Forum:SH:Star Wars: Force Collection Closing April 23, 2018 -- Data Collectors Needed

As some of you may be aware by now, Star Wars: Force Collection announced this morning that it will be discontinuing service on April 23, 2018 at 01:59 ET. To cut right to the point here, that means we have two months from now to archive all of its data.

The game has some truly outstanding card-image artwork that could potentially be used in articles and infoboxes, and accompanying lore on each card, so perhaps needless to say, it would be a significant detriment to Wookieepedia to permanently lose this information. Fortunately, much of the game's data has already been uploaded to the Star Wars Force Collection Wiki, but their archives are far from complete.

What we need is people who are willing to volunteer their time to go through and archive as much of the game's data as possible before the game shuts down on April 23. Any data you're willing to collect can be stored on the Force Collection Wiki. The following tasks are vital:
 * Complete the List of Cards.
 * For Wookieepedia's purposes, all we need is someone to upload an image of each card and add the card's lore to that page's table. The other data is just for gameplay and has no canonical bearing.
 * As you upload images, ideally upload them at maximum resolution on your device's screen. Images can be captured at higher resolutions on larger devices; i.e., an iPad can capture an image at higher resolution than a phone. Unfortunately, this is where the game's limitations really affect us. While everyone can view all the games' cards, only cards you've personally collected can be zoomed in on to view at the highest possible resolution. For example, that leaves us with this compared to this. The latter is actually the image we're using in the J'Quille infobox, while the former Sebulba image is virtually useless to us at such low resolution. Unless someone is willing to pay money to buy 5-star card packs to collect these rarer cards, this unfortunately means the vast majority of five-star card images will only be able to be captured at that low resolution.
 * However, 1- and 2-star cards are widely accessible to all players. If you've been playing the game for any significant length of time, you probably should have collected all of them by now, and even if you're just beginning, you could theoretically easily collect all of them between now and April 23, so there's no reason why all of them can't potentially be reuploaded on the Force Collection wiki at a higher resolution than this.

I think that's it. Just to emphasize one last point, the canon lore found on each card is ultimately more vital to us than the card images. As long as we can upload at least one image of each card (even at low resolution) and archive the card lore so that our Sources lists are comprehensive for permanent reference purposes, that's sufficient. Please direct any questions or comments below. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 18:58, February 21, 2018 (UTC)