With all these pack removals, they need to decrease Alliance store and VIP store costs.
It's obvious now that this is having a major impact. We used to be able to clean out the Alliance store and most of the important stuff in the VIP store.
Now, with all the alliance gifts gone, we can't even get enough tokens to buy all the speedups.
If they are going to take away packs, fine, but I think they need to do a better job of balancing how that affects other things too.
Not getting those things in the store means progress slows down a bunch, stakes for getting drained troops in combat are higher, so people are just not fighting at all.
Unreasonably high grinds not only make this game boring for people already struggling, it makes it boring for everyone else too when there's only 5 or 6 people on the entire server actually fighting.