Oil mining platforms in territories with only ocean tiles

Creating an Oil deposit through these platforms might be a bit too much and overshadows the harder-to-create Nigerian EQ. That said, you could instead have Sea Forts fill in the same role of claiming ocean regions minus the oil (and potentially have a new culture with a Sea Fort replacement that provides oil).

Arkalis wrote:

Creating an Oil deposit through these platforms might be a bit too much and overshadows the harder-to-create Nigerian EQ. That said, you could instead have Sea Forts fill in the same role of claiming ocean regions minus the oil (and potentially have a new culture with a Sea Fort replacement that provides oil).

That's a clever though! I would prefer your suggestion over the oil one any time. So then the potential sea fort could be a really good representation of a military and science based platform probably and adding those kinds of yields as well.
So what do you think about this option?

• It would be added to the early modern era and forward, where the more versatile ships are introduced
• With fortification or probably some combat strength boost, and some base science yields
• And not restrict it to the settlers unit family to build it

Garkes wrote:

Arkalis wrote:

Creating an Oil deposit through these platforms might be a bit too much and overshadows the harder-to-create Nigerian EQ. That said, you could instead have Sea Forts fill in the same role of claiming ocean regions minus the oil (and potentially have a new culture with a Sea Fort replacement that provides oil).

That's a clever though! I would prefer your suggestion over the oil one any time. So then the potential sea fort could be a really good representation of a military and science based platform probably and adding those kinds of yields as well.
So what do you think about this option?

• It would be added to the early modern era and forward, where the more versatile ships are introduced
• With fortification or probably some combat strength boost, and some base science yields
• And not restrict it to the settlers unit family to build it

I'm not too familiar with the history of sea forts so I don't know when they'd be available technology-wise but in terms of how the game currently works it seems a reasonable place (if not Industrial). With the current maritime options I could see it being the case where they mostly behave like outposts (with the bonuses you suggest) that cannot be attached.