Yeah not sure how to interpret these three choices - it seems that you are saying that if you use city plans you have to be "fully automated" the way you have set it up. I use city plans a lot of the time, but I have construction and maintenance costs on, disease system on, HQ disaster system on, HQ timers on, I have low involvement with my city plans so they have to be fed scrap, and I play using scrap categories. I also tend to manually edit city plans a lot over time (swapping out basic level farms, martials, and municipals, with advanced or high tech) managing the SPECIAL of the settlers and their training and sometimes changing out the recreational plots or adding them if the city plan has space in it - but according to these choices it would sound like i have to pick automated because you have said "normal mode" means "no city plans" and that doesn't feel right to me.