RICO buildings leveling up (don't want them to!)

[Sgt. Max Cockburn]

Before the last game update, RICO buildings I added locally and set to a certain Level would stay at that level.

Ever since, no such luck. My cities are practically ruined and I have no idea why. Does anyone have some info for me? I must be missing something.

[CptJH]

I think there's a mod which disable level up. But I don't know it's name

[CyberVibes]

You can use the Make Historical feature to lock a buildings looks or you can use this mod if you'd like to control the level of wealth in each building.or you can use both at the same time.

Always read a mods description and comments section before subscribing
*Look for the authors comments primarily.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1403136223&searchtext=Control+level+up

EDIT: Considering you have large areas that you want to keep the looks of it may be better to use the district Make Historical as going through each building may be triesome.

[Sgt. Max Cockburn]

OK, will try that. Thanks! Didn't even know there was a new version for this.

So something changed with RICO?

[Sgt. Max Cockburn]

Not sure if it works... I'm a bit too frustrated with the fact that my city has changed so much that I'm going to have to start all over again.

Sorry - I do appreciate the help, but this is more labour than love right now.

Will post back after I tried in a few weeks.

[CyberVibes]

RICO was last updated in October around the same time the game was updated and Industries DLC was released, after every update there's a fallout of broken mods that need to be updated, some were updated some were completely deleted, chances are your issue started around this time.
The change notes for that particular update don't include any other changes apart from making it compatible with Industries as far as i know.

Maybe have a quick look through the broken mods list below and see if there's anything conflicting there, also a patch was released at xmas time to fix a load of bugs that came with Industries and it too caused a few mods to break, so it's also possible this caused the issue but it's quite hard to back track that far to actually pin point what caused this for you.

Check this list for broken mods and remove them, also check the incompaibilty tab at the top.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mVFkj_7ij4FLzKs2QJaONNmb9Z-SRqUeG6xFGqEX1ew/htmlview

[Sgt. Max Cockburn]

Will do as soon as I have some more free time. Thank you.

I understand the update thing. Love is pain I guess :)

[CyberVibes]

Originally posted by AntonTheNotSoAgreeable:

Not sure if it works... I'm a bit too frustrated with the fact that my city has changed so much that I'm going to have to start all over again.

Sorry - I do appreciate the help, but this is more labour than love right now.

Will post back after I tried in a few weeks.

Sorry to hear that, i feel your pain buddy, i know this doesn't really help now but in future create brand new saves for your cities everytime you do chunks of work, at least then you'll always have a fallback save so you won't lose everything.
The control level up and Make Historical does work i use them both in my current save.

[CyberVibes]

Originally posted by AntonTheNotSoAgreeable:

Will do as soon as I have some more free time. Thank you.

I understand the update thing. Love is pain I guess :)

You're welcome buddy, yeah two steps forward one step back with the updates, although when the mods have caught up and are fixed you get to enjoy all the new features as well.

[Sgt. Max Cockburn]

Originally posted by CyberVibes:

Originally posted by AntonTheNotSoAgreeable:

Not sure if it works... I'm a bit too frustrated with the fact that my city has changed so much that I'm going to have to start all over again.

Sorry - I do appreciate the help, but this is more labour than love right now.

Will post back after I tried in a few weeks.

Sorry to hear that, i feel your pain buddy, i know this doesn't really help now but in future create brand new saves for your cities everytime you do chunks of work, at least then you'll always have a fallback save so you won't lose everything.
The control level up and Make Historical does work i use them both in my current save.

Yeah, that is my bad!

Well, gives me time to think about my new city I guess :) God I loved "Wyttergras". I named every damn street lol.

[CptJH]

Yeah, I got that problem too but i have a savegame that was ok, because I save under a wrong name :)
Just go on with the City, sounds like hell of work! Maybe it will be better then before

[Sgt. Max Cockburn]

Maybe I will one day. It was (very loosely) based on my hometown (Amsterdam), old centre up against a river, and concentric expansion that really showed the different stages of growth.

But I can probably build a better one!

[CptJH]

I start a new city all the time. Just now I have only one save (and a backup). Wel... Not satisfied with a region now, have to bulldoze it and start again lol

[M.S.Referee]

Do you use 'Ploppable RICO' Mod??

If you use the mod, you should not got building auto updating. And the building level is locked by the mod setting.

So, if you real want to keep some level of buildings, try the mod.

[Sgt. Max Cockburn]

Yeah, that's the thing - I am using that.

Gimme a few days, maybe 1-1,5 weeks (really busy with work right now) and I will sort out if I'm just being a dope in some way, or if some black magic has gotten hold of my game.

Tnx guys, appreciate the responses.

Originally posted by CptJH:

I start a new city all the time. Just now I have only one save (and a backup). Wel... Not satisfied with a region now, have to bulldoze it and start again lol

I did that too at first, but when I have some sort of idea to work with like with the city I mentioned - I just love seeing my city change through time while at the same time trying to preserve what is there. The city I mentioned had a lot of stuff that felt very recognizable, there was a very "real" feel to it so to say.

In my opinion anyway :)

[M.S.Referee]

Ok, it's sure some mods made Ploppable RICO Mod got unnormal working. You need try to find the mod out.

For me, I found those 3 mods "Citizen Lifecycle Rebalance, Realistic Populationand Consumption, Resident Travel Rebalance" make Ploppable RICO Mod got wrong work, for example all level 1 of buildings got only '1 house', but I set it '40 house' in Ploppable RICO Mod. And other levels also no read setting from PloppableRICODefinition.xml file. And all type of commercial building is 'closed' forever.

So, when I remove those 3 Mods, Ploppable RICO Mod got right work now and no auto level up problem too.