Pocket City Free is a brilliant system and administration game in all regards. It has a few distinctive realistic modes so it can run easily on a wide range of cell phones. What’s more, best of all, there is anything but a solitary in-application buy. Build the best SimCity Style city.
This selection of tips will help you build a city your digital citizens will be proud to call home. In general, these are pretty simple things that won't be obvious at first. Some of them won't be available as options immediately or they won't be covered in the tutorial, so knowing about them ahead of time will give you an edge when you start building your city.It's important to note that these tips are based on the completely free version of Pocket City, which is limited in a few ways. So if you're playing the paid version of the game, some of these tips may not apply to you.
Speaking of the tutorial.This is going to seem like some really odd advice, but do the tutorial, then start a new city. While the tutorial is helpful, it dictates the flow of your city from the start - you'll be directed to make building decisions that you probably wouldn't follow if you were planning ahead. These are things you'll either have to live with or tear down later in the process, neither of which is appealing when trying to build the best possible city. The Perfect City LayoutWhen you start out in Pocket City you have access to two low-level primary resources, electricity and water - both required to keep homes and business running.Collecting resources like power and water comes at a cost of both money and space. While this won't be much of a concern at first with the entry-level power plant and water tower, you'll eventually have access to better structures that provide power and water to a wider area.In opting to upgrade these structures, you'll lose a few buildings in the immediate area around the resource building you choose to upgrade - unless there's already free space. Low-level resource buildings take up one square space on the map while higher levels take up a four-square space.If you plan on upgrading later on, it would be wise to decide in the early stages of building where you plan on making these upgrades and leave enough space around them to do so.Fire departments, hospitals, and police stations take up at least four lots to start but retain their size when upgraded.
Banks only take up one slot and don't take up any more space when upgraded.Balance is key.To effectively build your city, you'll want to pay attention to the three primary 'zones' used in the game: residential, commercial, and industrial. Keeping these well balanced is the key to increasing your population without destroying your city budget.There are two things to keep in mind when handling your zone balance.
The first is which of the three zones you need to see growth at any particular moment in order to attract new citizens. This can easily be tracked by looking at the little graph next to your XP bar on the upper right hand of the screen. (The graph can be made bigger by tapping it.)Each of the bars represents one of the three primary zones: green for residential, blue for commercial, and orange for industrial. When one of the bars has color on it, it means you need need to add more buildings of that zone type.
Generally, the bars will always have some color in them, because you always want to add more buildings, but the graph will give you a good idea of which kind you need to add the most of.The other thing to pay attention to is how your zones are distributed. No one likes to travel a long distance to go to work or do a little shopping - or do anything recreational. Sure, some things require some extra time as dictated by geography - you can't move the rivers or mountains. But, you can make sure your citizens have reasonable access to everything else.Luckily, it's easy to keep track of everything from your zone layout to how well your resources and services are distributed across the city using the 'view' button in the lower left-hand corner of your screen. You can even get a look at how your road system is doing.Ah yes, roads.As with most city building sims, transportation management is important.
Starting out, it's not terribly difficult to manage. Get used to checking your traffic view every so often.