I don't post here much but i was actually looking to make a post about Cities XL and sense this thread is about what i wanted to make the post about
Frankly Cities XL "SUCKS" compared to sim city 4 + rush hour.
Reasons
1. Bulky user interface
2. Hardly any user mods at all for CXL CXL2011 CXL 2012 (yes i have tried them all)
3. Absolutely no trains in CXL/etc
4. Placing housing is a royal pain in the rear. (you can use the three different ways to do it but unless you plop every single house one at a time your going to have massive issues with roads) The normal streets will not be able to handle the traffic. You have to use expressways or avenues)
5. Traffic management is a pain. Don't bother with anything smaller then avenues, especially inside your main population hub.
6. resources suck.. you have very limited placement etc on most of them,
7. Roads/highways/bridges etc have a upkeep cost to them that is frankly way way too much.(can be modded or cheated though, Ie money hacks etc)
Pro's
1. The game looks pretty cool
2. buildings etc are some of the best i have seen in a city sim so far (but you can achieve almost the same with custom buildings in Simcity)
Overall i think im just going to let CXL sit until there are better mods out (small community though so it wont happen any time soon)
Stick with Simcity + rush hour .. There is a insane amount of great mods/buildings/maps etc that makes it 100X better then CXL is.
