Ideas and suggestions for Captain of Industry from the community
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Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)
To whom it may,
A Solar Thermal Energy Storage (STES) Peaker Plant—often part of a Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) system. All ready have many of the components. ...
Radioactive Materials Handling Facility and Nuclear Flasks
Similar to the compactor/shredder pairing where certain loose articles can be compacted or disassembled to swap between flat and loose transport, this idea is for a ...
Mechanical power directly for the buildings
This consideration is perhaps way later on the game timeline for the scope it requires.
Power some building directly with mechanical power shaft as alternative to ...
Train Station Storage Platforms
Since rail stations now share across platform segments, what if there were storage segments that could increase internal storage of a given ware, without having the ...
In-depth Power management and distribution
Add the requirement (or feature with difficult setting) to be responsible for power distribution and load management. Substations, power lines, loss, etc. Would make ...
Highway construction
I really liked the way the railroad and road looked with the added bridges. The road was especially impressive, and frankly, I really miss it. It sometimes really ...
a truck dump to conveyor. accepts ANY material you can dump
as opposed to a storage unit that only accepts one item type. this allows mixed loads to dump onto a conveyor for processing.
pump station.
a segment of pipe a truck can connect too and pull out contents. or inject contents into the pipe.
Changing the farm mechanics
Reddit crosspost:
So first off, u/Captain_Marek I love this game! I can easily see this being another game that I put a few thousand hours into.
Which brings me ...
Copper and ieron mines on the world map
why there are coalmines, aber not copper or ieronmines?
Add bigger pumps & bigger liquids dumps.
Right now if we build a bigger water facility, it requires a massive coast, much bigger than the facility itself. And both water pumps & dumps take a lot of coast ...
A Pump to dry pump holes.
I found myself accidentally flooding a sand mine. Now my only way to recover that mine is to basically fill out the whole thing so that i can then start to dig it out ...
Underground pipes construction
A building that you assign a small digger and truck to that allows you to place pipes underground. or introduce a new version of the excavator that can lay pipes in ...
Air Logistics & Distributed Industry (Aircraft, Fuel Systems, World Expansion)
This proposal introduces air logistics (rotorcraft and fixed-wing aircraft) as a late-game system designed to enable distributed industry across multiple locations ...
Thermal Storage suggestion.
It took 30 years to charge HS (TES). And longer to charge the (LS) (TES) to the point of no charge 18%charge in 30 years. When charging had to have the 5th boiler on ...
全新核电站与亚临界蒸汽和超临界蒸汽以及ods合金镍基合金还有全新替代铀矿的资源以及更多自然资源和精密加工机器
1.能源革新：新增新一代核电站，可产出亚临界蒸汽与超临界蒸汽，这是比超高压蒸汽更高阶的能源形式，能解锁更高效的动力与高端工业生产场景，让能源梯度更有层次感。
2.核燃料迭代：引入全新的替代型核燃料资源，逐步替代传统铀矿，丰富核能源的获取与处理路线，同时带来更安全、更高效的发电选择。 ...
Enable allocation from conveyor belts
Add or enhance conveyor components that can *allocate* inputs to outputs. e.g. 60% goes to port 2, 40% to port 3. Scenario: I have a crusher turning rock into ...
Tunnels
They could be built by using a new-added drill, that works similarly to a stacker tower, but reverse, so dumps out the mined material to the end of the "rail" to a ...
Power Distribution System
The game should have an OPTIONAL power distribution system, where high-voltage power lines connect between substations. I think having the entire electric grid ...
Big Rig Truck and Trailer tier, along with a truck for transporting molten materials?
I really wanna see these in the game as a between-tier from trucks and mega trucks. Along with a truck specifically for transporting molten materials, so you can take ...
Landfill Lining
I adore landfills and how cool they look as well as the trash texture. I wish that there was a "landfill lining" custom surface or building that halved or even ...
The real world is advancing so I thought I'd bring up some tech that could be added (maybe as DLC)
I don't know the rules about posting links so I'll just suggest google search terms instead.
1) Off-shore wind farms (maybe in tandem with 'blank' or unexploited ...
Bucket wheel excatavator
An end game excavator that work like the U4 Stacker (a base is placed then extension are placed to extand the range of the excavator), it can be used to build a ...
