game penalizes you more for having good defense then it does for being ♥♥♥♥

[soonthorn]

Leave your town hall outside, waaaaay outside.

I have 100,000 de, 4 mil elix, and 2 mil gold. Never get attacked for loot.

[Phatphatty]

Leave your town hall outside, waaaaay outside.

I have 100,000 de, 4 mil elix, and 2 mil gold. Never get attacked for loot.

In my origianal post I noted that I was aware of this strategy. In fact I have used this strategy. In my opinion though placing a town hall outside of your walls is detrimental to the game. It gives no real value to trophies. Providing a reward for defensive wins would help make the game more competitive in a manner that is logical. Trophy rankings would actually have meaning.

[KobeSteak]

Phatphatty has a great suggestion:

It would be interesting to see how the game would change if looted resources were only awarded if a player earns a star. Or if a player loses they have to pay the cost of re-arming your traps.

I admit, I tried keeping TH inside, not worth it. So I keep it outside. Crappy part of the game and I really like Phatphatty's suggestion. No way Supercell changes it though. Just seems like a pretty big fundamental change.

[TheMan131505]

I am currently upgrading to TH9 finally after diligently putting in the work to max out my defenses. In preparation for my town hall upgrade I have been saving up my resources to max out my storages and earning the de to purchase the Archer Queen. I have been over the cap point for gold elixir and de for a few days now so as you can imagine I get raided immediately after I log off. What annoys me more than anything is getting raided by someone having them steal all my my available de and then still not getting a shield because they failed to get 50% ... most likely because they were only after the de in the first place. Then because I have not been given a shield another person comes and I lose that much more loot. It is ridiculous if you win a defense you get penalized by not being awarded a shield and you still need to pay to have your traps re-armed. Don't tell me to put my townhall outside of my walls that only promotes stupid th sniping and the times I have done it I end up getting raided anyway because who isn't going to go after 300k gold and elixir and 2000 de? This game can be so aggravating sometimes.

I am a town hall 9 with maxed defenses except for my cannons. I threw my town hall outside and I get seriously raided maybe once a week. I am in gold ll but there are some good players down here as well that could easily get to half my storages but it rarely happens. Even when I have max loot available I get town hall sniped by a th7 8 or 9 the vast majority of the time. I highly recommend a farming base when you get to town hall 9 since there is so much to upgrade. I wish you luck fellow clasher!!

[matrixphijr]

That's the way of the game, either put your town hall out or lose loot, winning is expensive.

I'm doing both, actually. I used to be like the OP when I was in Silver or Gold league. Putting the TH outside didn't matter at all because a TH9 would come along and completely disregard my TH to wreck me and steal my loot sooner than a friendly sniper would. So I switched to a more conventional base and I got bombarded by people who wanted my loot and didn't give a ♥♥♥♥ about the trophies. They'd either lightning my DE and walk away with 0%, send everything in toward my DE storage (and/or the storages with the most loot) and not care if they ended with <40%, or, again, completely wreck my base seemingly just for fun.
Then, I moved up to Crystal (from those "successful" defenses), and I no longer have any of those problems. With my TH outside, I have been sniped every time. Since I only lose a few trophies, I just break my shield when I log back on, with none of the same fears I had before. In fact, I just recently started the upgrade to Level 2 Golems (which costs 60k DE, btw). Used to be I couldn't make it above 20k before I'd get wrecked or lightning'd. Crystal has been amazing to me so far.
Of course, saying this will probably karma me right in the face, but at least I already spent 60k!