Did anyone actually use the woodcutters' camp method to get inside the City?
How many ways are there to get into the city? I didn't really bother looking for alternate routes because the Silbach mayor just gave me a pass after a very simple quest (and doing simple quests == free xp).
Also you can enter the city by hiding in the merchant's barrel that got stuck with the broken cart wheel outside the east gate of the city, near the statue of innos.
To do this you must first get to chapter 2, find out the details of the kidnappers and their direction to the city and find that you cannot enter without a recommendation by talking to the guards at the entrance.
Once this is done you can go to the merchant, give him a good wheel and ask if he can get you into the city.
This also unlocks an achievement.
Now that I think about it, during the first chapter there was a quest where Otho, the one who stands next to the shepherd and attacks you if you try to enter the stable, wants to take revenge for a wrong suffered by another villager by putting sheep shit in his bed.
If you betray him and tell him what he wants to do, the other villager reveals that a guard at the entrance to the city is corrupt and if you give him a password and 75 gold coins he will let you in.
I tried but none of the entrance guards gave me a chance to do so. Either I did something wrong, or it's a bug ... or that asshole screwed me. I do not know...
However, I also came in with Albyn's recommendation. In the end it is the simplest and most profitable way.