Oil wells!

[Mickey]

You can now drill for oil and have money rolling in while you sleep!

To set-up a well, choose the drill for oil link on the left side of the war pages.

Here are the details:

- It costs 50 Geos to establish a well.
- When it's established, it's daily barrel production and lifespan are generated.
- The daily barrel production will vary between 10-200.
- The lifespan will vary between 2-60 days.

This means that an average well will earn you 3000 barrels. The least you'll get is around 20 barrels, and the most you'll get from a well is 12,000 barrels.

Oil can now be converted to Geos using the resource conversion page. The current rate is .1 Geos per barrel. It sounds low, but a typically oil well will get you 3000 barrels, which is 300 Geos - not bad on a 50 Geo investment.

Let me know if you have any questions or problems.

[Bastian]

do i have to download the tool every time i want to build an oil well?
because i tried to build two wells with the same .kmz but it didnt work

[Mickey]

Originally Posted by Bastian

do i have to download the tool every time i want to build an oil well?
because i tried to build two wells with the same .kmz but it didnt work

You should be able to build as many as you want with the same KML file, as the file is the same every time you download it. A few things to make sure:

- You need to be in the oil field in Saudi Arabia.
- You need to be zoomed in fairly tight.
- You need to be far enough way from other oil wells.
- You need to have 50 Geos in the bank to pay for it.

What's the problem you're having?

[Bastian]

don't know. i klicked on yes and it said oil well created successfully but it showed the same lifetime and the same daily production as on the first well and as i clicked on view oil wells there was only one.
i had this problem two times now

[birq]

Same thing for me. It won't create a second one.

[birq]

I had a second web browser open, and it was able to create the oil well this time. It seems that the first time, it refreshed into the GEWar browser that was already open, and it didn't work.

It's a theory, at least. Bottom line is that I was able to create a second well.

[cheakerdoodels]

I bought two just fine. Got a good one.

[birq]

Both of mine sucked

[Bastian]

and a question: why is this point not in oil field: 28° 4'26.55"N, 39°20'10.63"E

[cheakerdoodels]

I may be wrong, but at the rate my oil is going up it doesn't look likes it's going to meet the daily production.

[Mickey]

Originally Posted by cheakerdoodels

I may be wrong, but at the rate my oil is going up it doesn't look likes it's going to meet the daily production.

It will probably fall a little short, but it should be close. A few details:

- Note that by "daily", it refers to 24 hour period, so your total at the end of today won't be as high since it's only a partial day.

- I have a knock-off cron job set-up on the server, using a similar approach as the vBulletin folks. Hidden in the footer of every page in war is a script that checks to see when the totals were last calculated. If it's been five minutes or over, it runs the script. The script then gives you your daily allotment of oil, divided by 24 (that would give us the per hour amount), then divided by 12 (that would give us the total for five minutes). People won't often hit the site right on the five minute mark, so you lose whatever that extra bit is.

I could fix it, but it treats everyone equally so it's not a big deal.

I'm still playing with the exchange rates. They are now set to be recalculated each time the oil is given out. You can hold on to your oil and hope that the rates go back up, or trade it in for Geos whenever you want.

The rates are based on how much oil is currently being produced. As of this writing, around 13.2 barrels are being acquired every five minutes, which puts the exchange rate at 0.08 Geos per barrel.

Here is the current rate list, although I will be tweaking this often:

Total oil per 5 minutes < 10, exchange rate is 0.10
Oil > 10 and < 20, exchange rate is 0.08
Oil > 20 and < 30, exchange rate is 0.06
Oil > 30, exchange rate is 0.04

This will take a lot of tweaking, but should be a neat system. I hope to introduce a similar system with the jewels soon, to track how many are being mined each day and adjust the rates accordingly.

[viVaPaLeStIne]

i really didnt get the exchang thing, so if i earn more the 10 in 5 min the exchange rate for me is 0.08?? so why should i buy more wells if my exchang rate will be lower and paiy 50 geos for the well

[birq]

It's a global exchange rate. If we all go apeshizzle drilling oil wells, the total global value of oil drops.

Of course this has nothing to do with the real world, which is why we're still seeing almost $3.00/gallon in my area, but that's another story altogether

[Mickey]

Originally Posted by viVaPaLeStIne

so why should i buy more wells if my exchang rate will be lower and paiy 50 geos for the well

It's a global exchange rate.

Correct. It's how much total oil comes in, not just how much you bring in.

[wiccanerd]

how can i mine for jewels?
the 'mine for jewels' button just takes you to the jewel collecting KML file.
is this a bug or what?