[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

twelve, on 16 September 2014 - 06:30 PM, said:

Vengeance, on 16 September 2014 - 03:36 PM, said:

twelve, on 16 September 2014 - 03:25 PM, said:

It took a bit longer than usual but once the update was done I had no trouble.

Made it to silver II ranking. I think I may have figured out a halfway decent raiding strategy. I maxed out my gold storage last night so had to wait for my builders to free up so I could blow it all on wall upgrades. I'm running into the it takes a day or longer for upgrades issue where I can't spend my hard earned loot fast enough.

That will go away sooner then you will like. Don't let your ranking get too high. If you want to make a drive for 1250 and get the gems then that is smart but then go right back down. Find an ranking that allows you to raid and get the resources that you need and stay there until everything in your village is maxed out. Then upgrade your TH and repeat.

Well as I'm hovering at around 50-60 gems the additional 450 I get for getting 1250 ranking doesn't interest me. Now if I had me 550 gems then it would as then I could get that fourth builder. I know you all have said to do the acheivements but a lot of those acheivements require that I level up my th so I can build the required buildings that will gain me gems. And the raiding the shit ton of gold and elixir will happen in time but that only will net 40 gems. I figure in about a month I'll have the gems to get my fourth so I'm just dealing with it right now. And yes my gold disappeared in no time at all and I only have about half of my walls upgraded to level 5. Got raided by someone sending in 23 giants. They ultimately took out all my defenses but thankfully it took so long they timed out before they wiped me out. But they stupid thing on their part is that it cost them more than I had available to steal. Other than getting the trophies I don't see the point.

It's too late now, but you shouldn't be spending gems on anything but builders until you have all five. An exception to this is the rare one gem boosts like we have going right now, that is worth it, but beyond that hoard them until you have all five builders.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Tiste Simeon, on 16 September 2014 - 07:28 PM, said:

Stolen shamelessly from Tatts (though my TH is higher so I have a few more bits to fit in plus more walls to put them in!) Here is my current village. Looking forward to dropping a few leagues and farming like a beast!

Spoiler

EDIT: I can't edit warbase until we get into a war, right?

Correct. And your pink walls at th9 hurts my soul. Walls are so much easier to do now though that you can spend elixir on them. Like we discussed earlier though, get your offense up to speed and focus on walls and defenses secondary to that.

[Tiste Simeon]

Yeah I know for ages I didn't bother with walls! Am trying to make up for my mistakes now but it's taking forever! 200K per section! Also wizards have gone up again!

[twelve]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 16 September 2014 - 11:57 PM, said:

twelve, on 16 September 2014 - 06:30 PM, said:

Vengeance, on 16 September 2014 - 03:36 PM, said:

twelve, on 16 September 2014 - 03:25 PM, said:

It took a bit longer than usual but once the update was done I had no trouble.

Made it to silver II ranking. I think I may have figured out a halfway decent raiding strategy. I maxed out my gold storage last night so had to wait for my builders to free up so I could blow it all on wall upgrades. I'm running into the it takes a day or longer for upgrades issue where I can't spend my hard earned loot fast enough.

That will go away sooner then you will like. Don't let your ranking get too high. If you want to make a drive for 1250 and get the gems then that is smart but then go right back down. Find an ranking that allows you to raid and get the resources that you need and stay there until everything in your village is maxed out. Then upgrade your TH and repeat.

Well as I'm hovering at around 50-60 gems the additional 450 I get for getting 1250 ranking doesn't interest me. Now if I had me 550 gems then it would as then I could get that fourth builder. I know you all have said to do the acheivements but a lot of those acheivements require that I level up my th so I can build the required buildings that will gain me gems. And the raiding the shit ton of gold and elixir will happen in time but that only will net 40 gems. I figure in about a month I'll have the gems to get my fourth so I'm just dealing with it right now. And yes my gold disappeared in no time at all and I only have about half of my walls upgraded to level 5. Got raided by someone sending in 23 giants. They ultimately took out all my defenses but thankfully it took so long they timed out before they wiped me out. But they stupid thing on their part is that it cost them more than I had available to steal. Other than getting the trophies I don't see the point.

It's too late now, but you shouldn't be spending gems on anything but builders until you have all five. An exception to this is the rare one gem boosts like we have going right now, that is worth it, but beyond that hoard them until you have all five builders.

Oh I hoard them alright. I didn't even spend it on the one gem boost as I'm that cheap. I usually have enough for my builders to constantly working and my research going. Though I did hit a rough spell about a week back when I started hitting harder to raid villages and suffered a net loss of elixir for a while.

