Talk:Giant/@comment-107.223.120.207-20130328173537/@comment-99.237.58.100-20130411214755

It's rather simple... Before you log off, make sure your camp is full of troops ready for the next days battle, then you train wall breakers (to the max) in ALL of your barracks. This is the maximum amount of elixir per housing space (not giants as you may first assume) and therefore artificially consumes the max amount of elixir. By artificial I mean that the elixir isn't actually spent. It's reserved for the build (so it can't be raided) and you undo the build before actually attacking with your troops. That way you don't end up with 110 wall breakers all of a sudden. You also need to cancel the build before donating troops as you'll release wall breakers from the barracks in the process. The ability to hide a lot of elixir with wall breakers is the primary reason why the latest update went from having the wall breakers go from 1 housing space to 2. To help justify this they also made them attack walls more intelligently. So max elixir you can safeguard is 3,000 x 110 troops = 330,000 elixir. With the constant building them to hide elixir and then cancelling them to donate troops makes hiding elixir rather tedious and so most people don't bother. Also note that this same process works to hide dark elixir in the dark elixir barracks but has the same hassles. The best bang is to use the hog rider once it's unlocked. There's no way to hide gold so I suggest always keeping a builder free and before you go to bed, spend the loot on upgrading walls! Another thing to keep in mind when protecting elixir is that 50% of what is stored in you elixir collectors is available for the taking in a raid while only 25% is available in your elixir storage tank, so collect often! Same goes for your gold. Nothing of what I've mentioned is new and can all be found reading within this website. It's a great resource!! Hope that helps and have fun farming!! Cheers!