Despite having met all the prereqs (as far as I'm aware) I cannot place the Oil Well in this space. Clicking doesn't show an error, it just doesn't build the Oil Well. Any ideas?
I cannot place an Oil Well despite having met all the prereqs
simcity-2013
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Land value and happiness are separate concepts.
- Land value aka desirability encourage wealthier sims to move in.
- Happiness encourages density increases.
Residential happiness comes from shopping! Turn on the commercial dataview and make sure that shoppers can go from residential zones to commercial zones with available goods. (Goods resupply automatically at 6 am and 6 pm. Goods have nothing to do with freight).
Residentials without money or without nearby goods will instead go to parks to get happiness. This happiness is just as effective at growing density as shopping (ie. your buildings will grow). However, there are some downsides. Parks cost you money, while commercial buildings pay tax. Parks take up more space to get the equivalent capacity of commercial buildings. Parks also increase land value - so you may accidentally bring in wealthier Sims than you really want (wealthy buildings hold fewer people).
If you need more jobs, you might need denser industrial zones. Industrial happiness comes from making shipments of freight. Turn on the industrial view. If there is a large pile of shipments at any building, that industrial is in trouble. Make more commercial zones or trade buildings to receive those shipments. Once received, those shipments will automatically vanish at some point allowing more to be received.
It turns out you can. When in the edit view for the building, you may select the bulldozer to demolish a specific expansion. Not in the normal city view, otherwise you'll bulldoze the entire building!
I was able to move the coal shafts to better locations.
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I believe the answer to your problem is the terrain is curving down, I had the same problem with my recycling center as it appears there is room but it was curved down to the sea.
The trick with oil wells that may not be apparent if you haven't done much with them is that you can create feeder roads to the well heads. So find a place where you can plop the well, then build roads to the pumps.
Keep this in mind as the oil depletes under one pump, you can add additional pumps.