Is there a "Make Historical"?

[LivingInThePast 364]

I'm playing C:S with a few mods as I find them (and unfortunately, C:S is broken in lots of ways out of the box) but one thing that I cannot find yet that makes me sad is the lack of a "Make Historical" checkbox. One of the neat things of SimCity 4 and its random commercial development was being able to spot things you downloaded and waited to sprout naturally, so if you spot that low-rise fast food growing in your commercial area, you can keep it there with the Make Historical box and not have to worry about it being destroyed in redevelopment unless a massive fire rips through that part of town. Unfortunately, in C:S, there's no such option. Recently, I lost a Pizza Hut to redevelopment, and now I realize I won't be able to save my McDonald's restaurant if it also falls to re-development.

Steam Workshop won't help me in this case, is it even possible, or is there an alternative I can do that doesn't resort to ploppables?

[Beanycupcake 5]

you can use building themes mod to do building themes per district! you can pick and choose the buildings you want to grow right in the game

[RHMgerards 7]

The following mod basically does the trick:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=410535198

[LivingInThePast 364]

The second is more like it, but the first has its merits too (if I wanted to make distinct districts, like downtown-style buildings or whatever). The lack of a true "Make Historical" item seems to be a detriment...

Also, from what I've read, Control Level Up is broken under the current version and hasn't been updated in a while.

[Matthias King 348]

4 hours ago, LivingInThePast said:

Also, from what I've read, Control Level Up is broken under the current version and hasn't been updated in a while.

Is this confirmed? I can't play without Control Level Up. If it's not working and I load my save, it'll be ruined. Can anyone confirm if this is broken, and when? I can confirm it was working the last time I played, just a few days ago.

[LivingInThePast 364]

1 minute ago, Matthias King said:

Is this confirmed? I can't play without Control Level Up. If it's not working and I load my save, it'll be ruined. Can anyone confirm if this is broken, and when? I can confirm it was working the last time I played, just a few days ago.

I was just reading the Steam comments, reporting it to be broken. I can't confirm or deny it--I didn't download it.

[Matthias King 348]

I just looked and the last comment was October 7th, and I can confirm it was working perfectly fine then, at least for me. It's worked through every patch and update, but I haven't loaded my save since the Stadium patch a couple days ago, so I can't confirm it against that. But like I said, it's continued to work through all the others, so hopefully it's still good.

I'll know once I load a save and if I hear a million chimes, I'll know it's broken.

[Giovanni E 155]

you can also make a local copy with ploppable RICO settings using the rico mod. that way, it will never be affected by rebuilding because of leveling up or building themes that might overwrite the building, and you can plop it anywhere at any time you wish (as long as its besides a road) thats what i do with a lot of industrial and commercial buildings atleast.

[Bolduck91 54]

Can confirm that controle level up has worked for me for ever even if people was saying the opposite. And indeed Ploppable Rico is another way to go. 

[LivingInThePast 364]

5 minutes ago, Bolduck91 said:

Can confirm that controle level up has worked for me for ever even if people was saying the opposite. And indeed Ploppable Rico is another way to go. 

Great, I'm glad it works...though from what I've read, it is incompatible with that building theme mod. But the building theme mod would only be handy if you had lots of custom assets. Don't get me wrong, it sounds awesome, I could (in theory) arrange my gentrifying hipster district buildings, my Chinatown districts, and my touristy buildings, but that's what not what I need.

I believe I mentioned in my first post something that "doesn't resort to ploppables", because the way I see it, it drains the fun out of the game.

[Bolduck91 54]

5 minutes ago, LivingInThePast said:

.though from what I've read, it is incompatible with that building theme mod.

I run both together very well ! I can't imagine the game now without those two mods !

[barcasam7 185]

1 hour ago, Bolduck91 said:

I run both together very well ! I can't imagine the game now without those two mods !

I second this, I run both without any problems.