Just for reference Bees I was down to zero elixer when I upgraded my research lab a week aga and I'm already up to 250,000 that's with some attacking to get eligible for the war, I'll drop down to like 850 trophies put my TH on the edge of the map,move my dark drill and storage to the middle of my base. Minus a few dicks using lightning spells. No ones touched my resources.