Supercell stole away our freedom of playing style so that they could tell us how to play the game. They removed dead bases from queue so that we would train a 200k elixir army to steal 250k elixir from other bases (it would take about 100-200 nexts to find a base above 200k elixir anyways). After 4 attacks (enough to break a shield) we would have a profit of 200k elixir. Then we log off, satisfied from a good day's raiding, and log on later to see that someone has stolen 300k elixir!

What do we do? The solution is in the problem! Supercell thinks that barch is evil and farming is evil, so they remove dead bases after 12-24 hours. What does this mean? If we don't play, our bases get removed from matchmaking. After 57 hours, the level 12 collectors become full and hold 200k each, for a total gain of 1.2m gold and 1.2m elixir. Nobody can attack us during this time because the bases are removed, so we don't lose any of this loot!

If we were playing the "right" way we couldn't afford any elixir upgrades because training any army that needs spells has too much cost.

TLDR: The best way to play this game is to not play this game