Yet again, another of the starter-businesses inCityVille has been given the "upgrading" treatment, as you can now upgrade your Coffee Shop from its current, Level 1, state to Levels 2 and 3 - with a little work, of course. To start the upgrade process, you'll first need to collect the Coffee Shop's profits and then restock it with goods as normal.

From there, you can access the actual upgrade menu, where you'll see that you need to earn 50 points to upgrade from Level 1 to Level 2. You can either earn your own points slowly by simply repeatedly stocking and collecting from the Coffee Shop, you can also speed up the upgrade process by asking your friends to help you. Each friend that helps you earns you two additional points. At Level 2, your Coffee Shop will move to requiring 110 Goods, and supplying 410 coins in profit, which is a boost over the original stats of 100 Goods and 320 coins. 

The same process can be completed all over again to reach Level 3, with your Coffee Shop's final stats being 640 coins earned for every 150 Goods you pour into it. Remember, you can boost your profits even more with bonus payout decorations, so make sure to place this business in a great place to really rack up the coins!

CityVille and Zynga have reworked the Quest or Mission pop ups to show you what reward you will receive for completing a Mission! You can see below that if I was to complete the Over The River Mission, that I would receive 22 XP. This is a great new feature to see just what the reward will be for all of our hard work!

CityVille and Zynga have released a new Community Building called the Lifeguard Station! This new Coin building requires level 35 and will cost you 35,000 coins.

Once purchased and built it will allow for 900 population! Even though we don’t have any sand yet, this will be a great addition to just about ANY city.

To celebrate the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, Zynga has released a series of quests in CityVille that will introduce you to a series of new businesses, among other things. The first quest in this series is called "Brain Freeze," and it will help you unlock the Ice Cream Parlor business. Here's what you'll need to do to unlock it:

Collect from City Hall 2 Times
Have 2 Strawberry Collection Items
Get 3 Baseball Caps

When you complete this quest, you will unlock access to purchasing an Ice Cream Parlor from the store for just 2,200 coins. That's not a bad price, all things considered.

Next comes the Four Scoops of Freedom quest:

Build and Supply Ice Cream Parlor
Collect from Ice Cream Parlor 5 Times
Harvest 45 Watermelon

Watermelon take four hours to grow, so you'll plenty of time for your Ice Cream Parlor to run out of goods five times so you can resupply it. Each resupply costs 70 Goods. Finishing this quest gives you the Liberty Bell item.

Quest number three is called Red, White & BBQ and it asks you to deal with one older business in particular.

Collect from Burger Joint 4 Times
Send 30 Tour Buses to Burger Joints
Get 10 Packages of Hot Dogs
You'll need to ask your friends for help with the Hot Dog portion of this goal, while simply visiting friends and clicking on their Burger Joints will add up to your tally of 30 tour buses in total. Remember, if you don't have enough friends to add up to 30 Burger Joints, just come back the next day and repeat the process until you do have enough. For your efforts here, you'll unlock the Fireworks Tent, another business, but this one costing City Cash.

Finally, you'll come to the quest called Light the Fuse, which deals with fireworks and a bit of fireworks safety.

Collect from Emergency Clinic(s) 5 Times
Supply a Fireworks Shop 10 Times
Get 5 Boxes of Sparklers

Don't panic here players. You don't need to build or supply a Fireworks Tent in your city (a new business that costs City Cash to place); rather, you'll need to supply the Fireworks Shop, released back in the Lunar New Year celebration, so your City Cash is safe. Finishing this goal unlocks yet another business to you: the Barbeque Restaurant, that costs just 2,500 coins to build from the store. Of course, as this is the end of the quest line, you don't technically have to build one, but the cost is fairly low if you do wish to.

All told, these quests don't really seem to be too difficult, but perhaps more time consuming in the case of supplying the same business 10 times. Just remember, if you only supply that one business, and leave the rest of your businesses ready to be cashed out, all of your citizens will clamor for this one location, and you can complete such tasks much more quickly. Happy July 4th!

Have you ever accidentally forgot to come back to your CityVille town in time to harvest your crops, only to return to a withered field of strawberries or pumpkins? Don't worry, we've done it too. In the future though, this won't be as big of an issue, that is, if you're willing to pay City Cash to rectify the error.

