why upgrade mines and collector if you are a good farmer ?

[raidingisfun]

More hit points too. Keep those archers and barbs busy wacking away at them while your defenses pick them off.

[Camja11]

More hit points too. Keep those archers and barbs busy wacking away at them while your defenses pick them off.

Yup, I agree. Even if you don't want the free loot you can always use more hit points in your buildings.

Or start with elixir pumps. No matter how far along you are in the game elixir never loses its value.

[lasmite]

This has to do with economy. If you steal loot from others, you should consider to give back to other players. Sure, as a maxed player you don't need the passive loot income, but others might.
If you are away camping, would you rather have your base sit there and do nothing, instead of it being a part of the underlying system that allowed you to play the game and get to the level you are now?

If I don't need the loot, of course I'll put it to good use somewhere else. In this example, other players.

Not maxing the collectors is not an issue of passive loot imo. It only shows the mindset of the player, and in this case I consider a player not maxing the collectors to be extremely egoistic and greedy.

My opinion. Have a nice day.

[irmtfan]

I was able to finish my heroes before my buildings with all 5 builders busy all the time (I can't stand leaving a builder free for walls). My collectors were all between levels 8 and 10 when I started TH9 and my heroes and buildings finished at almost the same time (heroes were a little faster). I was a maxed TH8 when I went to TH9 except for the mines/collectors (and a little lab work).

Had I to do it all over again, I still would have gone to TH9 when I did (there was no point in staying at TH8 when walls were done and there was nothing to upgrade but mines and collectors), but I would upgrade the mines and collectors sooner in TH9. It was very difficult to convince myself to upgrades mines instead of defenses (defenses seem more important) so it was months before I finally dedicated the time to upgrading the mines and collectors and just spent the resources I earned during that time on walls. Had I upgraded sooner I would have made a lot more passive income to get my lava walls done sooner.

Well said.
Actually farming walls without a free builder is really hard. Now staggering builders is harder for me than farming itself.
I should schedule hard for that.
Usually face full gold/elixir in 6 hours playing. so for example if i dont have builder for 2 days =48 hrs and just play in 3 sessions each 2Hrs nonboost i definitely reach full storage. then i should stop farming.
Playing 2-3 hours each day is normal in my idea. so reaching full storages just lock you for days.
with 5 builders working you should forget boosting. one boost even one rax and you reach full storages sooner!
When I reach th10 I will leave one builder free so i can farm with ease and i can boost e\with ease!!!
I estimate i lost around 300M gold+elixir and 400K de because of full storages in th7 th8 and th9.

Edit:
Sin, personally I think 40/40 heroes are a big factor for 2 starring max th10 with good design. Also im not a good and experienced attacker because I dont play this game enough!!! I war once a week so i should reach max offense sooner to practice it.
When i reach max offense th10 I may think of 3 starring strategies for other max Th10 and 40/40 heroes are a must for that.
Also what is the point to reach full zap before heroes? IMO it is really annoying to farm de with max gold,elixir storages. also people will hit you harder if you offer 1m loot. you should dump loot somewhere.
IMO a player should time everything to reach 40/40 heroes and walls at the same time.

[daz258]

1) Higher fixed income every day.
2) Benefit more during 1 gem boosts.
3) More HP to protect your base.
4) Do your bit to make the global economy better.

[lethaltriad]

I had my dark drills maxed out but the other collectors and pumps I finished after I maxed out all my defenses

[Chanos]

Well if you farm, you keep your TH out right? So if someone comes along and TH snipes you then you get a 12 hr shield. so in those 12 hrs you get passive loot without having to lift a finger or have anyone to raid you and take that loot away.

[Bacdar]

1) Higher fixed income every day.
2) Benefit more during 1 gem boosts.
3) More HP to protect your base.
4) Do your bit to make the global economy better.

Good points. This pretty much sums it up

[chikorita]

I think it just helps when in the morning you can get an extra 10-20k from a maxed level collector/mine. It helps bro. It helps.

[wiselobster]

Hi all,

Thank you all for your answers.

1. First of all saying this would help the economy when i quit the game is VERY NAIVE. SC regulates the number of dead base by making them virtually unavailable through matchmaking priority queue. If not ressources would be overflowing and they would make much less money.

2. The HP is indeed the number one argument

3. I think i will keep doing what i do which is using them as an emergency time waster to keep my builders busy h24 when i can't farm

Cheers