Ploppable RICO Revisited improvements - algernon-A/Ploppable-RICO-Revisited GitHub Wiki

This is a quick summary of the key differences of Ploppable RICO Revisited vs the original Ploppable RICO:

• A completely overhauled implementation mechanism using Harmony patches which fixes a number of problems caused by the original mod's implementation mechanism.
• Full support for editing Growable buildings.
• Incorporation of configurable 'Plop the Growables'-style functionality to support management of growable buildings (both RICO and non-RICO), including the ability to suppress 'low land value' and 'not enough services' complaints.
• Communication with the Advanced Building Level Control mod to optionally control the levels of plopped buildings.
• Ability to override the preset costs of buildings with Ploppable RICO settings to consistent formula-based calculated costs.
• Optional live application of changes in-game (without requiring a restart).
• Support for Green Cities and later DLC building specialisations, including self-sufficient buildings (residential), organic and local produce (commercial), and IT cluster (offices).
• Multiple bugfixes, including no more NullReferenceExceptions caused by bad assets or by not owning required DLC.
• Fixed the Realistic Population mod integration setting broken in the original.
• Fixed the pollution effects setting broken in the original.
• (Optional) correctly updates residential household counts on level load, including failsafes for when cities are operating close to internal game limits.
• Supports Ryuichi Kaminogi's RICO Settings for Modern Japan CCP.
• Improved settings editor with multiple enhancements, including additonal filtering options, auto-updating fields, and the ability to see and edit workforce education breakdowns.
• UI performance improvements.
• Automatic on-demand building thumbnail generation to enable instant and accurate identification of buildings in the selection panel.
• More resilient to configuration file errors or errors caused by faulty assets.
• Doesn't break the asset editor.
• Extensible translation framework, with preset translations for multiple languages.
• Improved logging and more consistent error messages when something does go wrong.
• Extensive code revision, cleanup and refactoring.