New Fansite Needed

[Ocram's Razr 964]

This fansite is primarily for SimCity 4 and has connections that would cause it to be in jeapordy if certain discussions of "hypothetical situations" and "workarounds" are made. I think that there should be a new fansite free of thje hegemony of EA, Monte Cristo (now dead, but successor might be issue), CitiesXS, and of course Simtropolis.

This thread is for discussing the creation of a new site, nothing more. I do not want to see this thread locked or deleted.

If none of you want to make a new site, I suggest using my friend's site (which I am the Global Moderator): PlanetRandom.FreeForums.org

Rules are anything goes except pornography, overt malice/rudeness to others, and actual full-blown piracy. Permission is granted for anything short of but still close to those issues on a case-by-case issue. Anything can be discussed as long as there are no direct illegal links (links to pages with any other links are still fine) or posting of bad content (images and uploads). New threads can be made but if the staff find the material against the rules, we will lock or delete the threads. Threads with under 5 posts are deleted after a month. Necromancy is encouraged (instead of making new threads repeating the same thing).

[Asheroo 53]

It's not really going to help to be honest. There will still be people discussing MC and EA, it's all part of discussing Cities XL. People should just learn to move on from these events and either like the game and talk about it, or hate it and ignore all fan sites. Yes, all opinions are opened, but there's no point in being on a "fan site" if you're not a fan. That's what those sites are exactly for. However, here at ST we've had quite a variety, and it's really open, more open than a real fan site.

Anyway, we can't just keep making all these fan sites, they're all going to be quite similar, and there will still be talks of EA and MC. I guess the moderators at the current fan sites can make some restrictions. I'll have a talk with the other moderators over at CXS on this, but there's not much activity in the English forums as we wish for. But, if things still go on and there are still talks of MC and EA, just simply ignore it, even make a new thread on some CXL aspect or concept you like, then you should have a thread related to what you want to talk about and free from talk about MC or EA, and any off-topic posts can be reported and deleted.

Overall, it's really not necessary to create another fan site. (Remember, we have been having talks about how we dislike the spreading out of the mods across the already numerous websites)

[Jesse Swiss 6]

i like simtropolis not a different website

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I am suggesting a site that would not lock a thread that was locked today. I did not post in that thread nor do I plan on breaking any rules here. But I post on forums with different rules and I make posts that cannot be posted on Simtropolis.

[jeremy12 0]

i am starting to like http://www.generation-city.com/citiesxl/ I just wish they would make their tool open source so i can submit code changes to them that would make their really good tool a perfect tool

[mr-tom 2]

Originally posted by: Ilikeseattle

This fansite is primarily for SimCity 4 and has connections that would cause it to be in jeapordy if certain discussions of "hypothetical situations" and "workarounds" are made. I think that there should be a new fansite free of thje hegemony of EA, Monte Cristo (now dead, but successor might be issue), CitiesXS, and of course Simtropolis.

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I think there are already enough CXL fan sites and I can only think of 2 that have achieved critical mass - Simtropolis and the German section of CitiesXS.

Since my German isn't up to scratch, I'll be staying here. 

If your motivation for raising this issue is the locking of the activation servers thread, then that's something I've been in touch with the mods about and whilst they can't risk a public discussion of it, they've reassured me that they're having an internal discussion about what to do if the servers do go down.

This is probably the only time ever (in sim terms) that such a discussion has had any degree of legitimacy, but to be honest, I think that creating a new site for the sake of a single thread is unnecessary.

I think we need to wait patiently for now and devote our energies to our new license to mod the game.  There's more than enough scope for fun there for the time being.

(edit) The fact that Dirk gave the go ahead for modding is no small thing and proves that they do listen.

(second edit) If you do want to continue the activation discussion then CXS may be the place if Asheroo can swing that, but please not here as the mods were very serious about yesterday being their only warning.

