Clash of Clans game thread (1 Viewer)

[CowboysFromHell]

I know most of you don't face these, but for those who do...

Inferno Towers. Anyone know how to beat them? When set on multi-target, they make Giant/Hog compositions ineffective since they can't be healed, and are always set behind lots of protection (and other defenses) with a big range to make smaller troops an ineffective approach as well. They have high HP so it will take at least 4 lightning storm to take one out (5 if it's level 2) which means you can't use any other spells if you wanted to go that rout. They seem just plain over-powered and I've been avoiding bases with them all together.

Freeze spell!

 

[AcerFC]

What is farming. Just depending on your resources

 

[culdeus]

I am going to have 2-3 days of just jacking around due to poor planning so I'm gonna run all balloons for a bit just for the lulz.

 

[culdeus]

What is farming. Just depending on your resources

In MMO games farming usually means getting resources from other players. It's counter intuitive.

 

[TwinTurbo]

So you guys are looking at 60-80 villages each time to find a good target? Hmmm, maybe I need to be more patient. I'm hitting somewhat lesser targets than a lot of you. I'm probably only doing 20-30 at most.

Yeah it's looking over at least 50 villages on average for me and I've only recently upgraded to TH6 with 1000+ trophies. It's really not worth an attack unless I can get close to 100k gold or elixer.

 

[B-Deep]

i don't mind just breaking even on a raid or coming out only slightly ahead, it passes the time. i know that is not wise though

one of these times i am gonna take one of these tiny towns i found with like 3k combined resources that doesn't belong in my league and just drop 4 dragons and 95 barbarians all at once and level the place just for kicks

 

[Bull Dozier]

i have just told myself those top guys are the programmers or friends of the programmers and they are indeed playing a different game because they can cheat

i have no idea if this is accurate

My bet is more that they're total morons that have sunk thousands of real dollars into the game. I bet that top guy has a billion of gold in his walls alone. Actually, probably twice that.

I read somewhere that to completely upgrade all walls, cost 2.2 billion gold. That's just absurd.

I'm at like 860 million gold on the Gold Grab achievement. I have full lego walls (Level 9), and like 15 lavas (Level 10). It is absurd.

To those talking about sub200 a couple of pages back: Yes, it is a mindset some have and some don't. I still think it's the most efficient way to get gold as a TH6-8, but you pass up on dark elixir, and you have to stay online. I usually did about 2 mil an hour on average when I used the strategy, which was nice, but as you find at those TH levels, you don't have a lot of places to put all of that easy gold. Sure, farming is easiest at TH7, but if you're good at farming, you fly right through that level anyway. Farming is easy as can be until you start having to shell out 3 mil for one wall.

The inferno towers are a PITA. We're doing a trophy push in my current clan. I don't even mess with the disco balls (multi target), and stick to the ones set to attack singularly. I do Loonian and I'm trying to learn how to do hogs. The disco balls are to deal with hogs and loons. The single target infernos are set to repel attacks with Golems, I assume (GoWiWi and GoWiPe).

I have no idea what most of this means, which means I might be nearing the end of this game...

 

[AcerFC]

I really think it's dumb that for troops donated and received it does it by number of troops instead of by how many total troop spots you donate/receive. A 20 spot dragon is way more expensive than 20 level 2 barbs and yet that isn't reflected in the numbers at all. Not really that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, but it does make it slightly more difficult to figure out who is carrying their own weight in the clan and who is being a mooch.

i have one dragon donated by Greg and it says I have received 20

 

[Kanil]

I'll have dragons when I get home tonight... excited!

 

[Guster]

planning on checking this game out sometime soon... looks like i have a lot of stuff to read in this thread. yikes

 

[babydemon90]

As much fun as it is to have dragons in the CC, I think wizards probably the best defensive units to have in there, no?

 

[Clayton Gray]

As much fun as it is to have dragons in the CC, I think wizards probably the best defensive units to have in there, no?

I much prefer the dragon or minions as they can't be targeted by barbarians.

 

[EYLive]

Hey B-Deep, sorry about the mistake/joke in chat.

 

[Kanil]

As much fun as it is to have dragons in the CC, I think wizards probably the best defensive units to have in there, no?

