Ideas and suggestions for Captain of Industry from the community

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Working Woman/We Can Do It statue of maintenance

Add an alternative (cosmetic or otherwise) to Statue of Maintenance featuring a woman figure. There's that cool poster from 1943 by Howard Miller, that would bring ...
Suggested by: Mort (today) Upvoted: today Comments: 0
Under consideration Quality of life

arms race mode

I really like your game for its industrial aspect, construction management, and organization. I didn't have much trouble getting the hang of it, but apart from ...
Suggested by: Psylogue (yesterday) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 0
Under consideration

Deeper Resources

Without removing current resource levels, add more pockets of resources deeper in the map. The ability this game offers to manipulate terrain is second to none. Give ...
Suggested by: Nendail (yesterday) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 0
Under consideration Map editor

Add Checkbox to Free Assigned Equipment

The checkbox would be on each truck and would "Free when idle" basically. Logic: When you assign a truck to a facility, it will haul for that facility until there ...
Suggested by: Nendail (yesterday) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 0
Under consideration Quality of life

Swamps

It would be cool if there were also swamps and lakes as ground conditions. Also if you could drain swamps and lakes. There could also be a freshwater pump (like a ...
Suggested by: Syncmasta (2 days ago) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 0
Under consideration

Make balanser frandly to others

Please, fix the balancer so that it perceives not only belts and conveyors at the entrance and exit. You've done it with sorters, it's time to do next step. Blue ...
Suggested by: Serg (2 days ago) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 1
Under consideration Game machanic Quality of life UI

Suggestion to fix tubes

When pipes are not built at once, but from several parts, then the pipes are not completely selected, in parts. I'm sure it's easy to fix. It especially makes you ...
Suggested by: Serg (25 Mar) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 0
Under consideration Game machanic Quality of life UI

Check box for allow the Flat & U-shape Sorters to always pass through itself

At the moment, the flat and U-shaped sorter stops when one item gets stuck in a row. But if there is such a choice, then you can make such an option as in the ...
Suggested by: Serg (24 Mar) Upvoted: 25 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Game machanic Quality of life UI

Engineered Fill

Everything is engineered these days, even soil with the discipline of geotechnical engineering. IRL it's called Roller Compacted Concrete, but since we don't have ...
Suggested by: willvette (24 Mar) Upvoted: 25 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Production recipes Quality of life

Add the ability to excavate for freshwater man made lakes and reservoirs.

Add the ability to excavate for freshwater man made lakes and reservoirs.Which could be constructed from a range of materials, such as rock, earth, concrete or ...
Suggested by: Tony Merritt (24 Mar) Upvoted: 25 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration

massive excavators

Addition of massive industrial excavators, like in the photo in anex (Bagger 293). It would be a late game alternative to excavators for large terraforming ...
Suggested by: brunops_ (24 Mar) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 1
Under consideration New machines

Liquids and gases needs in numbers on the ramifications

One can only guess how gases and liquids flow in the pipes, i.e. where it is thick and where it is empty. To make it possible to check the box to look at liquids and ...
Suggested by: Serg (24 Mar) Upvoted: 25 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Game machanic Quality of life

Mаке road map in hotkey

Now we need to find a car and use it to access the map, which is inconvenient
Suggested by: Serg (24 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Bosch reaction: CO2 recycling should be more energy-intensive

Since hydrogen vehicle is introduced, there will be not much demand for diesel in lategame, which is mostly made from CO2. All of the surplus CO2 would be removed by ...
Suggested by: Solidynamics (23 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Production recipes

Sandbox mode or creative mode

Make a mode where on any map, and individual can have all research unlocked, and the ability to do as they please. And unlimited number of vehicles, unlimited ...
Suggested by: JK (21 Mar) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 0
Under consideration Game machanic

Truck fuel station selection based on the distance traveled and not distance to the station.

