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Bad idea. Oiler needs to be strengthened, not weakened.

Differences between farmer and oiler are good, not bad.

I'm pretty sure the point of me putting this idea here was to strengthen oilers not weaken them. But then again I don't know why adding oil tech would strengthen oilers by adding production. Does that even make any sense Rockman? Adding production strengthening oilers?

Simple supply and demand. Increasing production without increasing demand will weaken them, not strengthen them.

If right now we need 3 oilers out of every 100 countries to satisfy oil demands, a 50% increase in production would now mean that only 2 countries out of every 100 would need to be oilers. The excess oil on the market would drive prices down farther than the increase in production would make up for it. The result of adding oil tech is that oiler would need to become a strategy that is played even less often than it is played right now.

Now, if you cut oil production by 75%, and then added an oil tech with maybe a 200% max, then oilers would be strengthened. But the way to strengthen oilers is to decrease production. OPEC realizes this quite well in real life :-)

ya, i post this all the time... but we're all about making varying permutations on how goods/units/product/etc work.

there are advantages and disadvantages to each primary production model

we don't want to make every good the same as bushels, as Rockman discusses

What Rockman said. Also one of oiler's biggest advantages is that it needs no tech to be at maximum efficiency,

ok ok my apologizes i guess i didnt look at the grand scheme of things

Just put oil on private and set a floor price. That way, oil won't be as volatile...

don't apologize, joedro... these are always positive discussions to have once in a while :)

slagpit had some interesting thoughts on oil changes, but I'll let him bring them forward at a time of his choosing :p
i wouldn't expect any ingame changes for a bit anyway

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