The RICO settings panel is designed to allow players to:

-View any RICO settings applied to assets.
-Tweak RICO settings on existing RICO assets.
-Add new RICO settings to any asset, including growables and vanilla assets.

Possible uses for existing RICO assets include:

-Adjusting job counts to match player balance settings.
-Filling in missing settings, such as construction cost.
-Lowering levels on assets with the level set too high.
-Adding industrial specializations.
-Enabling or disabling WG pop balance compatibility.
-Disabling RICO on an asset with mod or author settings.

Possible uses for new RICO settings:

-Adding settings to vanilla assets, such as the unique building offices.
-Adding growables that you wish to plop outside of zoned areas.
-Adding settings for long abandoned workshop assets with no author settings.
-Using your own custom local assets with RICO.

RICO settings can come from three sources.

Mod Settings - These come from the RICO Settings Mod.
Author Settings - Bundled with workshop assets.
Local Settings - Set by the player though the settings panel.

If you subscribe to the RICO Settings Mod, its settings are stored in the mod folder in your workshop folder. Its a single WorkshopRICOSettings.xml file that contains settings for long abandoned assets. This is updated by myself.

The asset author settings are stored in the workshop folders. Each asset will have a seperate PloppableRICODefinition.xml file, and they will be updated whenever the asset author updates his/her asset. Its best not to touch these files.

The local RICO settings are stored in a single large LocalRICOSettings.xml file in your games root directory. The settings panel reads and writes from this file. For windows users, the directory typically looks like "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Cities_Skylines".

Author settings will override mod settings, and any local settings made by yourself via the panel will override all other RICO settings.

To view the panel, click the Settings button on the RICO tool panel.

The top bar is the filter bar. Here you can filter the asset list by type to find your asset. This represents the original asset setting.

On the far right, you'll see the asset list. The three check boxes represent mod settings, asset author settings, and local settings. This is a quick way to see what assets have existing settings.

In the middle, you'll find the building preview, and three buttons.

To add local settings, simply click the Add Local button. Assets with author or mod settings will inherit existing settings for the local settings. For assets with new RICO settings, you'll start with a generic template.

To disable RICO on an asset with existing settings, click Add Local, then toggle Enable RICO, and then Save.

After you've changed your local settings, you'll need to click save.

Removing local RICO settings is as simple as clicking Remove Local.

Any changes made to RICO settings will take effect on the next scene load.