[Tiste Simeon]

OK my new war base is ready and while I sort of took the design from Tatts again (sorry for all the cheekiness!) It is a bit different because I couldn't really work out what went where! It is nice and spread out and I managed to get my X Bow in the middle bit too. I have surrounded the Barb King with stuff so hopefully there will be chance for the attackers to be taken out a bit while being distracted by barracks or whatever. I have started to update walls but they cost so much!

Spoiler

[Vengeance]

Tiste Simeon, on 17 September 2014 - 05:38 PM, said:

OK my new war base is ready and while I sort of took the design from Tatts again (sorry for all the cheekiness!) It is a bit different because I couldn't really work out what went where! It is nice and spread out and I managed to get my X Bow in the middle bit too. I have surrounded the Barb King with stuff so hopefully there will be chance for the attackers to be taken out a bit while being distracted by barracks or whatever. I have started to update walls but they cost so much!

Spoiler

Can I suggest that you switch your archer queen with the Gold mine in the middle of your base, and then switch the DE drill with your BK in the middle. So that both your BK and AQ are situated around your TH and CC.

[The Dude]

Fellow Clashers! Didn't know we had this section on the forums. I'll have to stop by more as this game has become my guilty pleasure.

[Tiste Simeon]

Vengeance, on 17 September 2014 - 05:51 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 17 September 2014 - 05:38 PM, said:

OK my new war base is ready and while I sort of took the design from Tatts again (sorry for all the cheekiness!) It is a bit different because I couldn't really work out what went where! It is nice and spread out and I managed to get my X Bow in the middle bit too. I have surrounded the Barb King with stuff so hopefully there will be chance for the attackers to be taken out a bit while being distracted by barracks or whatever. I have started to update walls but they cost so much!

Spoiler

Can I suggest that you switch your archer queen with the Gold mine in the middle of your base, and then switch the DE drill with your BK in the middle. So that both your BK and AQ are situated around your TH and CC.

Done!

[Vengeance]

Tiste Simeon, on 17 September 2014 - 08:58 PM, said:

Vengeance, on 17 September 2014 - 05:51 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 17 September 2014 - 05:38 PM, said:

OK my new war base is ready and while I sort of took the design from Tatts again (sorry for all the cheekiness!) It is a bit different because I couldn't really work out what went where! It is nice and spread out and I managed to get my X Bow in the middle bit too. I have surrounded the Barb King with stuff so hopefully there will be chance for the attackers to be taken out a bit while being distracted by barracks or whatever. I have started to update walls but they cost so much!

Spoiler

Can I suggest that you switch your archer queen with the Gold mine in the middle of your base, and then switch the DE drill with your BK in the middle. So that both your BK and AQ are situated around your TH and CC.

Done!

Looks good. That will make it harder for an attacker to pull them out and kill them. Now they have to go into your defenses and then get hit with your champions.

[twelve]

I can just cry looking at your bases. For how long things are starting to take to upgrade it will be months before I even approach your levels.

[Tiste Simeon]

Yeah I have been playing for a year or two now and it is still taking me forever to upgrade things like walls. PEKKA level 2 was 10 days upgrading I think. Level 3 costs 6000000 elixir. Without paying real money for it I will never have that upgrade.

[The Dude]

Tiste Simeon, on 17 September 2014 - 08:58 PM, said:

Vengeance, on 17 September 2014 - 05:51 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 17 September 2014 - 05:38 PM, said:

OK my new war base is ready and while I sort of took the design from Tatts again (sorry for all the cheekiness!) It is a bit different because I couldn't really work out what went where! It is nice and spread out and I managed to get my X Bow in the middle bit too. I have surrounded the Barb King with stuff so hopefully there will be chance for the attackers to be taken out a bit while being distracted by barracks or whatever. I have started to update walls but they cost so much!

Spoiler

Can I suggest that you switch your archer queen with the Gold mine in the middle of your base, and then switch the DE drill with your BK in the middle. So that both your BK and AQ are situated around your TH and CC.

Done!

You also may want to put your air mines (the black ones) closer to your town hall. In wars Dragon attacks are pretty common, and this is a way to prioritize the mines hitting the dragons that do the most damage, namely the ones going after your TH, which are the dragons that will get your attackers that second star.

[Vengeance]

The Dude, on 17 September 2014 - 09:12 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 17 September 2014 - 08:58 PM, said:

Vengeance, on 17 September 2014 - 05:51 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 17 September 2014 - 05:38 PM, said:

OK my new war base is ready and while I sort of took the design from Tatts again (sorry for all the cheekiness!) It is a bit different because I couldn't really work out what went where! It is nice and spread out and I managed to get my X Bow in the middle bit too. I have surrounded the Barb King with stuff so hopefully there will be chance for the attackers to be taken out a bit while being distracted by barracks or whatever. I have started to update walls but they cost so much!

