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SMR, Simple, complete

Warll — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:54:37 +0000

www.smrsimple.com is done, I only need to add one or two more things but for the msot part it is done, now for it to stand the test of time.

Cities XL crack, hack, torrent or leak, just not possible.

Warll — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:26:03 +0000

Big news! A crack is out and it works! Thanks to Nob Ody for alerting me to it. You can get it on isohunt here are the instructions:

Install game.
Edit the Updater.bat file so that each line points towards your game’s installation directory
Launch Updater.bat
Close the launcher once updates complete
Your game is now up to date to the latest version
Copy the crack to the game’s install folder
Launch game using CitiesXL.exe, select language, and enter any random login credential
Enjoy

I can tested it and it is virus free and works perfectly, the author has even included all the current patches.[Older update]

JDMans over at the Pirate Bay posted instructions on how to use the torrent with the Cities XL trial

There is like no way anyone is going to crack this because the security is just to hard, but if you downloaded this already you can make a 7 day trial account for it and play online for the time.

1. Go to citiesxl.com and click on the sign up button in the menu. it should bring you to a registration screen.

Ignore the cd key button and just fill in all the information for your online account and click the send registration button.

On the next screen it will ask for a cd key but just scroll down and there is something that says activate 7 day trial.

There, now you have a user name to log in with for the next 7 days and you have access to all the multiplayer stuff. Until someone gets a better idea il be playing for the next 7 days :D

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[Older update:] Forget it. There will not be a crack for Cities XL. There simply is no reason for crackers to go to the effort. The protection used effectively turns even the single player version of the game into an MMO as far as crackablity is concerned. If you have a Cities XL torrent running at the moment, cancel it. You can either buy a legal copy or move on, yes yes I know “civil piracy is not illegal”, what else would you have me call it? I would suggest moving on, there is not much in regards to re-playability to Cities Xl as it is now, maybe they’ll revamp much of it, doubt it. Right now Monte Cristo has let their dreams of MMOhood get in the way of making what they should have, a fun and challenging city builder. Instead you get a giant ad for the “planet offer” also known as Xbox live style “online services”, really all it is good for is the global chat and trading “goods” . Oh I guess you also get a pretty map which is a bit exciting, until you realize that it is no more than a picture and has no effect on game play. Weep a bit and then move on and do something more productive, like say learning Japanese, or exploring the other side of the world. [/update]

I know that when I had troubles finding a key I check out the The Pirate Bay and Google to see if Cities XL had been cracked and released, that did me no good since there is no Cities XL crack even still I really wanted to play it. Well looking at the web searches that lead people to this site I can see that there are some other unfortunate souls willing to hit the torrents just to play Cities XL. Well I have some news for you, its not going to happen until a street release at least and liekly never for the planet offer. The current Cities XL requires not only net access to login but also a constant internet connection to play online. There is no offline so no hope of getting past the beta key requirement. If you do want to play the game I would suggest downloading the client while you are searching for beta keys. That way you are ready to go when you do get a beta key and you can also check out the in-game music which is stored in “Monte Cristo\Cities XL\Data\Sound\Music\XL”, I know this because before I got my key I searched the game’s files and found the music. So yeah stop searching for a cities xl crack, hack or leak and get back to looking for a beta key. Oh and any Cities XL Torrent you happen to run across will either be a repost of the same client you can already get from Monte Cristo or it will contain spyware/malware.

Smooth sailing so far

Warll — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:35:32 +0000

Everything is going along well so far, with both myself and the new site.

I’ve started adding descriptions from the map’s orignal topic if there is a useful one there.
I’ve got some more Japanese studying done.
Did well, I think, on my last Social Test hope I also do well on the finals.

PS: Is there really no one that wants to help me get maps up?

Cities XL the future of the city builder genre

Warll — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:30:45 +0000

The history of city builders is dominated by one name Will Wright, he and his studio Maxis made the staples of the city building genre, Sim city, Sim city 2000, Sim city 3000 and Sim city 4 something happened though and there is has been a true sequel to the series yet. What happened was Spore, a monster sized game which took up Maxis’s time and resources until its release in 2008. Along comes Monte Cristo and their attempt at a city builder, City Life, they experimented with “classes” and “races” making it a bit more of a society manager unfortunately this was not the dirrention fans wanted the game to go in and City life replace Sim city 4 at the top of the city builder genre. Meanwhile EA still owned the Sim City trademark and they were not about to let it depreciate so used another studio, Tilted Wind Mills, to create “Sim City”: Societies. Societies was aimed at the casual market and played very much like City life, it too did not topple Sim City 4. In case Sim city 4’s popularity is in doubt I’ll just make one point, the torrent “SimCity 4 Deluxe w/ Crack & Serial” is still even after two years, in the top one hundred active torrents of the popular torrent tracker The Pirate Bay.org.

All this makes the city builder genre very ripe, even a ten year old player that started on Sim City 4 when it came out in 2003 will be nearly 17 once Cities XL hits the streets. The age ranges just go up from there meaning that Monte Cristo has the potential to capture a mature market without any competition. This financial incentive is what the genre need since without it we would never see a city builder of the scale the genre demands. Cities XL is set to be the giant game the fans are asking for and dreaming about. The engine is full 3d, you can play online in a sort of MMO environment, the buildings can be placed at angles and bridges can be built at arbitrary locations. The fact that it will be MMO means that Monte Cristo can and will continue to develop the game over time.

In short Cities XL is going to be the standard of the city builder genre for quite a while.

My plans.

Warll — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:00:09 +0000

So I want to do something big. My I idea is for yet another website! Yeah I hear what your saying, “but Warll that is the last thing the SMR community needs”. Well you’re right, I myself don’t think the SMR community is large enough to support even two sites, although in this case it likely would fall apart if it was forced into the same one. What I would like to do is make a one stop destination for new users. Heres what I have so far after very brief brainstorming:

It would be a related URL so that if we play the cards right we might just be able to get it to show up on google searches.
It would be wordpress based, include a directory of maps and host maps.
There should be a easy to use GUI tool for changing maps, the SAMs are so simple it is a shame that nothing automated has been made.
It would be a platform for both sides of the community, if new users want to go deeper they may. As I see it now the amount of drama will simply stare new users away.
It can be hosted on my dreamhost account although if it gets big as I hope it does ads can be added. Thats neither here nor there though.

The entire point of this would be to get new players to SMR and get the content that is already out there to people. There is a need for this as can be seen from the fact that people are still downlaoding SMRI.