Ideas and suggestions for Captain of Industry from the community
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Roads
I would love to see roads added to the game, fist basic hardcore roads leading to concrete and finally tarmac. The roads could give a speed bonus and maintenance ...
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Truck parking while idle
Ability to construct parking lots and let trucks park when they are idle. Upgraded parking lots can even have refueling so truck can refuel while waiting for jobs. ...
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Conveyor Vertical Lifts
Vertical lift and descent segments for conveyors to go up and down without ramps, so only occupying 1 square. Could use higher tier construction materials.
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Fishing as a food source
We stranded on an empty island... if I learned something from all these stories about stranding: gathering some fruits and fetch some fish will increase your chance ...
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Wind power
A low-maintenance renewable energy source for the mid-game, land based.
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Bucket-wheel excavator
this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket-wheel_excavator
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Display maximum ore depth numerically on top of columns in Layers mode
It would be handy if the maximum ore depth was displayed numerically on top of the columns in Layers mode. The way things are now, we have to (try to) count them by ...
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Pipes coloring
Make it possible to recolor pipes. T2 pipes already have blue stripes, why not allow them to be recolored? Or even use color of transported resource. This could be ...
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Blatantly steal alt-mode from Factorio
Pressing Alt in Factorio causes all buildings to display the icon for their recipie, allowing you to see at a glance what's being produced where. If you could just ...
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Ability to create Tunnels
As per the title, would be pretty cool as a way to tunnel through cliffs, etc instead of bringing it all down
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Cargo cable car (long range transportation)
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Plastic Recycling
You can also recycle plastic, in the settlements it could based on medical supplies and fries bags.
Maybe you could create a Melter or/and Extruder to turn back the ...
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Batteries for energy storage
Flywheels are fine at first, but in the late game they feel a bit too small and also cannot store energy from solar panels. I was thinking of Acid-lead batteries but ...
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Aluminium / Aluminum resource
A key industrial metal missing from the industrial complex is Aluminium. In order to process this the bayer process would be needed, which would require crushing, ...
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Recycle Water used in the Cooled Caster for Steel Production
The water used in the Cooled Caster during steel production is just for cooling, so it would be logical for it to be outputted as some sort of steam
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Deep Shaft Mining.
At some point you are bound to run out of available ore. So maybe having a building that fulfils the purpose of digging deep, for that precious ore would be cool I ...
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Replenish Ground Water
If Limestone is placed 6 tiles deep over a groundwater source and a Gas Injection Pump is placed over that location then this would help to replenish the groundwater ...
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Bridges / Platforms
Allow for the construction of concrete slab platforms that would visually be similar the the large slab the shipyard has. These platforms would be constructed on the ...
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Filters for Smoke Stacks
Add a Filters upgrade for Smoke Stacks, or a separated building for Filtered Smoke Stacks. It should recude the pollution, but suffer a reduced productivity and an ...
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A steam regenerating boiler.
You would feed it low pressure or depleted steam and a small amount of water and it would turn it back into high pressure steam at a lower fuel cost.
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Add balancer/sorter height levels
Thought it would be a nice idea to make the balancer/sorters able to be raised off the ground to connect to conveyors that are off the ground (useful for multi stack ...
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Truck queue overview
I would like to be able to view what my truck queue consists of. If i can see 200 sec in queue and i'm able to click it and see that for example it's 150 sec's of ...
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Fix for underground pipes
When selecting objects for their subsequent deletion or copying, all objects are selected, including underground pipes, which is quite inconvenient and can lead to ...
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farm vehicles
tractors with plows and combines that you have to build in a vehicle depot. you could even have them increase effeciency or decrease workers needed
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Gas and or Electric Blast-Furnaces
Introduce Gas and or Electric fueled blast-furnaces. They both exist and are largely used in industry, and it's an interesting alternative of setup. The production ...
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Boiler Recipes for Water -> LP Steam or LP Steam -> HP Steam
Right now, the LP steam from arc furnaces and exhaust scrubbers is frustrating to use. There are precisely three consumers.
1) Turbines, which need a steady supply ...
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A really big desalination facility
A single nuclear power plant demands 8 desalinators worth of fresh water. Even with recycling water, it still comes to a lot of space and piping.
It gets even ...
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Turbine Shaft
Sections of straight shaft you can put between your Turbine, Generator and Flywheel incase you need to modify your design or move past a object in the way.
ex. I ...
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Add crop: Cotton
Cotton -->Textiles --> clothes --> people --> Unity
textiles coul also have other industrial uses.
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chicken farms produce waste
so the farm has live animals thus should be creating waste and also a source of amonia from chicken poop wich could be broken down into sludge and amionia
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Lithium and Aluminium Lategame Resources
Add Lithium and Aluminium as resources which are used to make lategame power management, batteries, upgraded vehicles and spaceship parts.
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About Balancers
I suggest improvements for balancers:
1) Increase the number of ports to 12 (3+3+3+3), sometimes 8 ports are not enough.
2) Add priority selection to the port ...
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About industrial boilers
About industrial boilers:
1. In reality, high pressure steam boilers store a lot of steam.
2. When the boiler is turned off, it still produces steam for a ...
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Underground pipes and belts, and a map mod for it.
Thats it: underground pipes and belts.
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Add creative mode
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Solar roofs
I can understand the simplicity of making solar panels a separate building, but the real world solution to space constraints is to make use of the rooftops. Make ...
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Electric trucks / Hydrogen trucks
Trucks that can be fuelled with electricity or hydrogen
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Stackable Mergers / Pillars for Mergers.
Pipes and belts can be layed at ground level 1 up to 4.
Mergers can only placed on the floor.
it would be nice if the mergers could get something like pillars too ...
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Retaining walls are really tedious to place
Retaining walls should have a drag placing mode like pipes, rather than having to place individual segments and corners, which is very slow going.
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Oil Rig Pipeline
I think it would be an interesting concept to make a permanent pipeline from an excisting oil rig to your island. It would take time ofcourse, maybe even need to ...
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Logic Switches
Switches that can be used to turn buildings on and off based on set parameters.
Example: Turn water pumps on when water tank is <25% and water pump off when ...
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Housing IV should be a thing
When you’re ready to launch rockets, I would prefer mu population to live better than the pinnacle of soviet architecture. Maybe glass high rises? Let them share in ...
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Modular/Variable Size Vehicle Ramp
Right now, the vehicle ramp is a fixed size. It would be nice if the length and width were variable, and if the under pass could support height +1 in addition to ...
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Green Energy
• Solarpower (if/when day/night cycle is added)
• Windpower (if weather is added)
• Batteries to store power when it is night or low wind
• Biogas from digestate ...
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Advanced Mining
Not sure if this is already planned or not but a couple of items to add improvements to mining. Could call it Advanced Mining as a researchable item. This should ...
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Logic Gates and Circuit Signals/Network
I think every complicated Factory game needs logic gates and way to transport signals to create most efficient production.
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Balancer multiple priority order
It would be nice if a balancer could have multiple priority, e.g. first go to port X, then port Y and finally port Z. This could be achived with a simple priority ...
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Map Designer/Scenario Editor
Allow users the ability to create and share islands on the Steam Workshop, provided with tools to shape these new beginnings to their liking, whether to provide a ...
Planned