Oil Tycoon: Gas Idle Factory – Walkthrough, Tips, Cheats, and Strategy Guide

Oil Tycoon: Gas Idle Factory, also known as Petroleum Tycoon, is a new iOS and Android game where you goal is to become an extremely rich and successful oil baron. You can pump oil in the United States or go to the Middle East and hire folks to pump it for you, you can play the markets and sell when the price ice high, and then you have to pay the tax man once that’s done, as well.

You can unlock more and more areas as you go, including mines, and find chests, including the elusive and rare silver and gold chests. Plus, you can earn diamonds, too, which are the premium currency of the game, and which can be worth all kinds of bonus points.

Read on for some tips and tricks for Oil Tycoon: Gas Idle Factory, also known as Petroleum Tycoon!

Your initial method of getting more oil will be to manually pump it yourself, and throughout most of the game, this will be your quickest method, as well. Additionally, when your phone vibrates, look for something other than oil to jump out of the oil pump. This usually includes chests, but can also include gems/diamonds, and other goodies, as well.

Hit the map screen and then the dollar sign icon to go sell some of your oil. Try to sell when the market is high – you can tell when the price is high because the number will be green. If you get sick of waiting around, there is nothing wrong with selling in the yellow, but you won’t make as much money as you could otherwise. At the end of each sale, you will be able to double your sale income by watching an ad video.

Make sure to hit the tax man whenever you sell your oil so that you can pay what you owe. If you try to avoid paying your taxes, the tax man will come for you instead. So be sure to stave them off by paying what you have due.

Take as many of the ad video offers as you can in your home area. You can auto-pump, double your auto-pump speed, and double your auto-pump income, all by doing nothing but watching video ads.

Watch out for all of the other new areas that you can unlock as you make your way further through the game. For example, unlock the Middle East and the Offshore Drilling Rig and you can set up auto-pumping. This pumps automatically while you are online, but not while you are AFK.

To trick the game into collecting oil indefinitely for you, though, all that you have to do is set your phone never to auto-sleep, then go to bed with the game active on your phone (and preferably, your phone charging so it doesn’t die). Wake up in the morning (or whenever you wake up) and you will have a huge amount of oil to collect.

You can swap out your oil tank and oil pump with either cash, diamonds, or by purchasing an in-app purchase. Some of the tanks are purely cosmetic, while other tanks have an actual performance boost, such as a volume or earnings multiplier.

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