The attack-zap / revenge-zap conundrum. From what I now see...
Primary fact1: SC NEED to place as much pressure on players to purchase gems using THEIR version of the balancing game: try not to ♥♥♥♥ too many people off.
Primary fact2: Dark storage takes excessively long to build up.
The 'fair' view: the amount of effort taken to achieve something should be equal to the effort to destroy/steal it.
Ok folks, now guess SC's viewpoint. Rest assure, they are monitoring disquiet traffic, and rest assured, they WILL apply dampening down tactics upon any net/forum disquiet...you will get SC staff/associates/etc active in these forums, for example. That is business sense...until...
Once the disquiet noise crosses a loudness threshold rest assured also that SC WILL do something about it.
Primary goal for SC: drain OUR (non virtual) gold storages.
Last edited by mesab; May 18th, 2015 at 07:41 AM.
I honestly can't understand why zapping is a thing. I'm not talking about lightning stealing loot etc. But I can't understand the attraction. I like to try out all the things that make people mad in the forums, to see if they're really as OP or problematic as the forums like to cry they are.
Honestly the Gain vs Loss is so terrible with Zapping. I'm close to max TH 7 and 3x level 4 lightning spells costs me roughly `60,000 Elixer, when you compare that to the gain of like... 2-300 DE, it's not really worth it. I switched to Barch and I was pulling in a lot more DE for roughly the same Elixer cost if not less, it doesn't make a lot of sense economically to be zapping. Not to mention the time cost involved. I can train a full 200 strong Barch 3 or 4 times before I could have 3 lightning spells completed without boosts.
I don't think it's really worth complaining about. For those of you saying it happens at all Town Hall levels that's actually impossible since you can't get a spell factory until TH 5, and DE at Th 7, so... it's a problem in the late game for SOME people maybe, but don't drag everyone into the mess like it's everyones problem.
Last edited by Kodasa; May 18th, 2015 at 08:23 AM.
So OP wants the DE to evaporate, that way no one can take his DE with cheap tactics.
You would rather remove the DE from the game than share it with the community..nice way to destroy a community.
You are extremely greedy if you can't spare the DE that gets stolen with lighting spells.
I think that the dark elixer storage should simply have a lightning rod on top of it. Any lightning strike would be absorbed into the ground. I earn my dark the hard way, so it's frustrating as heck to have nearly 2000 of it stolen without ANY skill involved.
Wow. If anyone wants this broken down and put to bed, reply to this post with the question: "Mr. Fresh, please grace us with your knowledge!" If someone does that, I will then explain why resources are collected after a lightning spell is dropped.
I certainly haven't noticed any more zapping now than I did before as a TH8 and now 9 hovering between crystal and master 3 with my TH out. It was virtually never then, and it's virtually never now.
This whole zapping happens at every league thing? In my experience if your TH is out in crystal or higher you usually get sniped before a zapper comes along. Occasionally you get full on attacked, but rarely ever zapped.
It really makes no sense that it would happen with any sort of frequency above crystal because the higher you go, the more important trophies become. You'd have to win at least 2-3 attacks, or sometimes even 5-6 to make back the trophies you lose from just 1 zap. This is pretty much untenable if you want to maintain your trophy count.
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