are free to move up or down just by playing as before.

I have said on another thread that the addition of another wizard tower and air defence have ruled the minions as useless. They are too weak to take on all of this new air power. At their current strength they need to be changed to only one housing space. This will make them more usable in waves.

I can't comment on the golem. 5 days and I will come back on that...

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[fabr1c]

The league is ok... The problem is with the loots available now on most bases... Gettin hard to find bases with capped loot.. Please change that back to 25% or find another way to gain loot like bigger bonus from the leagues. Thank you

[Flamingsauce]

the loot bonus is way too low for it to be of any use, plus you guys made a 5% loot decrease because of the bonuses so i would say the new update did not improve the game, although there were a few cool new features.

[fister]

I read on a site where a high level player was saying, "Big spenders are paying Supercell's bills and we are their bosses"

Here is the Wired magazine link on COC's "Whales"
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/1...he-whales/all/

Ha ha! Lee's drinking binges sound legendary. 6k with friends? Defo was a strip club involved.