*Proof* of why snipers are damaging the economy

[paddy1888]

There wouldn't be snipers if there was no town halls to snipe.

[James169]

I went 11 defenses and only 1 was a snipe this week and last weekend. Of course i'm in gold 1 offering close to max so nobody is going to snipe me lol.

I actually have been thinking lately that nobody is leaving their town hall outside and nobody is doing any sniping. This trend must be dying a little in the low leagues.

I was in gold offering completely full elixir and gold a few days ago and was sniped 3 times out of 3

[pmhausen]

IMHO the OP still applies faulty logic.

The loot is not hidden from the economy. The OP gets to keep it. He is part of the economy.
Farming from other players is (omitting nexting and army cost) a zero-sum game.

Patrick

[paddy1888]

IMHO the OP still applies faulty logic.

The loot is not hidden from the economy. The OP gets to keep it. He is part of the economy.
Farming from other players is (omitting nexting and army cost) a zero-sum game.

Patrick

Also another way of looking at it could be, proof leaving your town hall exposed damages the economy.

[Kirky]

OP posted almost an identical thread in 2014. The concept of "shielding loot" as the only point to the effect of sniping ignores many important points. Focusing only on that point is as flawed now as it was in 2014.

However, forget snipers. Every single raid I do is selfish. It doesn't matter what kind of raid it is I'm always trying to get something for myself at the expense of someone else. So what. That is the point of the game.

Do the rest of you do altruistic raiding?

[NoShineMM]

There is no point to this... for every base that may just get a shield (even more so when a th 7-8 comes across a maxed th 10) and the loot is left behind. Another base gets blasted, th outside or not. If i want trophies only. i dont worry about loot. If i want loot, i dont worry about trophies. If your th is outside with loot, ill take it. if its inside... who knows what i will do.

[coachmoneyball]

I was in gold offering completely full elixir and gold a few days ago and was sniped 3 times out of 3

Interesting. I've been attacked this morning and last night with full attacks in gold 1. I suppose I have have too many defenses upgrading (2 now I think 3 last week). Oh well when I'm max th9 or th10 I'm sure I will get sniped as well! Until then people can keep rolling over me.

[benniebosox]

Hi guys

I was away for a couple of days and decided that I wouldn't touch CoC at all. When I came back I was very surprised to see that my inactive base had not been raided properly, only sniped.

This is the first snipe.



As you can see I have only been sniped and zapped.

This is the second snipe.



So this sniper has hidden 300k of inactive gold and elixir, and 2.33k of inactive dark elixir.

The total amount that has been hidden by this sniper is 704/613/6.33k. That is a large amount of loot that was hidden.

Before anyone says that they didn't have enough troops or something, look at the below points:

1. It doesn't matter, the selfish snipers still hid that look from you guys; and

2. They had enough troops to take a significant amount as can be seen in the below pictures.





So in summary, one of you forum users could have taken 300/300/2k from me + league bonus of 65-100k depending on if you are in crystal 1 or masters 3, just using barch or mass arch. Or you could have taken 700/600/6k from me using lavaloonion if only these selfish snipers would think of what they are doing to the economy.

do I enjoy sniping, nope. Will it stop? Nope. So don't bother.....

[NoShineMM]

Interesting. I've been attacked this morning and last night with full attacks in gold 1. I suppose I have have too many defenses upgrading (2 now I think 3 last week). Oh well when I'm max th9 or th10 I'm sure I will get sniped as well! Until then people can keep rolling over me.

im in Gold 1. 2 xbow and a wiz tower in upgrade (+ 2 de pumps). 8 mil gold. 7 mil elixir, 70k de plus a 1/2 full CC loot. Sniped is all i got for the last 3 attacks. which is fine. lol just depends on what comes along.

[johninsj]

Can you explain why they didn't use any troops to take out some collectors?

Because that's sniping etiquette - if I snipe a TH outside, then I don't get revenged becuase we both got what we wanted. If I do more than snipe (including zapping) that's a "real attack" and I could expect a revenge.

So you put your TH out, and got one snipe and one snipe/zap. The zapper could be revenged.

BTW both snipes CREATED loot (from the bonus) since neither cost more than the units spent or the tiny loss on your base. Had anyone taken your loot, that would have had 0 inpact on the loot supply - it just moved from one base to another - less the cost of the army which is lost forever.