[weambulance]

Install Bluestacks on your computer, then install Google Play inside Bluestacks, and you can use lots of apps from your PC.

Besides my laptop I only have my iPhone 4S here and it doesn't play nice with my network, so if I can't get the game working well in Bluestacks I probably won't be able to play.

...I got it installed in Bluestacks and it opened okay, but it says the servers are down for maintenance and to try back in an hour and a half. I'll try again in the morning I guess.

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

I have problems with Bluestacks - I installed it but when I try to start it, it just stays stuck as "initializing" forever. I tried running it as admin, reinstalling it and using compatibility modes, nothing helped. Anyone had the same issue?

[bojangles]

I might get this game later for the jokes, I'm gonna bug the fuck out of you guys for tips.

[bojangles]

Right I've got it, let's see how this rolls

[R Smoov]

Bojangles one rule of thumb about the game: Worry about income.

The two main currencies you'll use through the game is Gold and Elixirs.
Both can be used for a certain amount of things and upgrades.

Your first priority is to update the gold mines/elixir collectors and the storages for them both.

Then you will have income to help you with funding for the upgrades.

Hope this helps

[bojangles]

Thanks I've bought 2 of each mine and been upgrading all to level 3 including storage. I waited for things to build rather than listening to the whore as well

[Slim Shady]

(09-16-2014 05:13 PM)bojangles Wrote:  

I waited for things to build rather than listening to the whore as well

When I first started the game, I was absolutely pissed at a fraternity, so much so that I had to sit in the side to sober up. I ended up listening to "the whore" and spending too many gems...

[weambulance]

(09-16-2014 04:04 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

I have problems with Bluestacks - I installed it but when I try to start it, it just stays stuck as "initializing" forever. I tried running it as admin, reinstalling it and using compatibility modes, nothing helped. Anyone had the same issue?

Not sure, I remember it was kind of a bitch to get up and running when I first installed it but that was 2 months ago and I don't really remember what I did. I know I uninstalled and reinstalled it once but that's all I can recall.

Clash of Clans is running well on Bluestacks for me, so hopefully if you get your install sorted out you won't have any more problems.

[R Smoov]

So are we getting this rocking?

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

I reinstalled Bluestacks but, no matter what I do, it always gets stuck at "initializing" :/

[samsamsam]

Good god, I am checking this out. Giant time suck about to occur

[dog24]

+1 on pet shop finders

Actually since im using it on my phone it doesnt take away much time from me, most battles last less than 2 minutes and for upgrades you just leave it be for a couple of hours or even days.

I dont get it, everytime i get raided my supplies dont seem to go down at all. Whats the point of building defenses then? Winning more trophy points?

[samsamsam]

Is the 3 day shield, 3 days real time or 3 days game time? Sure seems like a lot of waiting at the moment doing upgrades, etc.

I have tried to find the answer but no luck. Also, it says if you play single player you can attack and not lose your shield. Do you have to chose which path you go? Meaning if you choose single player you can never play in multiplayer?

Damn gems are hard to get, not paying for them.

Thanks.

[Slim Shady]

Do not waste gems on the Shields. There are 50 single player "Goblin levels", which increase in difficulty as you go along. They are a side quest to the main game, which is multiplayer - where you attack other people's bases.

When someone attacks you and gets atleast 1 star, or does atleast 40% damage on your village, you get an automatic 12 hour shield. This is why a lot of time when you are "farming" [see my earlier post on the first page] you may elect to leave your Town Hall [TH] outside so that people will leave the rest of your village/resources alone, and you will get an auto-shield. If someone destroys 100% of your village you get a 16 hour shield I believe.

During this shielding period, if you choose to attack other villages on multiplayer, or even if you choose the "revenge" attack, you lose the rest of that shield till someone again destroys your village. During this time, you can attack the Goblin single player villages without penalty. You can also engage in the new "Clan War" function during this time,but for that you have to be in a proper clan.

The Goblin villages seem pointless at first, but the last few villages have some serious loot available [in the 100ks range]. Also 3 starring all 50 levels gives you some free gems.

Gems are the most precious currency and the only thing you have to buy with real money. Save them for buying builder huts, and use them occasionally for boosting speeds of pumps/spell factories when there are special gimmicks.

The Goblin villages also get ridiculously easy to beat if you leave them alone till you get to a really high level. However, I kept trying to beat them early. This was a waste of time and resources, but also more fun/helped learn about attacking.

Bottom line: Don't buy the shield.

Cheers

[samsamsam]

^^ Thanks, I wasn't going to buy shields. I just started so I am just wondering if the 3 day is 3 days of game time or 3 days of real time. If it was some cruel incentive to make you play as much as you can within the first 3 days (if it was real time.)

