Since the update, farming and pushing has taken a whole new prospective. Let's look at what is going on.
Farming - a.k.a. Trophy Dropping/Smash and Grab/TH Snipe
Players in droves have dropped to the Sub1200 range, why you ask? The loot is phenomenal. Rarely is there a full out army attack, TH's are left outside bases along with enough to get 30% for the provider. This has nothing to do with being a weaker player. Max TH10/11 are down here, they are just satisfied getting 200 raids in at 50-100k a raid, trophy dropping and sitting. Not to mention the defenses... I myself am approaching the 400 defense mark since update. Basically, you don't have to build a full army, i use gobs and archers ROI is very high, to get more of the loot benefit that you would have in the higher leagues. The only people full out raiding me are very weak TH10's or TH8/9 wanting some practice. Let's talk about SUB200.....this is very nearly impossible to reach, here is why. As a TH10, once I hit 600 cups, my drop offers went to -4 or -6 per raid, at 400 they were -1 per raid. Also, at 600 cups the clouds started 30 seconds to 3 minutes to find a match, at 300 cups I was waiting 5 minutes for a match....SC just flipped the cloud issue from top to bottom. The gain offers at that level were +40 to 59 per raid, so be careful. Back to SUB200, it would take almost 14 hours of straight game play to hit SUB200 from Champs, it took me 2, 3 hour sessions to hit under 300 cups and I just gave up. Only to log off and in 30 minutes go from 298 cups to 1143, I have the pics to prove it for all the peeps that say " you get a guard " not if they only drop a hero, do 0% damage and quit. No one really wants to do a full out raid, we are just happy with what you leave outside and it is more profitable.
So what does this mean? I have have upgraded 22 walls in 4 days to lvl 10 and put both heroes up a level...in champ/masters I would still be trying to fill storages for my 3rd wall and may have enough for a single hero upgrade.
So on to Pushing -
Pushing has never been easier - more people, very strong and good people, are dropping leaving the weaker players in the Champ/Titan league, Legend has also seen a huge increase. It took our pretty much brand new TH7 4 days to go from silver to champs, considering TH snipes are gone. He stated that there were so many rushed TH8/9 on the way up that it made it easy. After he did that, the slackers in the clan got their 2000 gems the next day. On global chat, everyone giving me smack about being in bronze or silver, it is harder to stay there than titan/legend. But if your only reason for staying in the higher leagues is the loot bonus, you are sorely mistaken. Would you rather spend 5 minutes replenishing army or 2 1/2 hours? We can do 20-100 raids for a profit of 1-3 mil loot and 40k de in the same time it takes to get 1 raid in with a full army to get loot and your precious cups.....my precious (insert gollum joke here). So unless you truly are a hardcore cup hound, what is the real reason you are pushing? If you don't have the gems, you are not going to be able to stay up that high anyway.
Everyone will play the way the developers.....uh I mean, the way they want to play COC. But really, why are you pushing? To see your IGN that no one really knows who you are at the top of an app game leader board? Quit stressing about cups, come on down to the SUB1200 range and have some fun...you will get your defense achievement shortly.
Originally Posted by TheRealchrism
