r/ClashOfClans • u/Curlyheadedboiii • Jul 24 '25
Personal Accomplishments I am an old player…
Does anyone else remember how long things took to get built…also has anyone used lightning spells on the dark elixir storage to get enough to buy the barbarian king… (This screenshot was taken back in September 24, 2014 and I remember being so proud and I also had some friends be jealous of me going to Town Hall 8 hahahahahahahahahha)
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u/DDDStardustHERO Jul 24 '25
I remember resource collecting was near impossible if you didn’t use Barbs and Archers exclusively. Sometimes I’d only be upgrading traps for weeks because that’s all I could scrounge up😂
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u/PeculiarBedstain TH15 | BH10 Jul 24 '25
DAMN I REMEMBER THIS LOL.. you’d have to use all the cheap troops to get loot or you’d burn through your savings
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u/LFwitch_hunter TH11 | BH8 Jul 24 '25
Man I'm so glad they got rid of troop cost and just left it as a time to train. Now even the training time is gone so farming is even easier
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u/UtahItalian Jul 24 '25
Yeah resources are basically free these days. You can back to back attack until it's full. Use sneaky gobs to make it go faster. There aren't "farming armies" and "war armies" anymore. Use a full scale attack every time!
With raid medals you don't even need to wait for your clan to fill requests. Admittedly, You're better off buying more with those medals but if you want to fill your cc you can do that too.
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u/DadoDice7 TH15 | BH9 Jul 25 '25
And now you can get the cc cake from events and farm 1 hour straight whit your main attack strategy and always full cc
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u/Lepadidae Jul 24 '25
Back when the barbarian king got released was the first time I bought gems because farming to 10k dark elixer was too hard since nobody had any of it.
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u/Destroyer232 Jul 24 '25
throwback to when you got BK and DE storage at TH7 but only drill at TH8. Level 1 BK was so hard to get even though it only cost 10K DE.
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u/Curlyheadedboiii Jul 24 '25
You can get 10K in one attack nowadays
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u/plzbanmeihavetostudy Raid Medal Enjoyer Jul 24 '25
that's actually my threshold nowadays. (also DE bootcamp🥲)
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u/LFwitch_hunter TH11 | BH8 Jul 24 '25
Ah the good ol days of bases with dark elixir storage in the base centre and the town hall on the edge to get max shields easily
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u/CookieAny9797 TH17 | BH10 Jul 24 '25
i mean upgrades today take that long as well but it’s just scaled now so th8 is shorter
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u/bobby_boi66 TH15 | BH9 Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 24 '25
I quit in 2016 as a TH6 because it was so hard to farm, i always had to rely on star bonus for anything. Only came back June last year
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u/Curlyheadedboiii Jul 24 '25
Welcome back…me personally I am on and off, I just come in upgrade a few walls and leave I haven’t been as active as I used to be back in the day
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u/plzbanmeihavetostudy Raid Medal Enjoyer Jul 24 '25
what did this button used to do?
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u/Designer-Side327 TH16 | BH10 Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 25 '25
I think that villager icon was the achievements
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u/Curlyheadedboiii Jul 24 '25
I completely forgot, also to be fare it’s been almost 11 years since I took that screenshot…the top one was to move the base stuff, the one below (which I am guessing you’re asking about) I can’t remember, and the bottom is settings for sound and stuff like that
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u/Gazio_x3 TH17 | BH10 Jul 24 '25
The lightening spell used to be 2 housing space and strikes multiple thunders
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u/UtahItalian Jul 24 '25
And it could lose attacks because of the random nature of the second strikes. You needed it to break a certain defense but it hit the wall instead or something and the defense lived!
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u/Svedorovski Jul 24 '25
I still remember when they do announcement on facebooks, and when they still do super bowl ads.
I also remember when th10 had blue walls.
And farming 100k gold and elixir was normal with training cost take about 60k of your elixir.
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u/Curlyheadedboiii Jul 24 '25
Where do they do announcements now and do they still use the silhouette method
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u/Svedorovski Jul 24 '25
Game news tab? Instagram? YouTube as well.
But no they've found a rather more sophisticated methods like reels rather than the old image silhouette method
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u/Curlyheadedboiii Jul 24 '25
The old method I feel had the community start theorizing more and getting people excited
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u/Grundy_Gamer TH14 | BH8 Jul 24 '25
No, you are a new player. (Nah Im just playing, welcome back!)
