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I recently got my hands on the newly-released Cities XL 2011, and decided to start a CJ about my various "city-sketches". Cities XL really gives me the freedom to create a unique city everytime.

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Starting Over

By DCMetro34,

So... in short I lost all my cities, and have been working on a new one that has about 125,000 people now. School recently began, so I am busy obviously, but I did have time to take some pics. No extravagant photoshopping here... but I really wanted to post these pics. I really enjoyed the photoshopping I did for the storm pic in the last update, so hopefully I'll have time to do that for my next one. As you can see, most of the pics are in the same general vicinity. Reason being, I had recently built a...
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Hey everyone! I had a burning desire to play some CXL, which was probably due to the fact that Focus Home announced CXL 2012, which will over 1000 buildings, 60+ maps, and will be user-friendly on the modding front. I haven't looked too much into it all... but does anyone know if we are going to be able to create buildings from scratch for the next CXL? By their description, it kinda sounded like it... but I was wondering if anyone had a definitive answer. Either way, it's coming out in only a few short...
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Hello everyone!! Samerton: Thanks for commenting each week, Sam! Mithokey: I hate your comment, but since it's so awesome, I like it! Simfreak1998: Thanks Chip, that's saying a lot coming from a SC4 player like you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I promised you some pics of my 500,000 person city that actually showed what the city looked like, and today I have just that. As for the MTA train, progress is slow and steady at...
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Evillions: Thanks much for your input! I don't think custom buildings are an option yet either, but I sure hope they become one. -ICE-{man}: Your reasons are the exact same as mine! I do think we'll be able to create custom buildings someday, and CXL will get a lot of new players! Thanks for visiting! Samerton: Thank you very much commenting! Well, I did play some CXL over the weekend, and my city now boasts about a 500,000 person population. I have some traffic maps and satellite views (Fun to look at, I...
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It's been a good while since my CXL or SC4 CJ update; a few months by now, I s'pose. I have played both SC4 and CXL for a long time (was in the original CXL 2009 beta, in fact), and I like them both. To be honest, I would probably play CXL a lot more if we could just create more custom content for it (i.e. buildings, mods, etc.). As a matter of fact, I am not really sure what stage the whole "figuring out how to put 3ds models into the game" process is at, but if someone does now about, I'd be very...
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Replies Damastius: Thanks DM, an honor to have you comment! Samerton: Thanks a lot for your comment. Mithokey: Thanks to you, too. Schulmanator: Thanks Schul, glad to see you've followed my migration pattern from SC4 to CXL. B22rian: Thanks Brian, and I just had to name it after Baltimore! The transportation options for CXL 2011 is for sure one of my favorite aspects in the game. I am a big transit guy, so I was bound to have one of these types of updates. Here is a day in the life of the...
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In case you missed it...... I recently got my hands on the newly-released Cities XL 2011, and decided to start a CJ about my various "city-sketches". Cities XL really gives me the freedom to create cities I used to draw in sketchbooks, hence the name. I decided to name it "Baltimore" solely for the reason that I am from Baltimore, Maryland, USA. I hope you enjoy viewing my CXL world as much as I did creating it. I like writing as well, so I will throw in a few stories in future updates. CXL is the perfect...
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