Ideas and suggestions for Captain of Industry from the community

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Custom/partial settings copy (eyedropper tool)

Problem scenario: you're planning out a big new build. You lay it all out, assign each storage the proper item to store. Oops, you forgot to set the import/export ...
Suggested by: Super Aardvark (yesterday) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 0
Under consideration Quality of life UI

Vehicle Management panel should could show vehicle downtime (excavator refueling, waiting)

It would be very useful to see in the vehicle management panel how often and for how long the excavators are not "digging", instead they are waiting for a truck, or ...
Suggested by: Hazzek (yesterday) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 0
Under consideration Quality of life UI

是否需要教程

是否需要教程的按键调出来
Suggested by: 起飞 (2 days ago) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 0
Under consideration Modding API UI

Max Power Use display

Add a simple display on how much power would be needed if everything were running at once (same as currently done for maintenance when you click a maintenance depot. ...
Suggested by: BeneEl (25 Apr) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 0
Under consideration Quality of life UI

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 ...
Suggested by: Tom (25 Apr) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 1
Under consideration Game machanic Quality of life UI

LABELS/COLORS IN BLUEPRINTS

I WANT TO MANUALLY SET A LABEL (preferably also with coloring of pipe and BELT path) TO SHOW IT ACROSS PIPE/BELT to figure out what goes where in blueprint in seconds ...
Suggested by: coi enjoer (24 Apr) Upvoted: 24 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration Quality of life UI

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 ...
Suggested by: Mathias (21 Apr) Upvoted: 21 Apr Comments: 1
Under consideration Quality of life UI

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 ...
Suggested by: 視而不見 (20 Apr) Upvoted: 25 Apr Comments: 0

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. ...
Suggested by: Ga-Rei Shiro (19 Apr) Upvoted: 19 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration Production recipes Quality of life UI

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. ...
Suggested by: NanoCE (19 Apr) Upvoted: 19 Apr Comments: 1
Under consideration Game machanic Quality of life UI

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 ...
Suggested by: JolanXBL (18 Apr) Upvoted: 22 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration Map editor Quality of life UI

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 ...
Suggested by: Syriusz (17 Apr) Upvoted: 17 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration Quality of life UI

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 ...
Suggested by: Lotus (14 Apr) Upvoted: 14 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration Quality of life UI

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 ...
Suggested by: Lotus (13 Apr) Upvoted: 15 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration Quality of life UI

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 ...
Suggested by: Malias (11 Apr) Upvoted: 11 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration Map editor UI

I show the name of the city in the Captain's Office

- In the manually saved game format, you could add the name of the city in which you are playing within the game, as it is often difficult to identify the city in ...
Suggested by: joel alves (08 Apr) Upvoted: 08 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration UI

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 ...
Suggested by: 肉火烧肉 (07 Apr) Upvoted: 08 Apr Comments: 0

Shift click to add products without the "Select a product" popup to close

Have the ability to continue selecting products without "Select a product" popup to close, by holding shift.
Suggested by: Serge Roy (07 Apr) Upvoted: 10 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration Quality of life UI

A link to the blueprint site needs to be in the blueprint menu

It should be somewhere here.
Suggested by: link12313 (06 Apr) Upvoted: 08 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration Quality of life UI

Some of the starting locations in the map menu are missing descriptions

The last time I posted this the system flagged it as spam incorrectly. This is a repost.
Suggested by: link12313 (06 Apr) Upvoted: 06 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration UI

Allow custom FPS limits

This game plays terribly with GSync. You don't want to run VSync in games when using GSync, It creates flickering, but the maximum FPS limit I can set is 100, which ...
Suggested by: Senjai (06 Apr) Upvoted: 08 Apr Comments: 1
Under consideration Quality of life UI

儲存檔案

遊戲儲存檔案可改位置
Suggested by: iame (06 Apr) Upvoted: 12 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration UI

STATICS: ADD Average Prod/Consum last year and ADD Top Consumers/producers of any item

Add the division between 12 of last year's production and consumption data; this data yields an approximate production to consumption ratio of /60, as in all game ...
Suggested by: Alfonso (31 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration UI

Neighboring connection on all trasports

This is logical and realistic
Suggested by: Serg (28 Mar) Upvoted: 28 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Game machanic Quality of life UI

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 ...
Suggested by: Serg (26 Mar) Upvoted: 26 Mar Comments: 1
Under consideration Game machanic Quality of life UI

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 ...
Suggested by: Serg (25 Mar) Upvoted: 05 Apr Comments: 1
Under consideration Game machanic Quality of life UI

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 ...
Suggested by: Serg (24 Mar) Upvoted: 07 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration Game machanic Quality of life UI

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), ...
Suggested by: catpele (11 Mar) Upvoted: 11 Apr Comments: 2
Under consideration Quality of life UI

make creative mode

made it like in Minecraft or like that.
Suggested by: hi (11 Mar) Upvoted: 26 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Game machanic UI