Ideas and suggestions for Captain of Industry from the community
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glass mixer does not have recipe for manufactured sand
galss mixer needs a recire for manufactured sand
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Coke
Coke is purified coke used in metallugy, steel production in particular, The Coal gas that the coking process produces as a byproduct was often distributed to ...
excavator refill while idle
Excavators should be able to reload the half-full bucket while waiting for trucks
All Starting Structures Previewed in Editor
Please add an overlay for all of the starting things - Settlement, radio tower, workers and dock, into the editor. At the moment, there is only the dock, and its ...
Dig Hole/ Simple Shape terrain sculpting feature
Can we get a 'dig hole' terrain sculpting option? Maybe also a 'make pile' option as well. Sometimes you just want to add a divot to the terrain, or a crater to a ...
Quick conveyor build defaults to the selected transport level
I get muddled with laying the wrong conveyor levels all the time.
When selecting a conveyor end, to build, it would be great if the build chose the same level ...
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Post research tree use for labs…
Research labs and their supply network become redundant (except trade) after the research tree is completed.
Perhaps the labs could be set to improve efficiencies ...
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living nature
I would like to see wild animals living and moving on the map, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, bears, birds, fish, whales etc.
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Basalt
Basalt is an aphanitic volcanic rock that is incredibly common on Earth (90% of volcanic rock is Basalt.) Adding it as a new loose resource would open up the ...
Pause tool should show total cost like copy tool
When using pause tool on plans, there should be total cost shown, just like with copy tool. I often find myself selecting copy tool just to check out total cost of ...
More heights for transports
Presently there's only 4 height options for transports. I suggest having additional heights which must be researched.
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Adding pesticides
How about adding pesticides for your crops. In the real world, a lot of pesticides come through the petrochemical industry, so I guess going through refinery in game. ...
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Map Maker - Pin Referance Image
a way to import an image to pin for reference while working on a map. Sometimes a digital sketch or inspirational image helps when building worlds
Map Maker - Fallen trees
Love to see some trees that are laying down on the ground for the map maker and maybe eventually more bushes etc
barriers and surfaces
so i figured out how to build roads in the game you just have to utilize barriers (they should unlock very early after concrete production) i would like to see the ...
Max truck limit: 250
Hey, so I feel the truck limit is a little arbitrary. I’m not saying remove it, but with the cost of maintenance, fuel requirements, and now health impacts of burning ...
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Replacing surfaces with others should keep the markings
Well i had the idea to replace my conrete roads partially with steel but during the replacement all the markings dissappear. Maybe it is possibe to "readd" the old ...
Buried pipes should not be able to be deconstructed
In Update 2 underground pipes can't be constructed. Underground pipes should also not be able to be deconstructed. Somewhat irritating to selecting an area to ...
mining and dumping designation tool
the mining tool is currently 4x4 sq i would like to see it able to be brought down to 2x2 or 1sq so certain areas can be cleaned up easily in the event of a spill. as ...
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Improve Difficulty UX
The latest patch has added a lot of options for difficulty. While options can be nice, an unfamiliar player is stuck looking at options that are very unclear what ...
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Option to Convert Main Ship to Hydrogen
We can already convert our vehicle fleet and cargo ships to hydrogen. For the price of some added electronics, we should be able to convert our main ship to hydrogen ...
Add toggle for copying surface paint
Most of the time I do not want to copy the surface paint when I am copy-pasting buildings. It's annoying that the paint is always copied with it. Sometimes you do ...
Power Lines (optinal setting)
It would be cool if you could use power lines as electic transportation so you must place power lines to conntect to buildings that need power
able to dump mixed cargo if dumping area accepts all onboard mixed cargo
Let trucks bypass sorting if a area accepts all mixed cargo onboard
EG truck has rock and dirt mixed cargo and i have a dump area that accepts dirt slag and rock it ...
vehicles favour jobs close to manual orderd spot
if you order a vehicle to a specific place (with the inbuilt Manual order to spot) and has available jobs then it accepts the closest instance first (obviously ...
Suggestion: Local Vessels
Each set of vessels has a home dock associated with it, the vessel(s) are built alongside it and are ‘scuttled’ when the dock is demolished. The local dock doubles ...
Road Surface Pathfinding Enhancement
A lot of players are using the new surfaces to make roads for trucks, which currently trucks pretty much completely ignore in favour of faster more curvy routes, If ...
Allow lifts to connect to balancers
Please allow lifts to connect directly to balancers
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Normalize "U-Shaped/Loose" Naming
The new Lifts are called "Loose" instead of "U-Shaped" as the previous belts were called. This is confusing even after a while as I keep forgetting and finding myself ...
Bulk Assign Mining Priority
The ability to assign mining priority to multiple excavators at once, probably from the control tower that they are assigned to.
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Add toggle to Mining Tower for dumping designation completion
Just add a way to have a notification if there are no more dumping spots, like it does for mining. Could just have a toggle like the storage units do
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Random rocks in Map Editor & adoption from tree placement ui for other decor
When placing rocks, it cycles through different ones, making precise placement almost impossible. And rocks are sometimes totally different minerals, which does ...
Intelligence in video games, in our time when artificial intelligence is making a lot of noise
When I play a realistic management, organization or construction game, I enjoy finding realism. However, the main focus of development for this type of game is often ...
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Walls with different heights and width , build them like conveyors.
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Car parks
The idea is that you'd have waypoints or actual parking spots for vehicles which aren't doing anything. I find that when you have more vehicles than you are using, ...
Cement Trucks for painting tiles
Dedicated cement trucks for the new tile system & maybe add some kind of dumping capability for landfilling differently than normal trucks
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Disabling Price Display -- Permanently
It would be nice to disable price display entirely from the settings menu instead of having to click each categories and disable it every time you load a game. This ...
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easier priority managing
make it so there is a view that shows different colors for different levels of priority ex red for prio 1 dark blue for prio 10 so that you can easily go around and ...
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mini balancers
They would be the same as the current ones but only be 1 tile rather then a 2 by 2
Adding mixed storages
I suggest adding mixed repositories. For example, several liquids can be stored in one tank at the same time, several bulk materials can be stored in one hopper, etc. ...
Cattle and other large livestock
They would use a full size farm and can be used as another way to use up extra food to make compost. Though in this case you would also get dairy and meat along with ...
Limit what products can be picked up from assemblers while allowing others.
Ability to limit what items a truck delivers to an assembly. For example I have 3 assemblies, 1 making contruction parts and the other making construction parts and ...
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Ore Stacker options
Set up ore stacker so that it dumps into the ore sorters directly and make them rotateable.
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Add natural gas trucks
They would be a bridge between diesel and hydrogen with the downside of less range then the other two.
Slag should be usable as a fertilizer ingredient
It's a good mineral source according to this paper. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/2741668#:~:text=Slag%20is%20used%20as%20a,2019).
Mute Game When Window Is Not Focused
Many modern games have a setting for this to mute the game when the window is not in focus. I enjoy the games music but I only want to hear it while I am playing the ...
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BRIDGES AND LAKES
some bridges to move over rivers would be cool along with the ability to create artificial lakes and rivers
Vehicle Depot needs to have separate inputs for Hydrogen and Diesel
Thus far it seems Hydrogen and Diesel cannot both be fed in via connected pipes through a 4-way connector
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