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Originally posted by: Rakeesh Cancelling does not mean getting a refund. You've already bought the time and had it allocated. Cancelling means stopping the recurring payment mechanic. Allowing it to lapse applies only if you don't use recurring payments.quote> Figures, oh well they can have my money this time because they won't be seeing it again. Lesson learned!

Originally posted by: Rakeesh To some of the above questions: -If you sign up for the PO at a later date, you get access to ALL content packs previously released. -If you cancel or let your PO account lapse, you will not be able to use content packs as they are only available while playing on the planet offer. And Gregory, it all looks fantastic. I've been waiting for this update all week and it's just so damn awesome. <3 Question though! About the new maps; will any of them be added onto the PO planets for use by new mayors?quote> How do you cancel the PO subscription. I'd like to get my money back for the next two months. MC has already refused my refund request?

Originally posted by: GlobexCo Sounds are in a pak file (named all_wav.pak); but this is not a thing for modders, this is a thing that should come with a MC patch.quote> Exactly why would they leave out ambient sounds from release??? Anyway search the web if you don't know how to open the .pak files, some smart folks have figured that out already. One you have done that you will then see the ambient folder in your sounds folder - as stated all you have to do is move it. For anyone doing that MC already said they won't support you - best if your going to do this to make a backup of your sound folder to revert to prior to any patches.

So can we post the Ambiance folder for people to download here so they too can have ambient sound or does that violate the agreement? The folder is already there in your files we are not changing any of the code?

Originally posted by: GlobexCo Hello everyone!! I've discovered that the .exe file of Cities XL, like it was in the beta, search for things in the Data folder. After unpacking (don't ask me how, it's a secret!) many files of the old data folder and saving them in .xml files; I modified some settings in those files. So I MODDED LOANS!!!!! With this modifies you can have 3 loans of 1000000000 $, and the bank will pay you 1000000000 $ for 1000000000 turns! Now you can build your dream city without any problems of money. read the readme, it's in the folder! I put it on the STEX. (I'll upload the link when ready) At the moment only mods like this are possible! In the version 1.0 I'll try to create infinite loans! Why I started this topic? Because I want to know if the STEX is the right place to upload mod for CXL. Please answer... Thanks a lot to everyone!quote> You let the cat out of the bag not me - now it's fair game. You can also get the ambiance folder and put it in your data/ sounds folder to get the ambiant sounds in the game, traffic - birds - people...... Makes a huge difference in game play that's for sure. You don't have to change any code you just move the folder.

Originally posted by: joe2102001 Awesome news!!! Now if we could just have that ambient noise.... quote> You can if you know where to look

October 15, 2009 - Monte Crisco announces BluePrints right around the corner. Anyone every been around the corner? Did it take you over two weeks to get there? Never did for me... Now we've all seen the timeframe for right around the corner, how long is it going to take and how much will we spend monthly waiting on the other promised content? All I got for my 9 dollars this month was the right to post my frustration on this forum - but I'm sure like some of my others it will also be deleted soon ... er um - I mean moderated soon.

Sorry Rakeesh, I do not enjoy giving Monte Crisco money for promises and pictures which is all we've gotten. I may have been branded a sucker yesterday but today is a new day and actions speak louder than words. Unfortunately there is no action, just words - and as you point out pictures.

9 dollars a month? For what? To help MC finish the content that should have already been in the game? Comon MC get your heads out of the sand!

Originally posted by: USA_Pride Originally posted by: rss334 Because this is the "official" board for Cities XL I have to assume MC is activly reading these posts. 1) When are the GEMS planned to be released? 2) When will the ambient sounds be put in the game? 3) When will the first the content pack be released? MC please provide some estimates for us. Thank you. quote> I doubt they'll be willing to give you any timelines. My advice, don't buy the game based on promises, buy it when they actually have solid stuff released. You can always come here, I'm sure people will be following the updates closely. Keep in mind many of those updates will be tied to having the subscription and won't apply to the single player game.quote> Well MC???? You want 9 dollars a month and your silence is already saying so much! How about some communication with the community?

Ambient sounds are already there they are just not being used...... just watiing on MC to put them in the right place for us.......

Because this is the "official" board for Cities XL I have to assume MC is activly reading these posts. 1) When are the GEMS planned to be released? 2) When will the ambient sounds be put in the game? 3) When will the first the content pack be released? MC please provide some estimates for us. Thank you.

