A new concept to play on iOS powered device wherein you will play as Junior Parking Officer with your scooter while enforcing strict parking laws. Of course you will see outlaws and that is your task to do, you need to ticket and tow them to earn cash which you can spend for the development of your city. Actually you are able to use all the dirty tricks in the book to get the job done. You can also get help from other co-works such as Bert the tow-truck driver and also with your mentor, Old Betty.
But that is not as simple as that, you need to be aware with your primary challenge, the crooked mobster Sly Slawinski. He will create a legion of parking offenders who won’t pay their parking tickets unless you catch them in the act. So you need to track them and slap them with parking boot so they can’t escape you. To help you dealing with Sly and play the game effectively, we decided to share guides and tips for playing Meter Maid City! below:
1. Drive carefully. Law excuse no one and yes you are law enforcer but you still need to obey law while enforcing it with other citizens. So you must drive carefully and watch for cops as every time you crash into another car, you will lose your speed and increase your notoriety. You will see that subsequent crashes will increase your chances of the cops being alerted to your reckless driving. Keep in mind that once you start seeing your supervisor at the top of the screen, this is to warn you on how you play the game so you need to be more careful. And if happens that you still crash into one more car, cops will begin to pursuit you. If a cop catches you, it will end your shift. There is also circumstances where cops will even chase you out their own interest and pushing an offense on you about your speed. If happens that cop is on your tail, a high speed scooter will help you a lot and just go as fast as you can while trying to lose them using other cars.
2. Track down traffic offenders. Thanks to parking boots as you can track down serial parking offenders. This is a basic tool to capture serial parking offenders, as this is a kind of offender who hasn’t paid any of their tickets. So definitely if you can manage to make them pay back, you will learn lots of points from them. The trick here is to rely on a number of things especially with your Parking Boots. You can put a parking boot on a car to prevent it from escaping which serial offenders will likely do once you’re in their vicinity. You can open up your DMV database by tapping the button located at the bottom left and switch the category to unpaid. You will see cars listed here marked with a star meaning they are serial parking offenders and you can opt to track them. When they are tracked, they will show up in-game with an orange highlight and that is your key to capture them again for a better pay back.
3. Reach the top speed for bonus. If you don’t have threat with cops and can reach the top of your speed without messing other vehicles, you can kick it into overdrive for bonus points. As you reach the maximum speed, you will start earning bonus points. Upon performing certain actions, it will add points to your bonus counter at the top left. If you pull of another feat withing a certain time limit, it will reset the combo meter and you can keep earning points. These points will be based on your action such as passing a car without crashing at the last moment, Ticketing a car in general and reaching the top speed.
4. Play dynamically. When you are catching law offenders you will notice that playing dynamically will do the job. You can get into a practice of changing your route manually. This can be change by tapping on the grid button located at the bottom left corner of your screen. You can drag your position around the map to lock in your designated route. Actually if you don’t change it manually, the game will automatically send a route for you. The consequence here is that the game tends to loop you around the same block several times and I think that is not effective as you need to spend time for nothing. So it is better to change your route manually and play and like you are capturing some offenders in real life. Pattern will make them aware of your presence, dynamic is the key for effective law enforcing.
5. Build your structure wisely. In Meter Maid City! you don’t need only to catch outlaws but you can build your city. So keep in mind that based on what you build, timed parking may appear. As for recommendation, you can go for building a shopping mall which has timed parking. This is actually more effective in terms of playing the game aggressively. Though timed parking is more troublesome compare to metered parking. Once you unlocked this game feature, bring time-tinted tickets to your customer. You will see these tickets corresponds with the time as for instance, when 15 minutes have passed, the ticket will turn yellow. Actually these tickets come in a small icon so you really need to be aware on this stuff. Upon reaching 30 minutes, you will see it turning to red. Based on where the car is parked, you need to ticket appropriately. It is not only about difficulties but actually you are able to earn more cash from timed parking features since motorist need to comply with the time and you can collect money from them based on time. The only thing to make it easier for you is when you start to place time-tinted tickets on, you should plan your route so that you come back around either 15 or 30 minutes in-game time. Definitely if you can’t manage to return on the said time and make them wait too long, the cars will leave and of course you don’t want that to happen.
6. Use hobos with your advantage. If you know that you will deal with something difficult to capture, you can offer a small amount of money to a random hobos which will patrol a block for you. If happens that you see a tracked offender parks in their block, they are able to notify you via alert at the top of your screen. You can also build a school so you are able to hire a girl scouts which more effective to work out as your aid.