Diamond Theft

[Eddie F1]

How does anybody get 5 diamonds, never seen 5 fur or 5 leather taken even though most of the time maxed out on the stuff and would leave it in a heap outside the front door to be taken away if possible.

But 5 diamonds or a third of my stash, had 15 before chummy turned up, then 10. I've hit base after base showing diamonds available, rare I get one or once in a blue moon two.



Why not 6 frigging fur to go with it, I had 22 furs, now 21.

And why are 99% of these diamond thieves have names spelled with Asian character sets and 'Korea' in the alliance name - coincidence?

Is it bug, a hack or working as intended?

Aussie Guy quit because the straw that broke his back was as simple as increasing the price of crowns - diamonds or the lack of and thievery will be my exit point.

(off to beat the crap out of a certain League Boat captain now)

 

[Parmenion]

Working as intended I'd say, annoying as it is. Porcupine took 4 from me and doesn't seem the cheating type so just bad luck. There's no point hoarding diamonds with the way it is so best to have a few only.

 

[Yellowmar]

Eddie I have had the same experience and it usually happens to the few top alliance. It happens too frequent to be a collicidence. I suspect it to be glitch in the system similar to French Tb, involving other stuff. You probably wouldn't get any answers as more people know, the exploitation will occur.

 

[Porcupine]

Working as intended I'd say, annoying as it is. Porcupine took 4 from me and doesn't seem the cheating type so just bad luck. There's no point hoarding diamonds with the way it is so best to have a few only.

I did? When? Didn't notice your name if I did but yea I do remember taking 3+ diamonds from several high medal players.

 

[Parmenion]

14 days 10 hours ago. You attacked with a heavy tank, 3 artillery, 3 supply trucks, 42 ranged infantry, 5 gatling guns, 6 motos and a protect spell. The replay shows 3 diamonds came from the TC and 1 from the storehouse. If it's accurate you got 86%. My name in the game is Mark. I was in Kingdom League 1 at the time.

 

[Parmenion]

Damn the diamond thefts. I had all trade goods full apart from only having 5 diamonds and lost 3 of those diamonds when some guy from USA Elite 1 attacked. All 3 were taken from the TC as they couldn't get near my storehouse. If they want us to play less they're going to get their wish the way it's going.

 

[Aurelius...]

There's nothing fun about starting a session without diamonds. It's time to respond to our requests to protect diamonds (vault?). Or give us an additional source (alliance trading or mine?).

 

[Eddie F1]

Here's an idea

 

[Porcupine]

Oh, there's no way I could get back to that replay since it's 2 week old. Sorry for the grand theft tho..

 

[Parmenion]

I like the vault idea. Also, exploration chapter 3 in the library is useless. Perhaps they could change it to 10% chance of finding a diamond in the mines.

 

[Parmenion]

It's fine. It gave me more time to spend in the real world.

1 of my 2 diamonds was stolen earlier so I can have another break later.

Edit: Final diamond taken in attack so have none now. Every other trade good nearly full of course.

 

[Parmenion]

I'm getting very fed up of this problem, to the point I'm going to either give the game up or dump half my medals. Ever since I reached Empire League 3 I never get a diamond from a battle, relying on the boat chugging in with some. My army is EA and the chance of beating most of the bases I'm presented with for a 4/5 star win seems impossible, hence I avoid that approach.

I don't like to complain but this is beating me down and having NO response from the team is starting to annoy me.

I wonder how many other players reach this point and decide to throw away medals just to find diamonds? I know players in my alliance have dropped medals for this very reason. If you top players wonder why there are so few people up there this is definitely one of the reasons.

 

[Eddie F1]

You and me both.

I've barely played for 3 days, just log in when the PT is expiry, attack with the army that's built up and 'next' away until I find one that professes to have diamonds, examine the storehouse to make sure it's got a huge pile outside, attack...... and what do you know, I get one poxy leather or cider.

Started building Sabotage and Betrayals purely for this one-shot army and try 3 star bases, not easy with raiders, but doable and once in a while get a DomiDiamond.

Perhaps I should build a proper 5* army, but I'd say 75% of opponents (if not No Opponent Found') are those big money spender types who have maxed out Lvl13 walls and haven't bother to log in for weeks so only road gold and farms to steal from.

 

[Parmenion]

Yes, sounds all too familiar. There really are A LOT of cheat max level bases out there.

I've had luck at times getting 50% and a diamond with ranged infantry, gatling guns and a saboteur but it's not my preferred approach. This may work best as the Brits or Koreans.

I decided to drop to Kingdom League 1 to around 2,400 medals and after a TB ended up with 5 diamonds in storage so it's a better place to be. There are many more opponents out there too, which is nice. Just a shame I had to drop medals but I had hit the brick wall. I'll be IA in under 6 days so don't have days to waste scrabbling about for a couple of diamonds.

 

[GroteKoning]

For interest sake had a look at my own logs. On defence had a couple of 3 diamond losses, but since I'm usually maxed with diamonds it's bearable I suppose.

On offence - out of 49 attacks I made on my logg:
29 x zero diamonds (59%)
11 x 1 diamond (22%)
7 x 2 diamonds (14%)
1 x 3 diamonds (2%)
1 x 4 diamonds (2%)

 

[Parmenion]

You guys at USA Elite must have some secret to stealing diamonds. Every time you attack I lose several. 2 of my 3 diamonds were taken by Hunter Killer just now.

 

[papier]

How do you have 42 cider?

 

[GroteKoning]

Lol, no Parmenion, I've done many, many attacks and it is random. Out of my stats you'll see. I get most of my diamonds from TC, and not so much the storehouse. Also frequently get cider from storehouse.

 

[GroteKoning]

How do you have 42 cider?

I try to keep my cider maxed and only use it for training blessing. That said, the above was from a 5 day peace treaty. The trade boat goods gets added to your storehouse above and beyond your storehouse maximum.

I only take diamonds or cider from the boat. In that order. At dynasty 2, I can get up to 11 cider per day. In this instance the boat captain was an idiot and gave me cider about 3 days in a row, and only then started giving me diamonds. I'm fortunate that I get diamonds here often, can get up to 5 at a time.

 

[Eddie F1]

For interest sake had a look at mine too.

On offence - out of 49 attacks I made on my log:
30 x zero diamonds (61%)
17 x 1 diamond (35%)
1 x 2 diamonds (2%)
1 x 3 diamonds (2%)
0 x 4 diamonds (0%)
0 x 5 diamonds (0%)

And defence - 49 defences - what was stolen from me
10 x zero diamonds (20%)
23 x 1 diamond (47%)
11 x 2 diamonds (23%)
4 x 3 diamonds (8%)
0 x 4 diamonds (0%)
1 x 5 diamonds (2%)

And for attack I am deliberately targeting diamond loaded bases - nexting until I find one (or a magic more than 1 medal win pops up)

So basically I stole 22 diamonds in 49 attacks and on 49 defences lost 63 diamonds. Hmmm.