City-import allows to replace on additional slots your exported cities, the cities of your friends or cities provided by the members of the forum and were downloaded on our website.
Prior informations

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...

Tools / City - Import

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 "File to import" then choose a city file in .cxlsav format (Created by City - Export)

Click on "List available slots", the list will appear in the window to the right.

Choose a free slot.

Enter the name which you want to give to the city. You can enter up to 17 characters.
Allowed characters are : a-z, A-Z, é, è, ç, à, -

Click on "Import the city".

Notice

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