India, March 12 -- We're introducing a whole new ball game here; troop training times were that game mechanic used in Clash of Clans to slow down the game. You wait long enough, like 15 flipping minutes, before you can attack again, and that's already feeling like a thing of the past.

"We were afraid to do this from the start," says Supercell. "We thought training time and the resource cost around training time were part of the game's secret sauce." But once they saw how reducing the other training costs allowed for broader attack strategies and more fun, they saw they could take their bet even further. The idea behind removing training times entirely is to make the game more enjoyable for new players since leveling up in the early Town ...