HQ growth glitch

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i've played this game years ago when i had a disk drive for my old PC and understand how the game is supposed to function when it comes to HQs - 1. build the required amount of stores 2. "build" HQ in correct district. 3. watch it grow as the business chain profits grow.

What is happening for me is the HQ can be built, will have no store list or profits in whichever tab where that is and will be visually and data wise always at level 1. if you go back to business chains tab you can also "build" said hq again. and again. and again. same behavior as the first one no stores connected to it. i built like 10+ of the same HQ in Chelsea alone to see if anything different would happen but no.

Italian restaurant HQ kind of works. the first 3 stores needed to complete the mission are connected but any other store after that does not connect

only thing i can think of maybe triggering the glitch is building an hq too early before the Italian restaurant mission as i did do that. im sure ive done it in the past on a retail copy of the game without problems so not sure it would be a problem here

checking to see if anyone on steam has this issue