Cityville Cheats, Bot, Guide, Tips, Tactics, Strategy and Secrets. Cityville is the number 1 Facebook game today and has beaten its predecessor Farmville. It is the best game today because it was able to incorporate the best features of the best social games into 1 successful and addicting game Cityville. Given the upgrade, many are looking for cheats, bots, guides, tips, strategies and secrets to play Cityville. This is actually a good idea and is better than learning all the tricks of the game by yourself which tantamount to loss of productive time.
If you would like to really jump start your Cityville “career”, then check out Paul’s site as he reviews the #1 CityVille guide. If you do buy, then please stick to the strategy presented:
Ok now once you’ve got yourself a copy of the ebook above and became a member of the site, let us go through each item mentioned in the title. First up is Cheats. I am not a big fan of cheats, but here is 1 you could use in emergencies.
Cheat(s)
The cheat I use and recommend is creating more FB accounts. By doing so, you could add more “artificial” neighbors to your main city(in your main account). You could also send or gift yourself with necessary items for you to level up fast like Energy, Zoning Permits, etc… Don’t overdo this though as having many artificial neighbors will drain you out and render the game too strenuous for you to enjoy.
Bot
I am not a fan of bots. But if you want to really stream roll your opponents(neighbors) then you could probably use one. Here are the links to Cityville bots available online:
Guide & Secrets
The guide and secrets are really all in the ebooks above. There is no need for me to mention it here as that would be redundant. However, you might want to check out the strategies section for help for intermediate to advanced players.
Strategy
Strategy is different from tactics. The two have often been confused to mean the same thing but they are not the same. Strategy pertains to the overall plan you are going to follow to achieve your goal while tactics pertain to techniques that you can employ to achieve various milestones in your overall strategy.
The best way to illustrate this is in the game of chess. The goal is to checkmate your opponent’s King. But what would be your strategy? Are you going to be aggressive and beat him by force? Or are you going to be defensive and beat him in the end game? White players tend to aggressive because they have momentum while Black players tend to be defensive for the opposite reason the White player does. That is strategy. Tactics on the other hand are the forks, pins, etc… you employ in the game.
Enough of chess and back to Cityville. So what strategy are you going to employ in the game? Before answering that question, what is your goal first? Are you playing just for the sake of fun? Then you don’t need any strategy at all! But if you are playing to beat your friends and neighbors and get to the highest level then you need a strategy.
Cityville is a more complicated game compared to other FB games and thus analysis of the game is much harder. Unlike the other games, Cityville has more limiting factors. And by that, I am referring to Coins, Energy and Goods. So we need to carefully balance each one to get the best out of it. Let us start.
Here is my goal => I want to beat my friends/neighbors by obtaining the highest level in the quickest time possible but at the same time have an attractive and big city with its borders maxed out.
Sounds intimidating but in reality that is what we all want. So what would be my strategy?
Level up as fast as possible by building the most profitable businesses and surrounding it with as much decorations as possible so that I get the most bang for my buck and energy. The game must be played according to the correct timing so as to play the game efficiently. Attractiveness comes last and will be dealt with when my Cityville “economy” is stable.
Let’s break that down by going into the basics of the game. You level up by gaining more XP(experience). XP can be obtained from rent/business/community collection and harvesting. Rent/Business/Community collection and harvesting require 1 Energy per action. You regenerate 1 Energy every 5 minutes. Unfortunately, you cannot buy time 
But you can sort of do so by using coins and cash. I won’t be talking about cash here as we want to play the game as “free” as possible thus we will stick to coins. If you did your homework and scoured the internet for guides blah blah blah, most of them will focus on buying/getting the best houses and business per coin/supply respectively. That is good for other games like Fishville but in Cityville that is not the case.
If you followed my logic above, the most important limiting factor or resource we have is Energy. Without Energy, we won’t be able to do anything. And if we don’t do anything then we don’t level up and thus won’t achieve our goal. Money/Coins are important but that is very easy to get. The same thing with Goods so I will give them less importance. Now, let us do some math.
As of this post, the maximum Energy limit is 30(assuming you are at least level 26). That means we get to fully refill our Energy bar every 150 minutes or 2.5 hours. Hence, we could play every 2.5 hours and build our city without much interference from our every day lives 
This also gives us a chance to get 2-3 Masterful bonuses which is a must if you want to level up and collect lots of money fast.
So, if you work 8 hours a day, you could play before you work, 3 times during your break time and after work. After work, you could devote more time to playing Cityville which means you don’t have to play every 2.5 hours. If you are “harvesting” 4 businesses which have their potential maxed out using decorations, you can harvest them every 20 minutes and get a lot of money in 1 hour’s worth of playing time! Using this strategy, I often collect 10k+ coins in just 1 hour, that is using the highest earning businesses available to me at my level.
Also, don’t use housing as a means of getting coins. Yes, you can get coins from them but regard them as extra bonuses. Housing should be treated only as a means to increase population. Hence you should get housing which occupies the least space with the most population. I am referring to the Colonial Chalet. It can fit in 13.34 population/people per grid which is the best in the game. It is quite expensive in the beginning at $10000 but if you harvest maxed out businesses as I did, then money should not be a problem.
Just to reiterate, housing is just for population. Never collect rent from houses to get money. That is a total waste of energy. To make money, use businesses and harvest them to the max using decorations. But not just any decorations though, use the best ones which give the highest multipliers. The only time to collect on houses is when you need bonus clicks to get to Masterful or when you are going to sleep, that is after collecting on businesses (use all your Energy before going to sleep!!!).
Since the max Energy is 30, we only need to have a total of 30 houses, businesses and crops combined. Thus, it would be a good and wise idea to build/plant houses/crops which can be harvested every 2.5 hours. Other houses are for population, other crops are for decoration and other businesses are just for show
We should also expand as fast as possible. More space means more clicks, more XP and more money! Thus it would be wise to always send Zoning Permits to your friends. The rule is, give and you shall receive. If you give a gift to your neighbor, they would likely gift back one to you.
So I guess that’s it. The strategy above would be able to help you to level up faster and make lots of money. It is not written in detail but if you have played Cityville for a while now you would understand what I am saying. If you need a complete beginners guide to help you through the game, then it would be best to get the 2 ebooks above.
Tips and Tactics
- Don’t close your Cityville app so that businesses use out their supply faster. I am not sure of this tip but it seems to me that it works. Faster supply usage means more money in your pocket. This is just a gut feel tip so use at your own discretion.
- Buy goods/supply from Charlieville using the train. I know it is expensive but we are talking about buying time here. Goods from Charlieville cost 4coins/good but without wasting precious time and Energy. If you have 3 businesses using a total of 300 goods and giving you 4500 coins gross profit, then your net profit would be 3300 coins in 15 minutes (assuming all 300 goods get used in that time span which is a good approximate)! That would be 13200 coins an hour
- Give and you shall receive. If you need +3 Energy, gift them out first to your friends/neighbors. This is a proven tactic which has survived the test of time.
- Use bonuses to your advantage…always. To get to the highest bonus(Masterful), you need 32 clicks. That can be done with 16 Energy. If you are fortunate and get extra items then you can do it in less than 16. Always find a way to get to Masterful as that would mean more coins/money for you. One way to get extra clicks without using energy is by using the Charlieville train. Doing so will give you 3 free clicks without using energy. I won’t post a bonus chart here as they are everywhere
If I have anymore to share, I will update this blog post for you guys.