I much prefer the dragon or minions as they can't be targeted by barbarians.

+1 ... Nor giants.

 

[Bogart]

Up to 15 strong in FBG2:ElecBoog.

Good things afoot at the Circle K.

 

[EYLive]

Why'd Mr. Mustard leave? Were we too puny?

 

[Balco]

Why'd Mr. Mustard leave? Were we too puny?

I am in another clan. I will stop by from time to time to donate high level, and dark elixir troops.

 

[CowboysFromHell]

Why'd Mr. Mustard leave? Were we too puny?

I am in another clan. I will stop by from time to time to donate high level, and dark elixir troops.

Me too. I wouldn't mind dropping into one of the FBG clans (are there more than one?) and donating some good troops to you guys from time to time. LMK. I've been playing for over a year, just hit lvl 130, and have almost all maxed troops.

 

[B-Deep]

Hey B-Deep, sorry about the mistake/joke in chat.

lol no problem at all!

 

[B-Deep]

my son bob (no idea why bob) is probably going to be a bit chatty.

 

[VA703]

wish I could boost the unit upgrade building.. these upgrades are taking too long

 

[dozer]

On donating troops, is it a disappointment or even a burden if the troops I donate are low level, like level two or three barbs? I want to donate, but my guys aren’t that powerful yet.

I don’t want to seem like I’m all receive and no give. I only do that with my girlfriend.

 

[B-Deep]

On donating troops, is it a disappointment or even a burden if the troops I donate are low level, like level two or three barbs? I want to donate, but my guys aren’t that powerful yet.

I don’t want to seem like I’m all receive and no give. I only do that with my girlfriend.

i don't think so at all

any troops donated are extra, and any of them are great.

 

[Clayton Gray]

On donating troops, is it a disappointment or even a burden if the troops I donate are low level, like level two or three barbs? I want to donate, but my guys aren’t that powerful yet.

I don’t want to seem like I’m all receive and no give. I only do that with my girlfriend.

If the request isn't specific, throw in anything.

 

[GregR]

On donating troops, is it a disappointment or even a burden if the troops I donate are low level, like level two or three barbs? I want to donate, but my guys aren’t that powerful yet.

I don’t want to seem like I’m all receive and no give. I only do that with my girlfriend.

If the request isn't specific, throw in anything.

Agreed, people have the opportunity to tell us if they'd rather get a specific type or level of unit. If they don't, anything (other than wallbreakers) is fine.

 

[VA703]

I usually don't donate goblins unless specified.. same with WB's

 

[igbomb]

On donating troops, is it a disappointment or even a burden if the troops I donate are low level, like level two or three barbs? I want to donate, but my guys aren’t that powerful yet.

I don’t want to seem like I’m all receive and no give. I only do that with my girlfriend.

If the request isn't specific, throw in anything.

Agreed. If people want something specific they need to say so. Barring that, go for it.

 

[MrVegas21]

So for the Clan roster we still need FFA names for:

Dr Oadi

EvilVinnie

EvilVinnie2

gentans

HitEm20

ja

Jason

Jeremy

jtg1975

Nighthawk

papogunn

sholditch

Shoot_Me_Now

skinny

Sorry I don't get a chance to post very often.

Jason = MrVegas21

 

[sartre]

Just got a barbarian king. Is there a reason to make him sleep as opposed to guard?

 

[VA703]

Just got a barbarian king. Is there a reason to make him sleep as opposed to guard?

I don't have one but I think that's how he heals

 

[sartre]

Just got a barbarian king. Is there a reason to make him sleep as opposed to guard?

I don't have one but I think that's how he heals

Yeah but even when fully healthy, you can choose to have him sleep.

My guess is, if you plan on logging out, and want to make certain he is available for attacking the second you log back on, then you can opt to have him ignore attackers (by sleeping) for the entire duration you are offline. I just can't imagine ever exercising that option. I'm not paying him to nap.

 

[coyote5]

Just got a barbarian king. Is there a reason to make him sleep as opposed to guard?

I don't have one but I think that's how he heals

..I'm not paying him to nap.

 

[GroveDiesel]

Just got a barbarian king. Is there a reason to make him sleep as opposed to guard?

