oil rigs not spawning

[Neptune PurpleHeart]

as title says, in 2012 now and got none, is it based on map size because most of the map is just water

[Wai]

It is based on the amount of ocean water and the proximity of a town or city, I believe. You need, for preference, and in my personal experience, a fairly large bay with a nearby coastal city. I do not recall ever having a rig generate in a lake. They do not generate close to the map edge and they do not generate close to land. I think - but am not certain that you need a minimum of 4 map squares of ocean surrounding a rig. Rig generation is also a fairly infrequent random event. It could be that you have just been unlucky.

You could test your map's viability to randomly generate a rig by first saving your game twice then convert one of your saves into a scenario, open the editor and load your scenario file. You can now try to place rigs. (You could even cheat and save your test scenario with rigs you have placed and then play that save.)

[Neptune PurpleHeart]

Originally posted by Wai:

It is based on the amount of ocean water and the proximity of a town or city, I believe. You need, for preference, and in my personal experience, a fairly large bay with a nearby coastal city. I do not recall ever having a rig generate in a lake. They do not generate close to the map edge and they do not generate close to land. I think - but am not certain that you need a minimum of 4 map squares of ocean surrounding a rig. Rig generation is also a fairly infrequent random event. It could be that you have just been unlucky.

You could test your map's viability to randomly generate a rig by first saving your game twice then convert one of your saves into a scenario, open the editor and load your scenario file. You can now try to place rigs. (You could even cheat and save your test scenario with rigs you have placed and then play that save.)

i suppose it being a 64x64 map probably doesn't help much either

[Wai]

I can't comment on that, I always play large maps, but, I think the small size is a distinct possibility.