After trying out a bunch of mostly Zynga stuff recently on the social realm of games, I was actually surprised by how well someone else is handling & improving the format of the social town/farm game-thing. Sure both the Farmville/Castleville/ect. & Sim City Social have the introductory quests to get you to filling out the game world, stuff to buy with in game money or real money as well as inviting friends. What I find that aside from capturing a good feel to making a simple Sim City game is that the rather new & different features thrown in with the number of interactions you can do on each type of location (performing a general action & upgrades or quest related actions for chances at collectibles used in upgrades), taking your money/materials made in the game and converting them to the other type but also instead of limiting your actions with friends the game has a ton of good or evil interactions done with friends and these are limited only by the energy pool (and you get separate collectible items & fame from visiting friends over your own city). It's rather interesting that you can build up a friendship or a rivalry with friends & all you can do with the game so while waiting on the new Sim City game (as well as trying out something else other than Zynga games), it's free & recommended to at least look at a bit more to those that are interested as they seem to be on the right track with this social game.

edit-yes while I think it's slightly better than other social games it is just that & will try to make sure ti only spams my page as much as possible

I think this is the only social game I can really get into. I just started to play it the other day and I am really enjoying it so far. I just hope it doesn't totally fill my wall with posts and updates!