Chapter 3: Win Friends and Influence

The Animators and The Architects

There are two teams battling each other over control of the new world. You must join one of the two teams to become either an Architect or an Animator. Winning the weekly Campaigns is all about collaboration, cunning, and strategy.

Adding friends makes it easier to strategize and plan attacks to take over neighborhoods. You have separate chat channels to talk with all your friends or only the friends on your own side. That way, the enemy cannot see what you are planning.

By having friends in the game in different locations, you then have the advantage to jump to different cities through Beacons (for more, see the Navigate section). You can also see where your friends are by using Cloudview, giving you a bird’s eye view of any city.

By logging into Facebook Connect, you can instantly see which of your friends are playing Shadow Cities, and which team they belong to. You can then add them to your friends in Shadow Cities. Only you can see your friends’ real identities through Facebook Connect, and you will not be exposing your friends’ real identities to other players.

To chat with other players in the game, slide open the Comms View from the Main View while holding down your finger on the white arrow button on the right side of the screen.

Team Chat

In Team Chat, you can chat with your Battlegroup teammates. It is a secure comms system where you can devise cunning plans without the enemy finding out.

Cross-Team Chat

In Cross-Team Chat you can chat with the members of you Battlegroup across team lines. This is the perfect place to taunt the enemy in a civilized manner (be nice).

Newsfeed

In Newsfeed, you can post your own status messages to all your friends in Shadow Cities and see your friends’ status messages. Your status posts are shown only to players who you have accepted as friends.

Private Comms

In Private Comms, you can send private messages to all your friends on both sides of the battle, the Animators and the Architects.