Showing posts with label cityville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cityville. Show all posts

Friday, January 13, 2012

CityVille: Two new goals offer a free Holiday Tree

Aside from some new buildings and decorations, CityVille is celebrating the holidays by giving every player a free Christmas tree for a new game goal. The first part of the new Holiday Tree goal is called "Place the Holiday Tree" and it's really simple. Just go to the user panel on the bottom right, access the inventory, click on the Holiday Tree and drag it into your city to install it. This will pay you 50 Coins.
CityVille Growing the Tree
Part two is called "Growing the Tree" and to complete it, you'll either need 20 City Cash or have 10 friends willing to send you a "Present" each from the "Free Gifts" page.
CityVille Presents Holiday Tree wall post
You can notify your friends that you need presents by clicking on the "Growing the Tree" goal icon on the left hand side, then "Ask Your Friends" to post to your wall. But be careful -- if you cancel the wall post instead of allowing it to post, you'll lose the "Ask Your Friends" option, because that button will turn into the message "Waiting for your friends to respond", which means you won't be able to click it anymore. Friends who answer your wall post for gifts will get 50 Coins for helping you. As for you, the more presents you get, the bigger your tree will grow!
CityVille Holiday Tree

Sunday, January 8, 2012

New CityVille Buildings: Middle School, Modern Art Gallery, Appliances Store, & Laundromat

If you've reached the level cap in CityVille (and have run out of things to buy), or are perhaps just looking to for new things to build in your city, you'll be happy to know that Zynga has launched four new buildings in the game - two businesses and two community buildings.

The two businesses are the Appliances Store and Laundromat. The Appliances Store costs 25 City Cash, and earns 405 coins after being supplied with 90 goods. Meanwhile, the Laundromat costs just 5,000 coins, and earns 515 coins by default, after being stocked with 115 goods. As one final note, you must have at least 1,100 citizens in your town to unlock access to the Laundromat.

Meanwhile, the two community buildings are the Middle School and the Modern Art Gallery. Both of these are fortunately available for coins, but the Modern Art Gallery is only available to those who have reached level 60, while the Middle School is available at level 32. The prices reflect these differences in level requirements, as the Middle School costs 27,500 coins to build and adds 800 citizens to your total maximum population, while the Modern Art Gallery costs a whopping 200,000 coins. For that price, your population cap will increase by 1,900 - a nice investment piece, if you are a high enough level, and can actually afford it.

All of these new items can be found in the game's store, under the "New" section, and currently come with no time limit. Save those coins and those City Cash, and we're sure that you'll be able to afford all four of them in no time.

CityVille New Fire Station Quest: Everything you need to know

A new quest has been launched in CityVille today called "New Fire Station." As you'd expect, this goal asks you to prepare your city for unexpected tragedy by ensuring that your citizens are safe in the event of a fire. You'll need to complete three tasks to finish this quest, and luckily, they are all pretty simple.

Have a Fire Station in Your City
Collect from the Fire Station
Ask friends for 12 Fire Axes

The most time consuming portion of this quest will likely be the collection of the Fire Axes, which can be done by posting a general wall post to your news feed, asking your friends for help.

As for the Fire Station, if you already have one in your city, don't worry as this mission doesn't ask you to "build" a new one, but rather simply "have" one in your town. If you haven't built one, though, it is available from the Community Buildings section of the store for 30,000 coins. It can be collected from once per day.

Like we said, this mission is actually pretty simple, but good luck to all of those who are trying to finish it!

CityVille Sneak Peek: First set of RewardVille items revealed

Over the past week, we've been keeping you up-to-date on Zynga's newest "RewardVille" website and promotion. As we've told you in the past, RewardVille will reward players of almost all of Zynga's games with zCoins / zPoints as they continue to play a selection of Zynga's titles on Facebook (including CityVille). These zCoins will be redeemable for prizes (both new and old) in your favorite games, giving incentive to the entire project.

While we've already discovered what the rewards will be for FarmVille players, CityVille Feed has uncovered some of the items that will apparently be coming to CityVille's portion of the rewards program, as they have discovered a new screenshot from the website.

