Nybble posted:

RCarr, you may be able to link your account via the in-game Google+ linking? I did it to get from iPhone -> Android. Their website has guides to help transfer, so that might help.


And then never use the 4th builder. Ever. I rarely ever have enough materials to keep Researching and 3 Builders occupied.

Gangringo posted:

Good air defenses are as much about the attacks that don't happen as they ones that they repel. When I'm running giant/healer and I see a base with well-packed centralized air defenses I hit next.

Well positioned and upgraded air defenses will make your base nearly unassailable to certain army compositions mainly because Giants just can't survive long enough to take them out while being bombarded by everything else without expending potions that take time to replace.

ixo posted:

That's what it'd take to get my level 2 king to level 3. Only 37 more levels to go after that!

Dancing Peasant posted:

I saw this picture the other day, apparently the guy is down around 1800 trophies now, but still though

duffmensch posted:

The person viewing the other town hall has 8m resources, not the person with the Th4. You can see the "return home" button in the lower left corner.

cr4zyd posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63d3K5xw0oc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFupJHBBhcY

Watch as one man spends $100 on gems for a questionable cause!

Secret Sweater posted:

how me a frog posted:

Ad hominem? It hurts so much to be tangibly wrong?


This right here? That's loser talk. Which goon clan are you in? Give your true stats and I assure you I will eclipse you in days using my infantile post. Unless you're in DoUEvenLift in which case I already did.

RCarr posted:

What the hell are bees

RCarr posted:

What the hell are bees

Nuclearmonkee posted:

This doesn't really work on good bases though. When I'm rolling with bees (which is most of the time) I have to hit next often enough on fat bases with maxed walls. Heavily compartmentalized bases with good walls are the bane of bees and unless the storages are on the outer layer it can be very hard to get to them without burning spells.

You can always get collectors though. Just hit next until you see a base with full ones.

Murgos posted:

This is working surprisingly well. I had tried that force composition before but not circling around the base, that seems like it distributes the troops pretty efficiently with the way the AI does pathing and target priority.

McSpankWich posted:

It depends on the bases you find, but yea. You need to focus on bases with either the AA close to the edge, or two grouped together. Usually what I would do is drop the giants on the side closest to two of the AA batteries, and WB them in a level or two, use a healing spell if necessary. Then drop the healers once the AA's are down. Hopefully the third AA was close to the edge on the opposite side, and the archers would usually take it out before the healers got into it's range.

Once the AA's are gone basically it's just you against the clock with Giants/Healers. Usually I ran with 16 giants, 2 healers, 40 gobbos, and the rest archers (37? I think it came out to)

Bases I hit were usually in the 150-350 of each resource range, occasionally would get one that was like 500+ of each, but that was rare. The cost of that army comp is ~75k so if you burned a heal spell you needed to get ~100k elixir to break even. Much more expensive than bees, but would generally allow 100% on some otherwise unassailable bases.

hitchensgoespop posted:

At what level do wizards start becoming useful?

ive tried using them in the past and they seem to just get chewed up really quickly and they take an age to make so making loads of them is kinda out of the question.

giants are pretty useful if you use them in conjunction with a healer,as they will pretty much clear out a bases defenses providing you get rid of the air missiles first.

jm20 posted:

You are correct, trophies determine your match ups, town hall will be compared against your opponent to determine available resources to steal.


The army cost of bees is negligible, and does not even factor into what bases to attack. They are rather effective as well provided you are in the appropriate trophy range. They aren't going to fare very well against strong walls, funneling, and high level splash damage but no army is without compromise.

Nauta posted:

So I took a look at some Vietnamese clan.



Those donations...

edit: this is from last thursday

DontMindMe posted:

Ugh, I have to stop playing this in the morning half awake. I keep gifting troops and then realize after the fact they specifically asked not to give them that specific troop.

Drowning Rabbit posted:

I am literally at the point where I'm in such a gold hole, I'm trying to max out my Elixir stores just so I can upgrade Pekka again. I'm at TH 8 still with un-upgraded walls/defenses and nothing to spend purple drank on. I don't play NEARLY enough for constant raiding to be a thing, as the timer to build the army again just means I get raided and lose a chunk of what I just stole.

