As we all noticed, oil jumped up in prices and stayed there for some time. In response, I built 600 acres out of my 10K into rigs and started selling all my excess at least $100 dollars below default price. The idea was to see if I could help encourage the prices to drop back down. Doubt I can claim all the credit so far, but I like to pretend I am influenceing the market and encouraging people to price slash one another.

Lol, that didn't make much sense. Why would you invest in oil rig and not benefit from it?

Because he is benefitting from it big time if he crashes the market. Doubt 600 rigs can crash it though. That oil probably got snapped up by SOs without ever hitting the market.

600 rigs= 1200 x 54 turns a day= maybe a drop in the bucket.

what's in the rest of your 10k?

im screwed... i bought 1mil oil instead of 100k. now i cant run my turns lol

Smooth. Anyone would think you've played this game before.

the rest of may land is set up for standerd dict/farmer. Running a solid 10% IC for 100% spies to slow down the number off landgrabs from those triple my NW. I am pulling in more land than losing while growing in power, I am happy.

blid is right, I was messing around for fun and seeing if I could help the oil market to crash. Not only would oil be cheaper to buy outright this way, but the oilers would be gaining less cash this way, thus easier competition in the end ;)

not to burst your bubbles but what probably happened was everybody that actually use any appreciable amount of oil started building their own rigs. At the same time, semi oilers boosted their oil production and causing the market to crash.

Less demand + higher production = market crash.

The amount of oil you produce everyday doesn't even let me use close to half my jets.

That is what i said before, everybody will panic and buy rigs all at once then there would be no demand for oil:P

Yeah, but you'll still have that window where you get the desperate, the noobs, and the apathetic, all buying your ultra-expensive oil just to make that golden grab...and if you can keep that window open long enough, you will be God.

the oilers had plenty of that window this round. over $400 oil for damn near 2 weeks. That's a lot of cash that'll allow you to make huge grabs and boost your agri tech. A smart fascist should be ruling the t10 right now but there's none :(

Yeah, it forced Wiggle up to the top of the rankings but then he made bad attacks and didn't really make good use of it

He's noob

lol, I know I had an extremely miniscuale effect, but it was fun to pretend.

yay oil is $150 today. I can finally tear down my 3k rigs and buy oil instead of killing my money making efficiency.

I had an earthquake that destroyed 734 acres today. That was fun. Not. That was 1/6 of my daily income to rebuild.

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If he's who I think he is, he's no n00b, but he did pull a n00bish move there, LOL!

Earthquakes suck! So Fsc what are you trying to say?

damn an earthquake took out that many?

I was wondering the other day why I cash 10 turns and then eneded up with 640 empty acres. Lol i didn't pay attention and thought I just forgot to build. I'm so noob!