New CityVille Quests

Love is in the air and spring is around the corner with new quests in CityVille.

Complete the quests to add a tree house, spring gazebo, and wedding chapel to your city.

Rename Your CityVille City with the New Clerk’s Office

Build a new clerk’s office to rename your city and your businesses.

In order to build a clerk’s office, you need to reach level 12. The building will be located in your inventory and requires 6 energy to build. Once built, you will need to supply the clerk’s office with the following items:

Once you have supplied the clerk’s office by receiving gifts from your friends or by purchasing them with city cash, you can then bring up the renaming menu:

To rename your city, business, or franchise you will need signatures (the amount needed for each is specified in the menu). To start renaming your city click on the “Propose New Name” button across from your city name all the way on top.

This will bring up the pop-up that will allow you select a new name.

In order to change the name 0f your city you will need signatures from your friends; which you can get by clicking the top button and posting the request to your wall, your friends can then click on that request to send you a signature.

*Note: You can post one(1) request to your feed every 4 hours and receive 10 signatures from that request. If you have already posted a request for one name change (city or business) you would have to wait 4 hours to post a request for another one. The “Get Signatures” button will be “grayed out” until 4 hours have passed an you can post another request.

Optionally, you can also purchase signatures with City Cash. One signature will cost 1 City Cash.

Once you have collected all the signatures you need you will see a new button across from your city name in the renaming menu.

Click on “Accept Name” to accept the new name for you city!

Renaming your businesses and franchises follows similar steps.

CityVille Winter Decoration Sale

Winter decorations are now on sale for cool low prices and they have new payout bonuses. Once the sale ends these items will no longer be available. It’s a good opportunity to buy the decorations and store them for next winter.

CityVille Valentine’s Day Decorations Leaving Soon

The Valentine’s Day decorations in CityVille will only be around for a few more days:

New Retail Quests in CityVille

Two new retail quests are available in CityVille. Help Edgar and Ruth shop to open up two new buildings, a department store and TV Terrace.

Build a supermarket, collect five times from a Tofu Burger Joint and collect birdseed to complete the quest.

New Factory for CityVille

There’s a new factory in CityVille.

First build the factory:

Then collect and give supplies such as uniforms, goggles, and more to your neighbors to complete the factory.

Zynga News: The CityVille Game-maker is seeking to raise $500 Million

According to an article in the New York Post today CityVille game-maker Zynga is seeking to raise $500 million. In order to do so it is opening up it’s books to investors and showing an even more profitable company than previously expected. The company is continuing to promote CityVille internationally and after the $500 million in fundraising would be valued at around $10 billion USD. The folks at Zynga certainly know a thing or two about raising money.

Look at Zynga’s book$$
Hot firm worth $10B
By JOSH KOSMAN and GARETT SLOANE
Zynga, the social gaming upstart behind the popular FarmVille, will have plenty of money to play around with.

As part of its efforts to raise $500 million in financing, the San Francisco-based company is giving investors an inside peek at its financials, which reveal it to be a far more profitable company than previously believed.

Zynga expects to generate $1.8 billion in revenue in 2011, reaping $630 million in profit, according to a source who was approached to invest.

The $500 million funding round would value Zynga at around $10 billion, or 16 times its projected 2011 profits.

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