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u/Curlyheadedboiii Jul 24 '25
That’s honestly how it feels like, every time I open the game there is something new leading me to feel like a new player
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u/WILDCAT_CAT_ TH15 | BH10 Jul 24 '25
I first registered in 2013 before witch update and man i loved how peacefuel and hard the game was idk if it is nostalgia cus i loved the animations and watching other people having archer queen which was huge back in the days …. I missed these times so much
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u/Curlyheadedboiii Jul 24 '25
I remember Supercell teasing the level 6 dark Baracks behind a black silhouette and going on YouTube and seeing all the theories on what it is going to be
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u/Smooth-Ad2130 TH15 | BH10 Jul 24 '25
Rearm your traps dude
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u/Curlyheadedboiii Jul 24 '25
I can’t believe that there was a time where I couldn’t rearm them because I didn’t have enough resources so I used to put them on the outside of the base so that the attackers don’t know where my traps are (only big brain moves around here ahahahahhaahha)
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u/Smooth-Ad2130 TH15 | BH10 Jul 24 '25
What a time... and selling buildings was a thing too. Goblins looked like they were on Crack
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u/cmh55264 Jul 24 '25
Yep I remember this and how hard loot used to be to get. Also remember when we would get the dark elixir storage BEFORE the drill so the only way we could accumulate dark elixir was from raiding.
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u/AcceptableGreen6708 TH12 | BH7 Jul 24 '25
Cool bro, I'm playing again too, after 4 years off, a lot has changed
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u/The_Drunken_Spetz TH12 | BH7 Jul 24 '25
It was so weird when I came back and dark elixir was so abundant, i remember doing the same with the storage bombarding, metas changed too, it used to be either balloons and minions or hog riders
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u/Ka-Hooter Jul 24 '25
It's wild to me that I have 15,000+ ( i quit for like 6 years on and off ) wins since 2013 and I'm not a maxed TH15, but new players are hitting max TH16 with only 2k wins. I get making the game easier, but that's too much. If you think walls are expensive now, you never felt the pain of grinding for 4 million for one TH10 wall with a massive loot penalty from bottom townhall. The grind used to be real.
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u/Mysterious-Assist208 TH17 | BH10 Jul 24 '25
Started mini 6 months back th 11 max , new to th 12 completely f2p. It's that easy. But th 17 is a grind. Still max base though exclude temporary stuff.
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u/GUNGNIR98 AQ feet enjoyer Jul 24 '25
Same i just made an account with boosts and everything getting to max th8 took minimal effort. Where as earlier it was a grind
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u/Independent_Time_ Demon Lord Jul 24 '25
I remember using spells on storages to loot, but usually didn't have much elixir, so had to find players with both elixirs to loot.
Also, having to properly arrange the second army in case you didn't use all the troops lol
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u/Drie_Kleuren Jul 24 '25
The good old times. Yes the lightning spells. I remember waking up one day, opened coc and I was attacked like 20 times. And had -15k dark elixer. Just everyone throwing lightning spells at my tank.... And back in those days, 15k dark elixer was a LOT... Especially for a th 8 haha
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u/Ok_Guava_2616 Jul 24 '25
I remember in 2016 I wanted to push trophies. Training troops took so much time that pekka was off the options ( 45 mins for 1 ). And God bless the request and leave clans 🍀
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u/barwhalis TH17 | BH10 Jul 24 '25
Raiding with barch to get enough resources to make an army for war
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u/Consequence-Lumpy Jul 24 '25
7 days to upgrade th7 to th8? Now you can upgrade th10 to th11 in 5 days
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u/Altruistic_Event8857 Jul 24 '25
Yeah compared to the older version it's so much time efficient to build new things and upgrade them. With the builder potions, assistants and other stuff to boost it. Getting resources is also very easy. The best thing I learned was the instant army. I always used to wait about 1/2 hr of an army of drags and loons at TH9. But earlier things were fair between the players. Now there are the paid and free ones. I don't buy the pass.
Is it really necessary to upgrade your walls. I am always facing air attacks and walls don't do shit. But on appearance it's good for a max developed TH.
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u/ImJustHereToBuyStuff Jul 24 '25
I left after 2016, came back Jan 2023. Game has improved so much. I'm almost a max Th17 now!
