Tips, tricks and hacks from Single City’s Block Captains! Acknowledgements A Huge Thank You to Our Block Captains 🫶🏽 This guide was made possible by our incredible Single City Block Captains, who took the time to share their best tips, tricks, strategies, and lessons learned with Citizens old and new! Their advice comes from real experience within the City, and we’re incredibly grateful for the effort, thought, and care they put into helping our newest players get started. Whether you’re looking for guidance on Roomies, gathering, events, PFO, Crews, or general progression, we hope their collective wisdom helps make your journey through Single City a little smoother. HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE Tips are organized by topic so new players can quickly find what they need. The Captains’ original wording has been preserved to keep it real! TOPICS Spoiler: Getting Started & General Progression — Stormrouge — xoLilith — blueberry_xo Spoiler: Roomies: Who to Level & How to Build Them — iViVi — Virus — Stormrouge — BenBurdayim — xoLilith — Andrada — Nyxii How to quickly level your Roomie up: (Obviously) Save up for the Events where you get Rewards for leveling up (Building a better roomie & Shopping Spree) I'd suggest Newbies to focus on leveling up Remi since he is a well all-rounder If you don't have enough xp to level up your strongest roomies / or Remi (reference to point 2) then level up another Roomie so you that you just reach 3 stars. If it says you get 3 stars at 48.000 points then choose a roomie who needs around that much xp. That way you will be able to save a ton of xp for the (maybe) xp to (maybe) level up your strongest roomie then. It will also result in reaching a higher place on the leaderboard. Also I personally do this and it is indeed a quick way. My Remi got strong real fast haha. How to make Remi (or another Roomie) stronger: Give the roomie your best furniture you have (yellow/epic or purple/legendary) I do pay attention to the title of the furniture (however I don't even know myself how smart that is 🤣) e. g. Musician furniture on Remi.... Try to upgrade the roomies furniture every time you can (obviously during the events). Home Decor: Focus on getting pops for Remi (and maybe billie... that's what I do at least) to increase their talents Don't make the same mistake as I did. Players should choose wisely which Roomie to tier up. I'd say keep e. g. other epic roomies then Remi at level 15 to 30 it depends how good those roomies are. Cuz you won't want to be stuck on missing stars when you got all that xp 🫠 – _Ani_ Spoiler: Roomies: Beginner Reference Guide 🏠 Roomies Guide for Beginners Roomie Categories Roomies are divided into four rarities: 🩶 Common (Gray) 💙 Rare (Blue) 🧡 Epic (Orange/Gold) 💜 Legendary (Purple) Generally, the higher the rarity, the stronger the Roomie. ⸻ ⭐ Priority #1: Remi If you’re unsure where to invest your resources, the answer is simple: focus on Remi first. Remi is the most versatile Roomie in the game and is useful in almost every activity, including Attacks, Home Defense, Drama, PFO, Collaborations, and Chad Rallies. Invest your XP and Room Upgrades into Remi before anyone else. For now, I’d recommend ignoring most Common Roomies and the majority of Rare Roomies. You’ll gradually unlock much stronger Roomies that are a much better investment. ⸻ Roomie Skill Categories Different Roomies excel at different activities. 🎭 Drama Roomies These are mainly used for Drama, PFO activities, and attacking Evelyn to spawn Chad in the shop. Some examples include: Remi Viola Samir Billie Henry Morgan Riley Cynthia …and many more depending on which Roomies you’ve unlocked. ❤️ Collaboration (Collab) Roomies These increase the Hearts earned during Collaborations, giving better rewards. Examples include: Common: Sophie Rare: Kimberly, Luna Epic: Emily, Ramona, Tay Legendary: Liam, Imogen, Cherie 🛡️ Home Defense Roomies These provide better defensive stats when protecting your home during Drama and PFO. Some examples include: Best Overall: Remi Sebastian Scotty Kara Nikki Billie And several Legendary Roomies ⚔️ Rad Rival Roomies These are stronger when fighting Rad Rivals. Morgan is the standout choice because she saves energy per hit. You’ll use her more once Rad events become available, so don’t worry about building her immediately. 