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Optimized Oil Industry Area

NO DLC REQUIRED.

Efficient industrial layout for the oil industry from the Industries DLC. The bottom portion can be modified to fit your needs such as cargo train, cargo ship, or straight to the highway. The height and width of each row can be modified to meet the needs of buildings in the other industries because 1) this layout is extremely efficient and 2) every other industry has way less traffic than oil. All you would have to do is simple math to find the balance of units extracted and units processed with enough storage so there are not any periods of process buildings waiting on raw materials.


The layout is as follows.

4 Rows of:
- 4 Large Oil Drilling Rigs
- 8 Oil Sludge Pyrolysis Plants
1 Row of:
- 5 Large Oil Drilling Rigs
- 11 Petrochemical Plants
6 Large Crude Oil Tank Farms set to balanced
20 Maintenance Buildings
Fire, Police, Subway, Garbage as needed

DO NOT use any of the workers' barracks. This seems counterintuitive but the increased efficiency you get from them if offset by each building having more trucks (not a higher number, they just spawn more frequently), which means more traffic. So much in fact that your process buildings will not be producing anything because they wont be getting any raw materials. It's insane how frequently trucks in the oil industry spawn.

However, the maintenance buildings increase the storage capacity and efficiency of the storage buildings. With the 20 maintenance buildings I have never had a process building waiting on materials. Not even for one second. I thought something was bugged but I tried it on a different map and watched the beautiful traffic flow for a full in game year straight and it never happened. The only problem is once in a blue moon the cargo terminal backs up for all of 10 seconds and then it clears up which I think is due to how crazy efficient the storage facilities are at maintaining balance. The only real traffic problems are when you first put in a new storage building and it is initially filling up. After that, it's smooth sailing.

With this setup, it produces a weekly income that goes between $50 and $80 thousand with about half of the jobs filled. Once almost all of them are filled, it produces $100,000+ easily.

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