I don't have one but I think that's how he heals

Yeah but even when fully healthy, you can choose to have him sleep.

My guess is, if you plan on logging out, and want to make certain he is available for attacking the second you log back on, then you can opt to have him ignore attackers (by sleeping) for the entire duration you are offline. I just can't imagine ever exercising that option. I'm not paying him to nap.

Yeah, the idea would be to have him be available when you want to attack. If you aren't on that often, it would suck to log on and see that you had just been attacked and have to wait an hour to use your barb king. Seems like most people have him active though.

 

[Black Box]

I'd let the poor guy nap. It's tiring constantly running around your base jumping over all those walls.

 

[B-Deep]

I'd let the poor guy nap. It's tiring constantly running around your base jumping over all those walls.

when does he get busy with the archer queen?

 

[GroveDiesel]

I'd let the poor guy nap. It's tiring constantly running around your base jumping over all those walls.

when does he get busy with the archer queen?

Gotta install the mod for that. An extra 5000 gems.

 

[Black Box]

I'd let the poor guy nap. It's tiring constantly running around your base jumping over all those walls.

when does he get busy with the archer queen?

I don't know, but I started my clan castle upgrade so it could hold a dragon, and you took off to the other clan

 

[Bull Dozier]

I'd let the poor guy nap. It's tiring constantly running around your base jumping over all those walls.

when does he get busy with the archer queen?

I don't know, but I started my clan castle upgrade so it could hold a dragon, and you took off to the other clan

I can donate dragons.

 

[B-Deep]

I'd let the poor guy nap. It's tiring constantly running around your base jumping over all those walls.

when does he get busy with the archer queen?

I don't know, but I started my clan castle upgrade so it could hold a dragon, and you took off to the other clan

follow me., the other clan has dragons and women and sometimes cookies

 

[B-Deep]

probably not any women though

 

[B-Deep]

and i have never really seen any cookies....

 

[Black Box]

I'm starting to doubt you even have dragons!

 

[EYLive]

We have one confirmed female clan member.

 

[culdeus]

We have one confirmed female clan member.

orly

 

[GregR]

So I took the sub200 trophy plunge again over lunch for what amounted to about a 1 hour, 50 minute session. I boosted 2 barracks, which costs 20 cents or less in gems. I started right around 195 trophies, dropped as low as maybe 80, and climbed back to about 115 intentionally at one point, before ending at 106. I did occasionally drop trophies when I'd find a crap base and just drop my barb king in a corner then quit, but not always.

I wanted to see how my return was, so I jotted down gold and elixir gained, and how many of each unit I used. Cut and pasted into Excel and figured I'd share for those interested.

Min = Minutes

Gold and Elixir and combined resource columns are in thousands.

Total is Gold gained + Elixir gained.

Unit is the Elixir cost of the units used on that attack.

NetElix is Elixir gained minus the cost of the troops used.

NetRes is the Total combined resources gained minus the cost of the troops used.

Grand totals are the first row. I sorted the attacks then from best net result to worst. I made 1.999 million gold and 1.471 million elixir. The latter drops to 1.079m elixir after unit costs are subtracted out.

I only found one monster base completely undefended... 245k gold and 107m elixir... and I could have gotten more but I quit at 39% destroyed so I wouldn't give him a shield. But unfortunately I didn't get to encounter him again. That one base was 11% of my net resource gain, out of 59 attacks. So while it helped, it is not dominating the results by any means.

Half the bases gave me 45k combined resources or above, half below. The top 14 bases accounted for 50% of my income, so there's definitely an opportunity to be more selective. Though it's worth noting that a lot of the small attacks were done after a big attack when my army wasn't at full strength and I knew I could take some resources very cheaply... so I'd have had fewer attacks if I was more selective. I also found the best results today were probably in the 160-190 range, though I didn't try to stay there. I just let my trophy count drop continually so I could sample a big range. I've had mixed results though at each different range, I'm not sure if there was anything special about that range today or if it was just luck or even the time of day influencing things.

I got in 59 attacks in basically 1 hour 50m when you remove the time lost to distractions, so was attacking a little more than once every two minutes.

