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CityVille guide to building headquarters and franchises

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CityVille is the fastest growing Facebook time of all time, the newest release by Zynga, the creator of FarmVille and FrontierVille. It's a fun city-building game where you build houses, farm just like in FarmVille in order to earn goods, build businesses which you can supply goods to and make money from, and ship goods to and from your friends via boats or trains. One of the biggest, most unique features in the game, though, is turning your business into a franchise. By doing this, you can place your own variety of business in your friends' cities, supply your various businesses via your franchise headquarters, and make large amounts of money. In fact, franchising might very well be your single biggest tool in CityVille for making a whole lot of money. So how do you franchise? What are some tips to make the best of it? Read on for tips on how to build a mega conglomerate and get rich.

To build a franchise in someone else's city, first, you need to unlock the ability to build a franchise by completing a set of missions. However, you accomplish this very very early in the game, so I don't think anything needs to be written about this. 

After that, you need to have a friend who has an available empty plot (or more than one empty plot) so that you can build a franchise on it. Click on the empty plot when you're in their town, and choose what business you want to build there. You will be prompted by the game to build one of your franchises there. 

After you build your first franchise, you'll be prompted to build a headquarters. You don't need to build it next to a street, and it will be unaffected by any nearby decorations, so it doesn't really matter where you build it. Your headquarters will be used to supply your franchises in friends' cities and collect bonuses. Each franchise will cost half as much to supply as your hometown version of the franchise does (for example, a coffee shop in your town costs 100 goods to supply, and your coffee franchise in your friend's town costs 50 goods to supply)

To make more and more money off of your franchise, keep expanding into more and more friends' cities. To find more friends whose cities you can expand to, simply keep adding more and more people who play CityVille. The more you add, the higher your chances of finding someone with an empty plot of land that they can spare for you.

Allow people to build franchises in your city as well. Build more and more empty plots of land in order to do this. The more empty plots you build and franchises you allow, the higher the chance that your friends will return the favor for you.

The more of the same type of franchise you build in your friends' cities, the taller your headquarters building will grow. You can build absolutely MASSIVE skyscrapers by building mega-franchises, ESPECIALLY building a Tower Eats business franchise (however, this requires a LOT of money to do. But if you want a 100-story building, do this.)

Work on building up your franchises as your first priority. Complete missions that have to do with leveling up your franchise and building your franchise. This is what will really get you far in CityVille.

Got more tips and tricks? Post them in the comment box!

dallas93444 17 months ago

Thanks for sharing.

Ange 17 months ago

Why does my franchise only have 1 star next to it. How do you get more stars.

Oziris 17 months ago

I have alredy placed few buisnises at my neighbors city but i can't build my franchise headquarters. Why can't? I don't get it. If someone knows why, I would appreciate it if you could reply on my question.

Ty and have fun at playing the game.

prateek 17 months ago

i've got 3 franchisees....bt i want to change one of the three...can i do it..?? n how..??

Oziris 17 months ago

I think you must ask your friend to delet your current franchise in his town and then he must put an empty lot again for your new franchise.

ericson 17 months ago

After i build more than 5 francishes,then,where the HQ building? how to build it?

RO 17 months ago

I too have built franchises on my friend's lot but I cant or dont see any headquarters on my inventory. How come?

Canan 17 months ago

I have to put a new plot but it says that I have maximum number of franchise?

How should I reach the goal?

:(

Boss 17 months ago

I cant build HQ :(

humanbean 17 months ago

how do you build an HQ??

me 17 months ago

ive placed 2 different businesses on someones land but only have 1 HQ,anyone know why?

Jolo 17 months ago

I have build some franchisess to my neighbors but to build a buildings?

Someone 17 months ago

You can't build your franchise until your friends accept the building you've placed on their land. If you place one on and they deny it, it doesn't count towards your franchise HQ building.

Anon 17 months ago

anyone knows how to change a current franchise?

Mat VanSickle 17 months ago

How do you place an empty lot in your city? I need it for one of my quests.

Plex 17 months ago

^

Go to build, and I think it should be on the "business" option.

Question: how do you get more stars on these franchises??

Newby 16 months ago

I started to build my coffee HQ but ran out of energy at build 5. Now i have gone back into the game and my semi-built coffee hq is gone and only "scafolding" is around a vacant plot. I cant move,remove or put anything else over the top if it. Anyone tell me ehat happened?

redrix 16 months ago

hey bro, i have a problem my second hq isnt showing up i already franchise 2 kinds of stores,1st coffee shop which means the first hq appears but the bakery doesnt show even i already franchise 5 of them to my neighbors. pls tell me what happened? its very frustating im already level 20 now i only have 1 hq.. T_T tls help me...

Clovia 16 months ago

I’m trying to open empty lots but it said “you’ve reach the maximum number of franchise for your city” What can I do?

