The cost to fully upgrade your walls

[Mr Suplex]

Assuming you are starting with Level 9 walls and taking them to Level 14, it would cost you almost $20,000 USD.

Assumptions:

~700 crowns = 1 million gold
14,000 crowns = $100 USD

Calculations:

(25 million gold per wall/gate) * (150 wall/gate sections) = 3.75 billion gold

(700 crowns) * 3,750 = 2.625 million crowns

(2.625 million crowns) / (14,000 crowns per $100) = 187.5 Benjamins

(187.5 Benjamins) * ($100 USD) = $18,750 USD

So yeah, all these people with maxed out walls are either super rich or (more likely) cheating. How hard can it be to cross check these accounts with how much they have spent and see if its even close to this?

Nb4powerup

 

[Eddie F1]

A couple of points:
1m gold is about half that in crowns when you 100% fill your market which makes the total around $9000 (as S_How calculated a while back)
At the other end of the socio-economic spectrum you have feckless, workshy layabouts who can play 10 hours a day - 3.75bn in gold = 15,000 raids @250k per raid, at 5mins between raids equals around 1250 hours playing time or 4 months non-stop raiding.

And you need to add ~$3000 for getting 6 level 40 Generals. You can raid the oil, but unlike walls, generals take time.

But whether they are paid for, hacked or raided for, they are there, I just accept it and carry on - it's Nexon's problem, not mine.

 

[JMoney]

I think it's funny honestly. I want to see just how much more expensive these walls could humanly be to spend in money and yet still see all sorts of folk with those walls. I'd have to assume all of those people are living like royalty by the time atomic age comes around to upgrade the mustard walls.

 

[Navalis]

I thought you could pay for instant General upgrades with Crowns (like most things) so I just checked. Currently I would pay 1271 Crowns to instantly upgrade any of my Generals from lvl 10 to 11. I assume this is the case for most players without Uni buffs.

 

[redprince]

Any gripe with the walls needs to be brought up with the whole mobile gaming industry, they all just follow COC.

 

[JMoney]

Hackers? Those are a problem with every part of the gaming industry. They just look more prevalent here because they're not checking to see if they're all legitimately paying, and thus fair, or not. And because with mobile games ofcourse being able to be competitive and at the top of any leaderboard means having to pay up large sums of money or have to deal with long wait periods, so those that take advantage of (or outright abuse like with hacking) that system are significantly more obvious.

 

[Mr Suplex]

I'm not complaining about the cost, I'm just pointing out how much money someone would have to spend to get these walls. I'm simply not convinced that so many people are paying this amount of money, and so the only other explanation is cheating. Who knows, though, since no one from the company ever responds to any of these threads?

Nb4powerup

 

[Funks]

You come across someone with maxed walls simply just dont attack them, let them play with themselves, easy. Its when they start hack attacking you that it becomes a bigger problem, and walls dont attack people ..(well not in my world anyway)

 

[Mr Suplex]

You come across someone with maxed walls simply just dont attack them, let them play with themselves, easy. Its when they start hack attacking you that it becomes a bigger problem, and walls dont attack people ..(well not in my world anyway)

I attack if their base sucks, and I always take pictures and report the players for investigation. The whole point of this is to show how crazy expensive it would be for a legit player to do this. It only raises my suspicions that cheaters exist.

 

[Funks]

I attack if their base sucks, and I always take pictures and report the players for investigation. The whole point of this is to show how crazy expensive it would be for a legit player to do this. It only raises my suspicions that cheaters exist.

Oh yeah fully agree. But I leave those bases alone, dont give them the joy of my participation.

 

[Eddie F1]

And because with mobile games of course being able to be competitive and at the top of any leaderboard means having to pay up large sums of money or have to deal with long wait periods

Except there are three fatal flaws with the PayYourWayToTheTop
1. Above 3000 medals, the player base isn't big enough, you can 'Instant' build your army & tactics, but you can't pay your way past 'No Opponent Found'
2. The few bases that do appear are mostly only worth 1 medal - the Elo Rating based 1/39 medal system is utter garbage for this game, it's pure luck and rare to get a worthy base worth 10,20,30 medals. So you're reduced to ram-raiding TC's or using a full army, but then you have to wait to get resupplies from allies. It's totally frustrating and people don't pay to be frustrated.
3. The Top Player Leader Board is broken - you don't get to appear on it - if I had paid the estimated $15,000 to max my base, then spend the time attacking continuously to get to 3200 and not appear, I'd be straight to the AppStore for a complete refund and get it.

 

[Eddie F1]

Who knows, though, since no one from the company ever responds to any of these threads?

And that is 99% of the problem - there is no feedback, no Hall of Shame of those caught, no transparency, so it always appear if nothing is ever being done.

And for verified people who have paid to max a base - give them a shiny gold roof on the TC so we can all marvel at their generosity .

 

[Maurmo]

Hmmm full custard walls AND 3 level 40 generals.. eye watering costs to do it legit...and there are so many of them

 

[Eddie F1]

Not really, if you lived in a town of 20,000 and 200 bought a bright yellow Lamborghini Aventador, you'd see 10-15 every day on the way to work and wonder WTF is going on.

200 people spending $15,000 is only $3m over 16months - CoC does that a day.
Even if it was 2000 people, still only $30m. And Apple/Google have $10m of that.

 

[Max_imus]

CoC makes only $1m a day iirc

 

[Hugh Jazz]

That would be a good indicator ... Maybe something a bit more subtle such as a statue or flag ...

 

[Glacier]

CoC is childs play, DomiNations is the adult way ;-]

 

[Funks]

Yip! My 8 yo son wanted Dominations, I said start on CoC lol

 

[Glacier]

ㄴㅇㄴ(no clue what that means in korean, lol to me) funks, yeah DomiNations way more complicated. CoC ain't got near the stuff to do as we got. CoC makes for a training game for DomiNations.