I figure we've all seen plenty of complaint threads on all sides of the spectrum. From the people saying it's good to the people saying they've quit, to the others who have refunded all their money from supercell.

For perspective, I'm also the type of player who has spent more than $100 on this game. I occasionally find/found time to do long raiding sessions and was familiar with personal break timer more than I would have liked to have been. I did casual raids with gowipe, gowiho and balloonions until th10. Take that information as you will.

How has your experience been since the update? What did you used to do? (ie. war, snipe, farm) How are you liking it now? What trophy range pre/post update? What are you doing now?

In my own perspective, as a player running 3 towns, with 1 being a near max th7, 1 being a th9 of two months and 1 being a th10 of two months, I've observed many things across varying trophy ranges.

I'm primarily a war player but we all need ways to supplement our upgrades and army costs. My strategy from as soon as I could for loot collecting at th9 was balloonions, shifting from 2 rage 2 heal to 1 heal, 1 rage, 2 haste as dark spell factory was added. Often mixing 28 balloons and 40 minions. Deployed correctly this would usually result in a big hit on another 9 and net the bonus on loot plus 2/3+ of the storages.

Th10 followed the same trend with balloonion raids, not really noticing much of a difference. As I climbed trophies I noticed the 9s would become less frequent, often having even the biggest bases appear empty. I moved on to bigger 10s and started including lava hounds, 2 hounds, 28 balloons and 20 minions. Spells shifted to heal, 2 freeze and 4 haste.

My 7 uses giants, archers and goblins to farm up what he can. His experience hasn't really changed much pre and post update, with the exception that as he climbs now he finds far more th8 bases and far less th7 bases.

Some things I've observed in particular across all th levels since the update, loot has undoubtedly shifted from the growing bases, to the bases in the upper end of whatever spectrum to which they belong. Finding collector bases has apparently become more difficult with a suspected change to the inactive base time and their removals from search queue. Climbing trophies and profiting all resources seem to be something that can't even share a sentence for the most part. It's not to say it can't be done but it's certainly a struggle between the league bonus percentages and my choices as a player.

What does this all mean across the board for myself? I'll try to summarize.

Th7: glad I sniped up to crystal the week before, gold and silver farming has always been good but I wanted the gems. Loot remains mostly unchanged since level 7 walls could be upgraded with elixir.

Th9: regret war focus on troop upgrades first. Farming other th9 with worthwhile loot using only th8 strength giants, archers and goblins is not as profitable as it could be. Typically takes 3-5 boosts now to farm up the same quantity of resources using GAG post-update as 1-2 boosts balloonions yielded pre-update. Time wise it appears to be the same, but I have far more raids where I quit at 50-65% and suffer losses on resources in the hope of making it back later. My attack patterns have not changed as I usually wait out the whole duration of a shield before attacking as long as possible. My th9 base gets attacked almost immediately as soon as possible, typically 2-6 troop drops before a big attack, costing between 200-400k resources and several thousand dark. I've tried farming everywhere from champion league to unranked, and the best loot available to my th8 power GAG and gibarch is currently bronze and silver league. I have not been back to champion league on th9 since after the first week of the update. I could say I've found a conformable spot to collect loot and still maintain a solid defence that does not cost a fortune.

My th10 base is having a far more miserable experience. Instant regret again on prioritizing war troops over non-balloonions. Th9 powered GAG and gibarch against th10 defences are already pretty miserable, often times I sit at 50-60% completion if I'm lucky with what I've found. My base has level 30 AQ, level 24 Bk, and most of the defences are still th9 strength. I'm over 160 level 10 walls and the rest are 9. I used to look for weaker bases like myself after upgrading, and at the time I was using laloonions as previously mentioned. This yielded enough loot to give about 40-60k dark per day with average gains on gold and often breaking even or losing elixir. Th10 has been yoyoing between master 3 and champ 3, presently sitting in crystal 2 as I kamikaze dive fat storages, taking a loss in trophies for 300k/200k/800 loots on good days and less on worse.

What am I going to do differently? Well I now have to delay more war updates to get my looting troops up so I can afford the massive armies I'm expected to make all day every day to get the loot to upgrade my base to defend the loot I'm already not keeping because of my unfortunate timing on my upgrades coinciding with this update and the lengthy upgrade times of th9/10... So I guess try and stick out an already bad situation for 30-50 days in the hopes that either supercell can fix some of the damage they've done or hope it improves my situation enough to change my current experience.

I realize now I've failed at summarizing my experiences... If I were to respond to the question "how are you liking CoC after the update?" I would have to give different answers depending on which town was asked at what time.

My th7 would still say he loved it, although he had to drop from crystal to gold and silver league to take bigger loot from bigger th7 and find a little less 8s (matchmaking change?)

My th9 in champs would have said it sucks. It was finding far more th10s after the update than 9s, even counting the 9s that were only holding peanuts in the storage. Masters was sweet until the collector bases dried up, then the only big loot to be found was again on th10s in storages. Bronze and silver? Great loot from under developed bases. Now finding far more 10s and 11s. Big fat 9s are once again a rarity.

My th10 could probably make out okay if I went back to lavaloonions in any league, but it seems to be finding maxed th10s and big th11s once again holding all the loot. This has persisted from crystal through champ league. I have yet to try gold or below with the th10, but my progress has severely halted. It used to be that I could pay for 2-4 level 10 walls per day with my former farming metrics, but after the update I think I've only been able to purchase 3 in total. About 1 per week really... It often goes whole days without being attacked since the update, which initially was a problem before the first hotfix of pbt timers. I still continue to come back after sleeping to 100k+ in my collectors and the full 5400 dark.

Sorry for the wall of text. I just hoped this could be as least subjective as possible. Anyone want to compare notes?