CityVille: Land expansions up to 40% off for a limited time

Sounds pretty great right? With land expansions being a hot commodity in CityVille, but also very hard to earn (requiring both an increase in population and gathering plenty of Zoning Permits), you might think that any sale on Land Expansions would be great, right? In theory, I suppose this sale could be considered nice, but not when you take into account that it only changes the actual coin-price of purchasing them.

To be clear, this sale offers up to 40% off land expansions for users, but what exactly determines how many percent you'll save remains to be seen. It makes sense that it could be level based, or could even be determined by how many expansions you've already placed on your land, but the fact of the matter is that some users are simply going to save more than others.

Still, this expansion sale does nothing to change the amount of Zoning Permits you'll need to collect, or the amount of citizens you'll need to add to your town (requiring the building of homes, community buildings or both) before unlocking the ability to purchase them. For instance, in my case, I'm still left with adding over 1,000 citizens to my town, along with collect 33 more permits, only to finally be able to expand for a mere 20% off - 16,000 coins, down from 20,000, if you're keeping track.

So is it worth it? I suppose if you are already able to expand, without any additional work, that saving a few thousand coins might be appreciated, but the average user probably won't be able to make any use of this one. Now, if we suddenly had to collect less Zoning Permits, or add less citizens (even by 20%), I have a feeling far more of us would be willing to pay attention. We'll make sure to let you know if that day ever comes.

Will you try to expand earlier than normal just to save a few coins, or are you disappointed in this sale as well?

CityVille: Finish your Bridge, Dam and more with discounted materials

If you've been putting off building one of the larger structures in CityVille (like the Bridge or Dam, as examples), because you didn't want to gather the required building materials from friends, or simply didn't want to pay the high prices to purchase those materials with City Cash, the team at Zynga is hoping that buy putting these items on sale (well, some of these items anyway), it might be enough to persuade you to open your wallet.

To be specific, a sale is now being held for up to 40% off building materials in the game. The materials are unfortunately limited to a specific set of buildings: the Bridge, Sailboat Hotel, Dam, Mall, Mall 2, Pirate Ship Attraction and Go Kart Attraction, and the rest of the game's many, many buildings are left unaffected. To make matters worse - between the two of us - the sale really isn't that good.

For example, let's say you wanted to finish your Pirate Ship Attraction. This one's building materials still cost 3 City Cash each. Perhaps if that were three City Cash in total for all of a particular ingredient I needed (say, two Ship's Prows or five Overhead Bars), that might be an acceptable price, but in our particular example, we're still looking at six City Cash for the Ship Prows and 15 City Cash for the Overhead Bars. Wouldn't it still be smarter (if not more time consuming) to ask friends for these items instead?

I suppose if you're looking for an easier way of completing these specific buildings, then you'll want to take advantage of this apparently limited time opportunity. Just don't feel any unneeded pressure to purchase building materials; the free way is still available, and doesn't look to be going anywhere anytime soon.

Will you spend City Cash on any of these discounted building materials, or have you already completed the construction on all of these buildings? Let us know in the comments.