Black Gold (computer game)

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Black gold
Studio Starbyte
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 1991
platform Commodore C64 , Amiga , MS-DOS
genre Economic simulation
Game mode Single player , multiplayer
control Joystick , keyboard , mouse (PC)
medium diskette
language German
Age rating
USK released from 0

Black Gold is a turn-based economic simulation from 1991 by Starbyte , which deals with coal mining (" Black Gold "). It was released for the C64 , the Amiga 500 and MS-DOS .

Gameplay

procedure

Starting in 1900, the player receives start-up capital depending on the level of difficulty and must first hire staff, buy tools and materials and choose a pit field. One is on the pit box, then winding tower placed, a shaft is drilled and then in a distance a place (in the miners' language of the place where it is mined) to open.

This is where the real game takes place: First of all, tusks have to be assigned to mine the coal. Then tractors have to be assigned to transport the coal with the help of carts , horses or mine railways. In the coal seam rocks located can be blown up with rock tusks out of the way. Immediately after the coal has been mined, the areas must be supported by wooden or steel supports so that they do not injure the miners with broken buttresses at the end of the round . It is also important to ensure that there are never more than 30 unfilled struts at the end of a round. For this purpose, another place can be set up from which filling material ( overburden ) must be filled into struts that are no longer required. The Steiger is responsible for supervising and maintaining the miners' morale .

At the end of the round, current events or occurrences are reported, such as firedamp , sick leave of workers and coal price developments.

In the next round, the mined coal is in storage and can either be sold directly on the domestic or foreign market (Belgium / Holland, but not during the First World War) or processed into coke in coking plants that can be purchased separately , which have higher yields can bring to the market. In order to raise the mood among the workforce and thus ensure that numerous appearances in the pit, company parties can be organized, tools modernized or a special bonus paid out. The bank is visited in order to invest the money generated in savings bonds or to take out and pay off loans.

aims

The respective goal of the game can be selected from the following options:

  • Reaching a selectable amount of cash
  • Achieving a selectable amount of mined coal
  • Owning a selectable number of pit fields
  • Playing a selectable number of months

In any case, the game is over in 1933.

Level of difficulty

You can choose between easy , medium and difficult . The first difference is in the respective start-up capital. In the case of the medium and difficult grades , there is the far more serious limitation that you can only go down into the pit once a month to coordinate the work, which requires well-considered planning at the beginning of each round. Should it happen that one finds underground that z. If, for example, all wooden or steel supports or the filling material are used up, a mining accident is inevitable. The same happens if too few people have been assigned to fill the existing filling material. In easy mode, you have two options to climb into the pit and, if necessary, you can buy some more or hire additional people.

Multiplayer / AI opponents

Up to four players can complete their rounds one after the other ( hot seat ). At the end of a round, human players can be sabotaged; this includes the possibility of blowing up the winding tower, triggering a mine accident, demoralizing workers or stealing equipment.

Furthermore, up to three computer-controlled players can be added, but no interaction is possible with them.

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