Steam Workshop Question

[Ateerix]

Say I download a house that I think looks cool and would love to see in my city. Would I only have the option of placing it manually? Or will I also have the option of it appearing randomly with the other houses that can generate in a residential designated spot?

I'm not a fan of the Cities XL place everything system, and love the designation/paint tool type thing sim city uses, and skylines uses as well here. I would love to be able to make a mod full of buildings I like and release it as a massive content mod, but I would want it to be included in the random generation of houses rather than people having to individually place them.

Has there been any light shed on what the options for this kind of thing will be?

 

[HomelandAuteur]

There's ploppable structures in the Workshop. They are there. There's also buildings that look like they'll be in zoning as part of the variety of buildings.

Alongside parks, maps, game saves, intersections and filters.

 

[redjericho3]

There are 2 types of buildings.

Ploppable buildings can only be hand placed, they will not be spawned in a zone.

Zones buildings can only be made via zone and cannot be hand placed.

Both of these can be modded, so new items can be added to be ploppables and new items can be added to zone types. However, ploppables won't grow in zones.