Which Are The Best Vanilla Maps In Cities Skylines & Why?
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0:35 ad
1:17 Black Woods
4:22 Cliffside Bay
7:02 Diamond Coast
9:57 Foggy Hills
11:55 Grand River
14:21 Green Plains
17:53 Islands
21:17 Lagoon Shore
24:45 Riverrun
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27:46 Shady Strands
29:20 Two Rivers
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The thing about the "weird terraforming" along the river on Islands is that it's perfect for those who want to build the hydroelectric dam and have it generate the maximum power output. You don't need landscaping tools or mods to achieve this, so it's great for those playing vanilla/console. Worth mentioning, I think, given the attractiveness of a build with a well-functioning dam, especially to new players.
That is true! Good spots of Dams
I don't think any of it would make a dam work. Not steep enough. Sadly, the way they designed dams they are pretty much worthless. They should always work. Dam holds back water as it builds up. Then it starts working. Of course, there should be better spots. But they should always somewhat work. In Cities they almost never will on any map. Very poor game design for what some be something fun to build. Kind of like transit. 75% of the options are totally workless.
@@larrylindgren9484 Well, it does make a dam work, to 100% of its power output, no less. I have literally done this myself on that map, so I'm not just making a guess here.
I was going to say this! Build a dam there and there is basically no need for another energy source. It's great!
@@larrylindgren9484 I managed to power the entire city with two dams on the _Islands_ map. The problem is that it causes flooding upriver, so you better build the dams before building anything up there.
I feel like it's worth mentioning that the vanilla maps are loosely based on real world locations for those that are looking for a little inspiration on what and how to build. Some are a little more exact than others. They were never meant to be perfect replicas, but you 'could' make them more exact with a little terraforming and ripping out most/all of the roads and rail. =]
Black Woods - Stockholm
Cliffside Bay - Marseille
Diamond Coast - Hong Kong
Foggy Hills - Quebec (and to the Northeast)
Grand River - Cairo
Green Plains - Washington DC
Islands - Venice
Lagoon Shore - Southern Greece (Athens ish)
River Run - Mississippi River just north of St. Louis where the Missouri River joins.
Sandy Beach - San Franciso
Shady Strands - Istanbul
Two Rivers - Belgrade
I wouldn't have guessed for cliffside Bay being Marseille with this european theme ! Tropical would have fit way better
IMO I always found the actual maps to be a bit fantastical and that is why I often play modded maps. (When cities skylines is not constantly crashing)
Wow I never noticed the Lagoon shore resemblance, if you look at it from the right angle it’s a replica of the shape of Greece! You can see the Péloponnèse and Cyclades and everything!
Grand River is definitely not Cairo... It's a fictional European map
You can found the true list on the wiki of the game
*Pine Rivers (From ParkLife DLC) is inspired on which city?*
The "machine gun nests" on Grand River are coastal artillery. They are basically normal naval guns or similar stuffed into a concrete block and used to shoot at enemy ships.
I was thinking of commenting too, EGG doesn’t have much military background.... nests don’t have any artillery in them ( BYOG) and anti-aircraft are on flat open concrete, they need a good view of the sky lol - whatever, it’s trivial and comments help the algorithm
I built my favourite city on the lowest-rated map, the only one which got a C! (Cliffside Bay). I took the map as a challenge and decided to terraform heavily, build massive canals, add a huge stream of water in the corner and a fortress-city on top of one of the hills.
Absolutely fantastic video! I hope you do a similar video with all the DLC maps as well. One suggestion that would help us console players would be to identify a couple 9 tile configurations to provide the best utilization of resources and or outside connections. Thanks again for the vid.
We'll do each dlc next 🙂 thank you for watching!
Great video. Keep it up, looking forward to looking at all the maps and seeing how you like them. Personally looking forward to Snowfall and Sunset Harbor and Industries for the most part.
So much work goes into your videos! Well done. Worth the sub
I've spent about 400 hours on Grand River building my first city, which is still my biggest and best by far. The map is fairly lame overall, but the river itself is cool and I do love the old artifacts and things. I built a huge tourist district around the old mill, and I look forward to developing the Hatfield and McCoy Memorial Parks around those old fortifications.
But man, that river has a mind of its own. The water level can vary by 10 meters. One side of my waterfront has a big sea wall but the other, older side just has to deal with some occasional flooding.
