CityVille City Symphony: Everything you need to know

A new music and arts theme has launched in CityVille, bringing with it two new community buildings, one of which is the City Symphony. This one is special, however, as it comes with goal to complete as well, called "Encore Performance." You'll need to be at least Level 40 to access to this goal, and will then see the specific goal icon appear at the left side of your screen at that point. However, all this goal requires is that you simply place the building in your town. At that point, you'll receive 20,000 coins.

You'll have just 11 days to place the City Symphony into your town, but it isn't as simple as just placing it; you'll need to build the structure too. The building's frame takes 12 whacks, or 12 energy to build. It doesn't have too large of a base, but if you do decide to delete it from your town, you'll be able to find it again in your inventory. You'll lose all progress with building it if you do so, however, so keep that in mind.

Once the frame is built, you'll need to acquire various music-themed building materials with the help of friends. You'll need:

    6 Timpani
    6 Trumpets
    6 French Horns
    6 Harps
    6 Cellos


The Cello, Timpani and French Horns are earned through general wall posts asking all of your neighbors for help, while the other two ingredients are earned through specific requests sent to individual friends. Once you complete this community building's construction, you'll see that your maximum population cap has risen by 11,250 citizens. That's a massive boost, but even if it wasn't, the awesome, modern design of this building was more than enough incentive for me to want to complete one in my town.

How about you? Will you build the City Symphony building for the boost in population, or just because the building looks so cool?

CityVille Prodigy Studios: Everything you need to know

Like the City Symphony Community Building that came before it, another new arts and music themed building has launched along with a goal in CityVille this week: The Prodigy Studios building. Where the City Symphony was a theater for performing music, this new building is a recording studio for musical acts. It works in mostly the same way as the City Symphony building, however, and comes with its own goal to complete.

The goal requires you to just place the Prodigy Studios building into your town, and you'll receive 20,000 coins for doing so. At that point, you'll need to spend 11 energy to build the base into the frame. Keep in mind that if you delete this building from your town before it's completely built, it will lose all of its building progress and will go into your inventory for storage. That is, if you decide to pull it back out at a later date, you'll have to start all over from scratch.

After you've spent the 11 energy on the frame, you'll finish this Prodigy Studio's construction by inviting your friends to be on staff within it. You'll need 12 friends in total (or 12 Bonus Crew) to complete the job here, and will then have a Community Building that raises your maximum population cap by 5,000 citizens. That may not be as impressive a figure as that for the City Symphony, but keep in mind that you need to be level 40 to unlock that building, and only level 25 here.

Overall, this building isn't very large, but it's also not very visually impressive either. If you need a large population cap boost from a single building, then by all means build one, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of users skipped it instead...

What do you think of this Prodigy Studios Community Building in CityVille? Will you build one in your town, or is your population cap already large enough to last you for quite some time?