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So I'm guessing that will cost money to import? Also, when the resource runs out, do I have to have a specialized industry to import the needed oil/ore?
Generic industry will import what oil and ore they need; you don't have to have specialized industry to provide them with these materials. Specialized areas that have run out of oil or ore will convert to industry that uses those products e.g. oil areas will have plastic manufacturing, ore areas steel plants. Both will import a great deal of the necessary raw material which requires those areas to have very good outside connections.
There is also the Infinite Oil and Ore Redux mod which prevents those resources from running out.
There is also the Infinite Oil and Ore Redux mod which prevents those resources from running out.
steve got the gist of it, But I will add that it does not affect your city monetary balance but it can completely shift your traffic patterns
Do you have to build industry buildings right on top of the resources in order to use the resource?
yes, with oil drills start appearing in your industrial zones and once the oil runs out these get replaced by other oil buildings which only work with imported oil.
Firstly, you will need a mod if your are going to do this as the vanilla game oil and ore only lasts about 3 month and within seconds you'll create an area that suddenly turns from supply into demand to import.
You can build 2 specialised areas for each resource, extraction and manufacturing, the extraction build on the resource and manufacturing build beside it. So like oil zone a specialised area on top and another next too it. You can do this for all specialisations.
You have to watch though as you'll find sometimes even building on top of a resource builds a secondary industry instead of an extraction. You have to check each building to make sure the right kind spawned.
Secondly, some will still import outside the map even though you are making it locally and will still export it even though you require it locally., And thirdly none of this works very well and you'll soon wish you stuck to generic. And It will create a load of unnessessary traffic and even your rural farmland will look like new york at rush hour.
You can build 2 specialised areas for each resource, extraction and manufacturing, the extraction build on the resource and manufacturing build beside it. So like oil zone a specialised area on top and another next too it. You can do this for all specialisations.
You have to watch though as you'll find sometimes even building on top of a resource builds a secondary industry instead of an extraction. You have to check each building to make sure the right kind spawned.
Secondly, some will still import outside the map even though you are making it locally and will still export it even though you require it locally., And thirdly none of this works very well and you'll soon wish you stuck to generic. And It will create a load of unnessessary traffic and even your rural farmland will look like new york at rush hour.
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