I have a new idea/perspective on how lightning spells on Dark Elixir Storages should be handled.
I know everyone or most everyone is guilty of having Lightning Spelled Dark Elixir at one point, but there should be a cap/limit on how much can be taken. I think 300 to 400 should be the limit with lightning spells. I'm obviously speaking from the defensive standpoint. Please read on, before you spam with hate on the idea.
All those of you who are currently TH7s and have to resort to this due to raiding difficulties on TH8s and TH9s will probably be against this, but trust me when i say that eventually you will be on the other side of it, and you'll be glad that there was a limit, if it should be invoked. I'll go so far as to say don't take it away completely, but limit how much someone can take with Lightning Spells. After all there is NO skill involved (and NO defense against it) when raiding Dark Elixir with Lightning Spells (that's why it angers people even more so when it happens), and besides 300 to 400 isn't a bad deal for a TH7 who has no Dark Elixir Drill to begin with.
Why do i say 300 to 400 Dark Elxiir?
Well I'm assuming most people sleep, and for obvious reasons people don't play while they sleep. If my last raid is when i go to bed, and my next raid is 8 hours later, but someone hits my dark elixir storage with Lightning Spells when i go to bed, I can absorb the hit, because my maxed out drill at TH8 will have collected 360 Dark Elixir while i sleep. I would prefer that it just didn't happen (obviously), but if it must, 300 to 400 is something that can be shrugged off as petty theft.
Why not more?
Well as a TH8 with maxed out Troops and Maxed out Spells, raiding dark elixir can still be difficult. I, personally attempt to not raid any base under 700 dark elixir. As i stated before, I don't use Lightning Spells on their storage. I'll build my army and work my way into the center (with rage spells and heal spells if I must). But the way I see it, I earned that 700, 1000, 1500 or however much dark elixir I raided.
When you fight for each of your 700+ Dark Elixir raids, it's annoying that because we need to save over 20,000+ for our upgrades, that anyone can just come along with a few lightning spells and take just as much without breaking a sweat.
To make matters worse, sometimes they only lightning spell and leave (giving you a victory), but then some other person comes along and lightning spells you again. I had this happen to me a couple times in the past.
I believe this to be a fair request, set a cap/limit on how much people can take when they only use lightning spells.
Originally Posted by gcomeau
