RICO problem identified: Commercial not operating with Realistic Pop mod

[alborzka 66]

EDIT: Turns out the below issue is caused by RICO and WP Realistic Population mods not playing nicely with each other; whenever local settings are added to any type of commercial and Realistic Pop is disabled for that particular building, that building will always be "not operating" despite having workers. Only way for it to operate is to have Realistic Pop enabled for it, which would render your local settings for it useless. The workaround solution so far seems to be enabling Realistic Pop for that asset, plopping it in-game to find out its generated worker amount, and then going into WG_RealisticCity.xml to add something along these lines:

    <meshName bonus="-311">651651763.Alliance_Data</meshName>

to add/subtract however much is needed to get it to be the amount of workers you want. Hopefully this will be fixed in the upcoming RICO version @AJ3D?

OP below: -----------------------

I tried making a bunch of buildings into mixed-use by loading this underground parking lot asset into Asset Editor, resize it into the building size, save it under a new name, and then load the building into Asset Editor and add this resized parking lot as a sub-building. Saving the building under a new name, I now go into RICO to assign properties to its new sub-building. Results?

• Residential, Industrial, Office, Park, even School = works great, as intended, and "operating normally".
• Commercial (low, high, tourist, leisure)? Not Operating. Always. They get plenty of workers, and always have a "happy face", but always not operating. I even have the Resilient Owners mod to make sure it's not just a UI bug, but it also says "Clients served: 0" aka the business hasn't made any money or sold any goods, so it really isn't operating and it's not just a UI bug.

I have no idea why! The main building functions no matter what it is (commercial or otherwise), but sub-buildings only function properly if they're not commercial.

 

The odd thing is, I have the new Imperia Tower building which is mixed use and comes with RICO settings for its sub-building, and its commercial sub-building works great -- Operating Normally and no problems.

How does this asset have functioning commercial sub-buildings and mine don't? How do I get my commercial sub-buildings to function properly, since all my other sub-buildings are fine?

  Edited July 9, 2017 by alborzka  

[alborzka 66]

After some more digging apparently this is a RICO issue where some sort of conflict occurs with Realistic Population mod:

http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/751732442/341537671984442970/