There will apparently be at least eight items made available through RewardVille, all of which are unlocked at a series of increasing level intervals, with these particular items being unlocked from zLevel 40 - 70. Apparently, there are two other pages of rewards, as the screen above says that this is page "3 of 3", but here's the rundown of the items that we do know about:

Jeans Store - 120 zCoins
DVD Rental Store - 120 zCoins
Lamp Store - 110 zCoins
Clock Tower - 130 zCoins
Coastal Rowhouse - 120 zCoins
Downtown Flat - 140 zCoins
Skyrise Heights - 160 zCoins
Stepped Skyscraper - 200 zCoins

As usual, it's anyone's guess as to when these items will be made available to all CityVille players, but keep checking back with us, as we'll make sure you're the first to know - we'll also be back with all of the details on how to level up in RewardVille, and what other prizes will be made available in your other favorite Zynga games.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Will the CityVille Beach expansion be just a new land plot (who knows)?

Unfortunately, that's what Edgar's recent words in CityVille suggest. The first hint of the CityVIlle Beach expansion, released earlier this week, had something more to say after all. Clicking on Edgar as he hangs on the helicopter will cause him to speak up, revealing a bit more information as to what's going on. "This land looks ripe for development," Edgar says. "All we need is a bridge ... increase Population to 5,000 to be prepared."

So, now we know that the Bridge will be some type of build-able item--most likely a Community Building that requires Population levels to be high enough. Because this bridge will almost certainly have to lead somewhere on the existing map. That means this new feature could just lead to another place to expand your existing city.

However, it could easily just be a way to enter a new, second city--like the Airship in FarmVille English Countryside. That's the beauty of speculation, the possibilities are endless. We'll have more "real" details as soon as they're released.

[Image Credit: ajaykd]

What do you think the CityVille Beach expansion will turn out to be? Are you satisfied with how Zynga is handling the info leaks?

Monday, December 12, 2011

Halloween Guide for FarmVille, The Sims Social, CityVille & more

Folks, Halloween is so underrated. Not only does it kick off the holiday season, but Halloween is an excuse for all of us to dress up, eat tons of candy, carve pumpkins, and watch scary movies. In addition, Halloween has infiltrated all our favorite Facebook games. FarmVille, The Sims Social, and CityVille have all received special Halloween promotions, Halloween items, and new Halloween features.

And that's just the beginning. Expect to see more Halloween-themed goodies from the other Facebook games right here. Check out our entire Halloween Guide below.

More recent Halloween updates appear at the top of each game list.
FarmVille Halloween | CityVille Halloween | The Sims Social Halloween
Pioneer Trail Halloween | Empires & Allies Halloween | Angry Birds Halloween
Cafe World Halloween | Other Halloween Updates


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FarmVille Halloween

    FarmVille Mystery Game (10/30/11): Halloween items take a final stand
    FarmVille Trick or Treat Goals: Everything you need to know
    FarmVille Trick or Treat: Everything you need to know
    FarmVille Halloween Items: Witch Costume, Halloween Candle Tree and more
    FarmVille Lighthouse Cove Pirate Bonus Goals: Everything you need to know
    FarmVille Halloween Items: Black Cat Fence, Pumpkin Fountain and more
    FarmVille Lighthouse Cove Halloween Pirate Goals: Everything you need to know
    FarmVille Huge Jack-O'Lantern Goals: Everything you need to know
    FarmVille Halloween Items: Dark Peach Tree, Black Guinea Pig and more
    FarmVille Huge Jack-O'Lantern: Everything you need to know
    FarmVille Lighthouse Cove Ghost Bonus Challenges: Everything you need to know
    FarmVille Halloween Items: Black Mini Unicorn, Haunted Farm House and more
    FarmVille Lighthouse Cove Ghost Goals: Everything you need to know
    FarmVille: Plant Black Tulips for Halloween
    FarmVille Count Duckula's Castle Goals: Everything you need to know
    FarmVille Halloween Items: Cookie Tree, Pumpkin Snowman, Mad Scientist Lab and more
    FarmVille Count Duckula's Castle: Everything you need to know
    FarmVille Halloween Items: Zombie Gnome, Bat Dog, Mossy Tree and more
    FarmVille: Free Skeleton Cow making the rounds
    FarmVille Halloween Items: Dark Apple Tree, Batwing Horse, Bat Pumpkin and more
    FarmVille Halloween Items: Nightmare Unicorn, Fire Peach Tree and more
    FarmVille: Halloween Black Belgian horse available for coins
    FarmVille Halloween Model Farm offers free Arborists and more
    FarmVille Halloween items: Candy Corn Tree, Halloween Cottage, Jack-O'-Lantern and more



