The Game
Testers for nowEverything about OIL MAN itself: progress, releases, how to play, and why it works the way it does.
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Oil Creek, Venango Co., Penna.Launcher 1.5.1For testers, for now
Blood, Sweat, and Barrels
Lease the ground, raise a derrick, drill on the rock as it really lay, and haul your crude to a market that pays what the kerosene in the barrel is worth.
The game is built on the record. Every rule that comes from history links back to the books, articles and photographs it came from.
Everything about OIL MAN itself: progress, releases, how to play, and why it works the way it does.
A public library of the early oil industry: who wrote what, when, and where to read it.
Why it works this way
Each landowner asks 60 to 160 percent of the going rate. A lease rises 25 percent for each neighboring lease taken, and doubles beside each one where a well found oil. At Pithole in 1865, the Holmden farm went from $25,000 to about $1.3 million.
Decision D187 · Land and roads