Okay, two (and a half?) weird situations, everyone. Any 11th-hour help would be much appreciated.
First, this is the first result of running the Contest Holotape in my Level 0:
It doesn't seem to be counting the blue man beds. (The sleeping position floor/surface). You can see one on the top bunk in this second image.
In addition, the game registers the settlement as having
SIX 'beds' in the UI and all my settlers have a place to sleep. There's the bed on the right of this photo, the blue man you can see, a glitched/invisible blue man you can't on the cot on the left (more on that in a minute), an interior residential, and two 2x2 residential plots. This level also has a single 2x2 Martial, a 2x2 Agricultural, a 2x2 Advanced Industrial, a 2x2 Commercial, an Interior Recreational, and an Interior Commercial. There's also technically a guard post/minigun emplacement and a bar vendor blue man. Both are there more for cosmetic reasons than anything else; the bar vendor might actually get removed since I didn't use him at any level. Those are the two work items, though.
Total: 6 job plots, 3 residential plots, 2 work items, a bed, and two* blue-man sleeping positions. The holotape doesn't seem to be counting the blue men. That, or it's a result of problem #1.5: When I was working on my Level 1, I had a blue man on that cot that I accidentally scrapped and then reflexively hit the undo button. Instead of actually bringing the blue man back, it just added a phantom bed to my settlement count and I haven't been able to figure out any way to clear it. Luckily I was assigning beds with blue men at that point on a bunch of cots, so I just left one empty to counter-act. This does mean there's a phantom blue man mucking with the numbers. Sadly, my nearest save was too far back to go back and fix it.
So that's problem #1/1.5.
Then, there's problem #2: The holotape finishes and tells me I need to build 5 more plots. Am I missing something in the guidelines that I'm not seeing? I know for sure Levels 3 & 2 checked out fine, and I'm 98% Level 1 did, as well, but I have to go back and check. Here are the numbers for those levels:
The numbers in parentheses indicate a plot/work item that's not intended to be manned at that level. The asterisks refer to some of those bed counts including blue men on cots.
I was going to start the recreational plot around Level 2, but the Holotape called me out for not having one at Level 1, so I had to re-plan. This makes me wonder if maybe we
do have to have 11 minimum plots at all levels.
-asp