Originally posted by: niloluiz Originally posted by: ThePeoplesPerson Review is up on IGN http://pc.ign.com/articles/103/1035096p1.html Did pretty good here, but unfortunately one good review from a critic doesn't justify all the complaints for the game. Pretty sure I'm sticking away from this one too.quote> From the article: Sound Gentle music will put you in a relaxed mood, and all the ambient sounds are perfectly fitting within the game.quote> What ambient sounds they are talking about? Either this review is cooked and the guy are making this up OR they are using a "custom" version that MC sended for them, which means that they didn't review the product that everbody here got in hands.... Either way it's bad..... and the credibility of IGN just went thru the sewer with this. quote> Listen up, one of two things happened here. Either MC gave them a different version to review that included ambient sounds or they move some files/folders around to get the sounds enabled. Either way it's apparnt the final version we are playing does not have ambient sounds but the files are there to be used, we just have to wait for MC to unlock them with the rest of the missing content.

BRAVO !!!!! and Thank you.

Not in multiplayer but can't confirm about singleplayer.

Yes the old lady ends up beating the crap out of the mugger who runs away. That is so far the only "crime" I've seen. I'm sure there are other random crimes but I've just recently starting a city and started looking for these things. I have seen the police pull in to the police station and unload people from their wagons. And FBI guys come out of the police station get in a cruiser and speed away. Althouh the animations seemed looped for each lot and play once they reset themselves, they add 100% to the game.

Thank you for the explanation Mathew_MC - I look forward to the article, I'm keeping an open mind until then.

CrestView on Prosperus

I've been getting mixed answers to the questions below so I'm trying to find out if we have multiple versions of the game out? Some say they have these things in game, others say they don't. Before we call it a technical problem first I want to find out what everyone is seeing. Thanks 1) Are your lots animated, do people drive in the lot, park their cars, get out and walk in to the building? Congregate on the lots? Do you see basketball players playing on the basketball court? 2) When starting a map do you hear birds and wind? Once traffic gets a little heavier do you hear the sounds of traffic on the street?

No one was ever able to confirm for me but I have since confirmed while playing the game lacks any sounds except music and when you click a building you hear a 3 second wav file. No car traffic, no people, no wind, no bird, no city - nothing but the sound of silence..... What a game killer - MC I hope you plan to add this in.

