Landlocked Ships - Ideas for Improvement

I currently don't have the standard angle ship locked layout and very rarely see 100% in my defense logs. My layout isn't anything special but with maxed defenses it takes down army's like mad and the same goes when I attack other bases that are maxed. It ain't easy one bit to get three stars and usually relies on luck because of the wacky AI causing your troops to do weird crap. All I'm saying is that most players that play this game have a difficult time three starring maxed bases of any layout so this change while welcomed will not be the end all like some are saying. I agree that someone who is a highly skilled player with a nutso expensive crew can and will take down any base but how many players are that crazy good...looking at my defense logs, not many.

 

So yes, we passed super hard bases to super easy... We need more walls, another mortar and GP, etc....

 

So how did the new update change the effectiveness of the corner base? I saw they said they changed the LF pathing but it didn't really say what was different. Did it change anything with the ships?

 

Pirates can go between the ships, there is no two they cannot get between. Bases with ship+guild ship corners and two GPs inside can be penetrated in the corner and the GPs taken out with minor pirates. Experiment and you shall see! Nice stuff.

Still landlocked ships are allowed though and I vote those to have consequences per my original message in this thread.

 

They can also swim down the side/rear part of the Trade Ship part of the fort where they couldn't before.

On those corner bases, just drop your army to attack from the fort corner and they happily kill the fort and walk over it right into the base. I posted more in depth explanation on PPBay Slack with illustrations

 

I logged in just to complain that you guys managed to break the game with a single update

There is literally no strategy involved to any attacks anymore.
A combo of 10 juggs and 33 gunners and 1 witch doctor along with a random LP (which doesnt have to be fully maxed 7/20 or 10/25 ) can obliterate any base. There is literally no point in leveling up lps anymore. Same goes for the walls.

I dont know if the goal of the update is to cater to kids, so they can just mindlessly deploy the pirates and go to sleep for 3 minutes, but I am hoping along with probably many others that you guys reverse this mistake and re-implement strategy which is now non existent in attacking.

TLDR
This update is dumb af.
defense broken
Walls/lps pointless to upgrade
Please fix what you broke

 

This makes training the academy pretty much usless

 

Give it a bit of time for people to come up with new defensive strategies that don't revolve around using ships to path troops places. All the current popular ones are broken, but that just means you have to make a new one, and until people switch to new layouts that don't use that strategy, attacks will be easy.

Yes defenses are going to be substantially harder for a bit until people come up with new ideas, but I'm sure they are watching analytics and rebalance things if defense is too underpowered. Plus at some point we will get a PH11 that hopefully has more walls and other defensive improvements that will fix any balance issues.

As soon as people start adapting their bases, strategy will be required a bit again. It will still be easy, since without blocking things with ships, you could drop tinto with a horde of HG and kill everything before it could fire back, but at least cheap armies will have to rethink their attacks a bit when designs start to change.

Things will be broken for a couple days until people log on and fix their problems. That doesn't mean the game is broken, just current designs.

 

I on the other hand would like to applaud midoki and the developers for bringing about these changes.. The impenetrable wall (ship/fort/tradeship) was a cheap trick.. Glad thats been fixed.. Now time to watch them fall like flies

 

Defense has a new name, and the game has become more interesting

 

Don't be such wimps, and learn to adapt. Complaining does nothing, as the majority of the player base WANTED this to happen, and it was carried out pretty well by Midoki, I would like to say. However, I do realize everyone has their own opinion.
Defense has a new twist to it, that we will all be adapting to, some quicker than others. This update brings more creativity, strategy and excitement to the game. Instead of the boring but effective L shapes, there will be a variety of bases that work and don't work, and some that work from time to time, depending on wind direction. The L shape layouts were not impossible as Skye has said, they just involved some strategy, strong troops, and practise.
Like any other game changing update like Thunderstruck, the first day is quite confusing and chaotic. Everyone is still getting a grasp on defense and in thought about what to change up in their layout. Right now, easy L layouts are everywhere, similar to the holes in Thunderstruck. Sooner or later, layouts will begin to become a bit more challenging, and I think it will all finally settle down with the PH11 update, as defenses get stronger and attacking becomes a challenge, like it should be.
What I like about this update is that, as attacking has been made easier, more players are able to rank up hitting easier bases, and it isn't as frustrating gaining rank without using the boring old layout that everyone else is using. Creativity can actually get you to the top! Or at least that is what I think the case will be early on.
Of course, maintaining rank may be difficult, as you are more likely to get hit as attacks are easier. As I said earlier, it is all about adapting. Let's see how this plays out!

 

Since the update yesterday, my PH8 profile is battering PH10s that I would never of dreamt of attacking

 

The new upgrade dont work with android!
Ios attack android->pirates can go between the ships
Ios attack ios->pirates can go between the ships
Android attack ios-> pirates CAN'T GO
Android attack android-> pirates CAN'T GO

Please MIDOKI updates android also

 

Thank you!
Confirm, now work well also the replays

 

I tested it and my pirates swam around the pirate ship.... For the moment right?

 

Is the issue of landlocked ships, per my original post in this thread at least a consideration, @Lynsey [Midoki] ?

Having ships and pirate fortress sitting in the middle of the land seems so very very wrong.

 

I appreciate greatly your common sense answer.