Citytopia: Tips, Cheats and Strategies

Citytopia is a city-building game, which brings a mixture of RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch and The Sims features together in one neat little bundle. Buildings are unlocked and upgraded through a card system, which is nothing new to the mobile market. Anyway, if this sounds like your cup of tea, then keep reading for top tips.

Expect a slow start

If you are a fan of RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch or any Atari product recently, then you’ll know all about cards and how they work. In order for you to place a building, you will need a card. So it doesn’t matter if you have found a card before because if you place the building down then you have used that card.

A lot of players find this as a barrier they can’t get past, as it deliberately slows down your progress to make your city more of a labour of love. Not to mention we can upgrade each building, so if you are looking to build a metropolis like the trailer shows off, you will need to spend a lot of time doing the basics and collecting cards.

Basic tips

Speaking of doing the basics, it’s time I outlined what they were and how you can thrive in your own Citytopia. One thing to remember before I get into the tips, if you spend money on the in-game currencies you will progress a heck of a lot faster than a free-to-play player. Although these tips apply to anyone, they are written with the free-to-play players in mind.

• Don’t build multiple bread factories. At the start of the game, they give you money and hope. You might take this money and notice that a lot of your houses need bread, therefore, I will make a lot of bread. Well, this is not a good idea long term. Building multiple factories for the same resource at the start of your game is a waste of time, money and labour. It’s a trap that will ensure slow progress and will waste your time or money to build more factories or houses for workers.
• Save your money. This links on to the tip above, you need to save your cash. Yes, over time you will make your money back no matter what you do, but can you afford to make a pittance in the meantime? If you want to fund an empire, you need to avoid building decorations or other pointless items that takes up a lot of space.

• Space is a luxury. When you start the game, you will have more money than space, which is a good thing. You want to expand, but expanding costs a lot of money. Buying a plot of land will cost a good couple thousand coins, and then it will cost even more to place a single building on top. Sometimes when you rank up, you will get more space for free, so try to wait for these opportunities to expand.

• Build multiple resources. This tip links back to the very first tip I gave. Your citizens will want whatever luxury item or resource you have just unlocked. Whether its socks, peanut butter or milk, your citizens will want some. So, you shouldn’t make multiple factories of the same resource at the start of your game. Only build new factories once you have unlocked a new resource.

• Enjoy the wait timers. I don’t mean literally sit there and smile while you wait. I mean put your phone down or leave while they go on. The best option would be to stagger your timers, so while some end, new ones are beginning. Meaning you spend your time between waiting for old timers to end and setting new timers to begin. But eventually the timers get longer and longer and that’s when you should enjoy doing something else in the meantime.

Sam Simmons