Time to rethink dark elixir storage

[llcheezusll]

When I go to the grocery store, I do not have to leave with a basket full of merchandise. I can pick up a pack of bubble gum and call it a day.

Haha which would be all good if I were selling it to you at market value.

Poor analogy, you can do better.

[llcheezusll]

At TH7 you have a DE storage with no way to produce it. You MUST get it from TH8 and up players you have no chance of beating. What's more it is extremely common for TH9-10 to come down into the 1100-1400 trophy range to farm abandoned/inactive collectors. The only drawback is getting their DE zapped by people who are not worth revenging. It is a GOOD dynamic to have in the game. If you want to speak of cowardice and incompetence it would be more accurate to point your finger at the TH10s who hang out in silver 1 and gold 2-3. I don't agree but it would be more accurate than calling a TH7 zapping a TH9-10 a coward.

Why can't they both be cowards?

And again I'm not necessarily saying eliminate it, but I do think the current reward for the effort expended is unreasonable.

[Jayarikahs]

Haha which would be all good if I were selling it to you at market value.

Poor analogy, you can do better.

I think perhaps you do not understand. no problem. if a person used a real attack on you and still could not reach your DE storage and they decided to use their bolts on your DE, are they still cowards?

[rwelshjr]

if "you get what you work for" then there is no point in raiding because raiding is stealing and that is not really considered "work"

A Lightning spell costs time and money to make. Its not really the most efficient way to get stuff. What you can get with it for what you expend is questionable at best. It will never replace good old fashioned raiding as the way to get resources.

I think really you just want it to be a guarantee safe haven 100% protected from anything and everything if you drop low enough. Its already a 'much safer' haven and you should be happy with that. It would ruin the game if there was any place we could scurry too where we were 100% safe from everything? Heck, I would hide there all the time and only come out when I was online and raiding and go back before leaving.

Actually, there is such a haven, just buy a shield. (and if you are expecting SC to give you a free alternative to something they are trying to sell you then that's just not realistic)

[Brick2025]

Sigh...Another zapping thread.
I'm 100 against your idea and 100 for zapping.
TH9s can't attack and get plenty of loot from TH8s without backlash if we do this, nothing will deter high town halls from farming lower town halls.

[llcheezusll]

I think perhaps you do not understand. no problem. if a person used a real attack on you and still could not reach your DE storage and they decided to use their bolts on your DE, are they still cowards?

No and that's a really good point. I still don't think the DE payout is at a reasonable level for simply dropping spells.

That's why one of my ideas is to have an option that makes your storage less vulnerable for lighting reducing the payout. In exchange it becomes less resistant to troop damage and it's easier to lose all of it.

[justinhu]

Why another thread about this? I'm going to start standardizing an auto reply for this! I know how frustrating it can be. However then give us a solution for TH7's to get DE. And no, it doesn't mean a new Drill for them. If we added this in, this forum would be full of Town Hall 7's complaining about no Dark Elixir.

[justinhu]

If you have problems with Zapping. Go to a higher trophy level. I doubt Supercell will fix this, because otherwise they would also have to find a way for TH7's to get DE.

Then again, most people complaining are farmers who want to be down there to get TH7's for farming! Sometimes you can't get cake and eat it too.

[SuperMarc]

9 lightning spells on 3 attacks cost me approximately 2450 elixir so far today. My dark elixir storage is well protected and no enemy troops got within 20 tiles of it or even breached my walls. This seems unreasonable to me.

I was thinking maybe a dark elixir storagw level 7 that's made of rubber and impervious to lightning spells, no need to upgrade capacity, just to offer some protection against cheap attacks.

Or perhaps a defense option, similar to xbows or inferno towers. Like an option that makes it more resistant to lightning but more susceptible to other damage that you can turn on/off.

3 cheap attacks should not cost me half a day's dark elixir production especially when the attacker is making no effort to destroy my village.

Id say no. Why don't you just start zapping dark elixir like everyone? It's a great income. (Ps I'm a farmer and I haven't use this in like three months

[llcheezusll]

If you have problems with Zapping. Go to a higher trophy level. I doubt Supercell will fix this, because otherwise they would also have to find a way for TH7's to get DE.

Then let them still get it that way but at a lower rate with some additional risk to the defender. The payout is just far too generous.