Couple questions: Tool and Die shop, Comercial plots and T4 merchants?

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1. Last I played I seem to remember some confusion about whether the IR advanced industrial plot "Tool and Die shop" worked globally or only in the one settlement. I have not been able to find any mention of it in the patch notes, so: Has it been "fixed"/changed in the meantime? Will it now allow T4 farms in all settlements, or do you still need them in every farming settlement?

2. Will the commercial plots count as regular Stores when it comes to the recruitment requirements of certain T4 merchants? Or will I need to put down some vanilla stores in one settlement?

 

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1. Last I played I seem to remember some confusion about whether the IR advanced industrial plot "Tool and Die shop" worked globally or only in the one settlement. I have not been able to find any mention of it in the patch notes, so: Has it been "fixed"/changed in the meantime? Will it now allow T4 farms in all settlements, or do you still need them in every farming settlement?

The bonus is supposed to flow along supply lines now.

2. Will the commercial plots count as regular Stores when it comes to the recruitment requirements of certain T4 merchants? Or will I need to put down some vanilla stores in one settlement?

I assigned Trader Rylee(?) to a commercial plot, she came up with the full T4 inventory.

 

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The bonus is supposed to flow along supply lines now.

Yes I know it is supposed to. But from what I remember and what I can find(https://simsettlements.com/site/ind...and-every-farming-settlement.6416/#post-47368) it apparently didn't work. At least not initially when the tech sharing was added? And I cannot find mention of it in patch notes if it was later fixed.

I assigned Trader Rylee(?) to a commercial plot, she came up with the full T4 inventory.

I am not asking whether they work as T4 merchants in the plots. I know they do. But a few of the random encounter T4 merchants seem to have requirements of number of settlers AND the existence of the shops in a settlement, before you can even recruit them. My question is whether a store plot will count as this.