Lvl 78 with 4 x mtm R6..... I don't know if it is possible to have so much resources.....
hey guys
yea, some days are bad and some days are good, just gotta keep nexting until you find a base worth raiding. It usually doesn't take long to find one that you can at least 50% for loot bonus. I usually lookout for bases with unprotected full collectors (you can see that the elixir collectors are filled full Pink) on the periphery. That means that the bulk of the loot is likely within easy reach and not in storages in the centre of the base.
Also, I only use barching to farm - with the barbs boost on now, each full army takes me a bit over 10 minutes to build - thats not too long to keep your phone online to prevent getting hit. Switch to a trophy base (with TH in centre) and you should be ok to login every 15 mins or so to raid. Lots of barching tutorials online, check them out on youtube.. and also on how to identify bases to barch. With some practice, you should have no problem farming as much as you can afford the time to play.
I've just popped into TFL Wiki and posted a few replays I just did to illustrate some points Ive raised. Check them out.
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!
Syclone is spot on with his advice. Here are my top tips, some repeating important points. I'm mid TH9, Lvl91.
1. Never rush TH upgrade. FULLY MAX everything, including walls before next upgrade.
2. If you ever were to spend money, get all 5 builders.
3. Don't waste gems on buying resources, gem barracks instead and farm with BARCHing - basically cheap army consisting of half barbs and half archers
4. TH outside. Best position is far left hand side. First thing people look at is how much loot you have so they should notice the TH and snipe it for quick win.
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.
6. Place Clan Castle in/near the middle where it cannot be triggered until the first layer of wall is breached. Your CC is your best (unpredictable) defence mechanism so think about what you want before you go offline and request.
7. DONATE DONATE DONATE. The best clans fills each other up in seconds. Important to cultivate this culture early on.
I have an alt account and will drop by wiki when I get a chance.
apologies as well for not following format, just a quick one..
rank 75 @ 33m pts (notice the 1 mil diff between rank 25, it was that close!)
BC 5000, EC 250 - I did quite a lot of H9 runs without chains. Netted boss quite a few times.
Also first campaign T1 after saving chains for a very long time.. 1.5 years? 78 chains used mostly saved incl one 15 pack bought using compensation mobacoins.
850 Ruby pulls X 13 - all R4 weapons
Gold medal pulls X ?? - 3 or 4 halves of hardshell.
Lucky to have never got half shocky.
Next T1? Probably never. Semi-retired mode now.
I've just put in a ticket for the non-existence of slug(5) weapon in the 850 ruby bridge.. anyone pull that by any chance?
I've asked at TFLU and no one seem to have pulled sit as well.. leading me to believe that it was never in place to be pulled. Stuck with a bunch of slugs with no sig... sux...
I've been on CoC for over a year now.. (and hence less and less TFL).
It is a very balanced game and you are not pressured into spending or stay up all night tapping. Really enjoy it.
I use the same name and is co-lead at a clan called Aussie Oz, currently mid TH9.
I think you will like it Syclone. You need lots of patience to wait out upgrades if you don't want to spend.. The chat mechanism makes up for it tho.. just general chat within your clan makes it fun to just play for a few hrs each day.
I have to agree with Agamerjes, the new L9s makes no difference to the game by promoting even stronger decks for God mode infiniplay.
I was excited for a bit when Mobage announced L9s as I was hoping for the comeback of the ally system. Alas, they are not as strong as they should be - If I can 2 cube L9 HS with only 2.5 MTM SC in my deck, there is no advantage to seed. I use 1 BC either way and the x1.2 damage (about 1.1bil damage out of 2.5bil hp) doesn't give me guaranteed MVP.
The only way to make L9s relevant is to set their HP at a level where the low T1/high T2 decks need to use at least 3 BCs to kill. This will give incentive to seed as it is more BC efficient to do so.
The ally system made this game so much fun for a few months, the need to strategize, communicate and help/get help from allies. We are not just tapping away on a soulless electronic device, we are alliancing with a group of real people with a common goal to achieve greater feats
The reward for L9s is ridiculous - 13 -20 rubies + a crap load of gold medals.
If people can get >3k rubies on day 1 for the 2nd MTM SC just by hitting the 3 ruby giving L7 SWs...
even top 100-250 will have full x10 decks in no time, T1 will be a mess.
farming time for me - for gold medals to upgrade future R6s, and save some ECs/BCs farmed for next team event.
BTW, mobage did credit me with the X10 bot I've been asking for since day 2 for the rewards stuff up. Not that its very useful on day 5......
No screenshot my friend.. I didn't even realised they changed the rewards until I got a SC alt at 2 mil points, I thought everyone was getting R4 this event.
Oh well, lets see. Im not fussed since Im not T1ing. As strong as SC is, it will be out of our decks in a month, if not days for those R6 full house decks.
BTW, coupling SC with Dreadwind's R5 is way better than its sig.
Hey guys, anyone here missed out on the 100k SC? I was tapping frantically right from the start so I think I missed the SC bot reward and was given some R4 card... Did pull one from medals so I've got my MTM but still.... sent ticket to Mobage.
Anyway, Im at 500 now. Only have time to T2 and wont aim for more than 2 SCs, so will prob be seeding the last 2 days.. add/drop as you wish.
I was able to T2 with pretty little but efficient playing. t1 however, is a completely different game.....
I think the when game mechanism is so simple, unlike Magic where there are infinite combinations and possibilities, you end up doing the same action over and over agin a million times until you see a gap to exploit. Everyone may have different ways, but I use the 20 sec refresh time between snipes to scan 1-3 times depending on encounters. Once you perfect the timing, you ride the wave and the feeling is sensational.
It's like 90s street fighter and the like, there are only 2, 3 moves and if you perfect your timing right, you can infinite combo.
Final Rank: 981
Final Score: 26.3 mil
Deck Power (Pre/Begining/End/Post): 26k+, 57k+, 27k+
Money Spent (and currency): $8.50 (should have been $3.50. On day 1, tier 2 loop 1 showed "guaranteed" but didn't give out one, so had to buy tier 3. emailed Moobs and got a "randomly selected card" - a TC bot, didn't really want half a card, would have wanted a refund.
Coins Spent: 850
Battle Cubes: + 250-300
Energon Cubes: + 50
Ruby Pulls: 2 MTM tantrum
Medals: 1 X TC weapon, 1 X TT weapon
Liked: The mad rush with 1 hr to go at T2 in an otherwise boring event. Didn't want to spend more ECs so I was in sniping mode 3 hrs prior to ending. hung on to 900 ish until the last 1/2 hour where I drop 10 places every refresh.... had to burn another 10 ECs to make it.
Disliked: infiniplay. Feels like dungeon crawl, not raid.
Other: walked out with positive resources. another step to the next T1.
Haha, just pulled a.... Now I know what u guys were talkin abt
Months ago we were talking about trading, would partially resolve this problem if we can create a new account and 'trade' your whole deck over. Perhaps that's why there never will be trading in this game
I just pulled one off. Lol, all in in the last 20 mins and won by 200k pts or so. The great thing with this strategy is that the whole team saves resources.
Other than this moment, it has been a shitty event for me.
Nailbiting guys.
CKat and Kub @ 67/68 with 156mil, cutoff closing in to 152mil. If 13th could rack up 4 mil in under an hour, no one is going for a loo break.
Yank, Patorikku, Daddy just a tack higher in points but looking safe.
Not playing anymore @193 but feeling the rush keeping a lookout on the points + leader board for top 100.