Neighbors

Neighbors

Neighbors are vital for having a good city. By using them, you can get XP, Coins, items, Energy and Goods. At the bottom of the screen you will see the Neighbor menu. This ranks your Neighbors, while displaying the AI friend on the far right. You can visit your Neighbors by clicking them and selecting Visit. You can also give Gifts by clicking on a Neighbor. In return, your Neighbors can give you gifts, and Energy if you have run out.

Adding Neighbors

To add new Neighbors to your game, you can click the Invite Friends option at the top of the main screen. You can then invite other Facebook users into your CityVille game. You have to authorise people before they are able to visit your city.

Visiting Neighbors

Having built up a healthy list of Neighbors, you can select their image at the bottom and pick the option to Visit.

Once in your Neighbor's city, you get a reward each day for visiting. This is 100 Coins, 3 Energy and 1 XP every day that you visit that Neighbor. The idea is to encourage social gaming as much as possible. There are also 5 goals that you can complete while in anyone else's city. These get both you and your Neighbor some rewards.

On each visit to your Neighbor, you are given Energy that you can use while there, but which does not cost you any of your own actual energy. On each visit, you will have 5 Energy to use in this way. You can see it listed at the left-hand side of the screen.

Neighbor Tasks

Tasks that you can do while in your Neighbor's city include harvesting and reviving crops, as well as cutting down trees to clear space. Having done the task, both the Neighbor and the visitor gets rewards. You will get 25 Coins and 1 Reputation point for each task. If you do all 5 tasks, you can get 125 Coins and 5 Reputation points on each visit, plus the money for the daily visit to that Neighbor. This increases as you progress through the game.

When visiting a Neighbor, or when a Neighbor is in your city, their movements are shown in blue. This allows you to see, live, what people are doing in your city.

You do not have to accept what anyone does in your city, and likewise your Neighbors can decline the work you have done in theirs. When exploring your city, you will see a Neighbor's profile picture if they have made changes to your city in that location. You must click it and select 'Accept' to authorise the changes. With that done, the changes will then happen in real time and any rewards will be earned.

The other key thing that people can do while visiting their Neighbors is to start a franchise in someone else's city.

If you are trying to visit all of your Neighbors, which is a good idea to maximise profits, do it in the order they appear on the bottom of the screen, from left to right. This will mean you don't waste time visiting the same one twice in one day.