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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Mаке road map in hotkey
Now we need to find a car and use it to access the map, which is inconvenient
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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), ...
make creative mode
made it like in Minecraft or like that.
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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More uses for nitrogen gas.
More uses for nitrogen gas including the production of microchips, snack foods, and glass as inert atmospheres.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Windräder für Stromerzeugung
Als Erweiterung zur Alternativen Stromerzeugung als Durch Fossilen, Kernkraft und Sonnen Basierten Stromerzeugung.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Оптимизация игры
Понятно что движок Unity убогий, но 40 fps у RX570 на пустой карте с минимальными настройками - это крайне плохая оптимизация.
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Aircraft
An airport offering different tiers of cargo, general, and passenger aircraft. Could have hangars that increase airport capacity, and higher tier maintenance demands. ...
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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, ...
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add more farmed animals
Please add more animals for breeding, such as cows, sheep,pigs.
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Bigger(larger) tubes
To not to build 9 small(currently existsing) tubes to plantations
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