The truck selection of the fuel stations is currently based on the distance to the station. However, that can cause lots of waster fuel and time when the closes fuel ...
Suggested by: Combat Sheep (21 Mar) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 0
Under consideration Game machanic Quality of life

Fixed camera position

Now the game has shortcuts to jump to fixed camera positions, but it can't jump to the same height and Angle position. Hopefully, this feature will be implemented in ...
Suggested by: zhuqing (18 Mar) Upvoted: 21 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

prioritizing truck tasks

When assigning vehicle tasks, have the algorithm prioritize using Haul Truck (dump/tank) for lose/fluid cargos. Since the haul trucks cannot transport unit cargoes, ...
Suggested by: YolosaurusRex (16 Mar) Upvoted: 17 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

More in-dept offshore/rig gameplay

Add helicopters and helipad for citizens working on rigs Add Casing/drillpipes a item to produce to futher supply rigs Add Rig Supply vessels not quite sure ...
Suggested by: Bjorn (11 Mar) Upvoted: 25 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration New machines Production recipes

Campaign Mode

So, similar to scenarios, as in this suggestion: https://ideas.captain-of-industry.com/suggestions/308197/map-designerscenario-editor I would also love to see ...
Suggested by: ViraCorp (11 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration

Building Layer Tool and lockable layers

Some complex structures are hard to change when multiple layers of pipes/belts are on-top, being able to hide layers of structures (say hide layer -1 and above), ...
Suggested by: catpele (11 Mar) Upvoted: 25 Mar Comments: 2
Under consideration Quality of life UI

make creative mode

made it like in Minecraft or like that.
Suggested by: hi (11 Mar) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 0
Under consideration Game machanic UI

Mouse controls flipped

Flipping the mouse controls, from right to left, left to right. I have a heavy hand and it's hard to split my fingers for the left mouse button without touching and ...
Suggested by: Jan (11 Mar) Upvoted: 11 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration

Blueprints Show Recipe

I'd like to be able to see how much of everything a blueprint is likely to cost me on or within the blueprint, not just the number of buildings. i.e. how many ...
Suggested by: catpele (06 Mar) Upvoted: 07 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration

管道接口

管道接口可以旋转或者更改成6面
Suggested by: 赵传琪 (06 Mar) Upvoted: 23 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Expand the papermill

The process of turning wood into fiber is chemically intensive and requires water treatment, waste chemical disposal (Green Liquor, White Liquor, Black Liquor) as ...
Suggested by: Del Williams (01 Mar) Upvoted: 23 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration

四点建议,关于分栋机,桥梁,管道和农场

1.关于分拣机,在分栋口堵塞后.就不能再传送了.希望能增加一个设定.堵塞后就不分栋了.从原输出口继续输出,.以保证运输送机一直处于运行状态. 2.增加桥梁的建造 3.希望能建造地下管道.或者让管道能在住房和农场上(或住房和农场下方)通过 4.希望农场能自己设置产品的输出输入口位置
Suggested by: gogo606 (01 Mar) Upvoted: 01 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration

Housing addon for heating

It could use propane gas
Suggested by: RomZyk (27 Feb) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Предложение и просьба

1. Добавить контраста (или сделать их менее прозрачными) объектам в режиме планировки и не только. Например на поверхности где залежи известняка, подпорных стен ...
Suggested by: Виктор (27 Feb) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

mineraçao

sou daltonico e por isso nao consigo diferenciar as cores na hora de fazer a marcaçao da area de mineraçao se oude rem facilitar so na area de coleta de minerais eu ...
Suggested by: rogério custodio reis (26 Feb) Upvoted: 26 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration

Automatic Retaining Wall Building

I would like to see, if possible, the mining towers controlling retaining wall building, and they automatically build them as needed using resources. and also making ...
Suggested by: David (25 Feb) Upvoted: 22 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration

More uses for nitrogen gas.

More uses for nitrogen gas including the production of microchips, snack foods, and glass as inert atmospheres.
Suggested by: Robinhood (25 Feb) Upvoted: 18 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration

transport network. Bridge, Tunnel, Highway, roads, railroads, canals.

