Social networking is no longer just for interactions with people, social networking games have added a whole new dimension to this phenomenon, taking the world by storm. Amongst the many such games is CityVille a city building game on Facebook, where you plan and build a city and take charge of its affairs with the aim of prospering more than your competitors (other Facebook members). This browser-based game is the latest sensation amongst Facebook users and we will let you on to a few tips to get a step or two ahead of the competition in CityVille.
Tip 1: As a long-term game play strategy, it is advisable to invite as many friends as possible, who will become your neighbors. When you build your city, you can connect it to that of your friends and the economies of both the cities will benefit from this when you exchange gifts such as Energy, permits, decorations, etc. Thus, connecting to more cities will ultimately be more beneficial to your city's economy.
And here is how you can find and add people to CityVille. Search for "CityVille" on Facebook to find Cityville-related fan pages and "Like" them. On each of these fan pages, you will be able to see comments from people with words such as "add me", "add me please", etc. Send a friends request to such people to add them and also make sure that you also post similar comments on these fan pages so that more people add you.
Tip 2: In CityVille, as in any city, more population leads to a better economy. So you must build your community buildings to be able to accommodate more people in your city. Community buildings include apartments, homes, police station, post office, museum, etc.
Tip 3: Build stores and businesses along road ways and place your farm lands out of the way. This has been drawn from real-world scenario, where a farm near a street doesn't really make it more useful, while businesses and stores near the street will draw more profit and prosper.
Tip 4: CityVille economy also depends how you time different things such as crop harvesting and rent collection. Each crop has a different harvesting time. For example, Strawberry can be harvested every 8 minutes, and Carrot can be harvested every 8 hours. Thus, if you are not going to spend long hours playing CityVille, it is better to choose Strawberry, which can be harvested quickly. Also make sure that you do the same for Shipping. If you don't harvest your crops soon after they are ready for harvesting, they will wither and be wasted, and you will not get earn any money from them.
In a similar way, different housing buildings produce coins (rent) after different periods. So if you don't play very often, then it is better to build housing with high payout (Apartments, instead of Houses). In this way, you can collect the rent after longer periods. But if you plan to play several times a day, then building Houses is a better option as they yield rent at more frequent intervals.
As your city grows larger and you attain higher levels, you would want to opt for high payout businesses, farms and shipping routes because it must be noted that you spend one Energy unit when you collect from one of these. So the more the number of small businesses, the more you will spend energy, which will simply be a waste of energy.
Tip 5: It is a good idea to keep on harvesting even if you want to enter into a new business, so that you can always fall back on harvesting if the business doesn't work well.
Tip 6: Build buildings to receive food, experience and coins. When you grow crops, you need to build barns, silos, sticks and sheds to store them, or they will simply wilt and be wasted. If you want more coins, simply decorate your buildings.
Tip 7: Ask your friends, even if they don't play CityVille, to gift you items like batteries. You can post on your Facebook wall, requesting for a particular item in CityVille and you will find that people are more than willing to gift it to you. Of course, you must not forget to return the favor when the time comes.
Tip 8: Make sure that your city is easily accessible by building roadways, highways, harbors and train stations. In this way, your neighboring cities will be easily able to travel to you for trade, thus helping improve your city's economy.
Tip 9: Decorations are meant to improve the businesses around them. Thus, when you place a decoration, make sure that it is surrounded by as many businesses as possible to maximize the benefits those businesses derive from the positive influence of the decoration. As an example, a tennis court gives +64% payout and is considered the most powerful decoration, thus lining Sushi bars around it will let you collect 1300 coins each time from them and this is a huge payout for any single business. Another example would be placing flowers or a fountain close to a building, will instantly show you how the rent increases. As a general rule, the more expensive the decoration you put, the higher the rent you will receive.
Tip 10: Energy is something you will always be in need of in CityVille. You need energy for just about every task and you will often run out of energy while in the middle of a task. To avoid this from happening, make sure you use energy wisely.
Make sure you take a look at the amount of energy used for each task, so that you can minimize the amount used. For example, certain buildings will require only two clicks to build, thus requiring less energy. Planting crops on the other hand, will not require energy, but harvesting them will.
Visiting neighbors gives you three energy points and you can even entice neighbors to visit you so they can get these energy points, but at the same time, make sure they spend their energy to complete some tasks for you.
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