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The Drilling specialization allows you to dig into mother earth to pull out that all-important black fluid: oil. It's easy to get started with Drilling, and it eventually makes for some of the largest profits in the game, so it's a great choice for early cities in new regions. If nothing else, if you start an oil city, you can use the profits to gift Simoleons to your neighbors, allowing them to jump-start their own cities. The upkeep prices of the oil buildings are practically non-existent. You'll need a lot of them though, and the initial costs may be a little tough. For comparison, Mining is cheaper to get started but provides less overall profit, and Electronics is much pricier to get started but provides more profit. Drilling Buildings Oil Well Petroleum HQ Oil Refinery Video Tutorial Check out the embedded video to see a drilling city in action! After creating your town, click the button in the lower-right corner of the screen to open the Data Map views, then click the “ Oil Map” button. Any area with oil will show up as a tiered grayscale, with more oil appearing in darker areas. Unlike the ore and coal of the Mining specialization, most city sites that have any amount of oil have it concentrated in one key area, making planning fairly simple. Once you've gone through the basics of starting your city, simply create a low density dirt road near the spot of the largest oil pocket, then plop down an Oil Well. Crude oil by itself makes a pretty good profit, so plop a Trade Depot as quickly as possible as well, even if you need to issue a Bond. Remember that oil wells create a lot of pollution, so keep them away and downwind from your Residential zones! Upon plopping your oil well, it will spawn with two pumpjacks. These can be destroyed if you wish, but given that they cost ,000 each, you'll probably want to keep them at first. Regardless, this is a big.
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