[Asheroo 53]

I'd give it the go, however, I believe that topic should be locked as people started mentioning about cracks. By my belief, it's ok to talk about the activation server and trying to find a solution that lets players who have brought the game get access and still keep out the pirates, but the minute cracks are mentioned that's it (but I would delete/edit the post rather than lock the whole thread).

[Stef42 0]

Simtropolis should remain the 'leading fan site' for Cities XL. Else, it won't be organised anymore, ending up with a wildgrowth of fan sites.

Which in the end only have the same things as others....

[GlobexCo 33]

Simtropolis is a big site... the CXL community here is bigger than other little fan sites.

Unfortunately the most productive modding community isn't here - and that's why I want to create a new one here!

Creating new websites can't help a lot...

An archive of mods can be helpful (we can use Google Code), but not new forums.

[Livin in Sim 83]

Hello, everyone,

Regarding the locked thread, I should have mentioned it wasn't my intention to seem coldhearted to the plight of players if the servers go down.  That is a bit worrisome.  But surely the new company would be shooting themselves in the foot not to create at least a one time fix for that?  I am not a modder, but don't they have to be the ones to do this?

There was a mention of crack/piracy in almost every post in that thread.  I could have edited them out, but I was in short supply of time.  If there had been other options discussed that I knew were legal, I may have reconsidered.

CXL players and modders are certainly welcome here.  As mr-tom said, dirk has shown this by his support of the work being done.  I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Globexco to the staff and to thank him for joining our team.  He has a great knowledge of modding to share.  His vision to build a modding community here is a fine one, and all the staff are willing to assist him with this in whatever way possible.

Enjoy the forums.

--Liv

[bluespottedhorse 49]

Another CITIESXL fan site!...hmm I think there are already a few of those. I'd personally wait until the release of the next version of CITIESXL before building a new site. Maybe it will be a bomb like CITIESXL and a new website would be a waste of time.

[roberto_valverde 0]

I love simtropolis, I've been waiting to long to see citiesxl move on here. I think citiesxl belongs here, this is his main base.

[mproca 0]

we have "ST Exchange" all we may need is an XL Exchange for CXL

[Vahr 341]

The STSC4EX already doubles as a STCXLEX

[jeremy12 0]

Originally posted by: Blue Lightning

The STSC4EX already doubles as a STCXLEX

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hahahahahaha ya right.   search for "CXL Unlocker" (the exact title of a CXL mod...) and you will not see it returned as a result, instead you get unrelated SC4 stuff

[Livin in Sim 83]

Originally posted by: jeremy12

Originally posted by: Blue Lightning

The STSC4EX already doubles as a STCXLEX

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hahahahahaha ya right.   search for "CXL Unlocker" (the exact title of a CXL mod...) and you will not see it returned as a result, instead you get unrelated SC4 stuff

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Yep, you're right.  Sometimes this happens for SC4 content as well, but it at least seems to come up at the moment by searching titles.  I'll mention this in the staff room.  There may not be a simple fix.  The STEX search has historically been a bit bugged.  A fix is the top voted item on the Ideas! forum, so If it can't be fixed now, maybe this will be addressed in ST 7.0 if CXL custom content continues to increase.  The STEX does have the CXL link under Games on the side menu, that is what Blue Lightning is talking about.  This will bring up everything, and will be hard as modds increase.  But for now it's at least an option.  Also, once you have CXL up, you can click at the top on New, Popular, Top Rated, New Comments, Recent Updates, and it will sort just CXL files in order.  Just sayin'....

[Vahr 341]

Search anything multi-worded and it won't come up.

STEX has had ADD since... oh what was it, February?

[GlobexCo 33]

Of course at the moment you can use the mod index, since it has more things than the stex

[Warmonkey 0]

I will support this. I am looking for a nice place where we can RolePlay with our cities actually, and the CJ's here mix IC and OOC too much.

[mr-tom 2]

IC and OOC?

In context and Out Of Context?