[Slim Shady]

Game time and real time are the same. Also, you can't really play the game much when you have the shield, since you lose it upon attacking. They are only useful when you have a lot of resources stored up for upgrades, etc.

[Roosh]

It's like an inferior version of Warcraft 2. Do people still play that? I'll play that if anyone's down.

[Roosh]

I'm up and running with Warcraft 2:

http://server.war2.ru/support/getting-started/

So much nostalgia. I remember playing this in high school about 15 years ago.

[dog24]

Yeah its a downgrade from old strategy games like warcraft or age of empires, i think thats the appeal to it, its simple enough so that you dont have to put too much effort into it, but also complicated enough to get you hooked to it. Just like candy crush which is a glorified tetris game.

[R Smoov]

@Fisto
Thank you Fisto for making it cool to play this game in front of bitches.

After practice today with the girls rowing team. We chilled and had dinner with them and one of them said.

"Oooh! I used to play Clash of Clans!" when they saw me playing.

@Roosh
Roosh why don't you just play Clash with us man?

I'm sure your Warcraft II strategies would help us out a shitton on this game. This game will be a piece of cake for you and you could help strategize and have fun with us.

[BadWolf]

So weird, I just installed this game and here's a thread about it. I hope to one day destroy all of your clans and take your women.

If you start a Starcraft league, I will join that. I used to play at the top of the ladder games with Zerg... warcraft, not so much. Also LOL, my boss and I would play that back to back for days (work days) heh.

[Duke Castile]

I can't believe Roosh is trying to derail my clash thread with starcraft...its like he thinks he owns the place!

Yeah we are doing the clan but we need to decide on a name.

Pet Shop Finders may have too many characters

[Slim Shady]

You can do PetShopFinders as one name, or just "Pet Shoppers". Or something much more aggressive like "The Fisters", or "Cunt Punchers"

My personal vote goes to [from the Starz Spartacus show] "Jupiter's Cock"

[Duke Castile]

PetShopFinders is now a clan!

Slim Shady sorry to waste your clans time.

RVF established members with enough post count or rep points, everyone on this thread so far qualifies.

Slay on!

[Blackhawk]

Unlike roosh's Starcraft, having your village totally destroyed isn't a big deal in Clash of Clans. Even if someone completely destroys your village during a raid and levels it to the ground, after their 3 minute raid is over, it's all immediately rebuilt back for free. Over and over again. You never lose buildings, walls, or anything else, they're only destroyed temporarily during a player's raid, then they're restored.

The only thing you can lose from a raid is:
50% of the loot sitting in your your collectors (your mines and pumps)
20% of the loot sitting in your storage vaults. (they're more secure)
Any traps that were set off you have to repay to reset.

Everything else, all the buildings they spent all that time destroying, just get rebuilt back for free after their raid is over. No big deal. Every building you build will keep regenerating forever, no matter how many times it's attacked and knocked down raid after raid. So the game is about protecting your loot (the only thing that can be stolen), and the best way to protect loot is spending it on buildings, walls and upgrades, which are permanent (and can never be stolen).

While new accounts are given a free 3 day shield, you also get a free 12 hour shield anytime someone destroys 40% of your village or destroys your townhall, which is a whole lot of hours that no one can attack and loot you during. If they 90% your village, the shield is increased to 16 hours. So a lot of farmers will put the walls and defenses around their storages, and leave the townhall someplace easy to attack. Someone comes along, destroys the townhall for a tiny bit of resources with a single barbarian, and you get a free 12 hour shield. Good trade.

The worst thing that can happen is one person comes in and steals some of your loot... but they never destroy enough to trigger a shield, and then another person raids you more ...getting you in a chain. A chain of people each stealing a little will quickly drain off a lot more loot that one person who takes 20% and gives you a 12-16 hour shield, locking out anyone else from attacking you and giving your collectors time to fill up.

CoC's main interest is that it gives you more control than it seems at first: You control what troops are put out, when, and where. Once players get good at understanding how the different troops move because of their different AI, there's some actual strategy and skill for such a silly phone app game, and they will get in a rhythm of raiding over and over again as fast as they can build their next army. You can't be raided while you're actively logged in the game, so a lot of players will raid until they can afford something new, empty their storages buying it, and then log off. With no loot left, most people will "next" it for something else.

It's also very easy in CoC to spend more building an army than you get back in loot from raiding with it, giving you a Pyrrhic Victory that leaves you bankrupt for a while. Worst case you spend everything on your army, get no loot at all, can't rebuild a new one, and have to wait the painful hours for your collectors to gather enough you can build troops again. The Next button is important, letting you skip over loot poor villages that will make you bankrupt if you waste your expensive army attacking them.