 Oil is randomly spread out across the map and varies from game to game.An important issue is that when terrorists are no longer dormant and leave the training camp, they act outside the control of the empire which initially funded them, and can turn on that empire if triggered by an opposing empire or the terrorist player.An in-game twist is that defeated players are not out of the game – they become the "terrorist" players, and can still influence the result and perhaps even win.