🌿 Gathering Roomies These are your resource gatherers and become very important as you progress. Examples include: Common: Iris Epic: Zoe, Fern Legendary: Sunny, Opal, Elle, Aimee Specialties: Sunny & Opal – Faster Cash gathering Elle & Aimee – Faster Reputation gathering Iris, Zoe & Fern – Great all-round gatherers for resources, nodes, and loot. 💡 Pro Tip: Check the Roomie Hashtags Every Roomie has hashtags listed under their profile. Tap on each Roomie to see them. These hashtags tell you: What role they specialize in (Drama, Collaboration, Home Defense, Gathering, etc.). Which shops they perform best in (such as Cafe, Vintage, Gym, Arcade, and others). Using a Roomie in their preferred shop gives them better performance, including higher chances of forming colored bolts, along with better attack and defense stats. It’s worth checking these hashtags whenever you unlock a new Roomie. ⸻ Roomie Furniture Furniture also comes in four rarities: 🩶 Common (Gray) 💙 Rare (Blue) 🧡 Epic (Orange/Gold) 💜 Legendary (Purple) As you play daily events and mini-events, you’ll gradually collect better furniture through Roomie Furniture Boxes. During Research Day or Spend Cash events, prioritize upgrading furniture in this order: 💜 Legendary 🧡 Epic 💙 Rare (only if you don’t have enough Epic or Legendary) Avoid investing heavily in Common furniture. Always equip your best furniture on Remi first. ⸻ 💹 Recommended Progression If you’re wondering where to invest your resources, here’s the general recommendation: 1. ⭐ Remi (always your first priority) 2. 🪴 Zoe (to strengthen one of your main gatherers) 3. ❤️ A strong Collaboration Roomie Epic: Ramona or Emily (recommended) Rare: Kimberly or Luna Ultimately, your priorities will depend on which Roomies you’ve unlocked. If you’re ever unsure who to build next, just ask in chat and we’ll be happy to help! — Zzen Roomies Tip 📝 Focus on leveling up one strong attacker and one strong defender first and put all your best furnitures on them ✨ Gatherers 💰🍕 Overall fastest Gatherer: Zoey (at lvl 10 is enough) Second fastest gatherer: Fern (fastest at lvl 40) Bolts/Glues: Zoey, Fern 🔩 Cash: Zoey, Sunny, Opal 💰 Reps: Fern, Aimee, Elle Pizza: Zoey, Iris, Sunny 🍕 Best Places for each Roomie to gather: Zoey: Bookstore (general)Vintage (zone 6/7 bolts/glues) Fern: Gym Aimee: Vintage (general), Arcade (zone 6/7 bolts/glues) Sunny: Bookstore (general), Cafe (zone 6/7 bolts/ glues) Elle: Cafe Opal: Vintage Iris: Gym (general), Bookstore (zone 6/7 bolts/glues) Selena: Gym Collabers 💃🏽🕺🏼 Vintage: Imogen, Henry Arcade: Drago, Ramona Cafe: Anita, Emily, Kimberly Gym: Liam Bookstore: Cherie FYI: Anita eats so much pizza and takes so long to destress. So only use if you have lots of resources Drama on Evelyn 🥊 Best to use: K-Bear Others you can use: Remi, Billie, Samir, Henry Chad Rally 🚌 Best to use: Morgan (reduced energy cost at lvl 30) Others you can use: any of your roomie that has the highest attack power Defenders🛡️ Best Defenders: Sebastian (more powerful if at home), Nerissa Easiest to use and well-rounded: Remi Attackers 🔪 Best for Attacking houses: Viola, Yuting (best when you max all her talents) Best for attacking at Shop: Cynthia, Billie, Samir – _Ani_ Spoiler: Gathering, Nodes & City Shops — iViVi — Stormrouge — BenBurdayim — Moon — xoLilith — blueberry_xo — Nyxii Spoiler: Academy & Research — Quinnsational — BenBurdayim — Moon — _Ani_ — Andrada — Nyxii Spoiler: Home, Furniture & Resource Protection — iViVi — Stormrouge — BenBurdayim — _Ani_ — Andrada — Nyxii Spoiler: Daily Tasks, H2H Contests & Meta Events — iViVi — Stormrouge — Quinnsational — BenBurdayim How Long (10–11 Day) Events Work In Single City Big events (like Heart Full of Song) last around 10–11 days. Inside them, there are daily rotating events that help you earn points, tickets, drinks, and boosts. MAIN DAILY EVENTS TO PAY ATTENTION TO Building a Better Roomie (BBR) Focus on Upgrading/leveling up roomies Don’t waste upgrades/XP outside this event if you can wait Hitting the Town (HTT) Focus on collabs, hustles Works best when you’re active and coordinating Study Hall (SH) Focus on doing research & academic upgrades Good day to push long-term progress Shopping Spree (SS) Focus on spending Gems and leveling up roomies ❗Important tip ❗ Save Gems and XP for this event Gembrace the Moment (GTM) Focuses on using Gems ❗Important tip❗ Save Gems for this event No Time to Waste (NTW) Focuses on speed-ups Don’t burn speed-ups randomly outside this Same Day Delivery (SDD) Focuses on upgrading home level and furniture Best to: Hustle cash Prepare cash before this event starts We help each other time upgrades and spending so free-to-play and low spenders can still progress well. If you’re unsure whether to spend something —> ask in crew chat first — Maya — xoLilith — blueberry_xo Complete daily objectives every day (great way to get resources) Contests (top right corner): Check the daily to-do list (collab, drama, gather, speedups) Every 4 hours, a new head-to-head contest takes place. Save your Gems, XP, cash, and Rep and spend them during the ongoing contests (see below for full list). Place on leaderboard for better prizes. Upgrade correspondingly with the daily H2H schedule for the most rewards possible. Save: Roomie XP/stars for Building A Better Roomie & Shopping Spree Gems for Gembrace The Moment Speed-ups for No Time To Waste Home upgrades or upgrading home furni for Same Day Delivery (can use speed-ups here too if necessary) Expensive research or upgrading roomie furni for Study Hall — Nyxii ━━✧ USUAL META SCHEDULE ✧━━ Building A Better Roomie (less tickets) Public Freak Out Gembrace The Moment AND/OR No Time To Waste Hittin' The Town Same Day Delivery Building A Better Roomie Hittin' The Town OR No Time To Waste Study Hall Shopping Spree Hittin' The Town & No Time To Waste Gembrace The Moment Same Day Delivery Study Hall (no tickets) ━━✧ DAILY H2H CYCLES ✧━━ [each h2h lasts 4 hours total] ♡ SET 1 🏋️♀️ Hot Squats - COLLAB GYM 💸 Treat Yo’self - UG room and furni ☕️The Daily Grind - COLLAB CAFE 🐬The Friendzone - UG roomies, use xp 📚Nerd Alert - COLLAB BOOKSTORE 🎮 Virtual Reality - COLLAB ARCADE ♡ SET 2 👩🏽🎓 Study Hall - Academy Research 👗 Fashion Influencer - COLLAB VINTAGE 🍕 Party Prep - Side hustles 💸👍🏽🍕 🏋️♀️ Hot Squats - COLLAB GYM 💸 Treat Yo’self - UG room and furni ☕️The Daily Grind - COLLAB CAFE ♡ SET 3 🐬The Friendzone - UPGRADE roomies 📚 Nerd Alert - COLLAB BOOKSTORE 🎮 Virtual Reality - COLLAB ARCADE 👩🏽🎓 Study Hall - Academy Research 👗 Fashion Influencer - COLLAB VINTAGE 🍕 Party Prep - Side hustles 💸👍🏽🍕 – iViVi Spoiler: PFO, Drama & Home Defense There is an Event called 24-h Event PFO (Public Freak out) 😤😡 It can happen on every second Friday (I hope I'm right!) Players are basically allowed to do everything in the Event that would normally break the Rules. Everyone gets stars ⭐⭐⭐ for attacking Roomies. No matter if they are Home 🏠 (only first floor 🛡️ can be attacked) or if you have them outside in e.g. a shop 🏪. During this Event it's best to get rid of your oc (overcap) Resources (cash 💵, Pizza 🍕 (this one is not that important tbh) and Reps 🪙) or else they will get stolen 🥷. You can do that by spending them on SC Academy 🎓 (Cash 💵/Reps 🪙) or upgrading your Rooms/Roomie Furniture/Home Furniture (cash 💵). The Pizza 🍕 is only for destressing your Roomies. How to survive during PFO: Evict all your Roomies in your first floor (once you do you might be oc cuz the Roomies protect your Resources as well). This way they players will most likely not attack you because they won't get stars and just attack you to get your oc. Send all your Roomies Home, so they won't get attacked and loose your gathered Resources. Put on a Shield so no one can attack you. But be careful which Shield you use cuz they have different Durations (you can use the channel unknown to set a reminder for a new shield if you choose a shield that doesn't last 24 h). You can not shield up immediately after attacking other players or their home, so please keep that in mind. Of course you can also participate in this Event and get the Stars but I suggest to wait until you have better Roomies or leveled them up so they are not an easy target for others. Crew members can help protect houses (send defense) but beware others will probably rally that house. Strong enough roomies as defenders can get us points during PFO if we win the drama/attack. (Some forget this.) — _Ani_ Spoiler: Crews, Rallies & Teamwork — iViVi — Stormrouge — BenBurdayim — xoLilith Spoiler: Allies — Stormrouge – _Ani_ Spoiler: Resources, Gems, Tokens & Spending — Quinnsational — BenBurdayim Spoiler: Store Freebies & Boxes — xoLilith — blueberry_xo Spoiler: Community & Player Etiquette — xoLilith
