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Originally posted by Professor Nopants@Nov 6 2005, 02:50 AM
First time poster... right off let me say I love the site, and i think this message board set up for each game is killer, especially since there aren't (game)faq's for a lot of these older titles.
Anyway, I was wondering if anybody is making any sensible use of either the warehouses or the dock-side oil tanks in this game.
It seems the only real use for the warehouses I've had is for Forward Business, but these warehouses seem to be quite prominent in the game. Am I missing something here? Is there a way to automate routes between two warehouses or something? Or are they just basically a useless feature...?
As far as the oil tanks go, the only purpose I can see would be to have your ships auto-fill fuel at those ports, but I haven't tried using them yet.....
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As far as i remember warehouses and oiltanks in ports around the world that you dont use sometimes generate income as though they were rented out for other companies.
Personally I have maxed out oiltanks in the middleeast and 4 supertankers running out of there to Europe, North and South america and Japan / Australia.
I buy all the oil in all the ports at the lowest price instead of buying "small shipments" that would over time drive the price up.
Sure it costs something to rent the rest of the oiltank space to have 1.4 mil gallons in store but it pays of in the end
I just wish I could buy my oiltankers as large as reallife ones... 350.000 cargo in the game but irl theres a 500.000 tonne one right ?