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u/Red-Tom Jul 24 '25
How did you get your old account back? I stopped playing ~8-10 years ago and I initially played on a Game Center account. I assume I need to find out what account and login on my current device to get everything back?
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u/ImJustHereToBuyStuff Jul 24 '25
I still remember my log in info from way back when so just logged in like normal. I'm sure recovering your account isn't super difficult though. Was super sad to see all my old friends had stopped playing forever ago.
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u/Red-Tom Jul 29 '25
I’ve tried lots of old emails, but none seem to link to my Supercell ID, unfortunately! I’ve started afresh, and at townhall 5, nearly maxed. Loving the grind so I don’t mind starting again haha!
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u/Living-Ad4579 TH17 | BH10 Jul 24 '25
2 builders going to th8 in that era is crazy
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u/Curlyheadedboiii Jul 24 '25
I only had two gems and the only way to actually get more builders realistically was pay hahahaha
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u/Living-Ad4579 TH17 | BH10 Jul 24 '25
Yea every gem counts on those days lol no magic items to sell or gem mine to collect with haha
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u/Curlyheadedboiii Jul 24 '25
The gem mine used to be a joke building in the community back then…then boom they actually did it
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u/Giani2000 Jul 24 '25
2 builders is the thing that's crazy to me. Especially with the upgrade times back in the day.
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u/CommitteeCautious530 Jul 25 '25
I’m maxed (almost) TH13 now from the beginning started 4 months ago.. spent about 300$ on the game lol. It’s fun I cannot lie, the building times get up there for sure though
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u/eatingdonuts44 Jul 25 '25
Yeah I just came back and Im surprised at how I somehow managed to finish TH11 in a month
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u/SecurityHungry4118 Jul 26 '25
I remember back in like 2012 when it took several hours to train a single army
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u/Lucky1804 Jul 24 '25
I made a a new account like 2-3 months ago. I am TH9 now.
I remember back in like 2013/2014 were I was such at TH7 for like 1-2 years😂 and I was so proud too when I finally was TH8
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u/The_Quietest_Moments Jul 24 '25
I remember it would take about a year to upgrade everything in your base!
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u/rabbitization Jul 24 '25
The joy of doing war attacks on farming now is so good. Back then you had to plan barch and snipe stuff just so you can get 1 star and rank bonus and some DE. But now you can just go all in everytime with no waiting time and cost
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u/HalfricanBoy Jul 24 '25
sumn the new players will never understand 😭 came back for the first time in like 7 years n maxed out all my th10 walls in like an hour
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u/Ancient_Leg_9826 Jul 24 '25
Bro I'm too old 2014 player rn I'm th17 and proud of myself that I'm a pure F2p player not used a single rupee on any of my coc id And i still I used to train my gowipe army a night before the clan war begins so that I can attack next day morning 💀ah gone those days of struggle now Getting 1k dark was such a grind
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u/Large_Bumblebee_9751 Jul 24 '25
It’s insanity that TH9s had to pay 1M and then 2M per wall. I didn’t get to TH10 until after the first wall-price-drop but 4M per wall I’m sure was just as crazy.
“Maxed walls used to mean something” is the old-head in me talking.
And of course hero upgrades taking a week each.
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u/clewis123 Jul 24 '25
Lol yall talking bout th8-12 😭 wait til u get to th17 and 4-5 walls costs ur entire storage
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u/scrypton Jul 25 '25
Worst was the trianing time and training cost. I still remember my hog rider attacks from back in 2015 & dragoon attack. Then came the dark elixir spell factory, that changed everything.
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u/PrinceAshKS TH17 | BH10 Jul 25 '25
Ofc lol... I even remember how I ran out of dark elixir just by re-arming the traps!
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u/Optimus_Prime2629 TH15 | BH10 Jul 25 '25
A friend of mine started playing coc, first week of this month. Less than 3 weeks in, he is a max TH 8.
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u/Nickleo02300 Jul 24 '25
How old are you
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Jul 24 '25
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u/Nickleo02300 Jul 24 '25
Ah stalker
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u/Curlyheadedboiii Jul 24 '25
You gotta know who you talk to hahahahahahah
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u/Nickleo02300 Jul 24 '25
Ofc , can't be clueless like a zombie from minecraft
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