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I just looked at the countdown page of the march 6 event, and there is 2 bios of speakers : a philantropist and a filmmaker. Doesn't look very Simcity to me, but who knows...

I had a lot of ideas in the last few week on some things I would like to recreate in Cities XL. Unfortunately, it seems that there is litte information on how players will create the content they want to add in the game. We know that MC will be responsible to integrate the content in the game, but the part I'm looking information on are details like what tools creators will have to use (Integrated BAT, downloadable 3D software), will there be textures avalaible, what liberty will the creators have on their buldings' functions and propreties Also, I was wondering if it's possible to hope that players might be able to create their own "filler" textures between lots? Is there anybody having information about these issues? Thanks! Micro-editorial here : I really hope that MC will release a software as simple as Google Sketchup to make our own buildings!

One thing I would like to change : the population within houses. When you place one single house, your population increase of 20 new citizens... More realistic population figures would be great, something like : - Low density residential = +5 - Medium density residential = +20 to +50 - High density = +100 to +250

Bus = Planet Offer. No Po = No bus. Period. I'm kinda tired to hear the same complains all over again... I mean, it you believed that the game had mass transit in it without the PO andbuyed it, that's your problem!

Originally posted by: Mathew_MC No bendy buses. The three types of buses are: minibus, normal bus and double-deckers. Transfert between different lines is implemented, both at terminals and when two lines cross each other: you just need to place the bus stop near enough from one of another bus line. Your citizens will consider the bus trip as a whole, including transfers. Which means that if the first half of their travel is fine but the second bus line they need to take is overcrowded, they will probably chose to take the car to work. Currently, a line is linked to a single terminal.quote> Thank you for the info! I'm pleased by the first part of the answer, and I'll encourage you guys at MC to stay open to the possibility to link terminals together to create fully integrated networks! If you have two or more terminals in your city, It would be great if you can order a bus to link them and put a couple of stops between.

Well, for the lack of micro-management, this bus system is filling the void! It looks great! Althrough I have some interrogations on the bus system right now - What about transfers between bus lines? Can a citizen transfer bus lines at the terminal? What about transferring when two lines cross each other and share a stop together? - Can a line pass by multiple terminals to link terminals to each other? I hope you guys at MC already tought about these questions...

@meatpie21 Customer Satisfaction will reflect in their total amount of income. You say it's a bad strategy, well I respond that you should probably wait a little bit to say that : if the game is still profitable to MC in 5 years, well let's just say that you were wrong! As far as I know, no one can tell if this game is a commercial success or a flop by now. @Stef42 Well, you paid 45E for what you got in the box! The notion of

Ah come on guys! Mass transit = Planet Offer! Stop complaining about it and buy the Planet Offer! Too tight finance? Then go back to Sc4 and let people who enjoy the concept actually enjoying it, or accept the fact that you play solo with a game without all of the options! It's a company and like other companies, they enjoy having profits at the end of their fiscal year, trying to do that by putting video games on the market. You bought the game? Then you accept the deal that most of the new options weren't to be free of charges if you want them (A little research before buying a game never killed anyone!) MC own you NOTHING so try to live your life! Edited for masked swearing. --Liv CXL Forums Moderator

Enough teasing, we want details and screenshots of the bus system and we want it now! Originally posted by: Mathew_MC Toothpaste wrote: I just wish that we will be able to adjust the buses travel routs just like in Transport Tycoon or what ever the games name was that was fun 10 years ago. If they just lets us plop down a bus station like a building and have no control what so ever, then Im gonna kill my self - I will also kill a cute bunny. I hate to delete buildings just to put down a bus stop and not having control over the transport system is so 1990. I just really really hope that MC will give us a wow feeling over this! Im so excited! Omg!quote> Good thing we care about bunnies then! quote>

Sure, but depots are not necessarly linked to the bus lines. Depots are interesing only if you don't need each line to start and/or end in a depot. If you have to make every bus line stopping by a depot, I think this would be a mistake because it wouldn't be realistic at all : all buses system that I know can work with exchange and transfert points, but also without them : transfers are made where the line you want to transfer on is crossing the line you are on actually. Originally posted by: Ilikeseattle SimCitiy 200 used depots exclusively. All bus lines have some sort of depot or place to store the buses. The depot looks like it is a mere 40x40m and in CitiesXL, that is perfectly reasonable.quote>

That's SO true! In fact, you should be able to zone

Depots? Ow, that's bad! Like a bus network absolutely need some kind of terminals to work! In Montreal, bus lanes are mostly related to subway stations, who acts like littte bus depots to ease transferts between buses and subway. « Real » bus depots are rare, only in the last stations of subway lines or on major ones. Originally posted by: Ilikeseattle This is how the bus system will work: you first place a depot, which unlocks street-side bus stops; there might be a limit of bus stops per depot or there might be only one depot per city. This was originally posted on the original CitiesXL site. The developers said that they had less problems with it than the multi-lane tool and will complete it if not at release then a few months after. Taxis might work the same way. I have no idea how they are going to do subway and train but I hope that you lay down the tracks and place stations, you might need to place a depot but you might not. Buses (and possibly trains, subway, and taxi) will be released in content pack 3 at the end of the year. I would love to buy content pack 3 for Solo Mode and if it is bundled with 1&2 I would be willing to pay $20 (or even the US equivalent of 20 euros). Buses would lower congestion and increase capacity while trains would probably have the capacity of at least a highway but take up the space of a small road.quote>

@littlesquare.dot I was speaking about the concept of first language : the one you speak in your family, that you've been raised with. Anyway, my point is that managing dozens of chats to accomodate every language spoken in countries where people might have acces to a computer is possible but asks for ressources MC might not have. If you want to check the list, it's right here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

According to Wikipedia (numbers are from a christian organization stdying languages in the world), there is 100 native languages spoken by more than 5 million people in the world. English is 3rd, French is 15th and German is 10th. Dutch is 42th. I know that these numbers are not perfect : English and French are the second language of many people around the world. The United Nations have 6 official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish) Monte Cristo chose 3 languages. If they have to open chatrooms for every languages in the world, even if it's only the one with millions speakers... well, I just don't think that they have the ressources to manage that! No offense, but they made their bed with English, French and German, I think that we have to respect that.

Quick awnser : you can't! Solo playing = Omnicorp only!

Originally posted by: ForceInfinity Livin in Sim: LOL.... yes yes I know :-) Back to the topic at hand, I was able to get the look right where it looks more like a ramp, but the downside was that traffic seemingly still stopped at the ramp. Ah well. Hopefully by content pack 3 they will get some more flexible ramp behavior in. Though I gotta say, I'm for the most part happy with the flexible you are given with the roads in general as you can do some pretty artistic things with it. Bridges that rise at a steep grade before meeting the top of a hill looks rather imposing from the side or below. Originally posted by: Livin in Sim Originally posted by: ForceInfinity Don't feel bad Xylox, I ran into the same issue with Safari the other day when I accidentally 12x posted the same message (Safari would sit there and look at me and I had no idea that it had actually posted) and got told "repent and sin no more". quote> You forgot the "You're forgiven..." part! quote> quote> Source? As far as I can remember, I've never heard of anything about more flexible ramps in the Content pack 3! It it's true this would be a great news!

Great : now we need only one more information : how to make CXL compatible models (3D Software, general rules, etc..)!