Clash-of-clans – In Clash of Clans, is it possible to attack another member of your clan in a normal raid

• Scout out and allocate all the easy targets first - Make sure the poorly defended bases are allocated first and to clan members who will be taking part. These are the easy pickings and therefore you must be getting 3 stars on each. They can be allocated to the weaker members of the clan as long as you know they're going to turn up and do the job.

• Clan members should call targets on prep day and then only attack the targets they've called. - That way you have an idea of who's going to attack who and it gives you a chance to say if you think their choice is a bad one.

• Only allow clan members to attack realistic targets!

• Don't double up! - i.e. only attack targets that haven't already been allocated or attacked unless the first attack only scored 0-1 stars and you are positive they can achieve 3 stars.

• Kick those that don't comply to the house rules - If members repeatedly ignore these rules; or don't turn up; or have a poor defence when they could easily do better then kick them out of the clan. Remember if you've got 50 clan members and only 50% of those are active you'll be matched against another 50 member clan and the likely hood is they'll have a higher percentage of active players than you. But if you kick out your inactive members then your active population will increase and you'll still be matched against a clan of a similar size.

Other Options: You could also split attack day in to two. Only allowing the stronger members of your clan to attack on the second day and therefore ensuring the weaker members have chance to attack targets that are of equal ability. Then your stronger members can attack what's left which should be the stronger targets. Though this might not work as well if your clan is multi national due to time differences.

The biggest drawback is low resource income. Clash of Clans was designed to make it so that those who attack and gather resources are going to progress faster than those who play it safe.

At Town Hall 4, here are the relevant statistics:

• Max number of collectors: 4 of each type.
• Max storage in each collector: 50,000 (will max out after ~26 hours)
• Collection rate for each collector: 1,900/hr

This means that for each gold and elixer, you can generate at most 7,600 per hour if you have all collectors fully upgraded.

Looking back at when I played TH4, I could get easily 3-4x that in a single attack on another player. Even with basic units, 100k+/hr was easy to do. So by not attacking, you are effectively limiting your income severely. This means that you're going to upgrade slower than those at your level who are attacking other players.

Even if you're constantly keeping your builders busy, those extra resources are good for upgrading your walls especially since you can now upgrade with either gold or elixer.