Comments on: Oiligarcy: Crude Oil Meets Crude Politics

By: Junior

Junior — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:28:58 +0000

One thing I need to know though, these people burning plants.

Am I burning alive people, or dead people?

By: A-Scale

A-Scale — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:17:20 +0000

I also thought only the Republicans could be bought. How naive…

By: cyrenic

cyrenic — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:31:31 +0000

Yeah, that got really ponderous by the end. Very funny early on though.

By: Xercies

Xercies — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:45:56 +0000

I got to 2100, had an oil empire with so much money I didn’t know what to do with it. Had human plants, had the green movement running scared, had basically everyone under my finger. i quit since there was no challange anymore.

This is quite a good stratadgy game, and it has got quite a good sense of dark humour in it. The things i did to other countries was evil really. And i didn’t care, i was actually willing Alaska to be under my spell and get rid of the animals so I could get more oil. Damn I’m evil.

By: Aldaris

Aldaris — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:17:38 +0000

Gravatar Senethro says:

Haha, scrubs. I got the world nuked by 2056.

It took me until the 23rd century. D:

By: Senethro

Senethro — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:13:46 +0000

Haha, scrubs. I got the world nuked by 2056.

By: Lukasz

Lukasz — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:17:51 +0000

My first game ended around 2050 with great green future where oil is obsolete.
You guys are evil.

By: Hypocee

Hypocee — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:22:53 +0000

Because short-term future == PROOOOOFIIIIT?

By: cliffski

cliffski — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:11:38 +0000

Some are, some aren’t. Shell and BP are*, Exxon Mobil is defiantly against any renewable energy.
Why people would still buy shares in a company with that attitude is beyond me. Long term future == NIL.

*esp solar.

By: Xercies

Xercies — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:37:02 +0000

Yes oil companies are already preparing for renwables, but they want kill oil just yet.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:06:58 +0000

Aren’t real oil companies diversifying into sustainable power anyway? So if renewables do take hold, then the oil giants are going to have at least a slice of the pie – probably a sizable slice too, given their already considerable assets.

By: CPY

CPY — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:44:49 +0000

Try building human plants instead of oil and you can make it to end with a peace.