Hi guys, my name is Maki. I've been on the forum for much much longer than my profile shows, but I never registered to post anything, although I loved reading all the content on it and trying to get better at playing. I'm not an hardcore player, but I play more than the average clasher. For example I have many friends that also play this game and I'm the one who plays more than everybody else, I love this game a lot and I'll continue playing it, although there are some things of the update that I don't like.
Let's start with the good things that came with the update:
-TH11: although I'm not even close to it (almost max defenses as a TH9, half maxed troops and 10/20 BK/AQ), I think it was a needed feature in the game. Many players had reached the end game status and new content was needed. I recognize it is still unbalanced, but I think that nobody expected it to come perfectly balanced. That's not a big problem and I think that we'll see a lot of balancing in the upcoming update
-New boost length: As a non-hardcore player I really loved that they changed the boost length to 1 hour. Now I have many more opportunities to boost, because not so many times I had 2 free hours before the update.l
-New shield mechanic (partially): I love being able to attack while shielded and not loosing the entire shield. Sometimes I have time just for one attack and I find myself attacking because I know that I would be able to come back online before the shield runs out. Before the update in these occasions I would've not attacked.
I also love that they removed TH sniping. I'm gonna be fair, so I won't tell you that I didn't use it to get cheap shields, but I recognize that it was a broken mechanic. Getting tons of loot just for dropping a few troops and getting a 12 hours shield just for one building destroyed was not fair. Now the game is fairer, although there are some problems at higher levels (people not getting shielded and being attacked countless times). I can't say much about that as I never had problems. But I know that that's an issue and I hope SC comes up with a good solution.
Now let's move to what I don't like.
-Loot: A few days after the update I was still very happy about the loot, because I could get it at the usual rate. But since then it decreased a lot and now I struggle a bit more to farm. Not that much, but farming has become slower. Sometimes I don't have problems with loot, but other times I have to skip for literally 20 minutes before something good comes up. I know SC wants us to farm with heavier armies, but even when I tried that I didn't find many targets. I don't think that increasing the loot bonus by 300% or lowering time and cost for training heavier troops is the way to go. Giving many more people access to stronger armies would result in everybody suffering big losses when going for defense.
-Village guard: I can't understand why almost nobody hates that feature. It's the most pointless thing in the game, seriously. Why would anybody want a VG (unless for increasing your PBT)? Never ever had benefits from it and if that was not in the game I wouldn't have different experiences.
I read many complaints about the PBT all over the forum and on reddit, but I never had problems with it, so I can't give any judgement.
And lastly a few words about the forum.
I'm not against complaints, but there are different types of complaints. The ones "F**k the update, game is dead!!!!!!!" are pointless and useless. I like the ones that show the problems but also discuss ways to solve them or that give other strategies to implement these things. The forum was so bad lately that I even lost interest in it and I stopped coming here. Now it seems that the situation is getting better, so I hope to see the usual spirit of the forum coming back.
Thanks for reading and not that these are my personal opinions,
Cya and clash on!
Great thread.
Originally Posted by darkie85
