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Social City came out very recently on Facebook, just like previous well known games like Farmville. 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. The things you will need to control in your city are hapiness of citizens, finances, and population.

You earn money by setting up factories. You are able to have a set number of factories and buildings that you can construct, depending on how many people live in 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. You will need to keep the people in your city happy in order to have them stay in your city. 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.

You are able to get more people to your city by building things like houses and apartments, so that more people can stay there. Every one of these is able to house a certain number of people. However, each building grants that set amount of population at certain intervals. 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. You will get more and more experience to get you into higher levels each time you do something good. Cash, special buildings, housing units, extra factories and City Bucks (the virtual currency) are some of the rewards. In-game currency you use to buy things is used in the various buildings that you construct. When virtual currency is spent, it can go toward expansion of the player’s city limits.

You can expand your city in the game with in-game currency, or have a set number of neighbours by inviting your friends over and having them build cities next to yours. 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. This makes the game more fast paced than those where players may have to wait several days to get their virtual space the way they want it.

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.

If you are looking for a decent game to play on facebook, then you should definitely try Social City. We will have to wait and see if this game gets a lot of players in the next few months.

Filed under: Fun Stuff on March 28th, 2010