no oil in the desert on crystal isles?

[korkk]

so im playing crystal isles offline mode and looking at the map and from my own scouting it seems the only oil on the map is in the far north and ocean why are there no oil wells in the desert? on other maps with desert there are oil maps why not here am i just missing them?

[EmberStar]

There are oil nodes up in the north, along the edges of the water just south-east of the snowy area. There are also oil nodes scattered through the ice biome up to the edge of the Eldritch Island. The map makers decided to mix things up apparently. If there's any real-world inspiration behind it, I guess it would be "Alaska is cold and also has a lot of oil."

[korkk]

i got that im just surprised there arnt any oil wells in the desert u know where 80% of all the irl oil comes from

[retsam1]

Originally posted by korkk:

i got that im just surprised there arnt any oil wells in the desert u know where 80% of all the irl oil comes from

Suspend disbelief in a game like this. Plenty of oil well spots in the snow biome on that map so dont obsess over the whys and whynots otherwise.

[EmberStar]

Originally posted by korkk:

i got that im just surprised there arnt any oil wells in the desert u know where 80% of all the irl oil comes from

Each of the Arks is a space station pretending to be an island (or desert, or whatever.) *All* of the oil is artificial and generated by the Ark itself. As such, they could have it pour out of trees if they really felt like it.

It's also sort of a coincidence that oil is currently found in some areas that happen to be deserts. Apparently the bedrock *under* the Sahara is filled with what looks like river valleys - it's a desert right now. A few million years ago (and maybe again in the future) it was a rainforest. And it was most definitely whatever passed for jungle for millions of years to provide all the vegetation that got smooshed under the rocks to *become* oil.

Like I said, the mapmaker seems to have decided to mix things up. Just be glad they didn't put most of the oil nodes in the redwoods. Getting randomly bushwhacked by thylas and narfing microraptors every time you need to collect oil would *suck.*