Ideas and suggestions for Captain of Industry from the community
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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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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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.
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 ...
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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 + ...
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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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
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.
Switchable Day/Night mode of display
I would like to see our industrial island in night lights!
Under consideration
A button of flipping inputs and outputs of already builded storage
Without needing it to be rebuild.
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 ...
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Housing tier 4
Maybe would be nice to have some more capacious glassy skyscrapers?
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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.
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
aide aux déversement
il faudrait assigner des camion aux déversement + les trier par ressource
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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. ...
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.
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.
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Multiple suggestions
Pipelines and conveyor belts:
capable of forming parallel angles with the slope surface.
Refueling Excavators:
When refueling excavators, fuel trucks can add ...
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, ...
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
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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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.
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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