I Made a Map for Cities Skylines 2 

Grab the map here thunderstore.io/c/cities-skylines-ii/p/TWODOLLARSTWENTY/NewDollarton/ Send us some pics if you end up building on it

I appreciate the work by you and CPP to publish the map. I haven't felt too inspired by CSL2 yet but this map might be enough to get me back into it.

One idea I had for the marshes, or maybe industrial riverfronts, would be to use the forestry industry area, as it colours the ground brown.

21:46 hey I can see my old apartment from here! 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. 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.

From someone that lives in this region, what I would do with the mountains is create a first ridge a little closer to the city, then a second one a little ways behind the first. Then create a raised valley between them. This would be most similar to the actual geography. You can see this on google maps by looking at where denser suburbs give way to much more open green area.

I wish you guys added the palisades. It's a defining feature of the new jersey bank of the hudson River. The steep cliffs seperate towns, and its quite a dramatic drop.

You're an artist when it comes to map creation so I can't wait till you start building your next big project on this absolute beaut!

Okay so this entire series has me excited, I was born in Hackensack lol. Grew up in Bergen County & know all of the towns and neighborhoods that you’ve been mentioning in this episode. If you have any questions please ask!!! Love the series 😊

I quite like the idea of having both a Beverly Hills type of neighborhood on the foothills as well as a large zoo / nature reserve I'm also worried that Manhattan is too small here. Thinking of the landmarks of New York like the UN headquarters, Columbia University, iconic skyscrapers like Vanderbilt or Rockefeller, Battery Park, Stuyvesant, Hudson Yards; I hope that you can fit in enough landmarks.

What's really crazy is how different this is from CPPs modified version of the map. I've been building my county/ city on magnolia county, maybe I'll try this one out with a different build style

Just a tip, if you use 2x2 Industrial lots you don't have to worry about pollution. It works well to create those older and smaller industrial areas in the city that exists.

Amazing work! The perfect map I have been looking for to make a Venice inspired city. Thank you so much Twodollarstwenty for all your work!

thanks man, i like that you and cpp share your maps with the community (unlike infrastructurist who seems to be too paranoid, hehe)

16:00 Actually at the moment you can use the Anarchy mod to terraform outside the building area and to place trees! As for creating marshlands if you try and find the terrain contour level just below sea level you can right click on it using the slope or flatten tool and then flatten out the area you want as marshland, so its more elevated than the actual rivers while also being flooded. You can also terraform small islands above the elevated basin and make the small mounds and islands above sea level to create a marshland!

I can’t wait to see how this turns out! I loved this series and was wondering what happened I’m glad things are coming back better than ever

I've been building NYC-ish cities in CS2 since release. I think you made Manhattan and Brooklyn way too small. I kept doing this and the scale never felt right. I must have been through 10 iterations at this point. There is so much detail in places particularly like Dumbo, Long Island City, The West Village. the Lower East Side Projects or even central park that when you try to shrink it down it loses the feel of those places. I live in Greenpoint Brooklyn. I've tried to re-create it but I always under size it and it feels underwhelming. They end up feeling like a 1/8th size toy replica without the lived in vibe. Some of the places like Park Slope really benefit from monotonous rowhomes. Love what you did with Hackensack, JC and the rest of North Jersey. That slightly elevated train line with the bushes is so good! I wish every train line could be automatically built like that. Are you planning to incorporate Newark? Definitely check out Montclair for inspo in those hilly commuter suburbs.

You’ve made me excited about cs2 for the first time since launch. Thanks mate.

I wish they'd remake the water simulation entirely. With smaller waves and such that follow contours of the beaches and waterfronts.

This looks amazing! I have tried the maps that are currently in the game but I wasn't feeling it. I'll definitely try this one. Really looking forward to this build.

Just found this today and I'm looking forward to playing it as someone who lives in the area of NJ. A few thoughts: - Mass transit is comparatively good here. You have trains up through Bergen county and points west. Hoboken is the terminus for trains not going to Penn Station NY. - Secaucus Junction train station is the hub where many trains transition; people transfer here to go to either NYP or HOB. - From Hoboken, you can take the light rail to Jersey City, the PATH to NYC, or walk the waterfront to JC (highly recommended). - Add Rt 3 that leads to the Lincoln Tunnel. On second thought, maybe not. - Check out Clifton and surrounding areas for inspiration on the mountains. - The Passaic River is close to where your auxiliary river is. It's much cleaner than it used to be, but from Passaic to Newark it's still a mess. - Many of the polluted areas you mentioned are in much better shape than they used to be, but ground pollution still lingers. - Most of Bergen County is affluent and suburban, except the spaghetti that is Paramus.

