Looking for a free game for your iOs device? Check out Star Trek: Rivals and pay careful attention to these tips:
It’s more economical long-term to save that latinum to purchase more powerful cards, but it’s great to have the option to throw back a truly terribly hand and redraw new cards.
Don’t Quit! There’s nothing to be gained from abandoning a match by leaving it hanging. In fact, since players gain some experience even when they lose, and players don’t have access to the cards in active matches, there’s something to gain by completing all your matches, even when you are sure you’re going to lose. Yeah, you might only get 50 or 100 XP from losing, instead of 300 from a great win, but it’s still more than 0.
Improve Your Cards By completing matches and increasing in level, you’ll receive Federation Credits and Latinum, which you can spend on new cards and card packs for your deck. Keep adding new and more powerful cards to your deck to defeat more powerful rivals.
Add Friends Each time a new player adds your friend code during the tutorial, you’ll get a free card and extra experience each time your friend levels. Plus, you have a new opponent for matches!
If you don’t have enough friends playing, or you feel like a match right this minute, you can also play against a random opponent. Players get more experience for playing against their friends, though. You can add friends through Facebook and GameCenter and check the Star Trek: Rivals FB community for new friends.
Via Improving Your Game in Star Trek: Rivals – Yahoo! Voices – voices.yahoo.com.
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