Weird issue with assets / district styles

[Lord Ganjanoof 0]

Hello everybody,

This is my first post. I've never been good at introducing me, so let me just congratulate all the people contributing to the community.

As the title says, I'm struggling at getting district styles working properly.

I downloaded two, that look recently maintained. I downloaded both the styles and the subsequent collections from the workshop.

I can apply the styles, but some (many ?) assets are definitely missing in game. My city districts do not look like the pictures provided by the author. The 'Colonial' style includes office buildings for example. Well, in my city, office zones won't grow under that style.

I used the content manager to check the enabled assets. Many are reported as missing. Hitting 'Subscribe to all' won't solve the issue. There are still plenty of missing assets.

 

Now the funny part, when clicking on the magnifier icon for a particular asset listed as missing :

• sometimes it ends up on a broken workshop page. In this case, I suppose this is just because the asset is deprecated and it is really missing ;
• sometimes it ends up on a living workshop page showing that I actually subscribed to that asset. So where is it if the content manager reports it as missing ?

 

I already unsubscribed to all, cleaned the 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\255710' folder, re-subsribed to all, rinse and repeat.

Is it buggy or me ?

I know there is another way of customizing district looks, through the Building Themes mod (or Ploppable RICO), but I actually thought it would be easier through a vanilla tool.

 

Thanks in advance !