FEEDER CITIES

Here is a tutorial about feeder cities: why and how you should create one, how to manage it, and how to take the best of this change.

TWO CITIES ON THE SAME DEVICE

If you have two different devices to manage your cities, that will be the best, because you will be able to check both the cities at once. This would make the trading between the two cities much faster.

Anyway not all of us has two devices to use, or would be able to use both of them everytime, so it can be good to know how to manage two different cities on one device.

WHAT YOU NEED TO MANAGE 2 DEVICES: LIST
- an iOS or Android Device
- the app "Parallel Space" (Android version: LINK) where you will easily create a perfectly working copy of the app "SimCity BuildIt"
- two facebook accounts who are friend with each other (if you use facebook as login)

THE FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS
If you wanna create a spare facebook account, remember that the social network doesn't like fake accounts, so you should make attention to:
1) Create a believable profile (believable invented name, a separate email, a few pics, some believable things, maybe even one real phone number to retrieve it -which facebook likes very much)
2) Ask a few friends to request friendship to your fake account, and publish some mainstream content, getting one-two likes at least.
3) Remember to befriend your fake profile after it has a few friends already

HOW SHOULD THE CITY BE
After you install copy the app on Parallel Space, you will be able to start to use it and create a brand new city. If you use the following indications, you will get AWESOME results in less than 3 hours.
- Buildings: The city should be very well organized: shops and factories near the trade HQ, polluting buildings in some other place, housing buildings far from them. Maximize a housing building before creating others: it will help you to get the highest population without getting to another level.
- Levels: My favourite level for the feeder city is the level 9, because it helps a lot to maximize the storage of your main city: it will be much easier to find storage items, and you know how much your storage space can affect your gameplay. The population of a level 9 city can be up to 60-70k sims, granting up to 10k simoleons/day of revenue. When you have maxed both your cities, but just then, you should think about bringing your feeder city to level 18-19-20, so you will be able to use it to get war items. Remember that it's not productive to bring your feeder city to our club, because the best is to have active people, since 1 person can't manage two cities in sync. Anyway it's possible to send your feeder to another club, to get war items cheaper and then join and leave Active Exchange.
Anyway this should be done after you have managed to max your storage, because once you get to level 18, in the trading HQ, you will only find sugar :D
- Benefits: the main benefit is storage items: you will be able to get a lot of them! But there are other benefits: first of all you will have another storage that you can use to store the exceeding items, then you will be able to get some more income from your buildings and lastly you can use the feeder city to find some minor items (hammers, shovels, tapes, veggies...) that are harder to find for a bigger city.