Text wise ,why is TH sniping part of Clash

[JKL2207]

It's like Obama waving a white flag and say "Bomb the white house and then please leave us alone!" (No offenses)

A better analogy would be like handing Obama over in exchange for not being bombed.

[bazooka]

I'll stop placing my TH outside when supercell decide to remove storages and use TH instead to store gold and elixir.

Because the only thing the TH guard right now is 1/3 of available cup which I can't use for upgrading anything.

If white house can be build instantly after every time it got destroyed then I'm pretty sure Obama will let the enemy bomb it in exchange of shield and keeping the american people save.

[Tonedidit]

In my own experience leaving my th outside when hold large amounts of loot keeps it all in my storages cause th6's and what not snipe and save me from other farmers who would be salivating to get at my goodies. And it keeps me at a constant trophy range of my choosing depending where the loot is. At is all........

[SKSTRAFE]

Gotta love em th snips in 4000+ cups !!
Im doing 3-5 lvl 10 walls a day

[KevyClashes182]

I would say at least half of the active players have an exposed th, and that is good, if you are pushing or if you are farming. Even the top players in the world have an exposed th, but for a different reason.

[Ddibbs]

When farming, 90% of the time, I move my TH to the outside, loot storages toward center. Out of the 30 attacks on my base, 29 of them have been just for the TH trophies!
I get 12 hr shield and my loot is protected! Win win...

[Tiler]

I think OP understands why the mechanic works well for players, I believe they're just wondering why the mechanic is allowed to exist. I've always thought that the TH outside was a cheap out (doesn't stop me from doing it), and I agree there should be some incentive to protect it

[TheHowie]

Ultimately though it depends on whether SuperCell consider it a problem, as it has been happening from day dot.

If SuperCell wanted to stop it they could do the following:

Punish it
1) Put more loot in the town hall.
2) Give shorter shield for town hall only losses.

Promote proper defence
1) Reduce trap re-arm costs, as defending costs way too damn much.
2) Offer league bonuses for winning a defence.

I would love to see them take the promote proper defence avenue, actually make offence & defence interesting.

I wholeheartedly agree with the statement above. I'd love it if SuperCell would promote defense. Personally, I always have my TH outside simply because the small amount of cups I lose on a snipe is trivial compared to the loot lost on a full scale attack. This comes even more into play in today's gameplay where loot is almost non existent. Players do what they can to protect what they have.

In the past week while hoarding 6 million elixir for my level 3 pekka upgrade almost all attacks against me were TH snipes (even with loads of elixir available to loot). I think I only had 2 or 3 storage attacks and I easily recouped those costs while raiding. This is the reason my TH stays out. It simply makes sense.

This doesn't even touch on the fact that rearming all my traps costs over 70k gold.... TH snipes don't spring any traps so it's free.

[HenkDTP123]

It's like Obama waving a white flag and say "Bomb the white house and then please leave us alone!" (No offenses)

And what if Obama can save millions of lifes with that? Instead of saving lifes, we save our resources.

[imdrunk]

To be fair, if everyone was in the proper leagues they should be we would all be much better off

Unless you gem, the ONLY effective way to farm enough resources to move through the game is by picking on those slightly below you or the inactives. If I stayed in the 'proper' league, I would need to be building a 400k purple (with spells) and 1.5k DE army in hopes of getting a star or two and hoping to recover some of the vast amount of resources GoWiPe + spells requires. The only way max TH10s are going to find it profitable to beat up on other max TH10s is if there is an enormous amount of loot available with the average base.

If you've ever done a proper trophy push, you'll know how quickly you become 'poor' having to go up against tough bases.