Originally posted by: PLB82 This is the first actual review I've seen... unfortunately, it's not in English, so I can't tell you what it says... http://www.gamesnation.it/giochi/1045/recensioni/cities-xl.html Perhaps one of the bilinguals on the board could summarize?quote> Here you go - best I could get with a translator - it was Italian For spectacular Landscapes and skyline. Modality innovative online. Depth of highest game and longevity Against migliorabile graphical Motor. Indicated above all for the lovers of the sort Starting Cities XL account becomes us that, to part the SimCity parenthesis for iPhone, was a little that it was not felt to speak about City-builder simulator. Indeed, very to see, the same series of SimCity, premonitory of the games of social simulation like The analogous Sims and, after the fourth episode, has progressively abandoned the original simulative and managerial purposes, in order to address itself more towards a turned structure of game to the interaction between virtual individuals. With Cities XL the sviluppatori of Monte Cristo have tried to bring back the interest of the player on the real city development, concurring to create of the cities second own desires and utopies and to interact to virtual level with other players online. And attended well: Cities XL is not a new interaction of the old SimCity, but an innovative road in the field of the simulators for the construction of a city. The first aspect that jumps to the eyes in Cities XL uses is it of a true motor 3D, that it renders the job very more attractive than virtual mayor. At the beginning of the game it will be possible to choose own avatar taking advantage of pouring them editor, essential factor for one of the purposes of the game, cioé the interaction with other players online. In fact, in marasma of virtual mayors the presents in Net, he will be fundamental to be able itself to identify in univocal way. Planet, the system online of Cities XL, concurs to visualize various “planets”, that they correspond to the cities of the customers connected to the game. Thus making, it will be possible to visit other virtual city truths as of the tourists, or to create of the professional contacts. As an example, in the event in which had deprived itself of electric power, it will be possible to acquire it from a neighbor, that it could on hand have some in excess. The neighbor could in its turn be interested to acquire working specialistic offers from our professional channels, and thus via… Every city can have the maximum extension of 10 km squares, than more sufficient in order to entertain also the more demanding players. It is possible also to choose various localities, with specific conformations of the land. As an example, for some players it could be more interesting to create own city in territories near the sea, while for others in means of a montuosa chain. The sviluppatori, between the other, inform to us that it will be soon possible to acquire details additional localities, like montuose or marine tourist zones. Therefore, in order to equip own city of a sciistica station, it will be possible to acquire a module adds them through the system Game Enhancement Modules (GEM). The purposes of Cities XL are not only limited to the creation of constructions. The scope of the game is to increase the most possible population of the city structures, facilitating and rendering the life of the people gradevole. Constructing, as an example, little linear roads and crowded distances it will not be possible to increase the index of approval of the mayor from the population. In Cities XL it is possible to construct of the roads acting with the mouse and conferring to the distances simply every type of tracing. It is moreover possible to create futuristic bridges in order to connect in way much simple one of the far fields and separated from sea or rivers. An other key factor is the necessity to supply to the citizens the necessary services to the city subsistence. With the exception of tito them analogous, the eventual absence of base services, as as an example one centers them electrical worker, will not carry to the impossibility to distribute an energetic service, but it will force the administration to acquire energy outside, with a remarkable increase of the operating costs. In fact, an other important obbiettivo of the game consists in maintaining healthy the communal cases. Useless expenses, as external energetic supplying I use or it of society of other customers for digestion of the refusals, will aggravate a lot the economic condition of own city, favoring rebelling of caravans of citizens in escape from the bankrupt city! Once supplied the just services, it will be possible to dedicate itself to the aesthetic improvement of the city one. He is indeed thrilling to observe on screen, and in 3D real, a stage planned of person, and to enjoy like a watching normal school the game the day! Also the lodgings are an important element of the game. Three types of constructions are present: residential, it trades them and industrial, everyone of they characterized from a various density of population. In Cities XL four types of social classes exist: workers simple and specialized, managing and élite. Task of the player will be also to assign of the adapted residences to every social class, what rendered however easy from the intuitivo system of Cities XL: using of the simple outlines to percentage, the degree of occupation of the rooms from the various social classes will be possible visionary and to eventually decide to construct to new structures. A speech to part goes made for the transport systems. In the game it is necessary to develop an adequate freenet of transports, profit in order to slim the traffic that physiologically stretches to intensify itself more and more. The lines of the buses and the metropolitan concur to connect the zones to greater city density, favoring the street distance in those less polulated. Also the pollution green and degree will be determining factors for the approval of the mayor from the citizens. If, then, in some quarters it were necessary to construct a larger school, or a more modern hospital, the communal councilmen will indicate the possibility to use of the deep ones in order to resolve the problem in the better way. Up to here all he seems enough simple but, as it often happens, the fundamental problem at best consists in managing the economic resources. In order to make forehead to all expenses of the city it will be necessary to adopt an adequate system of taxation, not too much oneroso for the citizens but in a position to favoring an express development of the city. At last, the choice of a privatization of the services, or partial it or total, will be the quadrature of the circle in order to concur with the communal cases to enjoy optimal health From the cosmetic point of view, Cities XL appears sufficiently fluid and detailed. The sviluppatori have chosen not to implement a such detail only use to concur it optimal of the game to the possessory ones of the PC more powerful, but than to create pleasant and such atmospheres to be involved the greater possible number of players. That drift also from the will to create a great net of participants to the system online Planet, managed directly from the sviluppatori. The typical risk of the products of this type consists, in fact, in the possibility of a loss of interest that follows the attainment of a good level of development in own city. The possibility of being able to interact with other players, or like tourists who like partner economic, will be able to give to new lymph to own experience with Cities XL. The lands of the game are revealed decidedly realistic, while the buildings succeed to more capture the attention also of the distracted players. The possibility of visionary liberations own city, or to use the modality postcard, that it concurs to photograph the beautifulr quarters of the city conglomerate, is factors sure appreciate the lovers of the sort. After all, we think that all the fans of SimCity will find in Cities XL a new stimulus for own constructive fantasy, with the possibility to share own experiences with other players through the section online. Who never has instead not had way to attempt in games of the sort could find in the title it of Monte Cristo a new and interesting source of divertimento and interaction.

Yeah I confirmed everyone had the same version and build - but multiple people on planet prospero last night said they had these things, both sounds and animations. It seems pretty clear the forum here confirms though that they are not in the game currently, thanks all for the feedback.

I'm having the same issues and to add to it I can place a school on the road right behind a residential area and the overlay still shows red for part of the area right by the school. Must be factors that contribute to the lack of education in that area but I've not yet been able to figure out what they are. Could it be too much traffic?

Originally posted by: Xyloxadoria What you are doing for the grapichis options seems to be right. That should make animated lots appear, you just have to build one that has animation now (Not all of them do) As far as the birds/ cars etc. The option to turn that should be in the sound/audio options area. quote> Thank you I am inclined to think there are different versions of this game out right now. Some people are reporting they actually see cars pull in to the lots, such as business or resindeces, and then people get out of the cars and go in to the buildings Others reports hearing traffic sounds while others say nope, nothing but music.

Originally posted by: Xyloxadoria What you are descrbing souds like what would typically be "extras" in a game. Theese types of features (animated objects, ambient sound) are usually truned off in lower detail modes, as they use alot of memory. Try truning your detail settings up if your computer supports it and you should see theese features. quote> Can you help me out by walking me through this? Had the same recommendation from the planet chat last night. I've gone in game and choose options - graphics - set to high. Changed resolution to 1600xsomething and enabled AA. Restarted and no change. Is there anywhere else we may need to change something? Thanks