How to Start your Dream City in Cities Skylines 2 (2024) 

Was a bit sad to see the previous attempt aborted, but wow, that decision is definitely paying off. Even without mods or props, this is looking great already. The valley was an excellent addition.

29:34 There is a major highway known as the "Corridor" (I95), running between NYC and DC, linking important historical cities like Philadelphia and Baltimore. You can create a big diamond interchange on the Northern tip of "Staten island", so you got an easy link up between the main highway and "Staten Island"s downtown along the Southern end.

hey I mentioned this on the last video but I’m reposting in the hopes that you might see it: I used to live in Marble Hill in the Bronx. it’s a super unique neighborhood, and I definitely recommend looking up info on it, as it might help with inspiration for this build… Marble Hill is on the mainland, directly across the Harlem River from Manhattan Island… but it’s actually technically part of Manhattan (ie. It has a Manhattan zip code and city services etc). About a century ago, as the city developed to the end of the island, the Harlem River was _rerouted_ so that this neighborhood was cut off from the island proper. It’s interesting because it shows how, not only do cities respond to the terrain as they grow, the terrain itself also adjusts to the city in turn.

I feel like the upcoming "beach properties" dlc might be perfect for a montauk Inspired area

If you want better zoning for grids, you should consider turning most of the snapping options off. Just keep angle and length

the SC4 music really brings me back, sorta miss the artstyle and funny quirks that Maxis included in their games

turn off snapping to guidelines when building roads and only turn it on when you need it. same with snapping to grids. it helps with making good grids. (if your grids are perfect 90s everywhere anyways lol)

I can already imagine how much greater this game will become when useful mods and assets are ported to C:S2, it already looks great in vanilla!

If you decide to run a train line below that 'old bridge', it should be a single track line IMHO (one of the first tracks build perhaps ?). It could even become an dead end track in an old harbour...

I like how New Dollarton is progressing. I can already see three separate areas taking shape. There’s New Dimesburg with its wharves. New Nickelsville will arise along the river and the Newpenney District will be coming in on the plateau. 👍🏻

When you are making the cliffs I recommend going into street view on the 495 right before the entrance to the Lincoln tunnel in NJ above the baseball field and you can see all the way down to jersey city and the buildings that sit above the cliff and how they build around it

the sims city music in the background is so nostalgic

Would LOVE to see a train line heading under the other arch of that bridge. That would be Sweet. Cheers man all the best!

I haven't really been watching your videos for long but I always really enjoy watching you do your cities. Plus it's always great to see my fellow Australian doing well =D

He dont miss on the soundtrack. Classic 2dollar20 quality

Love the use of some of the Simcity 4 soundtrack! ❤ So nostalgic! 😊

As a midwest resident, the train tunnel reminds me of the Ft. Pitt tunnel in Pittsburgh, where you enter into a foliaged mountain and then exit straight out over the river, skyscrapers in front of you. I'd be excited if the New Dimesburg train tunnel will turn out the same way!

I live in NYC and this series is going to be amazing! I can’t wait until you getting going on transit and particularly the subway, commuter rail, and buses. The NYC subway alone has 440 stations, not including PATH, LIRR, MNRR, Amtrak, etc. New York really is an infrastructure monster.

Are you going to use some mods in the next few episodes? You could have used “Historical Start” to get instant access to rail from the start. Also, “extended road tools” would let you create quay walls round those wharfs in a jiffy!!

Ik kind of had a feeling you bit off more than you could chew on the old new dollarton. Looking forward to see how this will evolve. Good to see you back!

Love this series. Thank you so much for doing this, and lend inspiration.

wow love this new attempt!!! that arch bridge is so amazing i wish i was watching this after the series had finished so i could binge every episode, cant wait for the next ep!!

I love your videos! They are so chill and great to watch in the evening :)

for road layout - a lot of main roads in the nyc area were once trails and trade routes for native americans. it’s the reason broadway doesn’t conform to the grid of manhattan. a cool way to bring some irregularity into the grid which makes some of the east coast grid patterns different from other american cities. love the new start!

