After living with this update for a few days, here are what I see as completely doable, common sense adjustments to the game to strike a balance between SC and players.

1. Lose the extra 30 seconds of attack time for th9 and lower. The game had balance before the update with that time limit. I can understand at TH 10 & 11 for the need, but not lower.

2. Lose the extra DE spell slot at TH9 and lower. This has greatly imbalanced TH8 and 9, and made the clan castle a useless game piece as 2 poison spells will kill even max dragons. And there are other spell comps that greatly imbalance the game at 8 & 9 also. I would be ok with the removal of the Dark spell factory completely so that we need to go back to lure and kill the cc for a successful attack/raid.

3. Shields, 30% destruction to get a shield I am fine with, requiring the enemy to deploy X% of troops to get it I disagree with. AQ walk isn't dead as players have already figured a work around and that strat can destroy over 30% but not have any other army sent out. 40% damage and no shield is wrong. Empty out my cc of troops and I can't log on to refill them due to the PBT and you are just leaving us open for high loot hits that we can't recover from.

4. PBT should not be cumulative. If I am off line for 20-30 mins, the timer needs to be reset. To limit me to 3 hours of game play over, I'm still not sure what the time frame is, is forcing me to try to find odd times to play the game, not when I have the time. Boost needs to pause also if I am forced off of the game.

These are the items that I believe sum up the the worst of the new update. I truly believe reversing these issues will bring balance back into the game we all have grown to love while still giving SC what they want in Gem buying and player attacks. I don't mind building a strong army to have to get loot for upgrades, I think it will promote better gameplay from the average player. I am a war focused player vs pusher/farmer. I find the changes have really taken away the skill set and balance at TH9(which the entire war community can agree was perfect as was) and turned TH8 into TH7.

I hope that someone from Supercell actually reads this and gives it some real thought. Lets try to not fill the thread with garbage but actually have a positive thread that will hopefully be acknowledged by the developers.