Boom Beach (SuperCell)

Atlas23 · 16 Apr 2014 at 11:45

Are resource bases different to the first few islands you defeat to 'free' the captive people that send you gold?

Ingenious TROLL · 16 Apr 2014 at 11:48

Yeah, once you've opened up more of the map you'll start seeing resources bases. They are owned by other players and typically you attack them in the same way you do the current islands for gold. The further along you get, the more resource bases you can fight over and they reward all different types of resources, so wood, stone, iron etc.

Egon · 16 Apr 2014 at 14:48

Ingenious TROLL said:
What's the highest level any of you have got against the Dr. when he pops up?

Today L.23

Spit · 16 Apr 2014 at 14:53

Can't get passed Dr lvl 30

Ingenious TROLL · 16 Apr 2014 at 16:19

I must have been lucky as level 30 was kinda easy for me! Managed to dodge around 2/3 of the defences!

Egon · 23 Apr 2014 at 11:30

Moses said:
One stupid thing I see people do is put defences directly next to each other. If they do that, you can fire your ship's cannon at the edge of each (where they join) and it damages both. I can often take out two defensive units at once doing that. It also works if there's a normal building next to a turret/tower, because you take out the defensive item and get extra gunboat points to use however you want.

I've taken out as many as 4 before doing this.

Sgt_Pepper · 23 Apr 2014 at 21:58

I've been playing this a little bit too, tbh no one really attacks me, once a week or something someone tries.
People tend to raid my resource bases more.

Si. · 24 Apr 2014 at 15:13

Latest update is nice.. new graphics are cool but it could do with some Clan element..

i5aces · 24 Apr 2014 at 16:34

I have been playing this, but cant get internet reception at work, so have to time my big upgrades to before i get there and there done for when i get home.

Kevin Clark · 25 Apr 2014 at 15:42

Sgt_Pepper said:
I've been playing this a little bit too, tbh no one really attacks me, once a week or something someone tries.
People tend to raid my resource bases more.

I get the feeling there's a little bit of a deadzone in the attack and defence balance.

You can set up a fair amount of protection but you're not at a point where you can upgrade the boats and troops enough to attack a similar level. And because you only win the prize if you get to the HQ you tend to know straight away if you have any chance of getting further than a couple of buildings in to an attack before you'll get wiped out. If your HQ is level 7 and you have 4 boats of troops you don't really have enough welly to attack an island at a similar level.

Spit · 25 Apr 2014 at 16:22

Mine is coming along, I am able to repel most boarders now.

Egon · 25 Apr 2014 at 18:48

Kevin Clark said:
I get the feeling there's a little bit of a deadzone in the attack and defence balance.

You can set up a fair amount of protection but you're not at a point where you can upgrade the boats and troops enough to attack a similar level. And because you only win the prize if you get to the HQ you tend to know straight away if you have any chance of getting further than a couple of buildings in to an attack before you'll get wiped out. If your HQ is level 7 and you have 4 boats of troops you don't really have enough welly to attack an island at a similar level.

I would agree with that to some degree but I've tried to Max out defence at each HQ level. I've also just got my troop boats to level 8, which means it can hold 12 troops. This has made a huge difference.

Ingenious TROLL · 28 Apr 2014 at 09:01

Yeah I have 5 boats at level 8 and on the next HQ upgrade it'll be 6 boats and I'll just need to get the new one upgraded. I currently attack x3 boats of heavy's and x2 boats of zookas; does the job most of the time.

Kevin Clark · 28 Apr 2014 at 13:05

I'm struggling to get enough stones to do the bigger upgrades at the moment. I managed to scrape enough to get a quarry going but it's slow progress. The AI islands only have a couple of hundred and the other player islands with big reserves are too well defended to beat and steal so it's a bit of a long haul to get up to 5000+ for an HQ upgrade and subsequent quarry upgrade as well.

Ingenious TROLL · 28 Apr 2014 at 13:54

Kevin Clark said:
I'm struggling to get enough stones to do the bigger upgrades at the moment. I managed to scrape enough to get a quarry going but it's slow progress. The AI islands only have a couple of hundred and the other player islands with big reserves are too well defended to beat and steal so it's a bit of a long haul to get up to 5000+ for an HQ upgrade and subsequent quarry upgrade as well.

Keep at it buddy! Patience is a virtue and all that

Egon · 28 Apr 2014 at 14:56

I can't see myself playing this for as long as CoC. There's a fun element missing.

Also the fact that you can lose so many resources from one raid despite maxxing out your vault is more than just a little annoying... it can be rage inducing!

Ingenious TROLL said:
Yeah I have 5 boats at level 8 and on the next HQ upgrade it'll be 6 boats and I'll just need to get the new one upgraded. I currently attack x3 boats of heavy's and x2 boats of zookas; does the job most of the time.

I've got the same setup but tend to use 2 boats of heavies and 3 of zookas

Ingenious TROLL · 28 Apr 2014 at 15:21

Egon said:
I can't see myself playing this for as long as CoC. There's a fun element missing.

Also the fact that you can lose so many resources from one raid despite maxxing out your vault is more than just a little annoying... it can be rage inducing!

I've got the same setup but tend to use 2 boats of heavies and 3 of zookas

See, I'm the opposite and actually deleted CoC - Fed up of winning battles on CoC and still losing all of my units, and the loss of resources is even worse on CoC. BB definitely is better for my play style, I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

Kevin Clark · 28 Apr 2014 at 20:59

Egon said:
I can't see myself playing this for as long as CoC. There's a fun element missing.

Also the fact that you can lose so many resources from one raid despite maxxing out your vault is more than just a little annoying... it can be rage inducing!

If the CoC updates have been anything to go by, they seem happy to try and rebalance things after a little while with the updates. I guess some of it looks good on paper when they make it but once they look at the stats of what people have they can shift the damage and health of various components.

Egon · 29 Apr 2014 at 12:49

Ingenious TROLL said:
See, I'm the opposite and actually deleted CoC - Fed up of winning battles on CoC and still losing all of my units, and the loss of resources is even worse on CoC. BB definitely is better for my play style, I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

The loss of units on CoC is a necessary part of the game, otherwise the strongest players could just attack relentlessly, that isn't possible with BB as the mechanics of finding opponents is different.

I can't agree with you about the loss of resources though. Under no circumstance could I ever lose more than half of my resources in CoC.

Kevin Clark said:
If the CoC updates have been anything to go by, they seem happy to try and rebalance things after a little while with the updates. I guess some of it looks good on paper when they make it but once they look at the stats of what people have they can shift the damage and health of various components.

Yeah, I know supercell are good at adding improvements, a year playing CoC has shown me that. But I think BB will struggle to change it's core dynamics to a point where it will keep me interested.

Spit · 29 Apr 2014 at 12:51

You need to always upgrade your vault to the highest you can. I rarely lose much since doing that.