Chianti
12-16-13, 10:41 AM
With the alliance portal now able to support upwards of 30 housing spaces, I believe some modification needs to be made.
1) After the recent game update boosting defenses, most players (at least in my range) prefer using the higher end units (dragons, etc.) This often leaves the portal with open housing spaces if the person selected dragon or knight as their preferred donation. What I propose is adding secondary preferences. Instead of a "*" being placed next to your preferred unit, allow us to place a "1" (multiple if necessary, just like you can place multiple *'s) for our primary unit requests, and a "2"'s for our secondary unit requests.
For example, I could place a "1" on Dragons and Knights, and a "2" on archers and demolitionists. The "1" would continue to show up as a gold banner, and the 2 would show up as a silver banner (just a suggestion). This way, if I go to donate troops, and someone has already donated a dragon (leaving only 5 housing spaces left) I would know to donate either warriors, archers, demolitionists, etc.
2) I know this one is a "reach" goal, but I believe you should also allow players to build troops marked for donation purposes only. For a while, I was using dragons and air bombers exclusively, leaving me unable to help donate troops to my fellow alliance members requesting archers and other units. You should allow the alliance portal to build troops which cannot be used in battle, marked for donation exclusively. This way, people can donate irrespective of their primary army layout. The troops should have their own housing limitation (not part of the 240 army limitation), so we can build troops for donation without affecting our attacking army.
3) On a similar note, I believe it's time to add an anti-air bomb or trap. Higher end bases can often (sometimes) handle both all-air or all-ground attacks, but lower end bases can choose to configure for either air attacks, leaving them vulnerable to ground attacks, or vice versa. Anti air-unit bombs or traps will help.
1) After the recent game update boosting defenses, most players (at least in my range) prefer using the higher end units (dragons, etc.) This often leaves the portal with open housing spaces if the person selected dragon or knight as their preferred donation. What I propose is adding secondary preferences. Instead of a "*" being placed next to your preferred unit, allow us to place a "1" (multiple if necessary, just like you can place multiple *'s) for our primary unit requests, and a "2"'s for our secondary unit requests.
For example, I could place a "1" on Dragons and Knights, and a "2" on archers and demolitionists. The "1" would continue to show up as a gold banner, and the 2 would show up as a silver banner (just a suggestion). This way, if I go to donate troops, and someone has already donated a dragon (leaving only 5 housing spaces left) I would know to donate either warriors, archers, demolitionists, etc.
2) I know this one is a "reach" goal, but I believe you should also allow players to build troops marked for donation purposes only. For a while, I was using dragons and air bombers exclusively, leaving me unable to help donate troops to my fellow alliance members requesting archers and other units. You should allow the alliance portal to build troops which cannot be used in battle, marked for donation exclusively. This way, people can donate irrespective of their primary army layout. The troops should have their own housing limitation (not part of the 240 army limitation), so we can build troops for donation without affecting our attacking army.
3) On a similar note, I believe it's time to add an anti-air bomb or trap. Higher end bases can often (sometimes) handle both all-air or all-ground attacks, but lower end bases can choose to configure for either air attacks, leaving them vulnerable to ground attacks, or vice versa. Anti air-unit bombs or traps will help.