They will make the game take a similar amount of time to complete if you are an active player. You can already see this if you go up to high master or champion leagues. I attacked 3 times last night and made 500k/500k/5k each attack. Collector raids are probably dead, but fortunately for me, that is the reason why real attacks are worth so much more now.
Radiating,
im still farming on my TH 9, I have found silver 3 and 2 using BAM is still quite good for loots. Either milking collectors or hitting storages. Not as good as before but still able to keep all 5 builders active.
My th10 only has Hero's and Walls left so I'm focusing in masters with 20 Giants 8 WBs 16 Wizards 8 archers 4 Valks and 4 hogs. I'm doing quite well for DE, but admittedly I'm not focusing on elixir.
Farming was was hurt with this update but not killed...Casuals, now they were killed. Those are the ones I really feel bad for and the ones most effected by this release.
Racel
Max TH11
Racel Light
TH9 BK18 AQ20 full Lego
Clash isn't a flagship anymore. It was bought by Softbank. A greedy, malelovent corporation that's only care is profitablity.
The people that made clash are gone having sold out. There was a meeting with the new owners and new devs and Softbank basically said "milk this for all its worth". They will make as much as possible and then sell it to some other company. The people that made clash cares about it, took pride in their creation and what they accomplished. The new owners could not care less about the game, just new ways to increase profits. If they can't increase profits then they will sell it.
Once sold the whole process starts over and we get a new Softbank out to milk us.
The only ones that care about the game are the players. The new "producers" are just being told what to do to make the most money, not how to make the best game.
A blind man can see that.
... Geez, I'm not sure.. Looking at the response of so many clashers, the only logical thing to think is that SC want to kill the game, and fast. Maybe its no longer profitable owning such a small part of the company, maybe the contract terms with softbank makes things 2 hard for SC, I don't really know for certain... But if killing the game is not what they want... Then why risking it by alienating 80% of their customers? They had to know this will happend when they said to all "you are not playing the way you should" after 3 years of playing....
Me my brothers and our kids play this game. Wave played now for several years i do spend money on gems, along with others i know but at the end of the day its simple. If you can proceed with the game , level up, there becomes a time when the game gets dull. I am in a warring clan and thats were my loot comes from, I raid to war. Now i can not get enough elixer to even level my archers to 6 this is a bit rediculous if something is not done in the nexr few weeks I believe my family will quit. My family has about 15 of us and almost all of us buy gems that adds up fast. I just hope they open there eyes soon.