Fresh TH9 getting NOTHING to raid anymore SUPER depressing

[mitchFCB]

New TH9 here coming from max TH8. No x-bows, the new AT, WT, AD only like level 3 each. For elixir building upgrades I only have DE storage and Dark Barracks to max left.
Knocked out AQ to lvl 10 fast
58 legos

Thankfully my first research was giants, and im so happy I did. Ive never been a barcher, always gibarched or used loonian. I couldnt imagine going back to lvl5 giants now.
Ive been in crystal 3, all through gold, down to silver 3, back up now to silver 1. Cant find a sweet spot anywhere. Im usually nexting for 3-4x as long as I was before, often for easy 10/15+min until I get frustrated and lose my head and attack a base I probably shouldnt, and barely break even, if that.

Usually I would have boosted a few times now, but I really dont want to when im nexting for so long anyways. Last few days ive barely done a wall either, which I usually smash out. Plus PBT is just annoying.. im not totally against it but at least extend it more or something.

So in conclusion im pretty depressed too.. I really enjoy farming my walls and planning well ahead, hopefully ill find a good spot soon. Im also remembering that things will be easier once a few more troops get upgraded.

[borkenschnorke]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8Vn...ature=youtu.be

Longer personal breaks. That helps really dedicated players, who in my opionion are the ones spending gems mostly probably. It gets even worse for those casual players who only raid a few times every day and never get forced breaks anyways.
I have the strong feeling supercell sees the end of coc in the future and wants to suck out as much money as possible. Making the game better for those players buying gems frequently and getting casual players to spend money so they can get any upgrades at all. I cant really imagine that those players who frequently get forced timeouts are the biggest part of the coc playerbase but maybe that small percentage of players are the ones spending most money on it. In saw an interview with a developer before the update went online and he said they want to get the game better especially for casual players. Either that was a lie or they really failed hard in doing that.

[lvbuckeye]

something that i haven't seen mentioned is that since the town hall now carries ~20% of your available resources, that extra 1,000 gold and 1,000 elixir it used to carry is no longer there. with 20 million accounts, that means that 40 BILLION resources disappeared forever as soon as the patch went live. when you opened the game after being attacked, those 2,000 resources would regenerate in your town hall. now, since this no longer happens, if everyone averages losing their town hall twice per 24 hours, that means that a potential 80 BILLION resources PER DAY are gone forever.

this is having a devastating impact on the economy of the game. there is much, MUCH less loot to go around, yet the prices of everything have remained the same. if the Federal Reserve reduced the amount of dollars in circulation back to 1970s levels, yet the prices of everything remained the same as they are today, the entire world economy would tank and go into a massive, crippling depression. this is essentially what SuperCell has done to the game. they've greatly reduced the amount of resources, yet kept the prices high.

welcome to the great depression of CoC.

[Mathematician]

something that i haven't seen mentioned is that since the town hall now carries ~20% of your available resources, that extra 1,000 gold and 1,000 elixir it used to carry is no longer there.
welcome to the great depression of CoC.

The 1k/1k were your resources...

[RedDeviledEggs]

Mid TH9 here. Totally feeling the depression bro. I've been nexting so many times recently on Gold I-III and I've been getting f- all resources. Considering the fact that my base gets rekt by high level TH10s, and the fact that i keep getting paired up with maxed out TH8s/maxed out TH9s/maxed out TH10s due to the new cruel matchmaking; I've been going nowhere. I am on the verge of walking out the door. Supercell needs to release an update that would somehow remedy some of these issues, but I just don't see that happening. I'll sit down and wait for now.

[crummett101]

The 1k/1k were your resources...

yeah exactly. what the hell is he talking about

[borkenschnorke]

I dont think that 1k/1k in the TH has anything to do with it since it still was ressources that were just placed there. Maybe people really lost those 1k each ONCE after the update but that wouldnt make a big difference, since that isnt even half a giant in elex worth.

What i think a big problem for those TH9s is, is the fact that you barely get TH8s to raid anymore. In the past you could just raid TH levels below yourself to get some loot. Especially with Elex this is a high problem now. TH8s normally had tons of Elex they couldnt even spend. As TH8 I myself had full storages mostly all of the time and while raiding i often saw people with full or nearly full Elex storages but not much gold. Gold Upgrades just are a lot more on TH8 then Elex upgrades. In TH9 this is different since walls can be upgraded with Elex aswell. (And your troops if upgraded in the lab are a bit more expensive too). So if a TH9 doesnt get TH8s for raiding options to fill up their elex from the elex the TH8s dont need anyways they get into a struggle.
The problem with TH8s like myself in the past having FULL elex bit still are raiding leads to the destruction of ressources. When i have full Elex but raid i still take away someones elex even if i dont get it myself. So these resources are destroyed. I cant even estimate how many millions of elex got destroyed by myself while i was TH8 raiding.
I think the part of the update with the shield should be reworked for casual players mostly. When they get raided for under 30% but loose some loot (mainly that can happen when someone targets DE only) they dont even get a shield. Maybe they should give out shields if a certain percentage of resources is lost (like at least 30% of one kind of resource or something like that).
I think they should rework the matchmaking again so it doesnt only give TH9s to TH9s and so on. The matchmaking was fine as it was. It should only match by league not considering the TH levels.

Another Idea what could be changed in the game (acutally an older one that has nothing to do with the update) would be to reword players for their surviving troops after a raid. Once a player gets 3 Stars the cost of all surviving troops should be payed back. When a player ends a battle with at least one star and some troops are still living at that time 50% of the cost should be payed back. No paybacks if no star was achieved could be considered aswell.

However the part that a TH snipe doesnt give a shield anymore is a part I understand and I'm fine with it.
The part with the League bonuses being paid only in percentage of destruction is okay too, but i think they should raise those boni up a bit. A lot of people farmed in crystal+ just from those boni. They got 50% for a single star (or TH sniped) to get their bonus. I think at 50% the bonus now should be at the same amount it was in the past (so double up the old bonuses). Maybe you could get 70% or so of the bonus for getting the first star (then it wouldnt have to be the double amount of the past bonuses).

For me right now im still struggeling. What im doing the past days is trophy pushing with barch. I mainly attack TH8 and below bases where i can get 50% or even a 2star with my cheap army. My plan is to push up to masters league and go fot the few TH8s im getting matched against to live of the league bonus.That would mean A TON less loot than what im used to as a TH8 but still i would progress a bit and once i can get those first upgrades in the lab i might be able to go against TH9s aswell.
Yesterday i played pretty much all day. I took bases i could get 50% on and TH sniped whenever i found a TH outside the base. I think from my real raiding i didnt get ANY plus in elexier I even think i lost some during the day. What really got me to my 2.5 mio in the evening was the TH sniping with my heroes (that often gives 50-70k Elex).

[ILLIDAN123]

Everyone should just keep their loot outside and help everyone else. Everybody wins. I really hope something like that will catch on. This game is just getting harder and harder to play.

[toefu]

no worries, supercell is about to create the most pathetic barching experience ever. 1 gem boost is coming next week and no one ever has a shield. your phone will buzz all day long from the 30% destruction or < 30% army size farming.

[borkenschnorke]

I really dont get how people who only raid a few times a day can EVERY make a single upgrade... I make about 20-50k elex per raid nowadays. At least im making plus.... But then i get raided for 400k ... i need about 10 raids to get that much and its gone in a single one