XIS is by far my absolutely favorite industry set - thank you very much for the huge effort with the development (and sorry FIRS, I like your "steeltown" economy but I miss the other farming, wood, and so on related industries too much to come back to you).
I hope any new XIS version will maintain compatibility with the current one, as I play a really big map for a really long time with it - more than 6 months in "real life(tm)" that would be very sad if I had to abandon it to switch to a new version.
There is just one thing that I find strange - and that is the cement plant, which requires cement to be delivered to it and then produces building materials based on that (plus sand and limestone as the other two accepted cargos), in particular as its graphics seems to show a rotary kiln, which is actually used in cement production:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_kiln Also, all other industries produce the cargo that they have in their name, if I recall correctly, just this one does not.
Another welcome modification, in my opinion, would be to add bauxite (and maybe also lithium) to the cargo provided by the "bulk terminal". In particular in Europe, bascially all bauxite is coming in from overseas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauxite#P ... d_reserves so it is a bit strange having to place a bauxite mine on a "real world map" (even though the mineral is named after the village of Les Baux, Provence in France). Would also match well with the coal and iron ore also provided by the bulk terminal industry.
Oh, and the winery is dearly missed - the fruit plantation is kind of a substitute for that, also graphics-wise, but how can you play a temperate map of Italy, Spain, France, or Germany without being able to put a winery (and the same also applies to AUS, NZ, Chile, South Africa, ...)? Sipping a glass of fine Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc or Mendoza Malbec along with playing OTTD and then also have a wineyard on your map would just double the fun
Finally, maybe the "building materials chain" would benefit from some more modern additions to the "brick works", such as a concrete and/or asphalt plant? With some very minor modifications, for example the "grain tower" from the AuzFreight set would possibly already provide a very closely matching graphic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt#/ ... nt_pic.jpg
So I hope you don't mind that many ideas posted here with me unfortunately neither having the time nor the graphical skills to provide anything to such an addition - but it was all lingering in my head for quite some time and had to "get out" ...