Oil in sea?

[Håkon]

Okay, this is maybe not some great thing globally, but I believe that oil could actually appear in sea. You would have to have Offshore Platform in the city to extort it. If the oil was outside the city radius, you would have to, using Workers inside the city, make pipes to the oil, connecting it to your trade network. Also, oil should not appear on shore squares.

 

[Dark Sheer]

The reasons why this won't work are:

1) Oil is discovered when you research Refining which is in Industrial Age
2) Offshore platform can only be build after miniturisation which is a Modern Age tech

And most importantly, the Civ3 rules state that you need a road connected to the resources in order to use it. You can't build a road in the sea and there are no way to build anything in the sea at the moment as you do not have a sea engineer unit

 

[IceBlaZe]

I think its a great idea!
The problem with miniaturization is not actually a problem... I just make another resource called sea oil which looks exactly like oil but requires miniaturization and can only appear on sea.

if you want a clean mod with that only ill make it for you, hikon.
greets,
-eyal

 

[IceBlaZe]

but wait... theres a problem/s:
- you cant build roads on sea
- most units require oil.. if you make sea oil it wont work

 

[amadeus]

If you created a new resource, say, "ocean oil" and made it availible after the offshore platforms, it could be [in theory] done.

 

[IceBlaZe]

just what i thought in the beggining, but in order of a resource to be used it must have roads connected to it, and roads cant be built on sea, and... in order of units like tank to be built they require 'Oil' and not 'Sea Oil' so even if you did have the ability to use 'Sea oil' it would be useless..

 

[Marla_Singer]

Well, I don't know if we can do it. I'm sure we can't do it with the simple editor, maybe we can do it with the help of a programmer...

The thing is to consider oil platform not as a road, but as a colony on the sea. This colony has a port and then, it's directly connected to the country if... of course, we need to get a city with a port there (quite obvious).

Then, We can build oil platform on the other side of the planet, but it's not unaccurate when we see that Guinea Gulf oil platform are almost only french (TotalFina Elf). i guess it's the same thing for other regions in the world and other countries...

I'm not for the creation of a new ressource called "oil in sea". The game will consider it as a totally different ressource and as we can't say a tank require oil from sea or oil from the ground, it won't solve anything.

About the issue of the creation of the oil platform, well maybe we can give the ability to the transport to transform itself as a colony.. or we can just put a worker in a transport and wake up to found a colony when we are on the oil tile.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Many of the N.sea oilrigs use pipelines to transfer oil from the rigs to the refineries onland!

Here is some info!

"32-inch diameter pipeline (since upgraded to 36-inch) from the field 169 kilometres to Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire"
Then a:
"36-inch diameter buried landline from Cruden Bay 209 kilometres to Grangemouth on the Firth of Forth"

for more info:
http://www.bp.com/corp_reporting/location_rep/uk/bus_overview/exploration/forties.asp



FOR THE GAME!

For roads to offshore deposits we could have with a certain tech roads that can be built at sea and have a sea-worker unit that can build them (some sort of ship).

If a new road-type called pipeline could be made with new graphics and CERTAINLY no commerce or movement bonus it could be possible to have offshore deposits...

At some point I may investigate whether this is at all possible...

 

[Craterus22]

I wonder if we could create a sea colony that has the functionality of a harbor (which should eliminate the road problem)...


Cool idea