It doesn't cost as much as you think. There are players who raid 24/7 as well.
You do a lot of amazing things for the community and are probably the best CM we have ever had. But on this, I will respectfully disagree.
It costs an extremely large amount of money, even for the 24x7 raiders. For me, it would cost $9000, the math is below. I play this game an unhealthy amount most likely. Im nearly at the robber baron final star and have played since release. My walls are currently almost all 10. If I hit "next" on multiplayer 5x (im at 2800 medals for context), I will generally come across at least 2 bases with lv 13/14 walls. It is that rampant. For a game not on the iOS $$ charts, it is more than just suspicious to have this many people that have either spent $9000, or have done the 14,000 battles at 250k gold each battle to get their walls from 10-14. I'd have to look but I dont think many people even had 1/2 of that 14k number in the battle history you looked up for us a few weeks back, and there are some hard core players on this forum. Add in the final fact that half of these max wall bases, with people that have invested 24x7 playtime, or $9k, or a combination of this - have their traps popped and are barely maintained....sorry it just doesnt add up. I'd wager anything that 95% of these people are crown hackers, or beneficiaries of a negative crown glitch a long time ago.
What's worse though, is not really walls.....the walls can be beaten, but these same people probably have max university research, a huge disparity. These same people are the ones that can use full mercs, 3 gens and 6 tactics on every single battle to take regular players medals and loot and instantly have them back, etc. Walls are just the leading indicator. And like I said, not all are guilty.....but the overwhelming majority are.
Math snipped from another thread
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3.5 billion gold would require 389 times of going to the store and clicking the button to fill your gold to a max of 9 million. It shows me now it costs 3200 crowns to do that once. So, that means about 1,244,800 crowns. That comes out to about 89 separate purchases of 14,000 crowns for $100. Basically, it means that
a person would have to spend $8900 for just taking their walls from 10-14. Unless Im missing something in my math, which Ive put below in case someone can help me spot mistakes.
Wall Lv | Cost/Seg | Seg | | Ttl Gold |
10 | 3000000 | 140 | | $ 420,000,000.00 |
11 | 4000000 | 140 | | $ 560,000,000.00 |
12 | 5000000 | 140 | | $ 700,000,000.00 |
13 | 6000000 | 140 | | $ 840,000,000.00 |
14 | 7000000 | 140 | | $ 980,000,000.00 |
| | | | |
| Ttl cost | | | $ 3,500,000,000.00 |
| | | | |
| times to fill gold to max | 388.89 | | |