Talk:Future Updates/@comment-26498075-20150615045839/@comment-2170536-20150615055821

If you could get gems easily for free, how exactly do you propose Supercell earns money? Would you be willing to pay say $20 to download the game at all?

I personally have all five builders and 3500 gems left over, and the only money I have ever used on this game was the pack of 500 (red) gems as a donation (I bought the Mighty Statue with them). It is very possible to get all five builders reasonably quickly with the doubling of gems from obstacles, gem boxes and new achievements.

Regarding troops returning to the army camp at the end of battle - Supercell once stated on the forums that their intent was to add some strategy to troop composition, so that it wasn't always advantageous to go into battle with the most effective (and expensive) army and deploy it all in a display of massive overkill. If the troops you use don't come back, it encourages us to train and deploy just enough troops to get the job done and no more. Those that master that balance will profit handsomely, while those that don't will either lose battles or waste elixir (or both).