This is a pretty darn good phone game. I don't usually get into phone games much... I mean.. they're tiny... I'm used to playing on a large screen tv.. And I always seem to end up mashing buttons to get them to work. STFC is fairly easy to play on a phone and when I hit a button it nearly always knows. It's a very similar experience to playing STFC on PC.
So, my imaginary magazine rack next to the toilet has been replaced and this will probably be my new go-to game on the stationary bike for awhile too, now.
Oh and you can play on the same servers with the same account on the Phone as you can on PC. Handy. But then you have to share your e-mail address and make a Scopely account.. Not so handy. So, I made a new account for the new magazine rack and might just stay on a different server (I can move one time up to level 12) just to see what I'm missing.
Incursions...
STFC just completed their first one since I started. I wasn't high enough level (pvp enabled) to participate (I'm building up first... I hope that's what I'm doing anyway...) but from what I gather your server gets another server designated as its target and you can go there (and can come back) and are recalled 24(?)ish hours later. During your... visitation you are free to plunder at will anyone who's unshielded and pvp enabled (like you can on your home server). I don't know how level ranges work for pvp yet but from what I gather once you are pvp enabled there is a wide level range you can attack/be attacked by. So it's fight or hide or shield (makes you invul and can be activated during combat, and, automatically occurs for 10 minutes for free (1-2 hour refresh) when someone pings you - to give you time to put up one of your own shields, which, come in sizes like.. 4-8 hours and 1-7 days) or share time for the invaded servers. Shields can be earned, daily, for free, by doing usually not-so-difficult Dailies. Up to like... 20hrs of shield per day I think? 12 for sure.
I never thought I would root for an opposing server in a pvp game... but I sure did, here.. It was the best 24 hours of Global/Galaxy chat since I started playing... That's what spurred my apology, above, about Galaxy Chat. I found out there are many more than 1 servers and I only see one, and, the one I had been seeing is not what I would call representative of the best of STFC chat.
After we got our @sses handed to us in the Incursion....
The improvement in Galaxy Chat has remained. Less elitism (LOL) and bickering and non-game chat. Definitely changed my attitude towards the better towards the STFC community.
Anyway, that's all I've got for now.. I seem to keep advancing in this game and am enjoying the new magazine rack.