I heard the simcity music and it brought back a wave of nostalgia, good choice of music two dollar

I loved this video SO MUCH. I am VERY inspired now. I always forget to make the landscape more dynamic before building.

You need to turn off guide lines for the zoning to work better when placing roads

Great map. Love this and looking forward to the next episode!

Oooh what a fantastic first episode. Can’t wait for the next one!!! 😍

This rules champ. Love the before and afters!

I can't wait for this series. I love NYC and it's history and massive robust skyline, spanning from Brooklyn to Jersey City. I think this may be one of my favorite Cities:Skylines build ever. I can't wait to see how it grows!

Loving this! Excited to see more custom content for Cities Skylines 2. Looking good so far! Can't wait for official mod support and the asset/map editor!

Lovely video, very inspiring!

The valley is an awesome idea, loving how the city looks so far, excited to see how it develops 👀

I'm truly loving this series of videos. Thank you for sharing your talent and skill with us, it's very much appreciated.

I am HYPED for this series

The main focus nearly always being trains here is what I love. i love trains.

"The Infrastucturist" has a solution to make piers/docks in Vanilla : Remove water, place roads on edge, then open up to water back-again.

Lmao 9:33 turn off, turn back on lol. 13:31 good old helicopter field :D Fantastic episode mate! looking forward to this series for sure!

Loved the SimCity4 soundtrack you used.

I love this new start, can't wait to see what you have in store for us!

Southern of New Jersey's downtown there is an industrial zone with big oil tankers. I think you could place your industry in that place

It’s my birthday A true bday treat I’ve been waiting for this for a while

17:38 "i would like to create some wars" is what i first thought you said and i was very concerned

your videos are always amazing!

the valley and the bridge kind of feels like Toronto and the don valley parkway, would be cool if a future high way ran through there

Man, I love Simcity 4 music so much!

I turn off the road guidelines when doing a grid, because it gets a lot of angles that are almost parallel to each other but they are slightly off. If you use the 90 degrees, length and zoning square snapping for grids. And turn off the cell snapping for avenues and wider roads so they match up better.

All hail new dollar ton! Also, can’t wait for all the series.

I don't think I've ever seen a cemetery as large as the one in this game. Its nutty. That bridge needs either a train line or a an old Canal through the other archway. I hope you've seen the Clifton Suspension bridge designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in Bristol, UK. She's a magnificent bridge across an oddly large gorge for that part of the UK.

looks good so far!

This is good. Hamilton Street and Robin Street feel real. I like all the forks and the split collector heading to the water.

Cant wait for ep2!

excited to see the NEC in cs2! are you going to be building newark? rail can get interesting there

There is a bridge over I-95 in Fort Lee NJ that has an older style to its design but I think it’s concrete instead of metal but it does the same thing by crossing the valley below to two neighborhoods I would check it out.

love the valley! reminds me of pittsburgh

Bula from Fiji, love the map well done

One thing I really wish you could do is select your bridge design and then manually select the road type you wanted on it and the bridge would scale to the road, similar to how upgrading roads already works

🥰 thanks for the hard work!

I live in Harlem. Check out Hoboken and the Palisades and the Lincoln Tunnel entrance from Jersey.

im buying the game next month. im so happy

Love the longer form vids

31:53 perhaps you could base that area off of the morris canal basin, in Jersey City. It seems to be in the same sort of place that you carved out right here, especially with it's proximity to the city center.

12:00 I hate this problem so much lol 😂. Every time I record a video for my new cities skylines 2 series, whenever I place roads in a perfectly straight line there’s always a 50% chance that the grid gets fricked up..

One tip for zoning „perfect“ grids -> turn off snap to guidelines and your problem should disappear :)

Are you planning on adding mods and devmode down the road or are you waiting for the official mods and dlcs for detailing?

Hey this city is amazing already! I wanted to know how you make those before and afters!

