Here’s the link to @DJQuixo’s feature request. Please also vote or comment if you think the training camp could be improved (and if you also wonder who will ever find a use for stage 14-18 as it is now )
@Jate: Currently, the only way to speed up TC20 is to use tons of gems; more gems than you need for an epic pull or atlantis pull. So it doesn’t make sense to speed it up. Unfortunately, there is currently no faster way to train 5* heroes (there might be in the future if the TC gets changed or higher levels get added)
I vote no. Then will will see people able to buy even stronger troops easier and cheaper. This way people have to grind it out or spend lots of money to pull epic troops.
To speed up your TC20 for 2 days (= 1 hero) it take 880 gems. You (probably*) have a 5 % chance to get one of the standard 5-star heroes.
An elemental pull costs 300 gems and has a 2.5 % chance to get a standard 5-star hero in the colour of your choice. Moreover, you have a 1.3 % chance to get the Hero of the Month.
An Atlantis pull costs 350 gems and (if I remember correctly) you have a 1 % chance to get one of the featured heroes (= old HotM and new Atlantis heroes), a 1.5 % chance to get the standard 5-stars or one of the old Atlantis 5-stars as well as a 1.3 % chance to get the HotM. Furthermore, most of the time you get an Atlantis 3-star or 4-star instead of the standard heroes.
Also, if you do 10 or 30 pulls at once you even get a discount.
So it’s 260-350 gems for a 3.8 % chance to get normal or special heroes versus 880 gems for a 5 % chance to get only the standard heroes. Oh, and summoning doesn’t cost neither recruits nor ham. So, it makes absolutely no sense to speed up TC20 trainings
*The probablilty might have decreased since summer. I’ve heard from several players that they now very rarely get 5-star heroes from their TC20.
So you think it is fairer that the huge spenders keep this quite big advantage and F2P or C2P have to wait for ages to get their troops to high levels. To “grind out” level 30 four-star troops you probably have to play for 3 years or more. Even to get four-star mana troops to level 17 (where slow heroes need 1 tile less to charge) takes a lot of time, level 23 (normal heroes charge faster) is already close to impossible without playing very actively for a really long time or spending a lot of money.
I have a f2p guy in my alliance at level 39 who has pretty high troops and is a hard hitter. The disparities between the p2p people and f2p/c2p would get even wider.