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CityVille Halloween

    CityVille Energy Ghosts: Everything you need to know
    CityVille Plagued Playground Community Building: Everything you need to know
    CityVille Haunted Library Community Building: Everything you need to know
    CityVille Halloween Monsters Act 3 Goals: Everything you need to know
    CityVille: More Halloween homes, decorations and community buildings hit the store
    CityVille Halloween Sweet Tooth Goal: Everything you need to know
    CityVille Demented Dentist Community Building: Everything you need to know
    CityVille Halloween Act 2 Goals made easier with smaller requirements
    CityVille: Crypt Keeper's Crib added to Halloween extravaganza
    CityVille Treats 'N Sweets Booth: Everything you need to know
    CityVille Zombie ER: Everything you need to know
    CityVille Tree of Enchantment: Everything you need to know
    CityVille Haunted Hotel: Everything you need to know
    CityVille Halloween Monster Mystery Game: Everything you need to know
    CityVille Forsaken Fortress helps you finish goals for a price
    CityVille's Halloween Decorating Contest offers big rewards for big scares
    CityVille Mausoleum Community Building: Everything you need to know
    CityVille Halloween Meet the Monsters Goals: Everything you need to know
    CityVille Halloween Monsters: Everything you need to know
    CityVille Governor's Run Vampire Goals: Everything you need to know
    CityVille: Halloween Monster Ship shows up in city waters
    CityVille Hometown Halloween update gives your city the spooky touch



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The Sims Social Halloween

    The Sims Social sets a spine-chilling scene with new Halloween images
    The Sims Social Haunted House Week items punish friends' pranks
    The Sims Social finally gets spooky in The Ultimate Horror Movie Week
    The Sims Social celebrates Halloween with Werewolves vs Vampires week



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FrontierVille Pioneer Trail Halloween

    Pioneer Trail Ghost Town: Purchase limited edition items for a free Ghostly Horse
    Pioneer Trail Halloween on the Homestead Contest: Walk away with 2,000 Horseshoes!
    Pioneer Trail Trick or Treat Goals: Everything you need to know
    Pioneer Trail Spook Shack: Everything you need to know
    Pioneer Trail Haunted Homestead: Everything you need to know
    Pioneer Trail Family Secret Goals: Everything you need to know
    Pioneer Trail Halloween Store: Stock up on scary supplies in one place
    Pioneer Trail Halloween Hutch: Everything you need to know
    Pioneer Trail Ghost Town Haunted Garden: Everything you need to know
    Pioneer Trail Ghost Town Giant Cauldron: Everything you need to know
    Pioneer Trail Ghost Town Goals: Everything you need to know
    Pioneer Trail Ghost Town feature coming soon [Video]



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Empires & Allies Halloween

    Empires & Allies: Halloween items now available in the store



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Angry Birds Halloween

    Angry Birds Halloween horror movie spoof channels Hitchcock [Video]
    Angry Birds Seasons Halloween update means a new bird is in town
    Something is a brewin' for the Angry Birds this Halloween [Video]



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Cafe World Halloween

    Cafe World Trick or Treat Party Catering Order: Everything you need to know
    Cafe World Witch's Cauldron: Everything you need to know
    Cafe World Halloween Siggy's Tricks Goals: Everything you need to know
    Cafe World Halloween Amelia's Treats Goals: Everything you need to know
    Cafe World Halloween Candy Bowl - Everything you need to know



Other Halloween Game Updates

    The Top Five Spooky Facebook Games to Play Halloween Night
    Adventure World Creepy Crypt Expedition: Everything you need to know
    Adventure World Halloween Sneak Peek: Halloween Volcano coming soon
    Nexon's next social game, Zombie Misfits, looks for brains on Facebook
    Meteor Games makes Island Paradise an island terror for Halloween
    PopCap says 'Happy Halloween' with pumpkins, zombies and ... a rave?
    The Killer Pumpkin assaults Pocket God on Facebook this Halloween



Make sure to check back for more Halloween Facebook game updates! Which Halloween update was your favorite? Vote here!

