Where`s the oil?

[Diesel]

I honestly have problems finding oil. There is a good amount of oil in the USA, Mexico, Venezuela, Azerbaijan and some in North Germany, Basra, Dubai and Fars, but I have trouble finding more of the stuff. There seems to be none in Saudi-Arabia and suprisingly none South-East Asia. Does anybody know of large oil ressource regions that can be easily aquired without invading major powers?

[Jojo]

There isn't enough oil in the world to feed one economy, let alone several. Same goes for many resources to be honest.

I think the largest oil fields are in east Borneo and Venezuela. Dubai and the Iraq region get a bunch too.

[Dre]

Wallachia had oil in my last playthrough.

[KFC-AI]

Originally posted by Diesel:

I honestly have problems finding oil. There is a good amount of oil in the USA, Mexico, Venezuela, Azerbaijan and some in North Germany, Basra, Dubai and Fars, but I have trouble finding more of the stuff. There seems to be none in Saudi-Arabia and suprisingly none South-East Asia. Does anybody know of large oil ressource regions that can be easily aquired without invading major powers?

A big problem for Victoria right now is that their AI does not anticipate incomming demand. And they are really bad at building up rubbers and oil.

[Bibliophylax]

You made me laugh so hard ! usernamed Diesel, calling for where the oil is. Very high meme potential here.
Joke aside, i don't really know.

[Diesel]

Originally posted by Jojo:

There isn't enough oil in the world to feed one economy, let alone several. Same goes for many resources to be honest.

I think the largest oil fields are in east Borneo and Venezuela. Dubai and the Iraq region get a bunch too.

Didn't see the one on Borneo at first. Still strange how little oil is available. The availability oil ressources should keep growing through the 1900s instead of capping in the late 1890s. The current amount is ridiculously low. Maybe even add synthetic oil as a late game tech. The Fischer-Tropsch Process was invented in te 1910s after all and improved upon in the folowing decades.

Another change I would like to is the ability to prospect and aquire ressource rights in your puppet states. In my current USA game I have both Mexico and Venezuela as puppets and would prefer not to annex them to avoid border gore, but their tech is so ♥♥♥♥ they dont even seer oil and its already 1914 and even if they found it they would probably not exploit it fully.

[Pipeyrous]

i go to Borneo, Texas, Venezuala, Canada and Pensylvania for oil. But yes i'm strugling with the lack of oil and i'm forced to annex a lot of isolated land just for oil. fortunately with belgium I exceed twice the GDP of the second country and I have unrivaled firepower. Not sure that the race for oil is so simple with an average country.

In addition, France is starting to use oil without producing it and imports a good part of my oil. I had to get out of the free trade agreement I had with them just to protect my oil supply but that's not enough. I'm a protectionist so I lifted the customs barriers. This is not enough. Too bad we can't put a personalized customs rate to discourage exports of essential products as much as possible. Or put an embargo on a specific product.

[Seraph]

You can also get a tiny amount of oil from whaling. New England has a lot.

[Diesel]

Originally posted by Seraph:

You can also get a tiny amount of oil from whaling. New England has a lot.

Yes but that's a drop of water on a forest fire. I already maxed my whaling industry and it's delivering about 3k oil. Quite a bit, but not nearly enought to still the endless hunger for oil.

And I know that oil should be rare, there is a reason wars are fought over it constantly, but currently it's impossible for the biggest western powers to maintain sizeable car industries or use large numbers of oil powered war ships, which is a little ridiculous.

[Aggris Abernathy]

I suggest turning off oil for certain industries to limit what you need. I played as the U.S with a GDP and my mighty industry was too much for the oil provide in North and South America. Oil needs to be rebalance to or give a higher cap to make it flow. Iron and coal is damn near infinite compare to oil. Electricity also suffers a bit but you can always make more electricity. I also recommend taking South Bengal in India to get access to silk and opium.

[Toblm]

Originally posted by Diesel:

Originally posted by Seraph:

You can also get a tiny amount of oil from whaling. New England has a lot.

Yes but that's a drop of water on a forest fire. I already maxed my whaling industry and it's delivering about 3k oil. Quite a bit, but not nearly enought to still the endless hunger for oil.

And I know that oil should be rare, there is a reason wars are fought over it constantly, but currently it's impossible for the biggest western powers to maintain sizeable car industries or use large numbers of oil powered war ships, which is a little ridiculous.

It almost like everything isnt supposed be running on oil at the end game.
Like you'll have to make choices on production methods due to the resources you have available to you...

Strange that.