Ideas and suggestions for Captain of Industry from the community

Welcome to the official suggestions board for Captain of industry. Vote on your favorite suggestions below, or add new ones! Discuss them on our Discord server.

Plastic Provision

I think sense we have a lot of consumer goods in this game i want to provide Plastic to them. a market cuold provide plastic that generates extra Unity-at the cost of ...
Suggested by: Enviromental Hater (yesterday) Upvoted: today Comments: 0
Under consideration Game machanic Production recipes

Add "Products crafted" stat per building.

When selecting a building I want it to show how many times it has completed a recipe since it was built. Factorio also has this stat. It can be useful to know e.g. ...
Suggested by: Bor (yesterday) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 0
Under consideration UI

Ability to designate island wide dump regulations

The ability to prevent dumping a material anywhere on the island unless specifically allowed by a mining tower. Things happen, areas of control get moved around, ...
Suggested by: Dustin (2 days ago) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 2
Under consideration Game machanic Quality of life

Faster speed

I would love we have more speed options. IT could be like 3 months per year so it dont break the game skipping mechanics but we have a boost we can use to certain ...
Suggested by: DragnSlayer (24 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Designate dumping designation of specific item without the need for control tower

Basically title. Would like to dump a stock pile of item that doesn't require a control tower to be placed in order to control what gets dumped.
Suggested by: Mark (24 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Non persistent mining dumping designation

Ability to have mining/dumping designation auto delete once initially completed. This would help avoid conflicts later between dumping and mining.
Suggested by: Mark (24 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

An office to manage trucks

An office to be able to send trucks en masse for recycling or exchange them for their upgraded version, with orders, for example, using paper and adding ink to create ...
Suggested by: DragnSlayer (24 Mar) Upvoted: today Comments: 0
Under consideration

Force paste vs paste only if possible.

Currently when pasting a blueprint/copied section, parts that collide with another entity are removed and the rest are pasted. I would prefer the pasting to error ...
Suggested by: Bor (24 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Quality of life

Mass Change of priority

Allow to Change the priority for buildings en Mass, e.g. using a drag tool to Mark all desired buildings. The priorities to Change include General priority ...
Suggested by: Axel (24 Mar) Upvoted: today Comments: 0
Under consideration Quality of life

If salt is poured into the ocean is should be deleted

Any tile of salt on or under the water should have it's contents slowly drop to zero over time to simulate it dissolving into the ocean.
Suggested by: link12313 (23 Mar) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 0
Under consideration Game machanic

Next Level Wastewater Treatment

I believe the game would benefit from a next level waste water Treatement plant. One Gold Furnace required Two Settling Tanks to feed it. Four Settling Tanks is all ...
Suggested by: Jon (21 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Move the worning notification messages, they are blocking the maintance info

Please move the maintance info I II III or the working messages they are blocking the maintance progress bar, i know i can close them but they keep on coming back again.
Suggested by: Lethu (21 Mar) Upvoted: 21 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration UI

Partial Blueprints

A blueprint should still be usable, even if all of the components have been researched. If I have a blueprint of a build but I don't have Storage 2, Belts, pipes 2 or ...
Suggested by: Darkaiser (20 Mar) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 1
Under consideration

Aerated concrete (AAC)

Aluminium comes in Update 3, so this is another good opportunity for its usage. With aluminium can do concrete slabs with less cost. Concrete mixer: 1.5 Cement + ...
Suggested by: Cpt. SEI (20 Mar) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 0
Under consideration Production recipes

Assign trucks to only take tasks within a defined area.

I want to be able to draw a boundary around a particular supply chain or group of buildings and assign trucks to serve that area.
Suggested by: W Skinner (19 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Blueprints to steam workshop

Blue prints should be posted too, and downloadable from the steam workshop. I think this would make it far easier. It's like if you played Stormworks and had to go to ...
Suggested by: JK (19 Mar) Upvoted: 19 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

District Heating

There are already suggestions to add settlement heating in some form to the game, as well as seasons. I'm not quite happy with the current suggestions, so here's ...
Suggested by: issFlo (18 Mar) Upvoted: today Comments: 0
Under consideration Game machanic

Mining Control Tower -> Mobile Mining Office

After watching the dev stream #39, where he's talking about moving mining towers, and how it should be easier... What if, instead of a building, there was an ...
Suggested by: SpeedDaemon (18 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 2
Under consideration Quality of life UI

Load old version saves

Load old ersion saves Or convert to new version and load
Suggested by: ALEXEY (18 Mar) Upvoted: 18 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Solar cells upkeep

Currently in the game, solar cells having not much usage, being totally retarded by FBRs. With a little tweaking, it could have their own niche! By this I mean ...
Suggested by: Cpt. SEI (18 Mar) Upvoted: 18 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Optional manpower, goods supply (paper etc), or TFlops instead of Unity for Edicts

Player could have these options for running Edicts: 1) Default - for Unity 2) Using more clerks (more manpower + paper + other supply) 3) Using TFlops
Suggested by: Cpt. SEI (18 Mar) Upvoted: 18 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration UI

Organic fertilizer into Fertilizer 1 recipe

Just to get rid of byproduct compost later. When all fields should running max fertility. Or earlier, for not making separate pipes for different kind of fertilizers.
Suggested by: Cpt. SEI (18 Mar) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 0
Under consideration Production recipes

Switchable Day/Night mode of display

I would like to see our industrial island in night lights!
Suggested by: Cpt. SEI (17 Mar) Upvoted: 17 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

A button of flipping inputs and outputs of already builded storage

Without needing it to be rebuild.
Suggested by: Cpt. SEI (17 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Quality of life UI

