Oil King

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This is a challenge! I was planning to do it myself, but i would like to see other complete it :)

Oil King

HJTP 04 Dec 2008 13:07

The game the idea came from this game : game
Play it, I like the game idea, and I think (without the graphic part) it is very well possible in basic.
I already brainstormed a little for the basic version:

• 3 tower types, all own price and possibilities

-	Small	Medium	Large
Speed	Low	Moderate	High
Cost	Low	Moderate	High
Max. Depth	Low	Moderate	High

• 5 countries: The Netherlands(I'm Dutch :D ) , Nigeria, USA, Saudi-Arabia, Russia.
  • All countries have their own advantage, some of the variables(depth, size, are average(using randnorm for example)). Moderate means close to average, all numbers still to be chosen

-	The Neth.	Nigeria	USA	S-A	Russia
Profit	High	Low	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate
Depth	High	Moderate	Moderate	Low	Moderate
Size	Small	Moderate	Moderate	Big	Moderate
Costs	Moderate	Low	Moderate	Moderate	High
Terrorism%	Zero	Low	Normal	High	Zero

• Stats menu is needed.

• First in a country you perform search for oil, 1 search shows 20% of the land.

• Some countries need diplomatic things(read: money) to get convinced.

I hope someone can do something cool with this idea :).

EDIT: some grammar/capital things.

Last edited on 05 Dec 2008 13:48 by HJTP Show more

Re: Oil King

Socks 04 Dec 2008 23:15

Right, after I finish Zoo Tycoon. (Sort of graphical, too)

Sounds neat, though.

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/Socks

Re: Oil King

Xphoenix 07 Dec 2008 04:34

What happens after you've built towers on all the possible reservoirs? I didn't bother playing it to the end, but it seemed like there was nothing to do but pour money into campaigns and send people to the war.

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Icalasari 07 Dec 2008 06:20

That was pretty much it. That and repair blown up towers

Re: Oil King

HJTP 07 Dec 2008 13:40

Yeah you are right, the goal of the game is something which has to be improved. I say build in missions, starting easy:

1. Search for oil (I said we start easy :p )
2. Build tower
3. Earn x money
   • X has to be decided and tuned on the amount of money you earn per year per tower etc
   • Can be used more often, just higher amounts of money.
4. Use diplomacy to be allowed to search in country x
5. Protect your towers versus terrorism
   • After this mission towers start getting attacked by terrorists, the number of attacks depends on terrorism%

And so on… I think much more missions are possible.

HJTP

Re: Oil King

HJTP 16 Dec 2008 10:44

Ok people :) my testweek on school is over :D I have 2 weeks of holiday now, so I'm going to do this one myself. I already started it, I think in a few weeks it will be done,
and of course I will upload it here.
If you have any ideas, please PM me.

Greetz,

HJTP