Oil Empires ("OE"), is a round-based, strategic wargame where you battle with and against thousands of other players.

It is browser-based, free, and requires no downloads.

To play OE, you need to register yourself with itch.com, maker of OE and several other multiplayer online games.

My handle there is WallSt. If you join and you like it, PM me and I'll bring you into the fold of my Cartel. Make sure to play Casual Server 2. That game just started early today so if you keep up with it you can be in the top ranks. Join, dick around, if you like it...stick around. Multiple accounts are not allowed there, so don't get caught doing it...or turn anyone else in (unless they are farming you). Stuff takes hours to build, so you really just need to log on a few times a day for a few minutes to manage troops, conflicts, and building.

The best part of the game, if you get in a Cartel with some friends and you want to go fuck someone up that is bugging you...you tear them up. WMD, Air Raids, Tanks raids...reduce people to nothing and then steal all their money so it takes twice as long to come back. That learns some people...

JOIN OE!

Not to threadjack... But I noticed Mythos is signing people up for Beta of their game. I put in for it but haven't received a reply yet. They may be swamped today as they just did a new version of the beta. The signup link is on the page.

I saw an article on it in this month's Game Informer magazine, looked cool.

I'm trying it out.




Still attempting to figure out how shit works.

I was going to give it a try but the damned fileplanet downloader was glitched and I couldn't start the downloader.

EQII just sent me an offer to play for free until September something or other out of pity for my former Vanguard account. I might try that.

Okay, I've got a small operation running. Im on your server, my account name is Sampson.


Not sure I'll be able to play much in the next couple weeks, but whatever.

JustBuck0420 is my handle. Small operation going.

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Sent a message to WallSt to join Cartel. Sampson is in the same quad as me.

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DONT CLICK THE UPGRADE BUTTON. I lost 90,000 by beeing click happy.

- cabotage

What is your handle? Cabotage? Where are you located?

some fucktard took "The Colonel" so I'm just "Colonel"

I have been added to the Cartel. I asked Baby to make me an Underboss so i can invite people to our Cartel. Waiting for that.....

Sampson, Colonel and Cabotage - have you requested to be part of the Cartel?

fuckers arent sending me my code yet, when I'm in I'll let you know

I sent a request.

Guys,

Go to Messages and the player. You should have something in there inviting you to the Cartel

Two cartels going on here. Oh, the choices we have to make.

nevermind. same cartel

No...I am an underboss for the above cartel. Only one.

I realize that now.


Is there a map of the cartel?
My score sucks.

I havent found one yet. Doubt it ....

Your score will improve...

The closest thing to a "cartel map" is the world map. bright white is you, blues are cartel members, green are allies, and red are enemies.

Scores are REAL HARD to get up at first. They are also real hard to keep up. I was #1 for 2 hours yesterday and now I am much lower. 3/5 your score is attacking (includes stealing oil and money) and defending.

I underbossed everyone. To keep much banter out of here (unless it gets more people playing) check the cartel message board often.

I'm in as 'nun' ... almost. Just checking out the getting started section.

Sent you a request to join the cartel

I have the NE covered. I turned off peace mode so I could spy on a few, maybe steal more money. If anybody is in attack mode they are usually associated with a cartel. I am not yet ready to piss off a cartel yet.

my cease fire is up mid-day tomorrow. from that point on i will focus a bit more on spying and stealing. oil and money go to your HQ. if i were you, i would turn off the sales of all oils at your hq and then build one refinery to refine all stolen oil to gas and jet fuel.

on causal server 1 i was in a cartel that spent more time inviting people in than attacking until the server had more bodies on it.

When do my spys come back?

Is it one account allowed per computer or per IP address? If it's one or the other, I'll be able to help us out.

That would be called cheating and if you get caught then you are disqualified.

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Its only cheating if you get caught. So really its called playing offensively with much personal risk.

if your spy dies...he doesn't come back. he dead. well "dead" in this game means he has a chance of being in the hospital and ready to re-deploy.

and it is one account per email address. so, be careful if you are to "play aggressively". but it is a good way to have strength in numbers or create alliances...

Well, we're going to need a lot of help if we want to win.

Since I work in the middle of the city, I have access to a ton of wireless internet connections, along with several computers at home. Not to mention an assload of e-mail addresses.

Just give me the thumbs up and I'll start making extra accounts.

i won't report you. no one in the FreeMasons will report you, so have at it.

I have a friend with 3, I have 2. It gets time consuming at work to manage 2 accounts on 2 servers and 1 account on pro. do as many as you can handle. i may only underboss one of your multiple accounts though. and i am going to play stupid over there.

I noticed there are alot of accounts created that people are not using. Would it benefit us to attact those first to secure the land? (or whatever)

Side note: I'm going to have limited internet access this upcoming week, and I will have no internet access the following week.

I have to do that whole getting married thing.

I'll make more accounts tomorrow or the day after. I want to see if I get banned first.

Also, could someone check to see if I'm doing everything right, and possibly give me advice? I'm pretty sure I don't know what I'm doing.

Its hard to say for sure because I can't see your settings.

I get the feeling I should have spread my buildings out some.

I am not going to upgrade my bunkers, I will wait for the military base because the militia and spies suck for defense.

