Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-13129747-20140702003029/@comment-24022733-20150130213325

Rsgeiger wrote: On this point:

5. NEVER EVER trap your outside TH, i.e. teslas, bombs etc. You only make your attacker angry and he/she unleashes the full army on you.

I dont agree. For beginners maybe, but I find that trapping your TH will get you lots of trophies in the long run.

Quite the opposite bro, really doesn't matter what you do as a beginner as ppl who attack you don't understand why you leave TH outside anyway. Putting th outside is a very deliberate strategy to allow enemies to snipe your th and get one star without losing a bunch of troops. The more difficult you make that for your enemies the more incentive for them to just unleash the lot.

From mid level, when bonus loot becomes substantial (im in crystal2, every win gives me 50,000 gold and elixir and 200 DE bonus) Everytime i see an outside TH, i snipe with my archer queen, get the bonus and move on to search for the next easy target. Keep repeating between TH snipe and 50% barching, i make 1M or more each every 2 hrs without gem boost on a normal day. In the process, i easily gain over 100 trophies.

The real currency in CoC is time, not gold or elixir or trophies. I constantly have millions in my storages and could be robbed of approx 400k each if the enemy clears my base. It takes me approx 45 mins to get back that amount of loot lost but it only takes me 15 mins to gain back the trophy lost. Hence i rather let enemy snipe my TH for trophies to protect my resources.

Also, trophy count is never a problem in coc. Players at different stages drop or push for trophies to put themselves in a position where its easiest to farm. I constantly shift between gold 2 and crystal2 as good loot is always in a flux, somedays i find lots of 6 figures in gold, other days when it's dry, I'll just trophy push to activate bonus loot to make raids worthwhile.... I control my trophy count very precisely and more often than not, I need to drop rather than gain as you unknowingly accumulate too many while farming. At my level, beyond c2 gets very difficult with lots of th10, making it harder to get that 50% one star win.

Just my 2 cents, may or may not work for u guys at various levels but food for thought. Good luck and clash on!