u/IAMFERROUS

Someone asked to see the map I posted this on, so here you are. Also a link to COI hub if anyone wants to give it a play. Its an idea I had where everything is just below the surface and easy to get to, but you gotta get stuff to put there. Almost no easy expansion for area without dumping, and a tad squeezed on available shore real estate at first, but a whole lot of mine able resources. There is a mountain I added that you can start bulldozing down for some more material and I increased the starting oil node, so it should be a little easier for you than me. You just have to get to that mountain first to start tapping it.

So I seldom post things in Reddit but I think this is worthy of sharing. I made a custom map with the idea being that you don't have a lot of space at, but expansion is very easy in terms of dumping/leveling. Basically everything but the starting area is rolling hills just under the waters surface. Turns out I might have tuned to starting oil a little low cause I'm running up to parts 3 and see that my wells run dry in 40 minutes. Ok, no issue, I'm expanding to what should be node 2, its a bit away but a pipe can fix that.

Except you can see in my screenshots that I'm no where near getting to node 2. My options were to get the world oil rig online (boring, can do that in 5-10 minutes) or I could try and rush out an amphibious vehicle to get those pumps built. Well am I glad that I rushed the vehicle. Those first set of pumps went up just after the original went dry. Still gonna have a slight dip because thats a long pipe but yeah.