Ideas and suggestions for Captain of Industry from the community
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MOVE BUILDING BY UNITY (WITH CONFIGURATION INTACT)
PLEASE. I am sick of reconstructing same buildings and RECONFIGURING buildings after fast unity deconstruction/construction. I am OK with paying triple price of unity ...
Dozers and Front end loaders
Need both dozers and end loaders to work with stackers and leveling.
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10.Reduce gas consumption in gas boilers
The gas consumption of gas boilers is too high. The main power generation methods in the middle of the game should be oil and coal electricity. Currently, gas boilers ...
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Trade/sell copper
Add more options to trade/sell copper to other settlements on the map
Truck transport route: multiple pick-up and/ or delivery targets with a single trip
Example:
There are 2 vegetable farms, each with 29 stored vegetables.
Now one truck (capacity 60) is assigned to a vegetable warehouse. Now it would be nice if the ...
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Increase the max transport placement lenght to have equally spaced pillars.
Max distance between pillars is 8 squares, not counting the pillars. But the max distance you can place a transport at a time is 3.5 spaces like that, so the last ...
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Energiespeicher Solar Panels
Es sollte die Möglichkeit geben den Generator anzuweissen bei Solar überschuss, Elektrische in mechanische energie umzuwandeln.
Schwungrad giebt es als Speicher.
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new ways to unpause on-going construction conveyor
it's extremely annoying to have little pieces of a conveyor instaed of one big. It's a mess when you unpause the construction to build it. Having the possibility to ...
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New Building
I want to be able to keep the pipes underground, so is it possible to add an underground pipes module. Also, I hope to have a new support structure to realize the ...
Salt Reconstitution
Allow the sea water evaporators to work in the opposite direction. This would aid in reducing excess salt stores. Alternatively, allow salt to be dumped back into the ...
Add randomly generation full islands to the world map
They would be smaller then the main island and their layouts would be all over the place.
Lightning Flash Flash
I know there is already an option to disable flashes entirely, but I don't see why the lightning flash needs to be so aggressive in the first place. I don't know if ...
Option to Customize the HUD
I would love to see added the Option to completly customize the HUD. This option is particularly important for players who have a lower resolution (liek me). As more ...
Give burner and flares an exhaust port.
It's annoying when cleaning the air to come across burners and flares which can't be cleaned because they only have their built in exhaust.
change color on electrolysis
When you change from water to acid in copper electrolysis, it does not change color from blue to red in the pool
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Compensation module
It would be very convenient if you could put the compensation modules directly on conveyor belts or pipes if you want to add them later. That would make dismantling ...
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biomass from farms
Recipes to turn farm produce into biomass in the shredder.
Maybe also allow for the compacting of biomass.
Grouping tasks for trucks
Any possibility for grouping things for trucks to do? Like for example set 3 trucks to keeping a particular build stocked
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Barriers have same characteristics as Conveyors
QoL idea: Could we get the barriers to have the same characteristics as Conveyors where you can click and drag to set an "X" amount vs what it is now: single click ...
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Make it so you can dig and dump sub tiles as well as full size ones.
That way you can dig out and replace small amounts of ground and do much more precise landscaping. Sub tiles being my name the little ones.
Corn mash needs a mid game use
You get the recipe quite early compared to when you can actually use the mash for alcohol production.
Ammonia and diesel should be burnable in boilers
Both of them are flammable.
Heightmap import
Would be nice to be able to import heightmaps in the map editor. Example of a tool used by many games. https://terrain.party
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Supermarket, Housewares, etc
Yes, why not deliver products to Supermarkets, Stores, and Warehouses. Lidl, Aldi, things like that.
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power poles
It does not make sense that when you make a generator things power up power poles would make sense because how does the power transport to the machine without power ...
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Automatic exploration and delivery
Add an auto-explore option for your ship. Maybe a button on the ship interface which tells it to go explore nodes for as long as it has the fuel/hitpoints to ...
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9. Residential buildings occupying too much land will cause significant lag and lack vitality.
The profit from launching a rocket is too low, and a little bit of ...
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8. The use of a heat accumulator will result in energy loss and be cumbersome, with no practical value. I hope it can be improved to be simpler and more user-friendly
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7. Adding acceleration function to the paved road surface is better, and simply reducing maintenance is meaningless for gameplay
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6. The borrowing function is currently useless. The interest rate is too high, which not only is useless but also causes a collapse. The resources of the factory are ...
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5. At present, the cost and maintenance of solar energy are too high, and there is no battery or other buffer to be used in conjunction with it. Its practicality is ...
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4. Large transport vehicles can use new fuels, such as hydrogen fuel rods and nuclear fuel rods. This new energy rod has greater capacity and ultra long endurance, ...
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1. I hope to add fast transportation vehicles such as trains and cable cars, which can reduce the use of conveyor belts and reduce lag, as well as increase the fun of ...
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god help me look at picture
1. I hope to add fast transportation vehicles such as trains and cable cars, which can reduce the use of conveyor belts and reduce lag, as well as increase the fun of ...
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A few suggestions about gameplayI hope it can be achieved
1. I hope to add fast transportation vehicles such as trains and cable cars, which can reduce the use of conveyor belts and reduce lag, as well as increase the fun of ...
An electric battery system must be added.
Photovoltaics + electric battery system(ESS[Energy Storage System] systeam).
There are solar panels, but there are no batteries, so they cannot be used at night. ...
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Show input/output icons of storages when planning routes
Currently If you plan routes you can't properly see what is exporting or importing what.
It would be good to see all storage connector types as in building mode. ...
Freight Trains
Freight trains to transport raw materials across the island, etc.
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Large Crusher should have advanded operation conditions
It would be nice if we could give some buildings like the large crusher operation conditions like "only operate when at least filled to 50%" or something like that. ...
Add game option to allow blueprints to always be available
Add a game option (difficulty setting) that allows you to utilize blueprints at the start of the game and without the captains office to allow for more casual play
Alerts for Flare Stacks and Burners
Ideally I'd never like to waste product, but likewise I'll want to make sure to prioritize another product even if doing so will cause waste of the secondary product. ...
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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