thanks if parallels works looks like a option will wait a couple of days see if BB come back with anything. dont hold any hope they will fix this in jan so could cost £70 pounds
There should be some free alternatives to Parallels (virtualbox?), you can also run windows 10 without a license for quite a long time (with restrictions, but those don't matter if you only plan to use it for settlers online).
Adobe air is meant to be cross platform, the windows exe file is just the way the files have been packaged together, it should be really easy for a mac/linux client to be packaged in the same way.
Disgusted, why not release the Mac download asit is now and let us test it for you. If it crashes now and again, we can probably live with that. Come on guys get your act together.
I am very disappointed that us Mac users will not be able to play, I was looking forward to playing the Christmas event, I have put a lot of time and money into this game and think that we have been let down.