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overkill 280
04-03-2012, 02:48 PM
Hey just wondering, as I'm saving up to buy an Oil Rig, Do the defensive buildings even protect it out in the water? And if so, which building do you need?

Mcdoc
04-03-2012, 03:08 PM
Bring your oil rig close enough to shore so a SAM and a mine field will cover it.

overkill 280
04-03-2012, 03:10 PM
Cover it with both?

Mcdoc
04-03-2012, 03:18 PM
Cover it with many :)

I have 3 mine fields that overlap my 2 oil rigs and 2 SAMs.

If they ever release a water defense building I'll add those too :)

overkill 280
04-03-2012, 03:30 PM
I have one sam, out as far as I can put it, and my shipyard in as far as possible, But it doesn't look like my sam will cover the Oil Rig location :mad: do you think I should buy a mine field and try that?

GIJOE
04-03-2012, 03:30 PM
You can only have 5 of each cash defense buildings, don't know about gold defense buildings ...

Mcdoc
04-03-2012, 03:36 PM
You may have to do another shore expansion to move your Shipyard down so yor oil rig can literally touch the shore.

Sometimes you can clear land in front of your shipyard or dry docks and bring them more than halfway onto land.

overkill 280
04-03-2012, 03:41 PM
I thought the rig had to be on land and water, so I did initially buy a piece of land/water. But when I tried placing the rig there it wouldn't allow it :mad: So I know have a piece of strictly all water that I'm going to try it on. But now just worried about defensive coverage.

Thunder Child
04-03-2012, 03:56 PM
I bought a rail gun to do the job... Didn't reach!

Mcdoc
04-03-2012, 04:04 PM
I bought a rail gun to do the job... Didn't reach!

TC - Look at my base - my 2 oil rigs actually hover over land. Maybe you just need to make an adjustment on their placement by moving your Shipyard or Dry Docks either farther down shore or further on land.

Yeah it might cost you a Land Expansion - but if it protects $105k every day from attack, it will pay for itself soon!

Thunder Child
04-03-2012, 04:45 PM
Next expansion over 8m - gonna use it for a money building. So far, oil rigs never been hit (famous last words!)

War Priest
04-03-2012, 06:38 PM
One Drone Flight Center covers more than half of my base. But that is also a gold building.

Agent Orange
04-03-2012, 08:17 PM
Hmm that's odd my rail gun reaches the oil rigs.

overkill 280
04-03-2012, 09:28 PM
You may have to do another shore expansion to move your Shipyard down so yor oil rig can literally touch the shore.

Sometimes you can clear land in front of your shipyard or dry docks and bring them more than halfway onto land.I have another piece of land/water that I had bought for it, But It wouldn't let me place the rig on it :( So I figured it had to be in strictly water?

overkill 280
04-03-2012, 09:29 PM
One Drone Flight Center covers more than half of my base. But that is also a gold building.I don't have any gold things at all WP

Thunder Child
04-03-2012, 09:44 PM
Hmm that's odd my rail gun reaches the oil rigs.
Totally my fault, since I have mine in a line going away from the coast, so the first is protected but the second isn't.

War Priest
04-03-2012, 09:48 PM
I don't have any gold things at all WP

The mine field has a huge range. That should reach if you put it near it. The buildings don't have to be all the way in the blue. As long as the shield shows up over the building your protected.

overkill 280
04-03-2012, 09:53 PM
The mine field has a huge range. That should reach if you put it near it. The buildings don't have to be all the way in the blue. As long as the shield shows up over the building your protected.Ok good, cause I have a mine field in the process of building as we speak. :D

War Priest
04-03-2012, 09:58 PM
I am sure Funzio will come out with a water defense building. There has been a lot of requests for it. Just a matter of time, but I think we will see one someday.

Dreno33
04-03-2012, 09:59 PM
Cover it with many :)

I have 3 mine fields that overlap my 2 oil rigs and 2 SAMs.

If they ever release a water defense building I'll add those too :)

how do you know FOR SURE that the defense buildings actually are allowed to defend the water income buildings? how can you know for sure?

War Priest
04-03-2012, 10:01 PM
how do you know FOR SURE that the defense buildings actually are allowed to defend the water income buildings? how can you know for sure?

A shield will show up over the buildings that are protected.

Dreno33
04-03-2012, 10:05 PM
A shield will show up over the buildings that are protected.

i know that haha. I'm not that low of a level :b but my point is, what if Funzio purposely designed it this way? What if they didn't make water def buildings deliberately so that there would always be at least one kind of building vulnerable to balance out in PvP. what if the rings are ineffective beyond the water border/line?

Mcdoc
04-03-2012, 10:28 PM
how do you know FOR SURE that the defense buildings actually are allowed to defend the water income buildings? how can you know for sure?

My own experience: when I had my oil rig way offshore, I would come back to find it raided for $105,000 just about every time. Now that I have 3 mine fields and 2 SAMs overlapping my 2 "near shore" rigs - I Log on to find failed raided that leave me $30,000. I also boosted my defense skill points over the last 2 weeks from 60 to 73.

Dreno33
04-03-2012, 10:34 PM
My own experience: when I had my oil rig way offshore, I would come back to find it raided for $105,000 just about every time. Now that I have 3 mine fields and 2 SAMs overlapping my 2 "near shore" rigs - I Log on to find failed raided that leave me $30,000. I also boosted my defense skill points over the last 2 weeks from 60 to 73.

gerrrrr. i guess we'll never know for sure