Love the map! It’s like a combination of West coast (mountain ranges) and NYC. This is the ideal city live in! Please make a National Park like Yosemite in the mountain ranges and some cozy small towns!!

Hi, for the mountainous area, I think it would be a great idea to turn a chunk of it into a reservoir. If you have a look at the New Croton reservoir NY, it has some beautiful 19th century bridges and a wall that could be refashioned into a dam of sorts like the kensico dam plaza.

Thanks again for the shout out! Looking forward to another year watching you work your CS Magic! The new map looks great (considering all the current limitations). Anyways, glad you (and your family) are feeling better and you're up to the task of making more videos again. Cheers to you @twodollarstwenty and happy 2024!

Hey two dollars! Amazing video, would love to see something similar to Aspen near the mountains, and although limited by not having mods, some sort of ski resorts and cool vacation get away towns. Would also be a good contrast to build and could especially use the new seasonal weather changes! Can’t wait for the next video! Much love from the Gold Coast!

Sick. Always love your videos. I’m a producer, singer and rapper but alot of the time when I’m in the studio and ran out of inspiration I spend an hour or two watching your videos. They always refresh my mind when I’m stuck with ideas. Thanks for the content man! 💙

I would hope we’ll eventually be able to terraform and place trees outside the builds me area, we can in CS1 anyways. I’m also hoping heightmaps will be a thing too, cause there are sooooo many beautiful mountain areas around where I live that I think would make great maps to build a city on.

Thank you so much TDT, I bought and started building a city, I stopped mid-way through building it, I didn’t like it and I wa bored of it, but this map might change my views on CSL2.

Thank you for making this great map, can’t wait to build on it, I’m the same way as you the map is everything, haven’t had motivation to build in the default maps that come with the game.

You're trying so hard to get this game feeling bearable. That's a tough thing to do mate so take your breaks and time outs. Drink water in the sun and all that. If you ended up going back to CS I wouldn't blame you or be upset. There's lots in this tour that sounds good, but I know your voice and you just don't sound happy. Probably exhausted by trying so hard. Know I appreciate you, despite not being a large or important member of your circle. You're a good man and I've watched you for years. Don't tell anyone but I shed a tear at the end of MM. Be good to yourself brother.

Great work as always!

Nice work! Looking forward to see what you do with your build and maybe building on the map myself. My parents were from this area of NJ (mom from Newark, dad is from Kearny) and my sister lives west of that area in NJ.

@twodollarstwenty, thank you for the great map. I am building my own city and will post some photos soon! Really love your work for the community! Keep the good work goining! Also bought a new setup last month. Waiting for the mods... greets!!!

Love the map ! It's looking great 😊

It's like a mini NYC! Thank you for posting a custom map, it's exciting to play with and the farmland everywhere relieves a lot of headaches.

Hey absolutely agree with you about the edge of the maps and the land beyond the buildable tiles. I hate it so much lol. Literally won't use most of the maps because of it. I can't stand the idea of building a big city or suburban area and it just abruptly stops into nothingness, no trees, no roads, nothing lol. So any map that minimizes that is great. Just water or mountains is ideal I think. But any buildable flat land near those borders I try to make farmland or forests or something idk. Just funny to hear your thoughts on it cuz I completely agree lol, I was like is this just me being weird or does this bother anyone else??

Love this! Been very uninspired by mostly all of the vanilla maps that come with the game, just can't get into them. Been using Magnolia County a lot lately and I like it! Very excited to try this map out today!