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Thanksgiving Guide: FarmVille, Pioneer Trail, The Sims Social & More

Next up in the holiday 2011 lineup is Thanksgiving! Hot on Halloween's heels, this festive feast holiday brings on the brisk weather and kicks off that cozy winter feeling. But family bonding and delicious food aren't all Thanksgiving 2011 has to offer. As usual, Thanksgiving items are appearing in all your favorite Facebook games such as FarmVille, Pioneer Trail, The Sims Social, and more! So to see all the latest Thanksgiving updates, features, and goodies; check out our complete Thanksgiving Guide for FarmVille, Pioneer Trail, The Sims Social, and more below!

Make sure to check out the Ultimate Black Friday Deal Guide for social & casual gamers.

Jump to:
FarmVille Thanksgiving | Pioneer Trail Thanksgiving
Cafe World Thanksgiving | CityVille Thanksgiving
Other Thanksgiving Updates

FarmVille Thanksgiving

    FarmVille: Double Mastery on now for Thanksgiving celebration
    FarmVille Mystery Game (11/20/11): Thanksgiving animals and decorations celebrate Turkey Day
    FarmVille Thanksgiving Items: Sheep Balloon, Pilgrim Chicken and more
    FarmVille Harvest Bonfire Goals: Everything you need to now
    FarmVille Harvest Bonfire Thanksgiving Basket: Everything you need to know
    FarmVille Lighthouse Cove Thanksgiving Goals: Everything you need to know
    FarmVille: Purchase a Zynga Game Card from 7-Eleven, receive Cornucopia Home
    FarmVille Harvest Hoedown Goals: Everything you need to know
    FarmVille Harvest Hoedown: Everything you need to know



FrontierVille Pioneer Trail Thanksgiving

    Pioneer Trail Thanksgiving Animal Collection: Collect feathers for six new animals
    Pioneer Trail Gravy Train Meals: Everything you need to know
    Pioneer Trail Thanksgiving Feast: Everything you need to know



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Cafe World

    Cafe World Fall Feast Event: Everything you need to know



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CityVille

    CityVille Harvest Festival Timed Goal: Everything you need to know



The Sims Social Thanksgiving

    Coming Soon



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Other Thanksgiving Updates

    Turkeys go on Thanksgiving vacay in Island Paradise, or do they?
    Black Friday doorbusters: Coming to an online game near you?
    Empires & Allies Turkey Turmoil Mini Series: Everything you need to know
    Gardens of Time celebrates Thanksgiving with three premium scenes
    Forget the Black Friday rush, give the gift of Zynga stock [Report]



Which is your favorite Thanksgiving update?

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

CityVille: Earn a free Tunnel decoration for playing Adventure World

While Adventure World has finally started seeing a push in its user base (to a current total of around 26 million players), that doesn't mean Zynga wants the growth to slow down. To help users discover its newest game, the developer has launched a cross-promotion between Adventure World and its largest game: CityVille. This promotion, like the FarmVille promotion that came before it, will give users some incentive to play AW by rewarding them with a prize back in CityVille at the end.

To be specific, a free Tunnel decoration (pictured at right) is up for grabs for all CityVille players that take the time to reach at least Level 7 in Adventure World. This is unfortunately two levels more than that required for the FarmVille cross-promotion, so you will need to keep chugging along until you level up two more times. To help you do that, we have guides on the game's starting Expeditions, along with the game's main story quests, so make sure to check out our guides to those events to help yourself level up as quickly as possible.

While you shouldn't have to, you should also remember to click on the "Play Now" button in the pop-up that appears in CityVille to activate this cross-promotion in your game. It's possible that Zynga will automatically track the players that have met both requirements (that is, those that play CityVille and are at least Level 7 in Adventure World), but clicking on this link should eliminate all doubt. Oh yeah, you'll need to do all of the above fairly quickly - your time limit for receiving your free Tunnel Decoration is October 6. On that date, all qualifying users will receive their prize, so don't worry if you don't receive it beforehand. Just make sure you meet the deadline if you want this free Tunnel in your town.

Will you play Adventure World to at least Level 7 to qualify for a free CityVille Tunnel? Sound off in the comments.