Drowning Rabbit posted:

I thought the wars were hosed right now. If We Spent wants to go to war we can, but I'll be at PAX all weekend so the war will come and go without me.

RCarr posted:

He's talking about his clan war castle. You can't get rid of them unless someone attacks you and they die in the attack. Same thing happened to our clan. Someone spammed 20 archers in EVERY SINGLE clan war castle.

ixo posted:

I'm having a lot of fun with this update. The rewards are paltry compared to how much elixir we spent on armies and dragons/wizards for the war castles over a million lixir , but this is the first time the clan has actually felt like a team. I'm actually rooting for people to win instead of just glossing over the 10th bees/farming replay of the day.

I think 2Poor will be perfectly happy warring once a week, so we don't really feel the need to rearrange the clans. If a couple of the other groups aren't happy, maybe someone should start anew and try to consolidate?

I propose that 2Poor's MVP goes to thinkmeats. He had the lowest ranked base, but 5 people in a row attacked and failed utterly. The 6th attack got a single star against him

RCarr posted:

GOOD NEWS! Any defenses that are currently upgrading will be available during a clan war! For instance, I had both my Anti-Air defenses upgrading (6 days each) right before our clan war started. On my regular base, they are still upgrading, but on my clan war base, they are in tact at the level they were prior to starting the upgrade.

-No, your resources are safe in clan wars.
-No, the troops that will defend in a clan war are the ones people donate through the clan war screen. You can check your own base in that screen to see what you have been donated.
-Yes, the troops in your regular castle are available for clan war offensive attacks
-No you can't use them for offense, I don't know if they disappear or what.

(For god sakes, don't waste army slots on goblins in Clan Wars. I'm watching multiple replays of my clan members leading a clan war attack by dumping like 40 goblins around the enemy base. Guess what? They are all obliterated in seconds. This is a stupid thing to do.)

BuhamutZeo posted:

Yeah, but a line in the op says that you'll never really get the full potential from having more than 3 builders, so I'm just saving up for that and then I don't know what.

Khablam posted:

Clash is clever; you will feel a need for another builder pretty badly after playing the game for about a week. This is akin to World of Tanks making Tier IV the most awful experience imaginable whilst dangling the carrot of premium Tier V tanks under your nose.

After a not-too-long period of time, you will find it harder to ever get enough gold to keep 4 builders busy, unless you are very active. 3 seems like an ideal number over time, and can be achieved without paying.

If you're farming with bees on cooldown, then aim for 4.

Dizz posted:

Is there any downside to not defending some buildings like my builder huts and campsites?

UFOTofuTacoCat posted:

I'm in 500dolla and I'm at TH level 6. I tried my hand at 1 attack each during the last two clan wars that didn't go so hot. My burning question is: What can I do to not screw things up for the clan?

UP AND ADAM posted:

500dolla seems as unified as you could expect, really. I think everyone is learning and improving as they go, so I'd like to keep that one whole if we can.

Honore_De_Balzac posted:

500dolla #1 goon clan!

kirtar posted:

Looks like I won't be much use on this one since even their lowest guy is higher TH than I am.

kirtar posted:

I think I can probably 1 star them for loot, but they'll probably have been 2-3 starred by the time I get to it.

Dancing Peasant posted:

I feel like goon clans are pretty much like relegation. I don't know who the Premier League equivalent is, either Pekka or 500dolla. It's kinda amusing though.

At this point, we should probably just relegate/promote dudes within clans or something.

Honore_De_Balzac posted:

You really want to associate yourself with pond scum like Sepp?

RVT posted:

Based on our limited experience, it seems like the clans have an elo.

2poor was matched up against some turds for the first war, matched up against another 1-0 clan for the second, and matched up against a 2-0 clan for the third.

This could be just random, but until we have more data I'm going to go with the theory that there is a clan elo.

Drowning Rabbit posted:

How do you play online multiplayer games and not know the Elo system?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system