So excited for this series. Given that its a fresh start, what about naming the city "NDC - New Dollerton City" - keeps it New York-themed but gives you that clean break

Looks like a wonderful map! Love the large islands. I've spent some time building on CPP's Magnolia County map; I credit that with keeping me in CS2, as the vanilla maps were rather discouraging to me. My builds tend to be "scattered village" - it's 2031, I've only 20k cims but have built to 3 of the map edges. Some of my edge communities are relying on outside power/water, even while I'm exporting power elsewhere on the map (yes, I have both "surplus" profit and "trade" costs). All are connected by the 2-lane highway, which will be upgraded as farms are taken over for suburbs, and existing oil producers (now running 45% due to resource depletion) expand and need more local workers. A couple of the best features of Magnolia County and apparently yours (and which I'd like expanded if suitable to plans): - Availability of power *and* water in the start square is huge plus! It's not unreasonable to rely on outside connections when small. My suggestion is to have water/power running edge-to-edge in more places on the map, to support building a little 1k farming community waaay out there. And later, to help connect them to the main grid. - Availability of *continuous* highways throughout, edge-to-edge, especially near the power is game-changing. Again, the farming community needs connection without having to buy dozens of connecting tiles, as was required in CS1. Magnolia County used a 2-lane highway (I see you have 4-lane), and that's been absolutely great (so far). It's gotten a bit congested near the start square (my large town), but I've upgraded it there, as one would see irl. A 2-lane highway with a dirt road leading off of it isn't that odd in some places. In southern Louisiana, long before the Interstates in the '70s, Highway 90 seemed to go on for ages through swamp and forest before you ever saw a town, then miles more before another, and was [seldom] crossed by other highways with much of the same. - Rational terrain. Both your maps surpass River Valley here. I like not-flat terrain (too much of that in childhood), but the wobbly stuff in the vanilla maps was difficult. These improvements over the original River Valley map (which I tried several times to play) have made all the difference for me. River Valley had one highway that extended over a river and dead-ended (?), and it had large expressways (going where I didn't want, and with no power or water available, and looked stupid built into a local road), and the terrain was...betterable. Thanks for your efforts, and thanks to CPP for his map and muchly for his offering help to others in the community to benefit us all!

Manhattan and Long Island need to be bigger and also closer together. Also the Hudson in your map is as wide as Manhattan, instead of like 1/3 the width like irl.

About the railway, make tunnel area part of the northeast corridor I don’t expect it’s the same but it will be cool

Some ideas that came to mind when you mentioned possible ideas for the outlying areas of the map: In the more hilly/mountainous area you could totally do a mountain resort type of project. Like the hotels in The Shining or Dirty Dancing or something as wild as the Fairmont Hotels in Canada or something as simple as a Summer Camp style of recreational area. It is a shame that you can’t really create a lake yet though. The other idea I have is in the “rich mansion” area of the map, you have a Gatsby themed set up with two large homes across from each other and a dramatic story line connecting them. Kinda like the sketchy people in Sunset City but a new story.

Wow, well I'm pretty early. But thank you so much two dollars twenty, for sharing it us! It looks amazing! I love the trees, and the twisting river! Also, I know he won't see it, but thank you CPP!

i already play with your map, it's typical 2 dollar, nice and clean, good job mate!

I can't wait for the series to kick start!

very awesome map, actually better than all starter maps in the game - can´t wait to start a new city on it - thank you for the creation

The map looks fantastic, I can't wait to try it! I miss how easy it used to be to install maps :(

Hi $2.20! Great map! I'm a NYC native. Some ideas for the hills and mountains consider state parks and watershed land. Look at Harriman State Park and Bear Mountain State park as examples. I used to go camping there with my family and scouts as a kid. Also look at areas that make up the Croton watershed for inspiration. There are lots of small damns and reservoirs in the area. There are even some small ski resorts in NJ and NY. Good luck and I'm excited to see what you do!

That plateau is very similar to the real suburbs in northern nj. Wealthy sprawling suburbs would be cool there imo

Taking the limitations of the current state of CS2 into consideration, you really knocked it out of the park with this map - together with the amazing CPP of course! I look forward to everything that is going to be developed on the map. It feels like a solid foundation for the true New Dollarton!

I’m from Livingston, New Jersey. Right down the we have the turtleback zoo and south mountain reservation. Its would be good inspiration for the mountain area. Also Check out Eagle Rock, it’s an overlook that you can see New York from.

Downloaded and ready to build. So glad you updated the fertile area to everywhere that will improve the "oh I can only build a farm here!" issue

looks great.. i hope you will enjoy it.

I downloaded this map before this video went up. I looks amazing!

The Mountains look VERY Scenic

Can't wait for New new new new Dollarton !!