Oh, and yes... I know I'm uber

Min	Gold	Elixir	Total	Unit	NetElix	NetRes	Gob	Arch	Barb	Giant	WB	LiSplTotals:	1999	1471	3470	391.9	1079	3078	1559	167	99	36	57	1																								3	245	107	352	2.6	104	349	32					0	45	96	141	16.4	80	125	54	12	2		4	3	59	71	130	7.2	64	123	34			1	1	1	53	55	108	0.5	55	108	6					2	38	58	96	2.8	55	93	31		4			3	51	49	100	12.4	37	88	42	26	5	1	1	2	33	77	110	29.0	48	81	75	6		6	4	2	48	35	83	2.5	33	81	19	5	2			2	59	47	106	28.9	18	77	60	7		4	6	2	66	14	80	3.0	11	77	35		2			2	39	40	79	4.6	35	74	32		1	1		2	34	42	76	2.1	40	74	23		3			2	55	25	80	7.3	18	73	26	1	1		2	1	100	0	100	27.4	-27	73	72	4		3	6	2	29	43	72	8.5	34	63	37		7		2	2	34	37	71	8.6	28	62	24		2	2	1	1	29	38	67	7.4	31	60	36			1	1	1	36	26	62	4.8	21	57	26		3		1	3	30	30	60	3.0	27	57	21	5	7			2	37	22	59	3.7	18	55	45		1			2	29	34	63	8.3	26	55	38		3		2	3	61	8	69	17.5	-10	52	43	15	2	2	3	4	33	25	58	8.8	16	49	22			1	2	2	20	30	50	0.8	29	49	10					2	17	36	53	4.2	32	49	52		1			1	29	24	53	4.3	20	49	29			1		1	1	55	56	7.6	47	48	33				2	1	24	29	53	5.1	24	48	29		3		1	1	21	27	48	1.1	26	47	13		1			2	17	34	51	6.3	28	45	22			1	1	2	30	18	48	4.4	14	44	17	13	12			3	20	26	46	3.7	22	42	21			1		3	27	22	49	7.2	15	42	27	16			1	1	10	36	46	6.1	30	40	18	1		1	1	2	27	17	44	5.4	12	39	17	10	6	1		2	35	5	40	1.8	3	38	21		1			2	28	14	42	3.8	10	38	22			1		4	19	23	42	3.9	19	38	15		2		1	2	41	0	41	4.3	-4	37	20		3		1	3	37	14	51	14.4	0	37	27	15	10	2	2	1	21	14	35	1.4	13	34	16		1			3	35	6	41	8.4	-2	33	36	3			2	2	37	0	37	7.2	-7	30	18	2	6		2	2	22	5	27	0.6	4	26	8					3	27	0	27	1.8	-2	25	21		2			1	19	7	26	1.0	6	25	13					1	25	10	35	10.1	0	25	33				3	1	28	0	28	4.0	-4	24	19				1	2	20	4	24	3.3	1	21	16			1		12	0	19	19	1.2	18	18	13		2			2	20	1	21	5.9	-5	15	29	6	2		1	2	15	1	16	1.4	0	15	16		1			1	12	0	12	0.9	-1	11	10		1			3	1	10	11	1.5	8	9	19					1	12	0	12	2.7	-3	9	9			1		1	14	1	15	6.2	-5	9	21			1	1	1	6	4	10	3.2	1	7		20				2	34	0	34	28.9	-29	5	30			3	1	14	5	0	5	0.5	0	5	6

 

[NorvilleBarnes]

We have one confirmed female clan member.

It moved.

 

[culdeus]

it sucks when you get some awesome giants, and deploy them and they go out all at once only to hit a ####### spring trap.

god dammit.

 

[EYLive]

If I didn't know any better, I would think Greg was onslaughting us. Sadly, he is very very serious.

 

[BroadwayG]

Oh, and yes... I know I'm uber

An uber would have tracked the gold cost of attacking based on the number of times he hit next.

 

[EYLive]

it sucks when you get some awesome giants, and deploy them and they go out all at once only to hit a ####### spring trap.

god dammit.

Yeah be especially suspicious of open gaps inside the walls. People love to leave traps in those spaces.