Anilrgowda

I have kept an enormous amount of points for this question as I have to cover many aspects of the game in this question.

First how do we make a beach in Simcity 4. I have tried to level the land in many places and have not succeeded in anyway.

Secondly I have never played any of the SimCity games before and this is my first one. I have seen that in the game previews they show rows and rows of residential and commercial towers in the game. The thing is that I have made dense residential towers and dense commercial towers (in separate locations in my city) and the furthest development of my houses have been that they have become into mansions (victorian, stone etc.) How am I supposed to make them develop into those soaring towers?

Thirdly I have seen that all of a sudden some of my houses become black and their wealth reduces. What causes this to happen? I cannot find any mention of this in the manual at all.

Also I have found it a bit tough to raise capital as it seems the only way to do so is by the tax system which when I even hint to increase, I receive 'riots' from my sims.

Anilrgowda

I don't think you can build a beach, from the screenshot it looks like a 3*3 plot with a slope in the middle, try making roads like the ones in the shot and perhaps having water near it and it might develop.

The big buildings need a 3x3 corner plot on dense zoning but only develop if the land has high value, try surrounding the area with parks and other public utilities and make sure they have water.

Your houses become black because the people have moved out, try lowering the rates and they will come back.

I'm not surprised your people are rioting, you should look after them better. Spend money on all the public ordinances like free health care, make sure there are enough police stations and schools.

A way to make money quickly is to have zero tax, the buildings develop very fast, then up the tax to maximum, the people move out slowly then drop the tax to zero again when half of them have moved out. Something like 4 months zero tax and 8 months max tax works quite well.