Now that level 12 is out, Supercell should force players to upgrade their collectors.

[dahimi]

Don't agree at all. 1 mill free loot a day automatically is pretty nice. Yeah it can't keep up with my farming if I wanna pull in a 10+ mill resource day but at the end of the week they've given me 7 mil. So every week they basically add one decent farming day to income.

What you have to think about is will taking your archer towers all up one more level actually save you 7 million in loot per week every week? If leveling up a defense set will not save you that every week than the collectors are the better use of build time. For me I never lose more than a 200k per week at most on defense so absolutely I'm gonna stop defense upgrades for mines and pumps

How can you disagree? If you are able to farm enough loot without the collectors to keep builders busy, you don't need the collectors.

The collectors in total represent about 295 days of builder time. That is nearly two full months with all 5 builders working on them. A person that is able to channel the builder time into their other buildings will be considerably further along than someone who works on their collectors instead.

This is common sense really.

Now you may like the extra loot collectors bring and that's great. Upgrade them. However if you don't need it, builder time is better spent elsewhere.

[dahimi]

there have been times when i am nearly at my target for the next upgrade and my builder is nearly free. however if i did not have those collectors maxxed my builder may have been idle for a couple of hours. now, a couple of hours may not seem alot but over the course fo 21 months that could add up to quite a few hours and would morethan likely ad up to the 20 ish days that it took my builders to maxx the collectors.

This would imply you are unable to farm enough to keep your builders busy around the clock. Meaning as soon as a builder is done, you stick them on another project. Not, wait a few hours and stick them on another project.

Is my statement regarding that confusing to you or what?

Also maxing all collectors takes 59 days, not 20ish.

[JohnnyBravo]

Gem rewards are the answer here... But that ship has sailed, needed to be there in the update

[playitlikegabo]

Force? No. Offer an achievement with a gem award? Yes.

This should be the right approach.

[PlanB]

Just give 100 gems when maxing out all collectors. That's it.

[QueenBeeq]

Not force but encourage. They can do things like tie an achievement to upgrading them. Increase their hit points so they take more of a beating at higher levels and thus people will use them as shields.

The root of this issue is a lot of players do NOT see the value in upgrading them. I personally do but until SC tries to see their point of view and address their concerns, this population of players will never upgrade.

I had hoped to see a small boost to the collection rate of all previous levels of say 10% in addition to the new collector level. That would have provided a real impact on day 1.

[coderodent]

CoC min/maxers know that not spending resources on their collectors gives them an advantage: more resources to spend on their weapons towers and less loot available for raiders.

If you have a TH 8+ and collectors that are not maxed for your level then you are part of the problem.

An idle bas with maxed collectors should be a boon to find, but if the collectors are underleveled then it's just another poor target.

[QueenBeeq]

Don't agree at all. 1 mill free loot a day automatically is pretty nice. Yeah it can't keep up with my farming if I wanna pull in a 10+ mill resource day but at the end of the week they've given me 7 mil. So every week they basically add one decent farming day to income.

What you have to think about is will taking your archer towers all up one more level actually save you 7 million in loot per week every week? If leveling up a defense set will not save you that every week than the collectors are the better use of build time. For me I never lose more than a 200k per week at most on defense so absolutely I'm gonna stop defense upgrades for mines and pumps

You are 100% correct. however you are not seeing things from the point of view of the majority of people that do not upgrade. They simply do not see the value in the upgrade and need another angle to entice them. This is where an achievement comes into play.

[SaberSworn]

Collectors are a waste of time. I'm not going to spend 1 month upgrading my collectors with my 5 builders when I could just max everything else and move to TH9 before they'd even be done.

[shutzy]

This would imply you are unable to farm enough to keep your builders busy around the clock. Meaning as soon as a builder is done, you stick them on another project. Not, wait a few hours and stick them on another project.

Is my statement regarding that confusing to you or what?

Also maxing all collectors takes 59 days, not 20ish.

what th lvl are you good sir?