Functions City-import and City-export allow you to share your cities with your friends or on the forum.

It also allow to make Backup of your cities (Attention, if you uninstall Cities XL, it will erase your savegames data without telling you, therefore this function is rather useful!).

If you took out a subscription to the Planet Offer and if you transferred your cities in solo game, you willy-nilly crushed maps of solo game, and they are therefore no more accessible! With these functions, you can export these cities, erase them in game, then import them back on a new slot, liberating so the busy slots before!

You can also export and re-import a city on another slot in case you want to reuse the same map for another city...

NOTICE :
The good way of going about things is the following : export the city, go to delete it in game, then re-import it. Never use a city name more than once at the same time.

The slots :
Thanks to mods created by Jeff10 and given with this software, 2 slots on first 5 regions, that is a total of 10 slots addes in the game! By default, a playable map called "Plat-Pays" is on these slots. Not to replace the official maps, it is on these slots that will be imported cities.

You can notice that a new region called "Génération Cities" was added. It include 10 slots which are invisible for the moment : in a next version of this software, a function to import new maps will be added. And they will be exclusively added in the region "Génération Cities". Patience...

If it is not already set up in your options, click on "Savegame folder" to choose the folder which game uses to safeguard your cities.

Click on "List all cities", the list will appear in the window to the right.

Choose the city which you want to export.
It is possible that in the list "ERROR! File not found'" appears. It means that this city does not exist any more but that game nevertheless kept some traces of this city...

Click on "Export selected city" then choose a folder and enter a name for the file. Your city will be saved...

Export my Mods list

If this box is checked, a text file will be created in the same folder as the cxlsav file.
This text file will contain the list of your Mods if there is in the Paks folder of game...

IMPORTANT :

Indeed, if you want to share a city and that to create this one you used some Mods, these Mods must be present on the machine which will import the city. If it is not case, Cities XL will crash when trying to load this city!

When you publish your city online, do not forget to make a copy/paste of your Mods list so that other users know what they need to go to your city.

Localization of the savegame folder :

Windows XP :

C:\Documents and Settings\(your session name)\Local Settings\Application Data\Monte Cristo\Cities XL\live\(your nickname)\solo

Windows Vista / Seven - 32/64 bits :

C:\Users\(your session name)\AppData\Local\Monte Cristo\Cities XL\live\(your nickname)\solo

Attention :

It is possible that some files as AppData or Application Data are invisible, according to your Folder options.
If it is case, change your Folder options.

• Windows XP: My Computer > Tools > Folder Options > View > Show hidden files and folders
• Windows Vista et Seven: Control Panel > Folder Options > View > Show hidden files and folders