Disabled Assets Still Appear

[peetey897]

I'm not sure if this is a bug or expected behavior. For some reason, disabled growable (vs plopable) workshop assets still spawn. For example, if I have a bunch of house assets, and they are DISABLED in content manager, they will still spawn as part of redidential growth. I understand that workshop assets get added to the "vanilla" district style so if you have enabled workshop growables they will spawn all over, but I can't even be so much as subscribed to items if I don't want to see them grow all over. Is this expected behavior that anyone else has seen or is this a bug?

[grapplehoeker]

Before you start a new city build, carefully select the assets you know for a fact that you will be using in your project and disable the rest.
You can even use this mod to keep track,
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=588691634

[peetey897]

Oh I absolutely agree. What I am saying is that assets that are DISABLED, fully disabled, as in opened in the content manager and turned off, seem to still show up in my cities, from a brand new game. I am not at my computer right now, but I can test this again and provide screenshots.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by peetey897:

Oh I absolutely agree. What I am saying is that assets that are DISABLED, fully disabled, as in opened in the content manager and turned off, seem to still show up in my cities, from a brand new game. I am not at my computer right now, but I can test this again and provide screenshots.

Have you created any district styles incorporating those assets?
For the sake of experimentation, please try the --noWorkshop launch setting.
If the game works in a vanilla state properly then there is likely a mod at fault and you'l have to identify and deal with it.

[peetey897]

District Styles are kind of the root/back end of this problem. The whole reason I'm trying to solve this is because of the issues with district styles. I will try some games with different parameters/variables and report back. In both instances where I have had this issue, the items WERE included in a district style, but that style, too, was fully disabled.

What I'm really trying to achieve is to make the in game district styles work "properly", or at least the logical way, where the workshop buildings only spawn in districts styled to include them. Of course, that doesn't work, but I read that styles will still work even if their individual assets have been disabled. I theorized that if I enabled the style but disabled its individual assets, perhaps it would prevent them from spawning except where they were supposed to. This also didn't work, but I continue to run into the problem that even if then go in and disable the style as well, so it exists but is not enabled, the buildings STILL show up.

(Basically I'm trying to get district styles to work until building themes gets updated for Mass Transit)

[peetey897]

Okay, I have investigated and tested at length. The short version is I was partly mistaken. With buildings all disabled but the style enabled, the buildings spawn anyway. With the buildings disabled AND the style disabled, the buildings do not spawn. Knowing this I am inclined to think this is expected/intended behavior, and follows how the game treats district styles. The styles system may be really terrible, but at least I have figured this out where it at least makes logical sense.

I can't wait for building themes to update LOL.

[Stringer Bell]

Hey peetey897, I think I have the same problem which is super annoying. I have set up districts with specific workshop assets that match the district (e.g. Brooklyn, Manhattan, Tokyo, etc) and even though I turned those assets OFF in Contents Manager (but left the Styles on), they still spawn all over the city. Have you found a solution to this problem? My intention is to created different districts with distinct building styles!

[peetey897]

Originally posted by StringerMarcus:

Hey peetey897, I think I have the same problem which is super annoying. I have set up districts with specific workshop assets that match the district (e.g. Brooklyn, Manhattan, Tokyo, etc) and even though I turned those assets OFF in Contents Manager (but left the Styles on), they still spawn all over the city. Have you found a solution to this problem? My intention is to created different districts with distinct building styles!

If you have buildings disabled AND the styles they are in disabled, they won't show up. If you have buildings disabled BUT the style enabled, they show up. Sadly, it looks like this is just how the code works, and I'm not sure there is a way around it. I'm afraid the Building Themes mod is the only way to truly tightly control your themes.