Home

Welcome to the Ploppable-RICO wiki!

This Wiki contains the documentation for the Ploppaple Rico-Mod.

Rico lets you rededicate Cities: Skylines buildings. For example, parks can be converted to farms, and unique buildings to offices. Mixed use buildings and unlimited footprint sizes are also possible.

To rededicate a building, you simply have to specify what you want in one of the ways described below. A rededicated building will revert back to its original purpose if the mod is disabled.

How do I specify Rico-Settings?

There are two ways to specify your rico-settings.

Adding a description file next to the asset file

Asset files are located in %YOUR_STEAM_DIR%\SteamApps\workshop\content\255710%STEAM_ID%NAME%.crp where %YOUR_STEAM_DIR% is where your Steam is installed and %STEAM_ID% is the id of the building. That's the same id as it is used in the workshop-url for the asset. So if you find the asset under http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=738728833 its id is 738728833. %NAME% depends on the building.

To specify your wishes you have to add or edit in existing description file. Depending on your expertise you can chose between the simple and the xml format.

To use the simple format name your description file PloppableRico.simple and add the following

service=industrial
sub-service=generic
construction-cost=222200
level=2
workplaces=111,121,13,14

This will turn the origin building into a level 2 generic industrial building with 111 uneducated, 121 educated, 13 well educated and 14 highly eduction jobs.

In xml format the same looks like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<PloppableRICODefinition xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <Buildings>
    <Building 
        service="industrial" 
        sub-service="generic" 
        construction-cost="222200" 
        level="2" 
        workplaces="111,121,13,14" />
  </Buildings>
</PloppableRICODefinition>

As you can see this is way more verbose, however as you surely can tell it also makes it possible to put more than one definition in one file.

The most important field is service. It decides which AI is used for the redesigned building and therfore which other fields you can use. See Services and fields

The Rico format

• Calimero