Custom surfaces wrap up corners properly

Otherwise these ugly holes
Suggested by: Cpt. SEI (17 Mar) Upvoted: 17 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

More Graphics Options

In most games ore options like Antialising, LODs, Texture rendering, Entity rendering, Shadow distance, texture details, etc aviable. I want them. cant turn most ...
Suggested by: Jacky (17 Mar) Upvoted: 17 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Housing tier 4

Maybe would be nice to have some more capacious glassy skyscrapers?
Suggested by: Cpt. SEI (16 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Add Vehicle Parts recipes to Assembly tier 5

Additional productivity going from tier 4 to tier 5 woulde be also useful particularily for Vehicle Parts contracts.
Suggested by: Cpt. SEI (16 Mar) Upvoted: 16 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Production recipes Quality of life

Notification for collapsed buildings

Right now we only have notification when a building is at risk of collapse. Would be great to know when it actually got destroyed
Suggested by: TartarePingouin (15 Mar) Upvoted: today Comments: 0
Under consideration Quality of life UI

aide aux déversement

il faudrait assigner des camion aux déversement + les trier par ressource
Suggested by: toinou (15 Mar) Upvoted: 15 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Refill or convert underground oil deposits

The ability to either pump oil from other sources back into the ground to replete the oil supply, or the ability to convert it to storage for other fluid types. ...
Suggested by: Dustin (15 Mar) Upvoted: 15 Mar Comments: 1

mooring wall

The construction of a retaining wall in the water is difficult at the moment, I would like to cultivate the borders of my island.
Suggested by: Ganz (14 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Ability to set set fluid levels within the tanks

Slider just like keep empty/full except it would allow user to set the level within the tanks to stop fluids from entering once desired amount is held.
Suggested by: Grey Falcon (12 Mar) Upvoted: 12 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Multiple suggestions

Pipelines and conveyor belts: capable of forming parallel angles with the slope surface. Refueling Excavators: When refueling excavators, fuel trucks can add ...
Suggested by: Gamers (11 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 0

List of build / upgrade projects

It would be really handy to get a list of all on-going build projects or upgrades and the ability to jump to it. Preferably with resources needed / already delivered, ...
Suggested by: Markus (11 Mar) Upvoted: 17 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration Quality of life UI

Item preview counter when copy/cut

When mass selecting items to either copy or cut it would be nice to see a item counter showing how many items are selected See picture
Suggested by: Leggo (10 Mar) Upvoted: 11 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration

Please optimize the vehicle's pathfinding function

Vehicles should prioritize searching for paved roads, such as brick or concrete roads, when seeking directions. We also need to add the setting of driving on the ...
Suggested by: wangwei (10 Mar) Upvoted: 16 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration

Allowing certain none assigned vehicles to load or uload loose storages

It would be great if we had the ability to allow certain vehicles to load/unload from loose storages without having to assign vehicles to the storage bin. See picture
Suggested by: Leggo (08 Mar) Upvoted: 16 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Boilers should have a warm-up period

Recently in a discussion about Thermal Storages in Discord, we realized that they don't really provide much of a benefit, since you can just use coal buffers for ...
Suggested by: Flores (07 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

On island publications

Industry to support a newspaper or magazine on the island. Paper, pulp, ink, binding, retail attached to housing. Possibly export entertainment to other islands.
Suggested by: Dustin (05 Mar) Upvoted: 17 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration New machines Production recipes

New story line to add more tech and longer games

I would suggest that you edit story to say that you are a group of forgotten people left on earth as it eventually dies. Your only hope for your offspring is to get ...
Suggested by: FKS (04 Mar) Upvoted: 04 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Let crops add some fertility if they die

If crops die due to a lack of water, let them re-add a bit of the fertility they used to grow to the farm. Maybe 50% of the fertility used? Since the crops aren't ...
Suggested by: Flores (04 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

online or lan multiplayer games

make game where someone can host game and have upto 3 other players that can join, each choosing different locations on map/or an island in surrounding area of map ...
Suggested by: jonathan wilcox-williams (02 Mar) Upvoted: 07 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

arbre technologies

Bonjour, Il me semble peu logique de proposer la technologie gros véhicule avant celles nécessaires sel + fabrication du verre nécessaires pour obtenir les pièces ...
Suggested by: François (01 Mar) Upvoted: 01 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Truck train car

Trucks are slow to move over the island and they take fuel to do it. Allow them to drive up on a platform or special car with a ramp to allow moving trucks around ...
Suggested by: Dustin (01 Mar) Upvoted: 14 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Game machanic New machines

ferraille

Hello, j'ai remarqué que la ferraille présente deux images différentes.. une pour celle produite par l'usine de recyclage et une autre quand il s'agit de choisir le ...
Suggested by: François (28 Feb) Upvoted: 28 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration

Mega Haul trucks only hold 3 types

I noticed my Mega Haul Trucks were not full after i unchecked "Allow partially loaded trucks". If the truck has only 1 type they all get filled to 100%. If they get ...
Suggested by: BOB (28 Feb) Upvoted: 04 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Anbindung von Rohrleitungen

Da ja die Rohrleitungen durch Flansche (wie in der Industrie üblich) angeschlossen werden, wäre es toll, wenn man die Rohrleitungen auch von oben und unten ...
Suggested by: Florian (24 Feb) Upvoted: today Comments: 0
Under consideration Quality of life

How To Significantly Raise Sales & Popularity Of Game

The looks and feel of the game is a bit mechanical than full of life The tutorials are a bit complex and not well articulated There is no feature to see how many ...
Suggested by: Anne (24 Feb) Upvoted: 05 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration