CityVille Popular Science Timed Goal: Everything you need to know

Do you like timed goals in CityVille? How about the idea of increasing the payout of your businesses and homes by 100 percent? I thought that might get your attention. It turns out Zynga has combined both of those ideas into one, with a new timed goal, Popular Science. And it will reward you with a Solar Panel, if you earn the top trophy. Before we get ahead of ourselves though, let's take a look at what this new goal requires in the first place.

    * Collect from an Observatory Twice
    * Increase your Population by 5,000
    * Have 10,000 Goods


Now, I don't know about you, but these seem to be the hardest tasks we've seen in a timed goal yet. The Observatory is a Community Building that simply must be built in your town (and as it's been around since February, you might already have one). The population increase is massive, especially considering the amount of room (on average) you'll need to waste with homes to raise your population that much. And if you don't have a storage cap of upwards of 10,000, there's literally no way you could be holding that many Goods at once. Extra Goods storage buildings take up even more space, limiting the amount of other buildings you can construct.

Unless you're one of the veteran or power players that already has the requirements filled for all three of these tasks, you'll at least have a longer time frame--three days--to finish them all for the Gold Trophy. If you can do so, you'll receive just the Solar Panel (no Goods or coins this time), which, as I said above, gives you a 100 percent payout bonus to any buildings you place the Solar Panel next to.

Meanwhile, if you can't finish within three days, your rewards will decrease significantly, with the Silver Trophy rewarding you with 50,000 coins and the Bronze Trophy with 20,000 coins. Now, I already warned you that these tasks were hard, so perhaps now is the best time to tell you that finishing these timed goals is voluntary. There's nothing forcing you to complete them, although you will have to settle with seeing their goal icons in your goal manager until Zynga decides to remove them entirely.

What do you think of this Popular Science timed goal? Do you like CityVille's timed goals in general? Sound off in the comments.

CityVille Pet Show Timed Goal: Everything you need to know

If there's one thing we know about the character Ruth in CityVille, it's that this woman loves her pigeons. That's true to such an extent that she's decided to enter her pigeons into the local pet show. This is done through a new timed goal called "Pet Show" (or, just "Best in Show," if you prefer), and it must be completed in just 24 hours to receive the best prizes. Here's a look at what you'll need to do:

    * Get 12 Pet Shampoos
    * Collect 12 Times from any Zoo enclosure
    * Collect 12 Dubai Shipments


If you have multiple Zoo habitats in your city, just make sure you collect from all of them at once to maximize your points. You can collect from them every few hours, so if you have four habitats (for example), you'll only need to collect from each one three times. While you're waiting, you can send off for Dubai Shipments which take 12 hours to return, and can also gather the bottles of Pet Shampoo, which is accomplished via a general news item posted to your wall.

If you can finish this goal within the first 24 hours, you'll receive the Gold Trophy, 10,000 coins, 3,000 Goods and a Poodle Statue decorative item for your town. If you can't finish within the first day, but finish within 72 hours, you won't receive the Poodle Statue, but you will earn a Silver Tophy, 2,300 coins and 1,200 Goods. Finally, if you finish the goal at any point after the first 72 hours, you'll receive a Bronze Trophy and 1,200 Goods.

Remember, while you are timed once you start the goal, there doesn't appear to be any time limit for when you need to start it. That is, you are only placed on a time limit once you manually start the countdown in your game. Feel free to ignore it entirely until you're truly ready before beginning and you'll still have the full time available to you to finish (and a better chance of actually doing so).

What do you think of the Pet Show Timed Goal? Have you already started it in your game, or are you waiting for a better time before you take on a time-sensitive goal? Sound off in the comments.