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Build up an oil empire and try to become the richest and mightiest man in the oil business!|Start a new game and choose a name and a logo for your company. You can also select the number of computer controlled opponents and the difficulty level.|There are four different ways to win the game: Build up the most successful company within 10 or 30 years or let your opponents become bankrupt (Monopoly / Big Boom). Find a more detailed description of the different aims in the start menu.| | |From the start menu, you can go straight to your office. The office is your company's headquarter. From here, you can buy oil concessions, trade oil and influence on the international oil market.|You also see your company's capital, the gross sales of the current round and your image points. On the top, there's a news ticker with information on what's happening in the world economy.| | |Clock|The clock symbol ends the current round. One round is one month. After your competitors made their moves, it's your turn again. Show them how business is done!| | |Concessions|Buy oil fields all around the world and drill for oil! The price of a concession depends on the area where the oil field is located. Some areas, like Far East, are cheaper, but the likeliness of an event is higher. Events are burning oil fields, pipelines, refineries etc.| | |TIP: If you want to make sure that an oil field is interesting for you, buy an expertise first! It gives you an idea of how much oil is available in this region.| | |After you have bought a concession, you can start drilling. You have to drill through different layers of earth. Be careful to choose the right drilling speed: The deeper you get, the slower you have to drill or the drill head will break! | | |TIP: To play it safe, you can pay a drilling expert. Experts are always drilling at highest speed, but they are quite expensive.| | |Drilling takes some time. You get the first results after some rounds. Watch your progress every round and adjust the drilling speed. The duration shown in the drilling menu is the number of rounds needed to get to the oil.|The faster you drill, the less time you will need, but the more you have to pay.| | |Statistics|Here you have access to your company's financial figures. The statistics menu is divided into three parts.| | |The company statistics show you the gross sales of your company and give you information about how much money you spent and how you spent it. Besides, you see the actual oil price and your image points. The higher your image is, the more oil you are likely to sell.| | |The area statistics inform you about how much oil you produced in the different areas, the number of concessions you own and how much you have to pay for transportation.| | |The company capital shows the capital of your company compared to your opponents.| | |TIP: You should have a close look at your company's capital. Your goal should always be to make maximum profit, so act wisely!| | |You can jump to the help file at any time to review the meaning of all icons. Afterwards, just choose 'Resume' from the main menu to continue the game.| | |Structure|Producing oil is not enough to build up an empire. If you own a lot of oil fields in the same area, it's advisable to build pipelines in this area. Transportation of oil via pipelines is cheaper and increases the money you earn with the oil you produce.| | |Refineries are good for additional income. Refine crude oil into petrol and earn lots of money! But beware, if you do not have enough oil to deliver to your refineries, you'll lose money.| | |You should buy storages if you produce more oil than you can sell. While the oil price is low, store the oil and sell it when you can achieve a higher price. After you bought storage, it costs you a monthly fee. | | |TIP: To safe money, it's recommended to sell storage that you do not need.| | |Invest money in security to protect yourself against attacks from your competitors. The more money you spend for security, the lower the chance of an attack from your opponents.| | |Phone|Sometimes, oil business is a dirty business. Call your agents and pay them to bribe politicians, international organisations or even the CIA. You can also pay terrorists to set a blaze on an opponent's oil field.| | |TIP: Agents always want the highest amount shown. If you don't have enough money, pay them by instalments. The agent will do the job when he has received the whole sum, so you have to wait some rounds.| | |With a positive company image, you sell more oil. Make donations to improve your public reputation!| | |Red alerts need immediate actions. To make the best of a bad job, you have to send a task force as soon as one of your oil fields or pipelines is burning.|Task forces cost money, so you probably want to think about spending more money for security to prevent a red alert.| | |If everything goes wrong, you can still sell your oil fields at the Wall Street. You will get 50% of the amount you have paid for the oil field.| | |News|Read the newspaper and keep yourself up to date about what is happening in the world. Use this information for your benefit.|For example, when you get the information that the US military is going to spend a lot of money for military vehicles, build up refineries to deliver the fuel needed! You will also be informed if the measures you have taken against an opponent have been successful.| | |The news of the last six months is stored in the news menu. 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Here you have access to all functions of the game. Choose a symbol for more options or press the clock to end the current round. Press RETURN to jump back to the main menu where you can save or load a game and find descriptions of all icons in the help menu.|Here you can buy pipelines, storage and refineries and invest money in security. Pipelines reduce transportation costs. Buy storage if you produce more oil than you can sell. Refineries are useful to fabricate new materials from your oil and bring additional income. Security protects you against attacks from your opponents.|Here you find important news from around the world. This includes actual events as well as things that are likely to happen in the near future. The News will be removed after 6 months.|The phone gives you access to your agents. With their help you can send task forces to extinguish fires on your oil fields, bribe politicians or start sabotage attempts against your enemy. You can also make donations to increase your image.|In this menu you can buy concessions and expertises or drill for oil in different areas of the world. You will also be informed if there is actually an event happening on one of your oil fields. Press OWN to see your company's oil fields only.|A concession gives you the right to drill in this area.|An expertise indicates how much oil is available in the selected area.|Here you can see your company's balance sheet. You get information about your company's sales figures, capital and image. Structure costs show you how much money you spent for refineries and pipelines. Go back to the help menu to get a description of all icons.|The first icon shows your production in million barrels. The next icon shows the number of concessions you own in this area. The third icon shows the existing oil in million barrels. For this you have to have an expertise. 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So find the perfect way to drill efficient through all stratums. You can also set the drilling speed later to a new value. TIP: The deeper the drilling the harder is the stratum, so you have to drill slower the deeper you are.|Do you really want to start drilling?|You don't need a lawyer|You can use this agent again after ^ months.|   |                |                                                                                                    |                                                                                                    |                Oilfield is burning. Red Alert will send a task force|Conveyor system is burning. Red Alert will send a task force|Pipeline is burning. Red Alert will send a task force|Refinery is burning. Red Alert will send a task force|Storage is burning. Red Alert will send a task force|World consumption will grow in next 2 years.|US military will invest 50% of it's household for military vehicles.|Economic boom. 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