Question:
How to change city names:
2. Ability to change the city name? Or is it possible through other means. Answer:
1)Go to Users/Username/AppData/local/FocusHomeInteractive/Cities XL 2011/live/offline/solo and open the folder of the city you want to rename. To check which folder contains which city take a look at the city overview screens saved in the folder.
2)Open the file checkpoint.cxl with the Editor or Notepad
3)Change the underlined value
<itm key = 'PopSat' value = '58.535747528076' />
<itm key = 'CashFlow' value = '10639' />
<itm key = 'Tourists' value = '0' />
<itm key = 'Population' value = '175531' /> <itm key = 'CityName' value = 'Linz' />
into the new name you want.
4)Save the file