Spoiler

Can I suggest that you switch your archer queen with the Gold mine in the middle of your base, and then switch the DE drill with your BK in the middle. So that both your BK and AQ are situated around your TH and CC.

Done!

You also may want to put your air mines (the black ones) closer to your town hall. In wars Dragon attacks are pretty common, and this is a way to prioritize the mines hitting the dragons that do the most damage, namely the ones going after your TH, which are the dragons that will get your attackers that second star.

That is a very good suggestion.

[The Dude]

Tiste Simeon, on 17 September 2014 - 09:12 PM, said:

Yeah I have been playing for a year or two now and it is still taking me forever to upgrade things like walls. PEKKA level 2 was 10 days upgrading I think. Level 3 costs 6000000 elixir. Without paying real money for it I will never have that upgrade.

You'd be surprised. Once your armies start getting stronger and bigger your ability to get more and more resources increases. It's still a challenge, but it is definitely doable. I thought the same way, and am now at TH 10. Just have to keep plugging away. I can't stress enough how important it is to leave your Town Hall exposed. Those free 12 hour shields are wonderful for protecting resources. A single wall segment that costs 3 million gold (and thats not even the max wall!) has me intimidated right now. Putting those off as long as possible.

[twelve]

I'm shitting a brick trying to get the 750K for TH 6 right now though I'm trying to do what has been suggested and upgrade everything I can before I have to upgrade my TH. 3 million for one wall upgrade! Insane!

[EmperorMagus]

The Dude, on 17 September 2014 - 09:22 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 17 September 2014 - 09:12 PM, said:

Yeah I have been playing for a year or two now and it is still taking me forever to upgrade things like walls. PEKKA level 2 was 10 days upgrading I think. Level 3 costs 6000000 elixir. Without paying real money for it I will never have that upgrade.

You'd be surprised. Once your armies start getting stronger and bigger your ability to get more and more resources increases. It's still a challenge, but it is definitely doable. I thought the same way, and am now at TH 10. Just have to keep plugging away. I can't stress enough how important it is to leave your Town Hall exposed. Those free 12 hour shields are wonderful for protecting resources. A single wall segment that costs 3 million gold (and thats not even the max wall!) has me intimidated right now. Putting those off as long as possible.

I think that's where supercell intends to make some money.

[The Dude]

EmperorMagus, on 17 September 2014 - 09:44 PM, said:

The Dude, on 17 September 2014 - 09:22 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 17 September 2014 - 09:12 PM, said:

Yeah I have been playing for a year or two now and it is still taking me forever to upgrade things like walls. PEKKA level 2 was 10 days upgrading I think. Level 3 costs 6000000 elixir. Without paying real money for it I will never have that upgrade.

You'd be surprised. Once your armies start getting stronger and bigger your ability to get more and more resources increases. It's still a challenge, but it is definitely doable. I thought the same way, and am now at TH 10. Just have to keep plugging away. I can't stress enough how important it is to leave your Town Hall exposed. Those free 12 hour shields are wonderful for protecting resources. A single wall segment that costs 3 million gold (and thats not even the max wall!) has me intimidated right now. Putting those off as long as possible.

I think that's where supercell intends to make some money.

That and lvl 40 heroes. 100k DE elixer for the jump from 19->20 and it increases 5k every level thereafter. The final increase from 39->40 is 200K dark elixer. And there are 2 heroes! I gave up on my King for now since he has become relatively worthless after the update. Focusing on Queen first.


EDIT: You can add me to the list in post #2

Village: The Beagle, Clan: The Dude Abides

We are a step above casual and war about 2-3 times per week. (Recently having won 12/13 since we got rid of some dead weight). Always looking for some good war people. We are mostly adults 25+ some with kids, some without, but its a good group. We also have a no swearing policy as there are a few kids of members in the group.

This post has been edited by The Dude: 17 September 2014 - 10:26 PM

[twelve]

Thanks for the reminder Dude. Since I was introduced to game from this forum I went with twelve and I've joined Dolmens clan Malazans.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

I don't know if everyone is aware of the clash of clans podcast. It's in the iTunes store, just search clash of clans. It's interesting but sometimes silly. It's just two guys who play clash, sometimes they have interesting conversation, sometimes not. I listen mostly because they have a frequent guest on who is in my clan, so I sometimes hear myself mentioned which is fun.

They are from Minnesota so have hilarious accents. It's like listening to the people from the movie (or show) Fargo talk about CoC.

[EmperorMagus]

In what order do you guys think I should upgrade my buildings/units in a new TH level? I recently finished TH7 upgrade and have been busy upgrading laboratory/new defense buildings. The first unit I upgraded was Archers and now I'm doing Giants. I have also finished downgrading the new camp to lvl 5. What next?