Ideas and suggestions for Captain of Industry from the community
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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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Train Parking Reservations / Preferred Waiting Bays
As rail networks grow larger and trains become longer, managing waiting bays becomes increasingly difficult.
Currently, trains choose any available waiting bay, ...
cross-sea pipeline
Now, with the emergence of island maps and bridges, we urgently need to establish cross-sea pipelines, allowing offshore excavators to have a place to be useful, and ...
allow vehicles to drive through ghost buildings if stuck
yes vehicles should not drive through ghost buildings.
but if a vehicle is otherwise stuck, just drive through the ghosts to a spot where they are not stuck. ...
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Molten Salt Tower CSP plant
I noticed there are molten salt tank in the game, can we introduce the Molten Salt Tower CSP plant? as another way of generate electricity?
the CSP plant is not ...
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Aproveitamento da mina de água no mapa de exploração.
Olá, equipe do Capitão da Indústria!
Gostaria de sugerir uma funcionalidade para dar utilidade à Mina de Água que aparece no mapa de exploração do mundo. Atualmente, ...
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Dev console command to customize the next discovered asteroid (type and amount)
Description:
I would like to suggest adding a new developer console command (or expanding the sandbox tools) that allows players to specify the resource type and ...
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Ability to copy Train Network and Line Rules with Station
This would save a lot of time when you need to add something to a train station on the train station end. Currently all rules are lost when you copy. This is a pain.
ability to not see trees or pipes when viewing an area
sometimes you want to look at something like a belt but other objects are in the way, it's usually trees or pipes - I would like an option to "ghost" the trees on a ...
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Dighe
Sarebbe molto interessante vedere implementata la costruzione di dighe in Captain of Industry, con la possibilità di sfruttare l’energia idroelettrica. Potrebbe ...
Tanker Wagon Label Plates
I noticed that, on the T1 Tanker Wagon's model, there is a fairly large flat metal plate on the side that looks clearly intended as a label of some sort. My ...
Simplified Amphibius Vehicle Rules
Rules and exceptions on what storage and construction jobs can be performed by amphibius vehicles are overly complicated and unnecessary.
Instead of all the existing ...
issues with trucks and trains, fastbuildning
at time pathfinding with trucks doesnt work as it should. such as if you are building a bridge to far from where it picks up material, it will ignore it.
Trains can ...
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Excavators should also dig from adjacent tiles when target tile is empty mid-dig
I think this could be achieved by checking how much material is in the tile when an Excavator picks a target tile, if it's less than the Excavator's bucket capacity, ...
align windows and pipe markings
please align the markings better. this is the same pipe but you see one arrow and three arrows. at first glance you might mis read this. because the window is ...
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Builder's Plates
Just something small in the inspection window -- a little section at the bottom or maybe in an information pop-up, "Erected MM/YYYY", to give a little bit of history ...
Icons for Train Networks
Need to add the ability to use icons for Networks just like we can for lines.
Thermal Storage Tutorial.
To whom it may concern,
Many players do not understand thermal storage and its uses in making active fuel burning electric power and solar power as a thermal ...
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Thermal Storage chill water storage
To whom it may concern,
Thermal Storage may also be used for a chill water function. Colony could use grid scale AC and steam heating.
Very Respectfully,
Magermh
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Make “x” work as “*” in the search / calulator
Hey this is a super easy request. I am switching between multiple keyboard layouts and I have trouble finding the goddamn asterisk. I got so used in all my other apps ...
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tra or Super steam coal fire power boiler and combined cycle power plants and maybe CO2 turbines.
Respectfully request, Coal Ultra or Super steam boiler that requires powdered coal. Do now know if the game may require higher. Compressed CO2 turbines optional. ...
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Custom pipe content labels/ manual colors
for per user definition of pipe sections with labels like "boiler fuel" or "Section 3 transfer" with their own color scheme.
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Thermal Storage Bug
Thermal Storage can switch steam types when charging or charged. Bug when charging low steam being imputed and charging. Switch to high steam. And the moves over to high.
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Palallel train tracks
Add a tool to train track construction to easily lay a parallel track to an existing track (strait or curved).
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mining/dumping markers self clear when completed.
this would remove markers when the dump or fill has finished with that mining square. showing you what has and has not been completed.
anything that can't be ...
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Go to Mining Tower from Area Designation
If my mining tower area designation is far from the tower, or I have several area designations near each other, would be nice to be able to 'zoom' back to the mining ...
[QOL]Allow electrification of all parts of tracks
If you use the DLC and want to electrify tracks you have to destroy and then rebuild crossings and stations. while tracks itself can be modified to become electrified ...
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Statue of Maintenance Oxidation
the Statue of Liberty is green because it's clad in copper sheets that oxidized over time. I think it'd be neat if the Statue of Maintenance started out as bright ...
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Please! Allow ships to load in one part of the island and unload in another part.
Please! Allow ships to load in one part of the island and unload in another part. With the latest changes to ship movement, it's become quite easy to include this in ...
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Vehicle utilization report
I would like to see additional reports on vehicle utilization.
Specifically, I would like the load * distance to be tracked, and I would like be able to see this ...
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Rough concepts for Mining Boat, "Boat Stations", & small/large Transport Boats
With water pathfinding now resolved, and Amphibious Vehicles already in existence, I strongly suspect some form of this is already in development, but I will suggest ...
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drag undo
right now we can delete by click and drag. but sometimes we go to far. or we dragged around the wrong items. it would be nice to be able to click drag undo delete ...
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don't send a truck to export/import if it is jsut going to sit there waiting for other trucks
add a limit to either the number of vehicles or the current queue of vehicles against the time it takes to get there. waiting for a load or 2 is one thing but as of ...
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add release vehicles button to the mining control tower
everytime i pause a mining site i have to remove all the one type of vehicle. get the error message. then remove all the other time of vehicle.
this takes time and ...
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map overlay to show location of a material. including in trucks.
this would allow us to see the flow and layout of that material. be able to see where it is going in real time (aka why is my container not filling kinda thing)
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allow us to push dumping
right now if we mark somewhere as "dump" it only dumps if a truck has that item AND there are no storage places of higher interest.
however please let us set it so ...
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prevent storage circles
i often see one storage set to fill and another connected storage (the output) (not set to give or take) is pulled from.
this means the ore just recirculates. ...
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color building pipes to match the input/output if there is only one.
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