Playing Social City On Facebook

Social City is a brand new Facebook game along the lines of FarmVille and Mafia Wars. It’s called Social City, and it will feel familiar to anyone who has played SimCity or any of the social networking equivalents. When you join, you’re greeted by a Social City guide who takes you through the basic concepts of managing your city. As a player, you will have to deal with three things: money, happiness and population.

You earn money by setting up factories. You can have a certain number of factories based on the population of your city. They make all kinds of weird things. Factories that you build within the game work on a set contract you give them, and then ship items out after an agreed amount of time. A lot of currency is earned once this is done. Your city’s population will only remain as long as you keep them happy. So you build leisure buildings. The various leisure buildings, which include theaters, stores, restaurants, and other happiness generating things like flowers, statues, and trees, all grant a certain amount of happiness.

To increase your population, you can build hotels, houses, and apartments. Each accommodates a fixed number of citizens. But what you will find is that every building that is constructed aids the population at different times. As an example, the smallest house produces 10 in population. Now of course, it will take you a while to adjust to this.

Players are rewarded by population. Any time a player achieves a special accomplishment, they earn population with unique rewards and unique buildings for population and level. Every time the player takes an action, experience towards the various levels is earned. There are all kinds of rewards that you will obtain throughout the game, the most notable being ‘city bucks’, which is the in-game currency. Virtual currency is used in some of the unique buildings. You can spend in-game currency to make your cities borders expand out further.

Players can spend a small amount of the currency to expand the city limits, or players can have a certain amount of neighbors (These are the Facebook friends that are playing), plus some in-game Coins. Maintaining a city in this game is fairly straightforward. The game shares some similarities to Farmville because of the way players can compare their cities with each other. If you are just beginning the game, then you get a pretty good amount of in-game city to help you get started building a city. Additions like this make the game much quicker, and things happen very fast - you see changes within minutes, not days.

The game is too new for there to be any reported Social City hacks or Social City cheats posted. The game is fairly easy to get the hang of after a while, and is likely to do very well in the coming months as more people try it out.

So next time you have some spare time, load up Social City and play around with it for a bit - you just might enjoy it. We will have to wait and see if this game gets a lot of players in the next few months.

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