Ideas and suggestions for Captain of Industry from the community
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pirates capture your mines\rigs
Add mechanics and difficulty settings to let pirates capture mines\rigs. Mines may require some repairs after driving pirates away. This way main ship will be useful ...
Programmable Logic Sorters etc.
A small own Programming language where you have to program code that then can get installed at Sorters or Storages to perform certain behaviour. FOr example: The ...
Allow belts and pipes to be grouped as one contiguous unit
Currently, when a length of transport is created, and another segment is connected to it, the game considers it separate entities. This causes issues as you have to ...
Flare timer
When a flare is attached to a tank containing a flammable gas, it burns until the tank is empty, regardless of how full or empty you want it to be. Please add flare ...
Pause Mine Control Tower pauses Dumping
Please make it so that pausing the Mine Control Tower pauses all activities related to the Mine Control Area, including mining and dumping
Food Market
Allow more than 2 items per market at a time
Once hauling order
When facing extremely busy vehicles management in context of a resource crisis, I sometime need to have just a few units of some resource produced to unstuck the ...
Dump into trucks directly
Would be nice to have a new building: a sort of a stacker that can be assigned with trucks. Trucks would queue to get under that stacker to get loose (can be mixed as ...
Trade/sell copper
Add more options to trade/sell copper to other settlements on the map
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
excavator refill while idle
Excavators should be able to reload the half-full bucket while waiting for trucks
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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. ...
BRIDGES AND LAKES
some bridges to move over rivers would be cool along with the ability to create artificial lakes and rivers
Mark 4 and 5 belts and pipes
For a mark four pipe and belt, you take the equivalent Abby mark three dealt or pipe amount, and you put them in a two by 2 ^2 grid for the design size and output ...
Allow dump for truck with mixed resources to silo
It's quite obvious - truck can have mixed materials, belts can transport mixed materials, so let's allow to dump mixed materials to silo and allow to connect silo to ...
Underground caves
If it is added, it needs a key that is pressed so you can roll with middle mouse button to different layer(set cam height to skala height). It would make underground ...
Specific objectives for maps and quest maker
I reviewed the map editor and like it.
I made a own map with a interesting place that looks like an calcified castle. I want to add objectives for the player, to dig ...
加速mod（doubleqol）报错的问题
System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: Exception of type 'System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException' was thrown.
Could not resolve type with token ...
Under consideration
Game machanic
Map editor
Modding API
New machines
Production recipes
Quality of life
UI
Make shrubbery placeable
Update 2 introduced new shrubbery such as small bushes and flowers. These would be great for settlement beautification if they could be manually placed just like trees
Getting stuck in the mud!
Maybe not getting stuck, but coming from playing games like spintires I think it would be cool if certain surfaces got muddy under certain conditions, especially when ...
Neighboring connection on all trasports
This is logical and realistic
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
make creative mode
made it like in Minecraft or like that.