Should totally call the river something related to the Hacky Sack footbag game, because it's so incredibly similar to Hackensack I actually thought that's what you were talking about at first.

@2:30, with the clod settings, I think it looks better with the setting on, the one you call "brighter". It is; but it looks better.

I can definitely see the nyc - Jersey City - Newark metro area. Those mountains ranges could be New Jersey heading westward. Since everything west of Newark is pretty much up hills and mountains.I am definitely playing on this map once the game comes out on Xbox 😢

Now this a map that is more plausbile and follows basic geomorphology.

You definitely need a region, like Long Island, with some rich people houses! 14:27

Hey i can't download the map and i don't know why

Prof. Japington 😆

Ive been holding off on mods but I think this map has convinced me to give the thunderstore a try

i feel like they released this game with like 30% of the actual content

Who needs a house out in Hackensack? Is that what you get for your money?

Personally I love those mountains you’ve created.

Stratten Island 😅 glad I'm not from there. Thanks for the video!

2:11 Man, this looks great. If you can run it I’d love this enabled in cinematics. Are you using developer mode? Maybe if you drop the overall brightness it could help compensate.

I know you didn't wanna use dev tools at risk of brealing stuff, but you can dpped up the water simulation to be as fast as your pc can handle. It laggs the game, but massively speeds up the process. Alternatively you can just set it to a defined multiplier and continue building.

Boy it sure would be lovely if there was a thing like the STEAM WORKSHOP that would allow users to easily create and download mods, assets and maps for this game

he's back :D

Hope you use Dev Mode & Mods cause some of the custom carparks & surface painting & props are great that people are doing with the new tools

Thank you!

you should make a highway going around the island like the m25 is like around london, massive ring road that has other highway roads going into the centre

I love the size of the rivers around the 15-minute mark. The one thing that bugs me about CS is the water and rivers. The waves/ripples are not to scale which then in turn causes maps to have huge, unrealistic rivers. Those ones are very to scale with rivers in the NE U.S., so way to not make them huge

Personally I enjoy the maps with restrictions rather than be like an big Island like how rockstar makes their maps, but how game creators do it is not something I tend to enjoy these days, like no roads going out the map itself and it loops back to roads inside the map. For me it makes it feel like the world your game character is in is soo much bigger.

If you ever get out of the current map restrictions, the Adirondacks in upstate New York would be a beautiful addition!

I wonder if there will ever be any mods to build out past the yellow line. That would be perfect.

You really need to include the george washington bridge

This is where the fun begins!

You should move the islands closer so you can connect them more realistically with bridges that aren’t miles long

Hi! Is there any way to change climate on a map? I changed nighttime and daytime temp for all seasons to below 0 so that i could have some snow, but in simulation temperature never goes below 10 celccius as in default map setting

I would be great if you take some elements from Liberty City from GTA IV, there's a lot of funny stuff you could take from there 🥰✨️

I live in Newark, and I would like to see your take on Newark International Airport in your build which is a mess in real life

Hello there, Great Map design, I'm so hyped for the series that I tried to download the map but i couldn't because thunderstore app gives an error saying i have alredy downloaded it, or an error with saying it couldn't extract the file, I didn't experianced this with any other custom made maps, I also already checked the River Delta map but it was the vanilla version. I wanted to know If anyone else experienced it and maybe knows a workaround?

I tried to dl it. But it keeps saying that I already have it dl but it can’t find it in the map selection.

Is anyone else having issues installing the map? I’ve tried the Thunderstore but it’s throwing an error when downloading. I also tried manual installation but the map won’t show up in game.

I like the map

hey, I don't know if its just me but currently i am unable to install the map, i have everything set up correctly its just this map that wont load

is there any reason the map is currently labelled as DEPRECATED

Why couldn't the devs make maps like this. It has mountains but it's mostly level and you don't have to worry about terraforming as much.

True Dollarton

Will you use dev mode and anarchy and so on?

❤@This!!!

What's going on with Oceania?

I think you should definitely come up wirh new names, instead of New Dollarton. How about these: New Jersey (New Varsity) Manhattan (Kingsman) Brooklyn (Brougham) Staten Island (Colony Island) Bronx (The Crown) Queens (Dames)

hi do you plan to upload map to papadox mods?

Yea

Great map. Can’t believe you botched the Staten Island thing again 😂

why is it marked deprecated