New Facebook Games - Social City
Posted in Fun Stuff by Raoul | No Comments »Social City is so recent that it is hard to say how well it will do, although it seems likely that it will reach at least a few hundred thousand players. 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. You need to watch out for things like money (in-game currency), the number of people in your city, and their general well being while playing 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. They can expand their city by purchasing new buildings, entertainment venues, and landscaping features. 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. It is important to build leisure buildings in order to keep your people happy in the city. They each grant a set amount of happiness. In order to make in-game currency you will need to build numerous 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. There is a lot of things to accomplish in this game even when you just start out.
There are a number of elements to Social City that may help it become popular in the Facebook gaming industry. The graphics are great looking and the user interface is intuitive. 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. For one thing, you can’t rotate buildings and objects. Because you can’t rotate buildings, sometimes the back of a building will be facing the street, and the front of the building will be faced towards empty space. But hopefully it won’t always be this way.
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