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I don't have patience to try the mod. Thanks a lot moaku!!!

Hi everybody! Yesterday I subscribed for PO. Everything is fine, the bus system is very good, BUT the game is crashing for me all the time I try to quit. This causes my cities to not be saved on the server. Sometimes the game is crashing till I'm just playing. I submitted a support ticket but I want to know if anybody has the same problem (I'm pretty sure that there will be someone)

Hi! Does anybody has some information when the next patch will be released - I mean this who will remove the Christmas decorations and probably bring some fixes and new content to the game?

Originally posted by: Shilka I did a complete reinstall and that seems to have fixed the problem, no more crashing after uploading to server or when exiting.....for nowquote> For me reinstalling the game helped too - the crashes are gone now

Hm, these things are already in the game, just the news for the Christmas Pack is still on the website.

Hi! Kevin Ar18 thanks for the response. But the problem is that these crashes occur only in PO mode. I have the latest drivers for my video card, audio card, latest bios and so on and I'm able to play solo mode with no problems (only some chaotic crashes when exiting sometimes). The crash occurs when the game is saving my city to the server. In the beta there were the same crashes but the city was successfully saved.

I already opened a ticket on support site. They wanted to send them dxdiag and log files folder. Now asked me for the model of y video card. I'm waiting the response from them.

It crashes no matter I quit from 'X' button or quit to planet view. It's totally unplayable for me - I cannot save my city and sometimes the game crashes when playing. I was playing the beta and then the game was crashing 10 times fewer - now this happens with the final game after many patches - good job MC! BTW I subscribed for PO only to see the buses and it's a pity I cannot use them in solo mode.

Originally posted by: Skimbo Originally posted by: ACEH I subscribed for PO for one month just to see the buses. Well, I have to say: very good job, MC. The buses are very easy to manage, not so expensive (I have 23 000 city with 2 bus lines and I'm on great income), greatly reduces traffic. And one very important thing - people in Cities XL like taking the bus, not like those in SC4 quote> Jupp, but only the steps 1 and 2, the others do not use the busses very often quote> Yes, that's true. And realistic btw

I subscribed for PO for one month just to see the buses. Well, I have to say: very good job, MC. The buses are very easy to manage, not so expensive (I have 23 000 city with 2 bus lines and I'm on great income), greatly reduces traffic. And one very important thing - people in Cities XL like taking the bus, not like those in SC4 Again: very good job MC, I hope you have the same success with trains and so on

Well well. The survey now is different for those who haven't planet offer (me for example). Some of the questions are regarding the wiliness of solo players to buy content packs, so maybe we'll have this option soon if most of the people give positive answer

I don't have PO but the survey is the same!

Hehe look who is driving in your cities P.S. An option to turn of all of this Christmas decorations will be good to exist.

Well, those are called good news!!! And the best thing is in the updates from the pack : Other Changes ONLINE [OPT] The obscenity filter has been updated, with common words such as "yellow" removed INTERFACE [NEW] New loading screens with city stats and hints [NEW] Solo or Planet mode is now selected direclty from the launcher, after login [NEW] Selecting a road now allows to display routes for that specific road (pedestrians, cars, buses, trucks...) [OPT] The game options window has been redesigned SIM [FIX] All decoration areas now properly generate positive quality of life (except the construction area) [FIX] The cost of the Golden Gate bridge has been fixed for consistency with the metal bridge GRAPHICS [NEW] Christmas decorations and surprises (temporary) [NEW] Glowing particles for lampposts and headlights [FIX] Level shots (Ctrl + F11) now show water properly [FIX] Bus zebras don't show systematically on some bridges any more. TRAFFIC [OPT] Bus traffic has been improved [OPT] Vehicles stopping at traffic lights have been improved PERFORMANCES [FIX] A crash when deleting some bus lines has been fixed I'm very happy about this one: [NEW] Selecting a road now allows to display routes for that specific road (pedestrians, cars, buses, trucks...) I'm waiting this since the beta version when it was present. I so anxious the working day is over so I can test it at home.

Originally posted by: mrdazza_460 Originally posted by: mentarman Hmnmm. I know we've had threads like this before, but they, surprise surprise, got derailed. You might want to search though, as it may still exist and have some good ideas. Mine. Smaller smallest lot size Better size ratios. Trees seem really off to me, anyone else? Bridges also seem gigantic compared to how they should be. Perhaps a subset of the above, perspective seems way off. You think a tree looks big close up, check out that one way far away that isn't as small as it should be at that distance even if it is huge, it must be truly humongous. Trains/subway/El (coming I suppose, so not really original).quote> Yah you make a good point about the trees, some are 4 to 5 stories high, way too big. That should be hard to fix, should it? ACEH , wrote : redesign the way that public services work - there should be more hospitals, schools and etc., reducing their price and radius of effect that is something i had to get use to from SC4, at first I placed schools and so on as much as I did in SC4, but my cities where going broke. Then i deleted 85% of them and there was no difference, just to my bank balance. It would be nice if we could place more, I guess it would give it a realistic look. quote> Yep, that's the point. It very unrealistic a 100 000 city to have only one school or hospital or basketball field