CityVille Metropolis items take the fun to the big city

If all of the small-scale businesses and homes in CityVille just aren't doing it for you, and you want some larger skyscrapers to sit beside your (probably) large franchises, you're in luck with the release of new Metropolis items in the game today. These items will be available for 15 days, and you'll be able to purchase either a Mystery Crate to try your luck at receiving a random item, or purchase some of these items outright. Fair warning: these items cost City Cash, so I hope you're ready to bust out your wallet.

Infinite Towers II (Home)

    * Costs: 110 City Cash
    * Population: 4000 - 7000 citizens
    * Rent: 532 coins every day


Destiny's Calling (Home)

    * Costs: 55 City Cash
    * Population: 1350 - 2650 population
    * Rent: 150 coins every two hours


Oasis Apartments II (Home)

    * Costs: 65 City Cash
    * Population: 1850 - 3650 citizens
    * Rent: 200 coins every four hours


Visual Art Academy (Community Building)

    * Costs: 70 City Cash
    * Raises maximum population cap by 5,000 citizens


In addition to these four items, the Metropolis Mystery Crate will give you a chance at one additional item - the Oasis Apartments I - along with three other items above (the Infinite Towers II, Destiny's Calling and Visual Art Academy). A single crate costs 55 City Cash, so unless you only win the Destiny's Calling, you'll really come out ahead over purchasing items individually. Keep in mind though, you might win duplicates in your quest to get all three at a "discount." As for the Oasis Apartments I, the exclusive item to this crate, it comes with a population of 2,000 - 4,000 citizens and provides 251 coins every eight hours in rent.

Again, these items, including the Mystery Crate are only available in the game for a limited time of around 15 days. We'll make sure to let you know if any themed decorations or businesses launch in this theme in the future, so keep checking back with us!

Will you purchase any of these Skyscrapers for use in your town, or will you try your hand with the Mystery Crate to see if you can walk away with an expensive item for "cheap?" Sound off in the comments.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

CityVille Rose Garden Goals: Everything you need to know

While summer may quickly be drawing to a close, CityVille hopes to keep the summer fun alive by letting us have a place to grow beautiful flowers. Appropriately enough, this new "building" is called the Rose Garden, and you'll place it in your city when completing the first of four new goals that go along with it.

Garden State

    * Place Rose Garden
    * Plant a Rose in the Garden


The Rose Garden is a 4x4 structure that works similarly to the Zoo, in that you'll only be able to display three flowers on the outside of the garden, but can actually leave more of them inside. To start, you'll receive a single flower for free (that's right - this one doesn't need to be built at all after placing it in your town): a White Wild Rose. Once you look inside the building, just click on the Plant button and you'll be able to "feature" that rose as one of the three that show up on the outside. Once you finish these two (simple) steps, you'll receive 160 coins as your reward.

A Late Bloomer

    * Ask friends for 3 Shovels
    * Have 3 Gardens in your City
    * Water your Gardens 5 Times


Gardens can be watered once every 18 hours, and yes, you can have more than one in your city. In fact, you'll need to have three before you can finish this goal. Your second and third Rose Gardens would cost 50,000 coins in the store, but luckily, you can also purchase Small Rose Gardens (a smaller version of the regular Rose Garden) for just 8,000 coins. These do count for the completion of this goal. As for the shovels, you'll be able to post a general news item to your wall asking for three. Finishing this goal gives you Sculpted Tree.

It's Showtime!

    * Get 10 Rose Bushes
    * Have 1 Rose Collection item from the Garden Collection
    * Place one Rose Garden Gate in your city


To earn additional bushes, you'll go into your gardens (as seen above) and then click on "Ask for flowers" to ask your friends to send you some bushes. Finishing this goal gives you 32 experience points.

Comin' Up Roses

    * Ask friends for 4 Vases
    * Have 7 Roses Planted in your Gardens
    * Have an upgraded Flower Kiosk


As it looks like each garden can only display three flowers, you'll need to have flowers in at least three Gardens to reach seven. As for updating your Flower Kiosk, you can find our guide for doing just that right here. Finishing this final goal gives you a Roses Fountain.

We'll make sure to let you know if other kinds of gardens are made available in the build menu in the future, but for now - have fun growing and displaying all of those roses!

Check out the rest of our CityVille Cheats & Tips right here.

What do you think of the Rose Garden feature in CityVille? What do you think of these goals? Sound off in the comments.