Talk:Gold Mine/@comment-99.225.113.86-20130520183900/@comment-2170536-20130520200922

The biggest reason people don't protect their mines and collectors is because it's impossible to adequately protect every single building in your base. You simply don't have enough defensive structures and walls to go around, so you have to make compromises. Mines and collectors are less valuable than storages because while a greater percentage can be taken from them, they have far lower capacity and you can empty them out periodically (and twelve 3x3 buildings take up a LOT of real estate).

Once you protect your Town Hall, storages and high-value defensive structures such as Air Defenses, Mortars and Wizard Towers, you don't really have much more room in the interior of your base. If you try to squeeze much more into your walls, it spreads your defenses thin enough that they don't offer any overlapping protection, which severely weakens your entire defense. By attempting to protect too much, you end up protecting nothing at all.

Does this make sense?