Clovia 16 months ago

I’m trying to open empty lots but it said “you’ve reach the maximum number of franchise for your city” What can I do?

answer 16 months ago

cant open franchise hq untill you do the mission that requires you to open a store in samville then the hq will b in inventory also you need more ffriends to open more empty lots

nan 16 months ago

i do have the same problem. i do have only 1 hq building, even though i have franchised 4 different kinds of business and 10 stores at my neighbors'. i'm now level 32 and very embarrassed to have only 1 hq building.. :(

anyways, you can only place 20 lots in your city. if you want to place more lots, you have to delete the ones that you already have first.

have a blessed day you guys!!!

reiz 16 months ago

i have 8 neighbour business on my land only but it said reached max franchise. I delete 1 by 1 and refresh..until 5th franchise i delete..i can put 1 empty slot again.but after that it said reached max franchise again. I end up just having 4 franchise max on my city. Help !!!

woody 16 months ago

i'm having the same problem tonight, i've deleted about 15 franchises because i thought in all the empty lot placing i gunked up the game some how and i'm just trying to make room for a tower eats franchise. but it still won't let me build a lot, granted i'm not down to 4, but i've read you granted 26. i hope this stays true and it's just a short glitch problem

AbCdE 16 months ago

How do you build franchise on neibhour's land?

Fi 16 months ago

Hi too ran out of energy building a HQ and now when I go back in, I only have scaffolding in a square which I can't move, delete or build on. Anyone have a cure for this? pls help.

Mike 16 months ago

I have a Bicycle shop franchise and the Seafood franchise, but I only have the Bicycle HQ.. my fiancee accepted my seafood franchise, so I don't understand why I've not gotten the HQ for it. It's been a couple of days now.

Anyone know why this happens?

zaheen 16 months ago

how a hq can build???

Dave 16 months ago

hq will be in your inventory... look there.

Mike 16 months ago

I have no HQ in my inventory. It's really bizarre, I think I may be bugged.

Kate 16 months ago

I have the same problem. I have bakery, bicycle shop and handbag store franchises and my friends accepted them but i have only bakery and bicycle HQ. and i havent them in inventory. My brother plays cityville on the same computer and he doesnt have problems.

uzee 16 months ago

hi plz tell me hw can i get a hq in my inventory, i have occupied all the empty lots in frndz cities but no hq plz tell me

piet 16 months ago

Can't move my city to the right

Mike 16 months ago

I played CityVille for about 3 weeks and I reached level 33. I wrote a tips, tricks and hints guide you can find my clicking on my name.

damagex 16 months ago

I also found this great cityville guide: http://hubpages.com/hub/Cityville-Secrets

sandhya 16 months ago

I have made 1 HQ so far.Am at 24th level and now am unable to place an empty slot for building a franchise.It shows a message like "you have reached maximum franchises for your city".what should I do for that???

boo 16 months ago

I have a tower eats HQ! Its soooooooooooooooooooo cool!

poo 16 months ago

i have 7 HQ'S

mike 15 months ago

i need some help michael vandale

Molly 15 months ago

I deleted a franchise that my friend had built in my city so that I could put another empty lot in it's place but when I went to place it it still said Reached Max. Franchise. What do I have to do to be able to place an empty lot I don't want to delete anything else unless I am sure it willl work.

Kirk Conway 15 months ago

good hub thanks for the tips

karen thompson 15 months ago

I do not understand why anybody would want their Franchise head quaters.... they do not add storage and take up valuble space.... and can hide things when they start growing if you are not carefull.... you can always access your franchises, the game lets you know by adding the icon on the left of the screen and you can always check them in the inventory/collections tab

...... just my thoughts, some people are having problems with them, some may not know you do not need to build them

Thanks

marked 14 months ago

i have 3 business franchise but i only got 1 HQ and when i view my hq i can see my 3 business franchise there. but those 3 are different business. how is that???

samridhi21 14 months ago

how to build a hq?

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ruth 9 months ago

how do i get my hq remodeling?

tremmors48 8 months ago

I have place businesses in neighbors town; however, I never have had the option to create a franchise, nor is one in my inventory box. Can you tell me what I should do?

Also, how do you change the type of business you would like to place in a neighbors town? I only have one option, which is a coffee shop; however, I have several type of businesses that I have purchased and have in my city. Please help

sara 7 months ago

how can i build HQ building?????

Liz 7 months ago

I find no point to the headquarters.. I don't like the way they look and don't care about having lots of franchises.. is there a point I missed?

Liz 7 months ago

I find no point to the headquarters.. I don't like the way they look and don't care about having lots of franchises.. is there a point I missed?

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shonishoni 7 months ago

how i can build hq

snoby 7 months ago

i do not no how 2 bild a HQ i have 14 difren bisneses in my frends city's but how to bild HQ i do not no

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Darlynn 4 months ago

Once you have a franchise in a friends' city, you will find the HQ building in your inventory. I find no point in building the HQ building. It takes up too much space and you can still operate your franchises just as fine without these huge buildings. I think they are just for looks.

Farabinth 4 months ago

i cant accept any of the citivillie requests.and i am not able to play it.when accept any request 'the connection was reset'this is shown.please help

clyde 3 months ago

i really really dont get it.......even though i builded many and many franchises at my neighbors city,,,,i could not get any head quarters.but my friends cities even they are only starters they got franchises.....idont get it.....pls help me.

jake 2 months ago

how can you change the franchise you have now?

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