Get more refineries. Your product quality not only gets you money faster it also fuels your military machine.

attacking HQs is pointless because their HP is so high. steal from them later in the game though.

upgrade the outpost at least high enough to get flak cannons. amazing Anit-Air.

refine oil to jet fuel, build stadiums when you have money, spread out. i got nuked in casual 1 and ALL my buildings went from 9 to 6. lost 60% of my guys and then someone came in ant kilt the rest. around a 6bil loss.

why is 1 of my refineries not making me any money?

How do i use my spies? How do you steal oil? By atacking?

Wiki Helps



Spies are not very good at spying according to wiki.

Save up and buy a military base, train alot of infantry, they defend better than guard dogs. Infantry are good at attacking. It seems that outposts are not as capable as military basses, so don't waist too much money on militia.

You cant spy, attack, steal, or kill if the other person or you are in "safe mode." You only get 100 hours of cease fire, I turned mine off so later in the game I will turn it back on if I need it.

I would concentrate on building income first. Most of the attacks on me were nuisance attacks that steal oil, or cash. Those are acceptable losses at this stage as long as I have a way to quickly recuperate.

Infantry have a defensive range of 4. I assume thats 4 blocks, maybe miles, I don't know. I am planning to keep my military basses close to my storage tanks, and distribution centers for defense.

Check my base out, I must be doing something right I am ranked <50. Most of what I know is from Wiki, observation, and mistakes.

I only have had a few spies ever die. One thing they are real good for is killing missiles. Send a spy and a bunch of other rebels or rangers or whatever you have to send on a kill mission into a silo and one spy can take out all the unbunkered missiles.

You should get Steve to play.

I think you have more access to get him on than I do.

Besides...he'd suck.

anyone care to answer my question?

1. Set youy pumps to dump into a storage facility.
2. Set your refinery to the same storage facility.
3. If you have only one refinery you can only go up to Kerosene.
4. OK the distribution facility to sell from the storage facility. (done from teh SF)

The DistFcty will sell equal parts of waht you OK'ed. I would only sell the highest level of refined product. Check your capacities of your pumps, refineries and sales.

Ideally selling only HtgOil (one round)
200bpl from pump1 at :10 into StgFcty
200bpl from pump2 at :10 into StgFcty
200bpl from pump3 at :10 into StgFcty
refinery will take 500bpl (mak level 1) of crude and return 500bpl HtgOil at :15
DistFcty will sell 400bpl HtgOil at :20
You have 100BPL crude and cash at the DistFcty at :20

I am making kerosene and just added another refinery, what do I have to do to make sure it is producing heating oil?

I feel like I could be making more money somehow...if someone wants my username and password to go in and play with my settings let me know.

Ditto.

Also, why the fuck do the scores fluctuate so much?

Set your second refinery to make heating oil. Your StgTks dictate what your DistCntr sells. Sell HtgOil only to maximize profits. When you add a third Ref it should make Gas. Then change your StgTks to sell only Gas.

You have alot of excess. I would build an outpost at 1661,2222 use only one of the DistCntr and only one of the StgTks. Ignore the rest for now, you can use them later. Build and upgrade only the things you are using to increase cash.

PM me your passwords here and i will take a look. i will also log on and collect your money once a day while you are on vacation and getting married and all that jazz. I may build up some shit so you and you can take a look at how it is set up when you get back.

the scores fluctuate so much because they are based on empire size, wealth, and structure levels. Stealing and killing make up most the score. Your first big kill, steal, destroy mission will shoot up your points. I want from 2000 on the Casual 1 server to 1400 after one attack.

read the message board over there. big war a heading this way...you want in?

I think i am doing well. I got three seperate 1400 Jet Fuel operations going. I got my first missle silo...next is hospital then helipad.

Is a marketplace a good investment?

Do people really buy stadiums?

What is going on with this war?

How big of space does a WMD take out?

When does the cease fire end?

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Ok...so i just got attacked...by some spy dude. How do i use my spies? Do i go to someones distribution center and select the place where i have my spies sitting?

I dont understand??

skip the hospital for now. if you can buy GC in the marketplace,do it. buy a gamepass. read the units page to find out about mileage damage on a nuke. one block is one sq. mile. click on your Hqh to find when cease fire ends. if you are talking about the war...I will keep you posted.

that is how spies work. you spy to make sure of unit counts, building levels, and funds and oil to steal.

all who pm'd me...I will check your stuff during the evenings.

The sooner you could check mine the better because I think I'm wasting A LOT of resources...

fix't.

leave the black ones be for now. upgrade green tank and line 1 dist & refs. one maxed tank can house 4 sets of maxed refs and 4 maxed oil rigs can pump to it.

you won't make a lot of $ for a little bit...but you will start it rolling in soon.

ima stay on to upgrade a few more things if I can. log on in 15 or so.

fix't.

leave the black ones be for now. upgrade green tank and line 1 dist & refs. one maxed tank can house 4 sets of maxed refs and 4 maxed oil rigs can pump to it.

you won't make a lot of $ for a little bit...but you will start it rolling in soon.

ima stay on to upgrade a few more things if I can. log on in 15 or so.