More use of lenses
Use lenses in additional recipes for example for lab equipment or an additional recipe for Electronics. Optoelectronics are very important for the automation ...
more vehicles! :)
I know roads is a big one on the roadmap and everyone wants it, but include more vehicles also please, just to make the game feel more realistic, long semi-trucks, ...
Mining update
Most of the game rely on mining resources to begin any resource chain, would love to see more mining buildings and vehicles, like setting up a more realistic mining ...
Road Trains as Mid-Game Logistics Step Before Rail
Introduce road trains (tractor + multiple trailers) as an intermediate logistics layer between trucks and rail. Standard trucks remain unchanged. Road trains unlock ...
Stockpile reclaimer building
With the incoming Update 4 just around the corner, and logistics being in focus, I have a suggestion.
The reclaimer. A building, sunken into the ground before a ...
Large scale seawater desalination plant
I need a large seawater desalination plant that can be placed on the shore like a dock without the need to connect water pumps.
It can also reserve seawater pipeline ...
Tier 2 Heavy Oil locomotive (Trains DLC)
Add a Heavy Oil locomotive for the Trains DLC. This existed in real life:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_GTELs
It is similar to the turbine ...
Vehicle Side-Grades and Specialisation
Some of this is kind-of already coming with the Update 4 amphibious vehicles, but I think it would bring a good bit of depth to the vehicle mechanics to introduce ...
Building Dams and Better Water Transport
Buildable a Dams over rivers that would lead out to the ocean. The Dams would provide electricity and could hold water or any other liquid that can be deposited with ...
Prospecting for rare minerals in the soil
Prospecting for rare minerals in the soil. Drilling rigs capable of drilling several kilometers into the soil, in various layers of the Earth's crust, down to the ...
Tunnel boring machine
Tunnel boring machine for crossing mountains without the need to remove them.
New vehicles, new model of bulldozer and bi-train dump truck
A new model of bulldozer could be added for spreading material or leveling the terrain. This would facilitate and speed up the earthmoving service. A double ...
Possible new dynamics and possible fits or make better the existent dynamics.
Would be better add possibles cater-cornered in paths, conveyor belts, trails and diggins (half squares instead of total required).
Also would be nice a new ...
Quarry (cantera)
Mining is now either larger or deeper because new machinery is needed, as in the Minecraft BuildCraft (Quarry) mod. What is a Quarry? It's a block that, when powered, ...
advanced coal power
Add an upgrade to the boilers to use crushed limestone and water mixed with coal to produce higher temp steam. Instead of feeding coal into the boiler you inject ...
Intermodal logistics/mixed flat item transport
Intermodal module buildings for trains would make it easier to make more compact train stations for flat items by allowing one station to handle multiple flat item ...
Vehicle Depot 2.0 — Turning Downtime Into Gameplay
A proposal to expand the functionality, depth, and strategic value of Vehicle Depots.
During gameplay, Vehicle Depots become idle for long periods.
Once the ...
New Ressource: Lithium
Lithium is neccessary for energy storage and E-mobility or electronic devices and medicine technology.
Fahrzeuge
was vielleicht auch ganz gut passen würde wären Radlader der in seim zugewiesenden bereich laden/liefern kann und nicht erst noch auf einen muldenkipper laden muss, ...
Dynamic Water/Liquids
This is a suggestion made based on the newest announcement of bridges and amphibious vehicles. Can we please get dynamic water, where we can pump out pits or fill ...
We broke down a bucket wheel excavator for large projects
We need a bucket-wheel excavator for extremely large-scale projects. It should be available in two versions:
A smaller variant that moves on tracks.
A larger ...
Industrial Shredder for resource destruction.
Id like to propose an industrial shredder machine that can be fed a finished product (Steel Plate, Plastic, PCB, etc) on a flat conveyor and reduce it to waste or ...
Train Tier system
It seems a little odd that researching trains gives you both diesel and steam locomotives at the same time.
Instead, it might be a better idea to push steam into t1, ...
Iron Redox Flow Batteries
An electrochemical energy storage system with a data center-like building where iron chloride electrolyte flows through bidirectional pipes and numerous redox cell ...
Tunnel making drill
A drill which would replace the removed area with a drivable path and supports. it could take Wood or concrete to slowly carve through a mountain. Kind of how an ...
Add realistic power management
It would be nice if you have to cable everything up (at least similar to factorio), but maybe with the addition of needing appropriate transformer-stations for the ...