Hints / warning about Oil (starter oil patch)

13 votes

It caught me off guard to rush and get the oil rig ready, oil cracking didn’t seem as important as it really is. Ended up falling behind with oil/fuel causing a restart of the map. So providing a hint/warning could help newer players avoid this, or just to start planning. Once good fuel refining is set up fuel issues are easier to come back from instead of losing and restarting.
Adds/change
-hints/warning about starter oil
-use a * on the research to show high priority

Done Suggested by: Amonks (28 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 06 Jan, '23 • Comments: 3

Comments: 3

03 Oct, '21
jack lockwood
I suffered oil death on my first play through. An unfortunate mismanage on my part of unity quickly lead to no oil and then no fuel for anything. I also think adding alternative ways of producing fuel (biodiesel) would be useful to give an alternative way of keeping things moving.
07 Oct, '21
Donnti
I wished I would have known about the oil stuff myself. I ran out of oil on my first playthrough and had to restart. I like jack lockwood idea of an alternate fuel source so if you run out of oil and don't explore fast enough you won't get hard-locked when you run out of diesel.
14 Jul, '22
Moffmaster
I think this can be closed.