Ideas and suggestions for Captain of Industry from the community
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Medium Retaining Wall
We have short (1-wide) and long (4-wide) retaining walls. Since the long wall only covers multiples of 4, longer stretches often end up needing short walls to fill ...
Load Game Menu add DLC Option
When loading a game without the DLC it always gives the option to add it. It is annoying to have to select 'Skip Adding DLC' on every load. It would be better to ...
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Persist 'Toggle_Fog_Rendering' setting in saves.
Save file should include the current state of the 'Toggle_Fog_Rendering' setting.
It's annoying having to set it after every load.
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Large level crossing connectors
These should be allowed to be placed under elevated train tracks of 6 height.
Vertical Pipe Connections / Pipes on slopes
Pipes should allow for vertical connections through the top of the pipe and bottom of the pipe also pipes look weird when going down long sloped surfaces pipes should ...
Improved Power Industry
Power is a big industry in the US and could be a great fit the addition of power substations powerlines, transformers, utility trucks to work on power lines would be ...
material preview should include how many workers will be needed
The Unity preview calculates how much construction materials will be needed. It should also calculate how many workers will be needed.
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Trucks need a rally point to return to when idle. (and I don't think the devs even READ these)
I will put some screen shots up to show the issue.
Trucks just hang out at the end of their last job. Real trucks don't do that.
It is annoying to wonder wtf is ...
Repaint the Starter Ship
It'd be nice to be able to paint the starter ship in any way you want, similar to trains or text plates.
Trading Via Cargo Ships
To be able to have multiple cargo ship assign to the same dock doing the same trade, you would still need to have the ships available to do it, it will save on ...
Communication tower and broadcasting
I suddenly noticed the abandoned communication station used for obtaining opening resources at the beginning. Although it had to be deconstructed in order for the ...
About Asteroids and Space
For the current game's final technology, besides FBR, another asteroid mining is considered useless by many players in the community compared to a large number of ...
Railway vehicle carriage
A wagon for trains that allows vehicles to be loaded onto it for cross map transportation. Useful for when you've had amphibious vehicles build bridges. Send out a ...
Under consideration
unity plant trees
just to make it easier to decorate factories with trees
Higher conveyor lifts
I found that if we want to densely arrange production lines, we need a lot of overhead conveyors to avoid conflicts. However, when connecting them to machines on the ...
Improve tutorials and target systems
This game has a very uncomfortable point: due to the complex game mechanics and rudimentary early guidance, it is easy to accidentally fall into a death spiral and ...
Improve AI for vehicle dumping
There is now a problem: when a vehicle tilts over a place higher than the ground (such as laying a layer of dirt on a rock surface), it may become foolish and trap ...
A contract to import Eggs
There is contract to trade Chicken carcass with laptops but you will still need the keep the chicken farm and animal food chain to produce eggs. If there was a ...
Iron Plate latter game usefulness
to whom it may concern,
Respectfully request that Iron Plate remain in game and it is not removed. It could be used in the chemical plant as iron plate catalysts to ...
show production graf on items/sec produced, not only the items you have.
currently i have a hard time to figure out in every moment of the game.
basic parts production i only see the amount i have,
I want to see the production i ...
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Different sounds for different warnings
It would be very useful for me, if different types of alerts would appear with different sounds. (so that for example a "Not enough Maintenance" alert would sound ...
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A collection point for trucks would be desirable
It annoys me—and I'm sure others feel the same way—that it takes trucks an incredibly long time to get to the construction site to make a delivery. They just sit ...
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Where's all my coal going?
This shouldn't be too hard to add. There's already a list of recipes by material (right click coal, for example). This would add a statistics page similar to the in ...
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Unpause Construction
Would bei great to see needed materials when unpasing planned building - similar as if i wanted to use unity to construct.
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Extend world map with extended battle capabilities of main ship.
Consider adding more nodes on map to be "conquered" but with requirement for more powerfull ship, include some extension of technology and production for arms ...
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unity for tourism
add a block of unity for tourism between separate cities.
add a rail and/or road connection city modules.
add busses / passenger train cars to move them.
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seperate audio sliders for vehicles and machines.
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Add support poles to allow placing belts above 5 height for some radius arround a pole.
- Poles would increase buildable height arround them
- How about making big height increases in pipes require pumping stations?
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Breakdown report of pollution
It would be useful to have a report of just where pollution is coming from. At the moment, I still have air pollution, but I had thought that I had redirected all ...
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Material usage
It would be useful if we could get a report on how various materials are being used; similar to electricity and computing.
e.g. for hydrogen; 5% for cracking ...
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The Skipped Station due to fork.
When clicked on this Error show you the train. Could this be altered to show the station that was left early instead? This would be vastly more useful since the error ...
Add the ability to sort by name in (Electricity) statistics
Since you can rename buildings, ie rename a [Power Generator] to [Power Generator - FBR] or [Power Generator - Coal], allow us to sort by building names in ...
Reject Single Loads Based on Product.
Allow large sorting plants to reject single loads of individual products instead of the all or nothing.
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Add Arrival conditions to wait stations
Devs,
Just as there is an “Add Departure Conditions” option, there should also be an “Add Arrival Conditions” option for wait stations, waypoints, and even full ...
Internal Water Transport (Barges)
I'd like to see barges added for local island transport.
Right now we have belts, trucks, trains, and world-map cargo ships, but nothing for moving resources ...
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when you add or remove a favorite to the right hand list it jumps one line. can you make it NOT.
please? i get you are adding a new item to the list above it but move the view to match so the view to the human does not change.
makes clicking multiple items much ...
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Make it easier to move selected blueprints by 1 cell to some direction
Right now, when you press C or X, it is hard to find where exactly they blueprint was before pressing X or C. The bigger the blueprint is, that harder it is to move ...
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Add park to settlement
I think add park in size of squere will be nice, and add some generation of unit with system like statue 0.3 unity and 50% off next one, Can increase consuments of ...
Building Statistics
Add a 'Building Tab' to the statistics window, showing in tabular form (i.e. one line per building), all buildings with their general priority and where relevant ...
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Improved Statistics For Electricity
Add to statistics display for all Electricity producers an indication of production priority and showing if they 'Allow powering surplus consumers'.
Similarly add to ...
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Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)
To whom it may,
A Solar Thermal Energy Storage (STES) Peaker Plant—often part of a Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) system. All ready have many of the components. ...
Unload/Load Upgrade
Would be nice to have edict or research available to increase load and unload speeds of trains. Could make it similar to crop increase / pollution ect.
希望增加货币作为难度选项
我很喜欢这个游戏，但是这个游戏资源调控劝退了我很多朋友。所以我希望增加货币体系来作为游戏的一种难度选项，拥有独立的货船并且可以在海外用货币购买燃料,主要用于少量多种的材料购买。主要是用来动态调控这个游戏的资源，让玩家不至于一步走错直接游戏结束，作为一种难度让新手玩家能更好上手。
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Having a stop receiving products button on sorting pants. To help change Plant locations
It would help to process the product already in the plant before u demo it.
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Add vehicle depot to alerts
It would be useful to be able to have an alert when the vehicle depot finishes construction of a vehicle - even just a ding! the same way you get when research ...
Railway heatmap.
It would be an amazing quality-of-life feature to have a Speed Heatmap Overlay for the railway network. The overlay would display a rolling average of train speeds ...
highways
likely as bridges on land. so no pillars or uprights
but with exits and speed boost.
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Vehicle limit
Please do not make the number of vehicles dependent on the vehicle management, but on maintenance, fuel, and environmental pollution. I have too few vehicles on large ...
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let large sorting plant accept conveyor input (or two)
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