A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

D’oh!…

Just a moment ago in a table near the kitchen…

STAR WARS : COMMANDER

I decided to write a blog about Disney/Star Wars’ mobile RTS game after I recently upgraded my Headquarters to Level 9, which I think is the penultimate stage of completion. I estimated back in October 2014, that Disney would go to a minimum of HQ level 10 before the release of Star Wars: Episode VII:The Force Awakens. The film opens in theaters on December 18, 2015. It’s just May, yeah! May the 4th Be With You! This is an ongoing series of topics which I would to share to fellow SWC gamers in the community, and those who just play this multi-player game solo.

Overall, my experience with the game was actually good. Well, good but not good enough to merit the praise of similar Freemium games available in Android Playstore. & iOS games . It is just too difficult to call it “very good”. There are many reasons why I say this as I’ve been playing the game since September 2014 and so far the best months of game development and updates were also difficult to pinpoint. But I’m not complaining either. This is basically a free game wherein you spend hours and hours of attacking/defending/looting/baiting rival bases. It’s a classic good vs bad. Light Side vs Dark Side. Rebel vs Empire. Lose vs Win. Win vs Lose.

But you know what? I actually did enjoy it. Fun times with your own squad members. Strategy discussions, tactical analysis, troop donations to help each other out… It’s really fun especially if you have a group of merry rebels striving hard to overthrow the evil Galactic Empire. At least for me, as I’ve chosen to side with the Rebel faction since day 1. After the fun times there comes to a point where you really need to rethink why you even play the game. Well, any game for that matter there will be that moment where you feel you just need to stop for a minute and realize…”IT’S JUST A GAME”.

But hey! I’m a Star Wars Fan!

I will always be happy to experience this truly wonderful, exciting and challenging game. I hope to continue playing this game until I see the next film of the franchise. Even on Low-Activity mode, I’ll still go on and check out my base once in a while.

I’ll be writing about my reasons why I decided to go low on my next SWC blog.

Next, some of my current in-game details and simple methods on how I survived being in one of the top squads in the global Android/IOS leader board.

After that, I’m gonna go back in time to retrace the steps on how and why I enjoyed… at the same time got frustrated…and all the while, felt challenged with this game.

‘Til next time.

May The Force Be With You!

…to be continued…

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RebelYell 2:14 pm on May 28, 2015

Hi There!
Thank you for sharing the pointer to your blog post in our squad chat. This is a very enjoyable read and there are some points which I actually share. Please keep on posting newer parts but take your time. I will be happy to read them when they´re out.

Greetings from your (current) squad,
RebelYell 🙂
- midilei 2:18 pm on May 28, 2015
  
  Thanks! It would be nice to see discussions here and in our visitor messages in the forums. Feel free to suggest anything. 🙂
RebelYell 3:02 pm on May 28, 2015

It all depends on the topics. We can discuss topics publicly here. Another possibility would be “our” squad forum ( http://swcommander.com/viewforum.php?f=49 ) but squad members would have to register to follow there. This is still better than a discussion via SWC squad chat because the messages there are volatile. There’s no high motivation to write to more text in the chat when it is gone after a day.

An interesting topic about the game would be the players age and family and how these are present on different levels of the game.

I noticed in the squad chat that there are some parents playing in a group. One said he/she is absent for a while and that the child is going to coninue playing in that time. Another said something about his/her daughter wich let me to the conclusion (name=Username) that the daugher does also play in our squad. I won’t mention the usernames here because that would perhaps a bit to personal in the public. (I didn’t take notes also.)

Some 😉 of my childs played SWC. This is also how i came to the game. They chose the dark side, so we didn’t share a squad. They both stopped playing relatively soon.

I would think that many younger players stop playing SWC when the build/waiting times are getting to long and the game gets harder. They lose interest and move on. The older players (like me) are perhaps a bit more stubborn. They take it as a challenge and continue.

Therefore I would guess that the average level 8 player is older than many lower level players.
midilei 4:04 pm on May 28, 2015

Thanks for the info. I’ve seen the swcommander site before but didn’t try to register as I thought the official disney forum had more details which I can use.

That’s a very good topic! My friend and I were discussing something similar to that last year and I took notes but never made a squad stat for age groups. I did some personal spreadsheets and the so-called “Hidden Base Score” speculated calculations. I have a separate part for that and I’m just outlining my point of discussions there.

Hopefully I could finish up my Walls blog, Medal’s journey, Training Padawans, ABS musings, Match Video analysis etc. etc.

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