Rushing your Townhall

Rushing your Townhall: There are 2 different kinds of players in Clash of Clans, those that rushed their Townhall's and those that maxed them out. There are a variety of reasons that can push you to rush your townhall and some of them are more reasonable than others. The main positives and negatives are listed below to help you guys make a better decision for yourselves.

Positives:

• when you rush your townhall you get more walls
• you get more defenses
• makes you look like a boss....not really, but you do get a bigger base
• you can research higher leveled troops to attack
• You can send better reinforcements to your clan mates
• you can upgrade your clan castle to hold more troops

Negatives:

• Rushing your townhall makes for a lot of catch up time, other people who did not rush their townhall will most definitely pass you, in other words their base will be better than yours very soon.
• The loot penalty: when you upgrade your townhall there is a loot penalty. When you attack people with a lower townhall than you, you wont get as much loot from them then you would if you did not rush your townhall.
• Rushing your townhall makes it more difficult for your clan to win wars for the following reasons: your troops are lower level, your war base ranks higher automatically so you face harder opponents, it is easier to 3 star a rushed base than a maxed base
• The cost of searching for an opponent rises for every Townhall level that you go up
• people will most likely make fun of your base in global if you are badly rushed, trust me I see it all the time

Conclusion: there are benefits to both sides but I believe the best way to do it is max out your defenses and walls as much as possible before running out of things to spend elixir on (TH8 and sometimes TH7) and then level up. When I say max out I do not mean max your heroes.  The higher level your Townhall is, the easier it is to get dark elixir in raids because you can sit in higher leagues and farm while getting DE bonus.