The next time you have withered crops on your land, and you click on a square to remove them, you'll first be given a chance to "instantly unwither" those crops by paying Farm Cash. Similarly, if you've ever let supplies on your Cargo Ships spoil, you can "refresh" those Goods with City Cash as well.

Just as this system works in FarmVille, the more crops or Cargo Ship goods you've allowed to wither/spoil, the more City Cash it will cost to revive them. And actually, it's a fairly expensive number. For example, to unwither 17 crops, I was told the price would be 39 City Cash. That's a fairly huge number on its own, but can you imagine how expensive it would have been had I let even more crops wither? What if there were 50 withered crops? I shutter at the thought.

So why would we bother with reviving crops, if it costs this much? I suppose this would save you from having to wait for crops to grow all over again, should you have needed them for a quest or the like, but at that point, whether or not this high price of revival is really worth it would be up to you.

What do you think? Will you spend City Cash to revive crops or unspoil Cargo Ships supplies? Would you do so if it didn't cost as much? Let us know in the comments. 

If you're planning on spending any time indoors over this upcoming Fourth of July holiday weekend, Zynga hopes that you'll spend some of that time playing CityVille, as they have released a whole set of themed items that scream of backyard barbecues and fireworks celebrations. 
There are two new businesses to purchase for coins (that is, once you unlock them by completing the accompanying 4th of July goals): an Ice Cream Parlor for 2,200 coins and a Barbecue Restaurant for 2,500 coins. The Ice Cream Parlor will give your citizens a chance to buy some sweet treats, so long as you supply it with 70 Goods. You'll earn 308 coins in return. As for the Barbecue Restaurant, you'll need to stock the business with 75 Goods (probably napkins) to receive a 338 coin payout in return.

If you have some City Cash to spare, you can purchase a third business - the Fireworks Tent - for 30 City Cash. This one requires a whopping 200 Goods to open, but you'll receive 920 coins as profit in return. 

For new decorations, you can purchase a Bean Bag Toss for 10 City Cash (offers a 6% bonus payout), a Horseshoe Pit for 15 City Cash (9% bonus payout), a Barbecue for 1,000 coins (4% bonus payout) or an American Flag for 20 coins (2% bonus payout). There are even three different flower patches that come in the expected colors: red, white, and blue. A patch of each single color costs just 50 coins, with each patch offering a single 1% in bonus to surrounding buildings. 

Finally, a new home comes in the form of the Boat Driveway House. While this home has a funny name, it basically just means that you're purchasing a house that happens to have a boat parked in the driveway. You can purchase a single Boat Driveway House for 25,000 coins. It starts with 150 citizens in population, and can be expanded to 250 citizens over time.

All told, it's great to see so many items released for coins, when the game seemed to have taken a turn for the worse in that respect over the past few weeks. I, for one, will be glad to see this sort of balance return in the future.

If you're in need of instant goods in CityVille, you now have an easy option for growing new goods quickly -- that is, if you're willing to fork out the cash. The Apple Pie crop was released today, and for the hefty price of 4 City Cash, you can grow yourself a delicious meal in no time at all.



The Apple Pie crop makes 115 goods and grows instantly. No waiting whatsoever -- your crop is ready to be harvested as quickly as you plant it. However, 4 City Cash doesn't come cheap. I'm not too sure that I will ever be in the need of extra goods so bad that I cannot wait for a train delivery. You never know though, there could be someone who wants immediate gratification.

The Apple Pie crop is only available for the next 4 days, so it will be disappearing pretty soon after the 4th of July weekend.

Would you pay real money for a crop in CityVille, or do you think it's ridiculous? Do tell!

Quite a bummer, huh? What the CityVille Lifeguard Station does do, however, is still fairly impressive, as this one little building will allow you to add up to 900 more citizens to your city. For the price of 35,000 coins (which is actually fairly cheap, if you think about how many items have been release for City Cash lately), you’ll get a 4×4 square building that takes a whopping 13 hits to construct.

Once the frame is built, you’ll need to ask your friends to help you staff this building in a big way. You’ll need to fill 10 positions, either by paying 5 City Cash for each position to be filled (Samantha will take the employee’s space), or by asking your friends to come work in the building by sending them individual “gift” requests.

Again, once the building is done, you’ll have the ability to add up to 900 more citizens to your town, and as expanding now requires so many citizens, you can use all of the allowance that you can get, so get to building! Oh, and feel free to hum the Baywatch theme to yourself as you build it. I won’t tell.