How great would it be to allow the construction of transport networks? Some maps require you to drive around a lake, mountian or pit. This is time consuming and ...
Suggested by: Catwezel (25 Feb) Upvoted: today Comments: 1
Under consideration

The ability for The Captain to actually visit buildings or parts of the Island

It could give Morale Boosts, it could give talented workers on the island the opportunity to present unconventional ideas to the Captain himself, which could give ...
Suggested by: RomZyk (25 Feb) Upvoted: 14 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Windräder für Stromerzeugung

Als Erweiterung zur Alternativen Stromerzeugung als Durch Fossilen, Kernkraft und Sonnen Basierten Stromerzeugung.
Suggested by: Heimdall (22 Feb) Upvoted: 14 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Polish on Pipe and Conveyer Belt placement

It seems that the placement of Piping and Belts feels very Bulky and sometimes difficult to master, even when the snapping action is turned on or off it seems that ...
Suggested by: UmbrellaCorpGamer (22 Feb) Upvoted: 25 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration

Total demand and supply tracker

Have a stat tracker that calculates total demand and supply island wide for a good, that doesn’t take into account machines that are off, construction usage, machines ...
Suggested by: Black dog (21 Feb) Upvoted: 25 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Taking electricity to make electricity as extra difficulty setting

This suggestion has two parts for this added difficulty settings regarding large scale electricity generation. The effect of both of these suggestions below is ...
Suggested by: Inflectrum (20 Feb) Upvoted: 25 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Maybe implement more metals and their refining processes.

With copper, iron, gold and uranium we have some of the more important elements/minerals in the game. I think it would be cool to have more elements, their ...
Suggested by: DeX (19 Feb) Upvoted: 25 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration

Add More offshore mining

Like we have sulfur, and quartz. add some more like iron. coal. copper. Limestone. Rock. gold. (dirt maybe and sand to) that way we have more options to get ...
Suggested by: jay (19 Feb) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 3
Under consideration

Optional tree regrowth

Have an option during game setup for trees to regrow in unused areas over time. Areas where trees already exist repopulate faster. This would allow spoil piles and ...
Suggested by: Reuben Bailey (19 Feb) Upvoted: 14 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration

Оптимизация игры

Понятно что движок Unity убогий, но 40 fps у RX570 на пустой карте с минимальными настройками - это крайне плохая оптимизация.
Suggested by: Стас (19 Feb) Upvoted: 19 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration

Robot Factory Control

It would be cool to have robot factory control. The Robot Factory Control would be able to select a building by name and turn it off or on based on logic conditions. ...
Suggested by: ArtC (18 Feb) Upvoted: 16 Mar Comments: 2
Under consideration

Manage multiple islands and establishing trade with own islands.

Develop each island since grid can be so large. Of course, each island will have specific resources. This may require more advanced cargo ships that request resources ...
Suggested by: ArtC (18 Feb) Upvoted: 25 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Luxurious Restaurant Housing Addon

A housing addon for a luxurious restaurant, which serves various deluxe meals. It would be a challenge to make it happen, but it would well-rewarded. Maybe this idea ...
Suggested by: RomZyk (17 Feb) Upvoted: 27 Feb Comments: 1
Under consideration

vehicle barrier flipping

Why can't plueprints with barriers to be flipped?
Suggested by: Sy5temVX (17 Feb) Upvoted: 23 Mar Comments: 2
Under consideration

Aircraft

An airport offering different tiers of cargo, general, and passenger aircraft. Could have hangars that increase airport capacity, and higher tier maintenance demands. ...
Suggested by: N (16 Feb) Upvoted: 22 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Research 2.0

I'd like to have some options to make research more challenging. So here are some thoughts: 1) Custom difficulty: add tech research cost modifier. 1 is default, ...
Suggested by: Mia_VIII (15 Feb) Upvoted: 03 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

add more farmed animals

Please add more animals for breeding, such as cows, sheep,pigs.
Suggested by: GloamBril (14 Feb) Upvoted: 25 Mar Comments: 2
Under consideration

Bigger(larger) tubes

To not to build 9 small(currently existsing) tubes to plantations
Suggested by: htaccess (13 Feb) Upvoted: 16 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration