City name suggestions please! Maybe something like New Dollarton or New York. Hit me up

The natural sequel to New Dollarton - Two Dollarton! Love watching your videos for inspiration.

It feels so weird that the day has finally come - CS2 seemed like a pipe dream for so long. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years of C:S. Can’t wait to follow along with this series.

I think New Amsterdam would be a great name for the city since that used to be New Yorks name Great video so excited for this series ❤

i think you should build the downtown on the archipelago, some major land reclamation but you wouldn’t have the issue of the water being at such steep angles. also, a lot of manhattan is from reclaimed land from the bay, so i think it’d be pretty realistic. love ur vids ❤️

Being a Canberran, it’s alway nice to hear a mention about road layout design in Cities Skylines video. Canberra roads are so unique. Almost everything is about 15-20mins away in no traffic (except for Tuggeranong down south which is more 25-35mins) thanks to road design. It’s only heading towards the city centre where a high amount of public servants go to work do the roads become busy or jammed during a 20min-30min rush hour before 9am.

Great video! New York is a great place to reference and I'm glad to see our city inspiring parts of the build :) For your Jersey City inspired section, I'd suggest adding in a rail line (when available) or a former right-of-way or yard close to the water. Jersey City once had 4 large rail terminals and freight yards next to each other taking up a large majority of the waterfront up until the 1960's. Maybe a redeveloped portion could be a park or community hub?

Audio is great! Love the mic, high quality recordings set this calming vibe. I didn't notice the keyboard until after you mentioned it and I went back to check. Doesn't really bother me!

NJ Native here! Northern NJ actually has some little mountains in the NW which you could always take a look at for inspiration when you build up on the hill. There's also huge swaths of rural areas as well the farther south you go as well as suburban sprawl as well. You also gotta add a boardwalk on the water!

I live in Jersey City, you should try and capture the 6th street embankment (abandoned railroad like the high line in NYC, but not yet developed). Also the palisades dominate this area, with the 'heights' on the top of the cliff (with some super nice houses on the edge) and downtown towards the hudson. This whole area used to be railroads but has now been mostly removed. For the subway look at the PATH

I live in New Jersey, about an hour west of the area you're working on, and pretty familiar with a lot of the Jersey areas. I doubt you'll get this far out, but you may reach the Great Swamp. You'll certainly have Newark International Airport within your zone, and it has some of the most spaghetti-roads I've ever seen, including CS1. I'm excited for this series, and because you'll at least be showing a glimpse of New Jersey outside of the NYC area and NJ Turnpike corridor. We have forests, mountains, swamps, and some nice sceenery, not just junkyards, factories, and urban sprawl.

Wow, making a city that feels like NYC is gonna be quite the challenge, the gridsystem, the history with the first Dutch Settlement that still resembles the Dutch city of Gouda, the way many cityplanners and cityarchitects look at NYC. There is so incredibly much information about this place and it is in of itself really unique! I'm incredibly excited to see how it turns out and as Le Corbusier once said about NYC: "Your skyscrapers are too small and everything is too close together."

The centre of the city’s layout kinda reminds me of the road layout in downtown Detroit. Would be really interesting to build a city like Detroit or NYC, that initially grew massively with industry, but then went into significant decline as the industry disappeared, and much of the city was razed for urban renewal and highways. You could then work to revitalise the city but re-desnifying the urban core, downgrading highways, opening up the waterfront , building good quality public transport etc.

I started a river delta city with the intention of making something a bit like New York. A few hours in I realized I had actually made Hoboken, NJ by accident. The steep elevation near the shoreline in this map is definitely reminiscent of the Jersey City area.

Loved springwood and marble mountain! Excited to see what you can do with the new game

I love the cities you build and your videos, i've been following since the marble mountain days and bordertown. I'm excited to see what this new era of cities skylines 2 will bring!

love how you conveyed that dense look and feeling through your lot sizes. keep it up cant wait to see Two Dollarton grow!

Exciting! New Jersey has a lot to offer… It’s called the garden state so some of your suburbs should be lush and manicured. Check out places like Chatham and Morristown for examples of wealthy suburb towns flung out on train lines! You can even see on maps a line where the gray ends and green begins a few miles west of Newark. Looking forward to this city!

I’ve been watching since marble mountain and have some stuff named after me and friends inside jokes in sunset city. Always loved the channel, and while the new era is bittersweet, I’m certainly excited!

I've been following you since Marble Mountain days, and man is it ever cool to be along for this new chapter. Will be eagerly watching along!

So pumped for all you plan to do with this game, man! Been following you for quite a while now and I'm hopeful I can put some nice C:S2 stuff out there, as well. You're a huge inspiration, looking forward to seeing this city grow

You could call it New Newark. Sounds a bit like New York, and also references New Jersey.

As someone born and raised in New Jersey, this very much excites me! I hope you include our jughandles. NJ is the densest state, so there's a lot of traffic and we use jughandles in a lot of places instead of normal u turns because they handle so much more traffic. They're all over the state. We also have a surprising amount of farmland, just not near the city. I can't wait for more installments of this series!

Been watching your content since Marble Mountain, and I'm stoked to see what you come up with in CS2!

I hope you know, you're the best Cities content creator, and always leave me awe inspired by your work. Cheers to the next 2,500 hours of skylines

Love the non 90 degree roads. No need for a day/night cycle while you're working. Looking forward to the series

Finally! I’m excited to see how you make a city inspired by home. Whatever you do, I know it’ll be amazing. I already love it. And hey, if you ever want any videos of the city for your research, I’m happy to go out and film some for you. After all, recording New York is literally my channel. Offer always open

@2:26 "Not New Dollarton but something else." New New Dollarton, of course.

Glad to see you are using NJ for inspiration. I live close to where you are creating. There is a lot in that area and if you go west on the map, you start into Bergen County, which has lots of small to medium size towns, including the Mall Capital of the World, Paramus. The Passaic River borders Bergen County by towns like Fair Lawn. For your city name, there are quite a few Indian names from the Lenape Indian tribes used in the area. Ho-Ho-Kus is one. Oakland for the Oak trees and was a vacation spot for New Yorkers. I'll suggest the city name of Red Mill for the actual red mill that is on the border of Fair Lawn and Paramus, NJ. There is so much history in this part of NJ. Thanks again for doing this!

You should make Newark NJ type city nearby to hold the airport ❤ Newark holds a large airport with a big port across the New Jersey turnpike and would be cool to see that area

Jersey City resident here. If you want to capture the spirit of NJ, I think you need 4 things: - Dense urban area close to Manhattan with legacy industrial infrastructure that got converted to mixed use areas - Insane industrial areas with highly complex road infrastructure. Think NJ turnpike with crazy intersections, the skyway that is insanely high, and loads of railroad - Suburbia, lots of it. Don't forget to connect them to trains - Rural areas. NJ farming is surprisingly important for the northeastern region

Been watching since ep 1 of marble mountain! I’m excited to see this city grow! I’ve loved all the channel progress the past few years and I’m so excited to watch the transition to CS2!!

Maybe you could buy a tile way upstream of the river and place a hydroelectric power plant there. This should lower the water level of the river.

I live in Jersey, 15 minutes from Jersey City .. everything is crowded. That’s all you need to keep in mind. Parks are weirdly shaped based on what areas are available, but not big.

The city on the New Jersey side (or even the main city if you want) could be called Dollarford or New Dollarford. Also, with the hilly terrain, I could see the Jersey city be based off of Montreal, Quebec or New Haven, Connecticut. Also, the new East Coast America region pack will come in handy for this new city!

North of Jersey City is a place called Weehawken, there are a lot of old/big suburb houses and it has a very nice park/path along the river that provides great views of NYC. Would be cool to see in this world!

Just found a new person to watch, and maybe a new game too. Usually more of a Tactical FPS person but something about just chilling and building a city seems like a lot of fun.

Im so excited! I’ve been watching you since Marble Mountain and I can wait to see what this new game brings

One interesting thing to look into is the reason for Jersey City essentially looking like a second (third? fourth? fifth?) CBD for NYC. It used to be full of various train terminals for both freight and passengers due to the difficulty of running full size trains under the Hudson River. As such, the cities of Jersey City and Hoboken have lots of new development, as well as their own subway system that was used to connect all the train terminals

Yess, I was waiting for this! Thanks two dollars!

Been watching since the very first Marble Mountain episode. You instantly became my favourite city builder in KZfaq🙌.

I litterally was waiting for you to start that game ! Hell yeah !

Love your videos. Can’t wait to see what you do with CS2.

I've never been to New York but I love that city, the only thing I don't love about it is gridlock. And I can not wait for what you will come up with!

been here since marble mountainnnnn , missed that series but love how far you’ve come 🩵

I have lived in Hoboken, Jersey City and NYC so I am very much looking forward to this series!

as someone from NJ- im so excited for this series

So stoked to see you building that city. I'm not sure how long ago it was when i first started watching your videos but I started at some point in your Chongqing building series.

So excited you doing the new city based on NY and NJ! I am from here!

The Dutch settled what is now the Financial District on Manhattan. Notice the non-gridded road layout of this area. Then, as the city expanded to the north, east, and west, you see a much more gridded layout take shape. You usually do a great job taking into account how a city transforms over history. I love that about your builds. Secondly, a note about industry around NY/NJ. The wharfs on Manhattan mostly aren’t functioning industrial wharfs anymore. Look to Bayonne for inspiration for chemical terminals, Kearny for inspiration for an island dedicated to warehouses/industry, and Port Newark for inspiration for a container port. Looking forward to the series!

Ahh yah springwood was my first video I watched, remember when you would take NYC aspects for that one! Woow that was a while ago, fun times man, glad to see u back at it :)

As someone from this part of NJ, I love to see it. I saw someone mention the rails, and I agree, they're super important. Love the ridge behind the city. The further north in Jersey you go along the edge of the river, the cliff gets closer to the riverbank which allows for some hyper wealthy people to build their mansions or big building complexes with crazy Manhattan views--I used to work at one of these mansions as a landscaper and the owners had their own hiking trail so... the wealth is wild. Definitely include ferries when you can. I also will say that NJ, especially around JC, Newark, and West NY have a history for being cheaper than Manhattan and less desirable due to crime, but in the past 10 years development/gentrification has made JC and others as expensive as areas of Brooklyn and other NYC boroughs. A super unique section of NJ is the meadowlands which you mention. Basically the marshes and waterways that purify and clean the polluted water. The trains from interior NJ go through this to places like JC, Newark and into NYC. Huge sports stadiums and malls are plopped right in the middle as well as tons of heavy industry and smokestacks--so excited you're interested in recreating it. Anyways good luck!

A new subscriber. Looking forward to seeing what you do with your first SC2 city.

Love the new city start! Check out the Brooklyn street grids. They are rotating in directions because the grids started as small farming towns and then had to find a way to crash into each other as the towns grew and smooshed together.

ive always wanted to build NYC. im excited to see your version of New York man! An iconic city from the legend himself!!

I so much enjoy your style of building city. Please continue this series

New Jerseyean here! Love the idea, but to capture the feel of the whole state, you'll def have to be very varied, here's a quick summary. Jersey shore - Barrier Island shore towns, immensely popular during the summer and ghost towns in the winter, long boardwalks, carnival style games, water parks and rollercoasters, Victorian era homes and hotels plus natural beauty of the intercoastal waters and long beaches. South (inland Jersey) Philly suburbs with small old America style towns (somewhat walkable built around a single main street) with colonial architecture, this gives way to expansive farm land (being the "Garden State" NJ is known for feeding the Philly-NYC Metro with the food from our farms) and forest in flat terrain. North Jersey- industrial base for NYC, large sprawling NY suburbs, University towns, foothills of the Appalachians, wealthy single family households in the hills of the northwest. So there's some info for you and good luck!

Wild to hear all these places Ive grown up in, got drunk in, met them ladies in, etc etc. And yes the areas surrounding Secaucus, Jersey city, Elizabeth, etc are marsh lands.

G’day. That steep slope/bluff next to the river is totally normal in the Hudson River valley. Brooklyn Heights babyyyyy

I really love that the games allows to terraform the hell out of our maps and laying down streets till sunrise without tellung us to go bunkrupt! I layed down a Tokio style city and i absolutely love it in CS II. Also I'm a big fan that the roads not only have more lanes but instead have so many different wides.

I found out the hard way that rivers flow downhill in CS2 as they do in real life. You could, for each location, level terrain upriver to downriver and then smooth instead of making the entire river sea level. It's a lot of work either way, but I found the former method is effective too (but you'll have to deal with the ravine effect you get somehow. Awesome start looking forward to more.

Wow, when you said Marble Mountain at the start it really hit me how long ago that was 🤣 it was amazing to me and I loved that series, trying myself to generate somewhat similar a city but with worse execution but hey after all I am comparing to the best so no wonder 😂😂 Amazing how we are now on CS2

Love your content and excited for your CS2 stuff, but I just have to say choosing archipelago haven for a new york map is hilarious, especially when barrier island basically looks like Long Island.

New Jersey is a fun place. It’s a lot of highway in NJ. It feels like everything is highway there. Like businesses are directly on a 55 mph road where the left of 4 lanes is going 65 and the right lane is going 25. My sister lives there so I visit often and that’s my perspective of what NJ feels like from a midwesterner lol

Awesome ! Can’t wait for the rural parts !!!

You built the city for the trailer?? That's amazing🙂 nice job! I love the city shown at night🎉

Been watching since spring wood! Those 80s themed intros were outrageous

As someone from New Jersey, The fact that you are even regarding the existence of New Jersey when creating a New York style map makes sense but is someone how such a curveball. Also, I have never in my entire life heard the words “Hackensack River” and “cool” used in the same sentence haha

17:41 WOW, im playing this game since launch and have no idea that i can do that, this is awesome!

NJ represent!! So excited for this!

I'm watching since Springwood, excited for this series

I loved watching your springwood series, I think you should totally build something similar in C:S2!

Marble Mountain!! I miss that series…but another vote here for Two Dollarton.

so *extremely* here for the New Jersey inspiration!! it gets a lot of grief, but Jersey City, Newark, Hoboken, the N. Jersey suburbs and some spots along the coast (like Sea Isle City) have all been good to me. I'd also check out Long Island City/Astoria in Queens, for further inspiration/cityscapes - mostly because it's got some of that mix of old industry/converted factories/waterfront warehouses mixed in new skyscrapers, exposed/above-ground transit, and some surviving/active industry in pockets. really interesting area!

Love to See U Play CS II Been Here since U build the Springwood Keep IT Up. Cant wait to See what U make in Skylines 2 ❤ Name may be "New Springwood"

To say you are building NewYork but then say I’m making it look like New Jersey… Real NewYorkers would be so so offended. 😂😂 Just got the game, great video for helping me get started.

Marble mountain peeps are now oldies 😢 time flies man! Can't claim I got into you during springwood (watched a few here n there) was weirdly, boardertown where I started watching! Rarely missed an episode since 😊 although often miss the live streams - sorry!

Rip Marble Mountain. That series got me so hooked. We need Marble Mountain V2

ooo very excited for this series

please please i pray that at some point in this series you do a build based off that segment of the brooklyn queens expressway with all the layered lanes on top of one another in brooklyn heights, its iconic

Native of Northern NJ. The real thing to think about is how you are going to get people to the city (manhattan), and how that changed over time. Bridges, Tunnels, buses, ferries etc. Hoboken and JC sit on a bit of a ridge, that over look NYC. Behind that ridge is a very flat flood plain that is the Meadowlands, where suburbia doesn't really pick up until after that flood plain. Look up Rutherford and The Meadowlands stadium complex. A really cool feature to work in would be in the Lincoln Tunnell helix.

Your approach to the game is way different than what I'm used to but I'll trust the process

Have you ever looked at Duluth, Minnesota? It’s similarly situated at the mouth of a river, has pretty dramatic elevation changes, and partly stretches out along a barrier island. Not exactly East Coast, but it’s a port city of about the same period as a lot of activity in New Jersey.

I used to wake up early every saturday morning to watch new marble mountain episodes, excited for the future!

The radical incline of the rivers is one of my biggest frustrations with both the CS1 and CS2 stock maps, lol. I don't really know how to solve this, but for my own map I'm thinking of keeping the incline, but gradually making the river more and more shallow, until I can eventually mod in a bunch of rock props/assets to make it look like the rapids of a much smaller river.

New Jersey native here who currently lives in Union City and has lived in Jersey City for over 10 years. This particular area you're creating, as others have said, were really dependent on the train lines to carry goods to and away from the city. It was a very industrial area - old brownstones and factories. Jersey City's downtown in particular has some things that can apply to your current set up. First, its border is basically defined by a major highway heading to and from Manhattan. It also has, to simplify it, 3-4 different distinct areas. These sections are mostly separated by two roads - Christopher Columbus Drive (and kind of Newark Ave which runs on an angle like your set up.) and Marin Boulevard. The two sections west of Christopher Columbus are very residential, each have their own square park which seem to center the neighborhoods, mostly brownstones, and maybe some development on the west edge of the areas where the last of warehouses are being redeveloped. Along Christopher Columbus and Newark are a lot of businesses. To the East of Marin, in a simple sense, things tend to get a little more developed and new. There are skyscrapers and new luxury buildings. The wharfs along the water are also important here as they used to be industrial but are now developed into high rises or parks. One thing you'll notice in these places are a road that follows the shoreline, so I'd look to include that. Commuting from this area to the city is very easy via subway (the Path), bus, or ferry. Then for the Meadowlands, before the water really gets that far inland, I have to point out the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal. It's the largest port on the East Coast of the United States and a major hub for goods being shipped across the country, because basically New Jersey has better access to the rest of the country than Manhattan/New York City. This area is very industrial and there are train lines, major roads, and Newark International Airport to ship those goods out. Basically all the ports that used to be in Jersey City, Hoboken, etc. are now located there. Then the meadowlands are a tidal marsh/swamp area affected by the ocean tides, that at one point was where a lot of garbage was dumped but are now beginning to be preserved. They still seem kinda gross and in shows like "The Sopranos" would be where mobsters dump bodies. The Meadowlands are also home to some major sporting venues and a massive mall called "American Dream" which you should definitely check out. Directly out of that area it really becomes commuter based suburbs to serve New York City for a ways with communities running the range from affluent and wealthy to poor and run down. Most built around a commuter rail line. There are a lot of malls and stores on multiple lane roadways that spiderweb out from the city. But in the same way there's a lot of concrete, when you move further away you get a lot of green. After all it is the "Garden State." There's the shore with beaches and nice homes, mountains where people can go skiing and hiking, and even farmlands - all within about an hour's drive. Further away there's Atlantic City which is kinda like a very small slice of Las Vegas planted on a boardwalk on the beach. This state, in a lot of ways, has a little bit of everything - Urban, suburban, and rural. Mountains, coastal plains, and rolling hills. Tons of green parks and backyards and concrete jungles and industry. Wholesome families with kids playing little league baseball and mobsters committing organized crime. Sorry for the long post, just stoked to watch you build out this area.

the diagonal roads you built to start off with just remind me of driving in south city st louis

I love the day night cycle, during the day its obviously easier to build out, and night time helps me focus on refactoring my taxes, transport, services etc

Love your series, gives me inspiration. I have a couple of names. New Amsterdam, New Ark, New Delta because it's build on that map. Or just New Dollarton in name of the creator...

I love that Cities: Skylines II finally lets us build road intersections with super tight angles without mods. It really was about time.

Biffa reminded me it would be a nice idea to let a nice comment under a video of my Favorit cities skylines creator on KZfaq. So, I thought i thank you for your videos and all the hard work you put in your cities. You opened my eyes for what is possible with these games. Keep up your nice work 🎉

I definitely want to build a New York inspired city too!!! This is awesome!!!!!

1:17 daym vlad is riding around alderney in a motorcycle. That's a sight i thought i could never see in gta 4 🤣🤣

Through in some hydroelectric damns upstream when you have the milestones unlocked and use them where you drop the water levels - you can create larger water bodies like lakes and wetlands behind them.

Its crazy to say I've watched from your first series on cs 1 and now to your first series on cs 2, gotta get a reference into springwood in this city somehow ;)

I SCREAMED when you said you were doing New York. FINALLY! since its safe to assume Gramercy is never coming back. Here's a suggestion of names for an alternate version of fair city. Liberty City (lol) Ironbound (for Bronx) Dyker (for Brooklyn) Mamaroneck (for Manhattan) Elizabeth (for Queens) Port George or Castleton (for Staten Island) anyway cant wait to see where this goes (edit: i cant believe this is going to be more Jersey how could you betray me like this)

Throw back to marble mountain! Long time viewer here, keep it up!

IM HYPED FOR THIS SERIES

U can still add ur swamp. u could do it at the river opening. And instead of a big water body in the north of the city u could turn it in various little streams on an incline, which could be turned in the natural city park. So u would have a continous green belt in the middle of the city, maybe some green water bank between the swampy river opening and the streamy parkland. But im sure u will figure a way out to create an illusive skyline and nature scene

Great video learned some new tricks! I flooded my entire city when I went AFK to make dinner and forgot to pause 😂