If you haven't already figured it out, being a good neighbor is one of the most important aspects of most of the big Facebook games. And it's more important in CityVille than any other game. So much of your success lies with the ability for you and all your neighbors to work together and the more friends you have, the faster you'll progress.
The biggest obstacle with CityVille is your limited energy. You just never seem to have enough to accomplish everything and you end up having to wait until more energy builds up. By that time, you have even more tasks you need to take care of - your crops are ready to harvest, you need to build silos - and it just seems like you'll never get it all done.
You're not the only one who feels that sense of impending doom as you watch your energy points shrivel up and die. Everyone feels that way. It's the way the game is designed and that's what keeps everyone coming back for more - that challenge to beat the energy clock!
One way to help you hold onto that energy longer is for you and all of your friends to be good neighbors. It costs you energy points every time you chop down a tree or harvest a crop or collect a rent in you own city. But it doesn't cost you any energy at all to visit your neighbor's city and do those same tasks for them. Now, if you all worked together when you visit each other's cities you'd save each other a ton of energy!
It takes a little more time to be a good neighbor. If you generally only visit your friend's cities once or twice a week you'll need to pick up the pace and help them out every day. And instead of just popping in and clicking on the first rent collections you see you'll have to take a look around and see what really needs done first.
Bakeries, for example, are harvested every 10 minutes. When you only get 12 energy points per hour, you're talking about using half of them just to keep up with your bakery. And trees are another aggravating problem. Every time your neighbor expands his city he's going to have to chop down a few trees. And that takes up a lot of his energy.
In some ways CityVille is just like a real city. If we'd all look out for one another and help each other out, we'd have a lot more energy to use for the fun things in life!
Source: eZine
