Strategy & Note to Neighbors

ws_7 wrote:
So, to throw this out there. Maybe this deserves its own topic but let's start the discussion here.

Since the benefits of a succesful attack vs unsuccesfull attack are WAY larger than successfull defense vs unsuccessful defense (a destroyed building), wouldn't it be best if the general consensus would be to NOT DEFEND YOUR BUILDINGS UNTIL IT IS DESTROYED. If everyone does this, the net gain would be much larger than when everyone would hurry to defend their buildings. However, it would require the large majority of players to do this for this to work.

How I would see it is as follows:

-Everyone can attack as many neighbours as they can with 1 nerd per attack. The neighbours let this one nerd succeed, resulting in bonuses for himself. Since we can now send just 1 nerd we can attack more buildings. Say I attack my neighbours 5 buildings with 1 nerd each. If he lets my attacks succeed he collects 5* 10 elixer and 5* 5 gold. By not defending he loses 10 elixer and 5 gold per building, so that would be a total of 50 elixer and 25 gold won out of a maximum of 100 elixer and 50 gold, therefore equating to a 'loss' of 50 elixer and 25 gold.

I myself however will gain 18 elixer and 8 gold from a successful attack. If my neighbour defends I only get 5 elixer and 1 gold. Therefore, by allowing my attacks to succeed my neighbours make sure I 'win' 65 elixer and 35 gold.

Ergo, by allowing the attacks to succeed the defender 'loses' less than the attacker 'wins' (a difference of 15 elixer and 10 gold per neighbour/attacker per day).

If everyone would do this it would benefit the community as a whole! It does however obviously require you to resist the urge of tapping your buildings under attack.

Am I missing something in this strategy?

I agree with you 100% on this, and hope we stumble onto each others towns (I am sure we would recognize the strategy) I usually leave one or two destroyed houses to illustrate that it can be done in my town, and because if nothing else it makes it more tempting for any random (good or bad) to attack me (free gold and elixir!). I built a bunch of houses for the event - I'll just sell them later.

The crazy part, and where I think the resistance comes in is that this strategy is almost 100% opposite of the strategy EA has made us use in this game since day one. I think the clues can be found in the dialogue mocking Friendship Points - The best strategy for the game under Homer Barbarian will be to do opposite of what normally works. I'll still visit neighbors when I can, but only because they are great neighbors and I'll want to see how they are doing / help them. Otherwise, I will let my buildings (castle excepted) be destroyed before I defend them. I will use the revenge button, and pay attention to the strategy I see in other towns as I look for other towns with the same strategy.