Level 170s

[Martine]

Personally I believe any player that has achieved the 17's plus should be worth more than 1 medal. It takes a big effort to relieve them of their loot. Well sometimes ..

Hiding down in the lower medal range. By lower I mean 2600s .. or less

 

[Chris Coley]

Rationally speaking, I agree with you. Given the amount of resources needed to upgrade (assuming there is no cheating or $1,000s of USD being spent) it would seem to take plenty of raids and wins to achieve these levels of bases...But there are several reasons that would beg to differ with rational thought.

One being the obvious...there are many cheaters who upgrade all. At once, putting them in the higher levels. Even clearing forests gives you +XP points( but oddly enough, NOT upgraded walls????)

Two: The vast amount of players I've known who have reached 2300-2900 medals or higher will testify that this area sucks HARD. I'm nowhere near that and am not in any hurry to get there before GLOBAL age or later. So players may tend to take losses simply to drop medals.

Finally: Something I've been lamenting for over 6 months now. The +1 and -34 victory/ loss. It really doesn't pay many players to hit base after base to gain medals ESPECIALLY if they have to take time to retrain troops, blessings, generals and assuming they aren't raided before they get another battle going and lose the medal or medals they've achieved earlier.

Just my opinion, but I've thought about the same thing the OP has posted about.