Coney Island would definitely be a great touch! You have to assume government housing projects to the bronx. Make it really feel like home (NY)

SimCity soundtrack in Cities Skylines video. Nice!

you should call your version of Staten Island, "Straten island". own it 🗽

At 10:20 you should definitely be using the slope terrain tool. Will make your life a lot easier.

You should try to utilize the cliff as a natural way to have a high bridge across the water.

Hey TwoDollarsTwenty! In regards to how to zone certain buildings facing certain directions, I’ve found that placing the zoning along the entire grid except for two zones (along the road you don’t want the buildings to face) will allow the buildings to be created along that roadway. For example, if you want row houses facing a certain road in a 20lx6w zone, zone the inner 18 grid zones and wait for them to be built before zoning the outer two zones. This makes them face the road you want them to face. Same applies for any other building really.

i think it would be good to learn to use the slope tool, it is good for when you want a nice smooth sloped road

Did you use Sim city music for this? It sure sounded like it, and it was nostalgic as heck.

Since the game still does not have the "Zone on one side of road" tool, I use sidewalks to force to build on one side of the grid

Hope your heads in the right place. I think you've done a fine job so far on NDTv3

I'm still trying to "START THE GAME".... Launch it! 😂

The boulevard leading to the wharf in the center of the city could be split because an old train line ran down to the coast through the middle.

using the map editor in cities skylines remastered i made tje entire state of Rhode Island

Great Video! Any chance of a tutorial on how to install the map? Tried following he steps on the link but the map does not show in game. Thanks

if u close the lines when building road it will fit perfectly 90 percent of the time !

snap to guidelines causes the grid to break most of the time just have 90 degree and zoning cell length and turn on snap to grid then off when you measure

NJ resident here - a big part of Jersey City is Liberty State Park and the dockyard, would love to see a massive waterfront park with ammenities/bike trails/skyline views in the area!

37:20 Maybe it used to be a train line which was turned into a street.

As always, great build 😊 I do have an issue with the game and I hope you can answer my question... Every time I build an ore industry and rock mine, they run fine for a bit, then they suddenly gets abandoned and collapse... I've tried to build on flat lands, on hilly terrain and on ore deposits, nothing helps... Is that something you have experienced or is there something I have missed?

One of my top fun facts of NYC infrastructure? The southernmost/westernmost bridge from Staten Island to NJ is the Outerbridge Crossing. Not because it’s the outermost bridge from the five boroughs (which is it) but because it’s named after this guy who was the first chairman of the PANYNJ: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenius_Harvey_Outerbridge It’s right up there with DC renaming the Washington Convention Center after the first elected (& first African American) mayor of the city… Walter E Washington.

There seems to be a pretty good selection of mods already which let you surface paint, place props, grow trees, enable anarchy etc! @Infrastructurist here on yt uses a solid selection. Worth looking at unless you are making a point of it being a vanilla build. Excited for the new city!

It seems if I turn off the road guidelines and just go based off of distance, 90 degree angle, and the grid usually my grids work better.

Third times a charm! Lets go!

I think the original bridge to Stratton Island would have been across that smaller section of river rather than the large span

Love the sim city ish music

think you should be using alleyways for the warfs, looks a bit overbuilt using regular city streets

I hope we'll get a return of that condemned raised railway viaduct. It is a notable landmark of Jersey City

Native NYer who used to work in North Jersey here Just wanna tell you if you follow the terrain from Jersey City to Fort Lee where the George Washington Bridge is, it gets very hilly There are cliffs all along the Jersey side Hudson River (the Palisades are a prime example) Manhattan itself used to be very hilly, as well, until they leveled a good portion of it making the grid

HE UPLOADED!

What about rename Jersey City into Knitown? 🤔😁 Nice work my friend! Take care 😊

me playing CS2... okayyyy soooo.... 32 hours later -- alright, now I'm ready to start

I hope you add some story time in the city like how you did in oceania and use the new future of following citizens

❤ok 👍😊 this thanks