Periodically throughout the game (beginning at level 24) a broom and dustpan will appear on your parks, drastically lowering the surrounding approval ratings. NOTE: Try to build parks between houses for maximum effect. Parks raise the approval rating of houses it's placed between. When this happened, you need to assign one of your workers to that shop by clicking on the shop and clicking "assign worker." This will cause you to lose one worker. When this happens, your shop will radiate negative appeal that affects the surrounding buildings, or houses.
Periodically throughout the game (beginning at level 22), a neon "Help Wanted" sign will appear on your shops (unless you have a commerce center). Each time, the shop will cost more to build but it will bring in more money. You will unlock more shops as the game continues. I just never saw it.Įach shop does the same thing, generate income. Refinery - Oil refineries drastically lower approval ratings but periodically give you checks for anywhere from $20,000 - $78,000!! Note: $78,000 was the highest check I got… It could go higher though.Approval Rating: -15 Affects properties next to it. You won't have to assign them from your own pool of workers and you won't have to worry about your shops lowering your approval rating. Business Center - This takes care of your shop workers.NOTE: Later in the game, having a garden center will stop you from having to clean your parks! Approval Rating: -10 Affects properties next to it. Garden Center - Building a Garden Center allows you to landscape your houses and adds a +5 to your house's rating every time you do it.Recycle Center - Provides the same function as the Lumber Mill in the first game (I guess everyone is going "green" these days!) Approval Rating: -5 Affects properties next to it.This is an important and useful upgrade! (IMHO) Approval Rating: -5 Affects properties next to it. Different: Later in the game (starting at level 19), you can spend $75,000 on "Efficiency Training" to make your workers go faster. Workshop - Same as the first game: this allows you to hire and train workers faster and for less $$.Shops periodically generate revenue (just like banks did) but they can give a LOT more $$ than the banks ever did!.Failure to do these things drastically lowers your approval rating and affects the surrounding building/structures as well. Houses still need periodic repairs (until you unlock the option to inspect them later in the game) and now, the parks you build need cleaning from time to time and your shops will demand another worker from time to time.You can now paint your houses to increase approval.Unfortunately, I never had the chance to use either function but I did find a way to use them to my advantage (more on that later). There are two additional options when buying a house: "Offer Less" and "Low Ball." These options are only available if there is more than one house up for sale or more than one of the SAME type of house for sale.Certain structures you build will also affect the property around it.Shops and Buildings can greatly add to your income but can drastically reduce your overall approval rating.Location appeal has been replaced with "Curb Appeal" (represented as "approval ratings") so now, depending on how you build, any spot you build on has the potential of being a "prime location.".The first game contained only "Houses" and "Buildings." This game also has "Shops" and "Parks".
If you are familiar with the first Build-a-lot game, you will see that the game play is almost identical with a few new changes and some old omissions. I hope these suggestions will help you if you get stuck.
I'm sure there are other ways to play but the fun is figuring it out on your own. Please note that the tips and tricks I put in here are what I did during game play. The first town in this game is all tutorial, with many tutorials that appear as the game continues so this guide will not cover those aspects.
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