Most strong CoC players have encountered these problems too so I thought I'd make my own thread. Every time I want to save up for dark elixir and get a decent amount some noob townhall 7 lays down all lightning spells on my dark elixir storage then ends the battle. This can be a major problem when you're trying to save up because one lightning spell can take about 300-400 dark elixir... Which means if a player lays down 3 or 4 lightning spells they can take about 900-1600 dark elixir. Now, 900-1600 dark elixir doesn't seem like too much until you consider that they just lay down their spells then end the battle... which means no shield. So while you're gone you don't just get attacked once and lose some dark elixir, you keep getting raided until someone decides to actually raid you and gives you a shield. Especially if you have a strong base you can get your dark elixir storages sniped 2-3 times before someone decides to do an actually attack. 2-3 raids taking 1600 dark elixir from you adds up... especially when you've been working hard and attacking to save up your DE for something specific. Sure, you could just raid a couple bases to get it back but that's 3k-4k DE that you were trying to earn back instead of DE you could have added to your storages. It just gets annoying that you can work hard to save up and protect your dark elixir and then somebody can come along and take half the DE you've earned in a day with little to no effort at all.
Some have said just put your townhall outside so someone will destroy it and you get your shield. This doesn't work because people will snipe your townhall, THEN take your DE. They get your dark elixir AND your trophies. Even though it solves the problem of getting DE sniped multiple times you still can lose roughly 1600 dark elixir in one raid. Which is time and resources wasted trying to earn it back.
There are many solutions to this problem: Increasing hit points of dark elixir storages, making it so that you must get a certain percentage to get all the dark elixir you sniped, some way to detect when snipes DE storages and doesn't give full amount, or add in a trap that you can add to one building that reduces the damage done by lightning spells (as you upgrade trap it can reduce the damage done by lightning spells even more).
These are just some ideas...
Now I noticed that many people disliked the idea of solving this problem... Most likely because they are the ones doing the DE storage sniping. If you are one of those townhall 7's who don't like the idea of working to get dark elixir remember that if you keep playing you'll be in the same position that we are in now, and if the problem isn't solved by then you'll have to deal with it.
Hope my ideas helped and this problem with be solved soon.
