This isn't entirely true. I defended all the time before the update, and usually lost. But with an exposed TH I at least had a chance to survive for 12 hours and build up resources for an expensive upgrade. Now it looks mathematically impossible, and to boot all the offered bases either have no loot or are fortresses I haven't a chance at. All the loot is being grabbed up the food chain. So yeah, I and obviously a lot of other players are "readjusting" - we realize we'll never get another expensive upgrade so we are ditching our resources rather than continue to be a food source for everyone higher up. I'm buying walls and using war armies to gain trophies in resource loosing attacks. Are we having fun yet?
Of course it is. It always was. You search for however any minutes, raid for 3 minutes, and then wait however many minutes for your army to finish. The game was always boring. They made it that way on purpose because the primary use of gems is to fast-forward through the intentionally designed boring parts. This game should never have been as successful as it was. Why people actually tell their friends to play it instead of warning them about how terribly designed it is I will never understand. I made the unfortunate mistake of listening to someone at a party and tried the game only to discover I was addicted to it by the time I realized how horrible it was. Now I find myself keeping my builders busy no matter how much time it takes or how little fun it is.
Games that purposely bore you so you will spend money in the cash shop should never be played by anyone. It is one thing to make progress slow without spending money. It is quite another to force people to stop playing the game every few minutes because there is absolutely nothing to do but watch troops cook. That is a design flaw that never should have been tolerated by the players.
+1
Spread the joy! Some guys are looking at their defense logs now thinking "What an idiot! He spent 200k elixir to take 80k gold and 20k elixir!" But the joke's on everyone else - I really have no other use for elixir because I'll never save 3 mil for a spell upgrade having 16% taken twice a day, and ♥♥♥♥ bases with nowhere near 300k offered despite nexting 20 times. So like yah trophies! And yeh, I wanted that gold - my ace construction foreman Harvey Wallbanger will put it to good use!
Oh yeah and 100% league bonus of 10k - yay!
Last edited by MacMahon; December 23rd, 2015 at 12:56 AM.