Supply improvements offshore.

[Kriegsspieler]

Playing as the Canadian Maritime provs, I find can't get sufficient supply to my off-shore oil derricks, and one of them currently has a supply level of 0%. How can I best solve this? Improve the general level of infrastructure funding? Build a road that goes as close as possible to the derrick? I've tried both, but neither seems to have any effect.

[Shog-goth]

Playing as the Canadian Maritime provs, I find can't get sufficient supply to my off-shore oil derricks, and one of them currently has a supply level of 0%. How can I best solve this? Improve the general level of infrastructure funding? Build a road that goes as close as possible to the derrick? I've tried both, but neither seems to have any effect.

I think you need at least one active port to supply them.

Hope this help.

[Kriegsspieler]

I think you need at least one active port to supply them.

Hope this help.

Not yet --
I do certainly have ports available, such as Halifax. Is there something particular about which port could be used for supplying an oil derrick?

[Decimatus]

Go into terrain mode and put the supply filter on. You will be able to see how far your port supplies the ocean. You may just need to build a port closer. Or, if halifax is a pier, it may need an upgrade.

[Kriegsspieler]

Excellent! Thanks.
One more question, though. It turns out that the off-shore oil platform in question starts out the game in supply and then loses it. That suggests that there is a cap on supply capacity that gets exceeded somehow when additional installations are built.

Does that sound familiar?

[Cauldyth]

Same thing happens to an oil field in the West Coast of Canada. It starts out supplied, but then loses it. I'm assuming it's because my minister sets infrastructure spending to a value lower than was used in designing the scenario. I don't know if infrastructure affects naval supply as well, but you could try turning up your spending in it.


-Cauldyth

[Shog-goth]

Same thing happens to an oil field in the West Coast of Canada. It starts out supplied, but then loses it. I'm assuming it's because my minister sets infrastructure spending to a value lower than was used in designing the scenario. I don't know if infrastructure affects naval supply as well, but you could try turning up your spending in it.


-Cauldyth

Good suggestion! I ever try to mantain high levels of infrastructures as It's a sure boost to economy.

[lordrune]

In their enthusiasm to balance the budget, the ministers almost always drop infrastructure as a cost-cutting measure (bit like governments of the west today, hmmmm). I always raise infrastructure to recommended level, and lock it - the productivity benefits and military supply are too important to ignore.

[Kriegsspieler]

In their enthusiasm to balance the budget, the ministers almost always drop infrastructure as a cost-cutting measure (bit like governments of the west today, hmmmm). I always raise infrastructure to recommended level, and lock it - the productivity benefits and military supply are too important to ignore.

I agree, I think! But investments in infra take a LOOONG time to pay off. I did exactly what you advocate: raising spending on infra to something like 90% and locking it, and more than a year later it was hard for me to see any payoff. But IIRC the Battlegoat guys have said more than once that you should invest in infra, so that's what I do!