Love Thy CityVille Neighbor

The term 'Love Thy Neighbor' takes on a special meaning in City Ville. Soon after you start expanding your city you'll come to realize that you just can't do it all alone. And, as you can imagine, if you need help running your city, your neighbors probably need help running theirs. So you need to start looking for the red hearts when you visit your neighbors.

City Ville, like most Zynga games, is designed to encourage interaction among the players. You play the game on Face book, which is a social networking site, so they're encouraging you to socialize. And one of best ways to do that is by visiting your neighbors' cities to help them out with little chores, like harvesting their crops or collecting their rents.

One of the most common complaints among hard-core City Ville players has always been that, when you have multiple neighbors visit your city, they're apt to all clicks on the same 5 crops or collect the same 5 rents. Well, a crop can only be harvested one time and you can only collect rent once - or you're going to have some very angry tenants! So, if you have 5 or 6 neighbors all clicking on the same crop or rent, only one neighbor counts and the rest are just wasting energy.

Fortunately, Zynga listened and created the little, red 'Get Help' hearts. Players can use these hearts to mark specific crops or rents they want harvested and when their neighbors visit they know exactly what to do. When each heart is clicked it disappears from view so it won't be clicked on again. This lets each neighbor who visits your city know exactly what you want them to do and it saves the city owner a ton of energy that would otherwise be wasted in duplicate clicks.

Now the problem is getting neighbors to click on those red hearts when they visit each city. How many times do you just open your friend's city and click on the first 5 things you see? Most people do! You need to start expanding the screen so you can see the entire city and look for those red hearts. Otherwise, you're not really helping your friend if you end up clicking on the same 5 spots that some else already clicked on. The next time you go visiting, be a good City Ville neighbor. Take a few seconds to look around and click on the red hearts first