Play: Skip to 32:13 to see the screen. This ending is difficult because you have to be successful as a monopolistic petrol cartel maintaining a permanent price hike of oil - all the while keeping the world happy enough so leaders keep their grubby hands off nukes' buttons (MAD): 1) First, discover and put one small well on each oil field everywhere as soon as possible. Oil rigs come last. This ensures that supply runs out steadily, so 2) is more predictable. You don't usually need to spend much on elections, just enough to win war in iraq suffices. 2) Mid-game, like a proper monopolist, you need to constrain supply to stay below demand. Initially, shareholders would fire you for this (presumably for giving share of an expanding market to competitors). But not after announcement of peak oil - 24:50 (presumably fields are rare enough and all controlled by cartel at that point). You also need to start aggressively bribing governments, suppress dissent through congress etc so people remain addicted to oil. 3) You manipulate the market by destroying wells to bring supply below but close to demand and keep it there. The tightrope walk is that if you overdo this, and supply/demand ratio goes too low, price will go up too quickly, and MAD ending triggers soon after price hits 300. Practically, ratio should be between 8/10-9/10, below 7/10 is bad and you risk MAD. But if supply is too close to demand (say 9.5/10), you risk the game will reset GDP to 3% when supply outstrips demand even for a brief moment next month. If GDP resets, there's usually not enough oil left to precisely corner the market for a second attempt (you'd either MAD or retire), you have to restart the game. 4) GDP is the key - Keeping supply below demand at all times slowly ruins national GDP, the more dependent on oil, the faster it happens. But remember that GDP recovers immediately (reset to 3%) if there's enough oil even briefly - I imagine governments would hoard oil whenever it becomes momentarily cheap. Farewell west ending triggers when you bring GDP below -5% or so - it seems randomized, got it anywhere between -4% to -8%. Basically keep the price below 300 and supply under demand for as long as you can..