I think that the most urgent improvements of the game includes: - redesign the way that public services work - there should be more hospitals, schools and etc., reducing their price and radius of effect - include off/on ramps for freeways and highways - a freeway is meant to be a fast road with as few intersections as possible. Now the only way to get to the freeway is making an intersection with it - the parks should decrease the pollution, even there is a tree build option in the menu which is still inactive - they should include the option to build a trees - more decorations like fountains, statues and so on - I will not comment mass transit because it will be included in the game sooner or later I'm sure (of course sooner will be better but I'm sure that there are more economical reasons then technical - MC wants to keep the interest of the game alive, so they will not release mass transit soon no matter some of it is already developed)

Originally posted by: parrotti im so so so so so so so very glad i've not buy this game its the flop of the year. well, to all people that bought the game i wish them good luck too it and i hope that they will get what they want , but i dont think so.quote> I don't think the game is flop and I don't regret I bought the game (just to note that I'm playing solo mode only). Cities XL is maybe the best city builder till now and continue to get better and better - just look at the stunning graphics (of course graphics aren't the most important thing) and comparatively realistic simulation. The real flop is the Planet Offer. But I'm sure when trains, metro and so on are released, the PO will worth 5-6 euro monthly.

Look at the first seconds of this movie, where the build roads menu is shown. The third icon from the left reminds of a roundabout. This movie is posted on 09 October as I remember the game release date. I don't know anybody noticed that so far, I'm sorry if it is. So the roundabouts are already developed and MC are waiting to release them in a future content pack (for PO subscribers only of course) and pluck off their money for something that should be in the game already

Hi everybody, look what I just found browsing street view from google maps The similarity is amazing. Btw this is somewhere in Paris so maybe some of MC's developers live there

Hey, what's up with you MC!? Yesterday I finally decided to make a 3 month subscription but I left it for today and now I'm reading this post. Where did the 3 month subscription gone!? You're on the wrong move you should know!

I had a little tiny hope that MC will release the buses for Solo mode too.... But no, damn it.

Hi again! There is very strange bug with solo mode. When I delete my city and create another on the same map, for some reason the trade menu keeps the tokens sold or bought from the deleted city. I post a picture: As you can see, a newly created city is making 12 000 from nothing. For those who think this is some kind of cheat is the attached image (I have some problems with Imageshack). As you can see, the token of this city for offices are -5. I hope the developers fix this as soon as possible.

Hi everybody, I've been playing the game from the beta and i have some thoughts that I want to share with you and of course the developers from Monte Cristo. My overall evaluation for Cities XL is that the game is great, especially in visual aspect, but there are several thing making me crazy: 1. First of all - the public and leisure services. Well, come on MC, the things aren't working this way in real life! In the game you can cover a 500 000 city with one school and one hospital. You should GREATLY reduce the range of public and leisure services and their price of course. It's just unrealistic. Agree with me that for example 100 000 people need at least 10 basketball courts and several hospitals. 2. The micromanagement - one hospital now costs 5000 per month no matter it serves 5 or 50 000 people. We should have the option to reduce its budget according to how many people it serves. Even more - if for some reason we decide that we don't need hospital any more, we must demolish it. Why we can't just reduce its budget? It's ridiculous. PLEASE change this absurd in upcoming patch, I'm sure you can do this! 3. The price of the resources that Omnicorp sells is crazy - I've heard from Mathew that this should be fix in the next patch. Give us, the Solo mode players chance to build prosperous cities. 4. The height of the bridges - hey, did you ever see a real bridge, MC. They don't look like those in the game. The bridges from the game are incredibly high. 5. Include some roundabouts - they will include some variety in the road networks and can reduce traffic on intersections. 6. There are different building styles in the game - European, American and so on - thats great but can we have the option to choose what style exactly to be build - some cities look very unrealistic with all of the styles mixed together. 7. Parks and pollution - in certain stage of the game the advisors says "Pollution is killing everything" no matter that my industries are very far from the resident zones and I have near 100 parks in the city. You should increase the parks ability to reduce pollution. One little note - now a parks with different sizes creates same area of effect around them - that's unrealistic too. 8. Create some kind of on and off-ramps for connecting smaller roads to expressway - now we need to make an intersections with the Expressway which makes no sense - the expressway should be express. In this row of thoughts - why should the smallest roads have traffic lights at intersections. That is cosmetic but very annoying. 9. The upcoming mass transit - buses - why should they cost so much - the people are paying to use them. In most of the cities the municipality makes profit of them and we should pay to have buses. Why? Just reduce the price. 10. A very useful feature from the beta is missing - the lines which shows the traffic when you click on specific road - where did they gone? Because this post became very long, I stop here and I hope some of the developers to answer some of the questions. I'm sure many of you guys playing the game agree with me. So MC, please answer!

I'm very happy someone agree with me, thanks Mastaflex. Does anybody played the beta - didn't you remember this feature: 10. A very useful feature from the beta is missing - the lines which shows the traffic when you click on specific road - where did they gone? I'll post a screenshot: This feature was so useful for planning new roads, I'm so surprised why didn't they included it in the final version.

Well it's not a cheat because the tokens are missing in the city and with -5 offices tokens the city isn't going very well