The one and only analogy thread!!

[Chris4stars85]

There will be thousands of new, low level players who won't be affected at all and know only of the TH inside concept

As they progress they will naturally need to use stronger troops and more complex harder battle strategies....imagine those were the only players in existence, SC will adapt the game accordingly to make game game progress fast enough to keep playing (without having to buy loot with gems)

TH sniping... simple farming to get right to the end? doesn't exist in any game I've ever played! Is like Nintendo taking away the up/down/left/right ♥♥♥♥♥ in mario that gave invincibility...then folk complaining they can't play the game in the style they want!

[TADP0LE]

There was a race in a city, and everybody participated. The race was an obstacle course, with multiple routes to the finish, some easier but longer, and some more difficult but shorter and quicker. Of course, not all the people were of the same skill, and some went the long ways and some went the short ways.

Midway through the race, and race official come on over the PA and announced, "from now on, the long ways are closed and everyone must go the short way. Or pay to finish now." Some people on the long path had spent lots of time and money getting good at how they were going, only to be told they HAD to change their strategy. Some of them tried to adapt, but many quit the race and went home to play Hayday.


I hope this one is easy to understand!

[Skyview]

There was a race in a city, and everybody participated. The race was an obstacle course, with multiple routes to the finish, some easier but longer, and some more difficult but shorter and quicker. Of course, not all the people were of the same skill, and some went the long ways and some went the short ways.

Midway through the race, and race official come on over the PA and announced, "from now on, the long ways are closed and everyone must go the short way. Or pay to finish now." Some people on the long path had spent lots of time and money getting good at how they were going, only to be told they HAD to change their strategy. Some of them tried to adapt, but many quit the race and went home to play Hayday.


I hope this one is easy to understand!

This is very similar to my analogy so yes I like it

[omezXA]

There will be thousands of new, low level players who won't be affected at all and know only of the TH inside concept

As they progress they will naturally need to use stronger troops and more complex harder battle strategies....imagine those were the only players in existence, SC will adapt the game accordingly to make game game progress fast enough to keep playing (without having to buy loot with gems)

TH sniping... simple farming to get right to the end? doesn't exist in any game I've ever played! Is like Nintendo taking away the up/down/left/right ♥♥♥♥♥ in mario that gave invincibility...then folk complaining they can't play the game in the style they want!

TH sniping is not really a ♥♥♥♥♥ing tool. It has benefits and drawbacks. In low leagues, you don't always get a shield and people could still raid your storage if you have many. In higher leagues, you risk losing many trophies while you would want to stay at that league. Also, it's not really that reliable. I myself has been in champs and masters pre update. In those leagues, TH snipes are only once every 50-100 nexts for me.

Another perspective, TH sniping was a tool we inadvertently invent while trying to make progress as cheap as possible in a game designed to bring a lot of money to Supercell/Softbank. So it's basically conflict of interests between two ends.

Here's the analogy, that is also kind of a story:

All this years, with not many people knowing, COC is unhealthy. It is a patient with Hypertension, a disease of high blood pressure (In COC case, a disease of an imperfect input-output of global loot). This conditioned was in a balance due to hypertension medicine (TH sniping).
HOWEVER
Since drugs are not natural, SC as corporate god, now eliminate its use. So the hypertension is now exposed into the surface, with no drugs to control it, and we have heart failure.

Now there are 2 facts to consider:
1. SC is a company. Not a non-profit entity.
2. Finland is one of the smartest country according to education statistics.

Those facts bring the plot twist: that SC already know about the disease, but using it (they purposefully created it?)to hinder the health, because the health is what everyone's playing and paying for. Progress.

[shapesh1ft]

Love me some analogies..

A new law has recently been enacted that mandates that all citizens must remove the locks from their homes (th snipe). The rich are able to congregate and create gated communities (master+), with their power and resources (max 10 defense), that the majority cannot access safely. While thieves are still targeting these rich homes with great determination and risk, and many are even fighting amongst themselves, the political power of the rich (whales) has influenced the system to give them kick backs and tax breaks (league bonus) to help offset the costs and losses. Those in power, who developed their structures in the old system, are now able to take advantage of the tax breaks to further milk the middle class that sits beneath them (TH8/9) in these same communities while the reverse is untrue.

While the homeless are breaking into homes left and right all over the land, the people leave their communities in exodus and fear. Many citizens are losing their jobs, and are forced to make a move toward greener pastures as their homes continue to get pillaged by thieves and criminals. All kinds of citizens, rich and poor, decide to leave to open lands where threats are less and life is easier. Even though their standard of living has been reduced, they are able to thrive again (silver/bronze league)

As a means of safety and a better future, a great majority of the citizens leave to the open lands and start creating farm communities. They live off the livestock (dead bases/snipes) and try to get away from the chaos that's occurring elsewhere in the land (gold/crystal) that has left once great cities as empty ghettos where only the rich can survive.

Those at the top cry out that the poor are to blame. Despite the obvious flaw in the public law to make a ban on locks and privacy in the people's homes, they clamor that the chaos is a result of a "flaw in the character" in the people themselves. While relatively safe in their developed strongholds built under the old system, and having favor of the political system that gives them handouts, they clamor that the less skilled and able should simply learn to adapt or die. They do not realize that the people who've left have already adapted in a new way of life, and are actually doing better themselves.. Whether that new way of life is sustainable in the long term.. Time will tell.

[Voice]

Thanks for the analogies, Tadpole, Omezxa and shapeshift! You guys put a lot of work in that.

Now I've seem some excellent analogies being made these days on this forum. It's a true analogy-Valhalla out there at the moment, with people being either utterly ♥♥♥♥♥♥ with the update or defending it with a bitter passion. So post 'em here if you got 'em! People love analogies. They get the point you want to make across quite effective.