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Advice For Playing Social City

Social City is a brand new game on Facebook in which players build their very own city, and looks like it could be a big hit. There is a lot of freedom in Social City – you are able to build a town exactly the way you want. They have a number of options about how to build their town and the levels of complexity that grow with it.

If you have played Sim City before then you may get a sense of de-ja-vu in Social City, because the premise of both games is quite similar. Players must concern themselves with money, population, and the population’s happiness in order to progress in Social City.

Just released a few days ago by Playdom (who also created Sorority Life and Tiki Farm), Social City starts players out with a small city. You can make your city grow larger by constructing more and more things, and shaping your city so that more people will come. Players start with a brief Social City walkthrough in which players learn to keep the population happy by doing things like building places for leisure activities and assigning jobs in the city’s various factories.

To increase population, players can build apartments, houses, and hotels, each of which grants a set number of residents, which multiplies at regular intervals. To keep the population content, players build leisure buildings. They each grant a set amount of happiness. The money to run the city is earned through various factories. The number of factories a player gets is limited by the population.

The most important thing in Social City is to keep your residents happy, and continue to build more and more factories, in order to maintain an income. The cities can be expanded by purchasing expansions of the city limits, which brings in more population. Players can also make achievements which they can share with other Social City Facebook players. Participants can make their city unique by adding flowers and trees and making roads run through their city. Even for the newest players, there is plenty to do in this game.

There are a number of elements to Social City that may help it become popular in the Facebook gaming industry. For a free Facebook game, the graphics of Social City are pretty good, and it’s easy to find your way around. There is very little lag in Social City, and you will find improvements happening quickly. There are a number of other games on Facebook by Playdom and it seems likely that Social City will start to get a decent following too.

There are very few Social City tips out on the internet now just because Social City is so new, and the game is being improved all the time. One annoying thing about this game is that you can’t rotate buildings. This makes for the bizarre situation of the backs of buildings sometimes facing the streets. But hopefully it won’t always be this way.