Thanks for this Egg! Every time I decide to start a new city I spend a good amount of time in the map screen. Will take your opinions into account! 😁
The add was funny and yes, I'm reading your tabs again 😅
I would love a second video on workshop maps, I'm really interested to see how good a map can get!
The inexcusable tragedy with many maps is the lack of a certain resource or connection. Like WTF place on earth wouldn't have an airline connection???
Thanks for doing the guide. Looking forward to the rest of the maps. However, It would have been nice to put the names in the thumbnails of the maps, otherwise a lot of similar thumbnails.
A recurring theme on this one was interchanges. I'd love to see a tier list and your opinions on different highway interchanges, ie. Cloverleaf, stack, turbine, etc.
Really good video Egg. This has even given me some inspiration to try more of the base maps.
There's some decent ones, been a while since I've seen them myself!
Yeah. with the plethora of workshop maps its easy to get lost. Even tho I've built on several of the base maps (Blackwoods twice) I think I'll try Shady Strands.
This is a great video. I was inspired to watch it after watching your most recent map video, "Which are the best Hotel and Retreat maps". I hope you continue making videos like this once Cities Skylines II is release.
Thanks bro, there's a few of them on a playlist you can check out too 😌 we certainly will take them cities 2!
Cliffside was my first ever map on that game. I learned my basics on this, so despite it being difficult, it still has some emotional value to me.
I’d defend Colossal order with the Janki-ness. As a noob especially on console it’d be very annoying to have map features which are difficult/impossible to recreate - an instant turn off. Hence vanilla tools map builds.
Islands is my favorite map (especially if you run it with the Boreal set). I had a very east time getting high population in Riverrun as well.
My absolute favorite map was not a vanilla map but came with one of the expansions... it was called "Honu Island".
Nowadays I mostly play in "Islands" and modded maps I get on the workshop.
That said, it really is too bad we never got "Cities Skylines: Seasons" as a DLC. It would have added an extra dimension with which type of map you play.
I agree with most of your choices. Except for two rivers, I put that at must play. It's my favorite map. Can't wait for the next series!
"I've never been smoother" That's saying something, coming from an egg
I find it very fun to see some of the maps I've used in the past. Most of them were from when I wasn't so good. 😄
Absolutely great video! Will there be a grand final of all the maps that make must play tier to decide once and for all the best map?
I think, so maybe a top 5 of all 46! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this, I don't feel like buying the DLC's yet, so I needed professional advice on what map I should use.
I like this series, please keep updating.
I’m hoping to build a city worthy of being featured by a city planner so this video has been helpful. Thanks for making it!
I remember having problems with flooding on some of those river maps. For some reason I thought the water tower was a storage device, so only used the river water for drinking and dumping sewage into. It really messed with the water flow and levels later in the game.
That being said, one of the maps (possibly early DLC) had a giant wave that would travel along it's river! It happened at regular intervals, right from the start and without any interference.
Great Info Egg. :)
Great video as always and it was definitely a spicy episode.
Thanks for that I will use the Maps you recommend now!
You'll have a nice time with anything B tier & above :)
I've been waiting for this!
4:34 Wow, you can build Maretime bay because this cliff very similar to the one that was shown.
LOL Highlight of the video is how you included the sponsor. Nearly fell off my chair laughing. :D
While watching this, I thought of a couple of videos you could do: fixing vanilla maps in general and fixing vanilla map intersections.
Islands is the first map I played and the most nostalgic for me. I have yet to recreate the magic and character of my first city. I feel like the first time you play C:S you don’t have a good grasp of how far the city will sprawl, so development tends to be unplanned and makes a very natural looking city. Islands was home to Angusopolis, population 320,000 on 9 tiles. Still my magnum opus!
I really like Cliffside Bay actually, even as a "vanilla player", but I kind of like farming industry as well. Expanding public transport was kind of fun, and fit well with expanding into ore industry up in the hill on kind of the outskirts of the city, which kind of just felt right in a way.
Expanding the city into the bay was cool as well, and turning it into a kind of tourist area.
Don't like sand for some reason, but Sandy Beach looks like a nice map that I'd want to try out ASAP.
Now we need best DLC maps tier list
Islands has that steep drop in the water to allow for dams being built down that side...
Beautiful ad omfg
You can see they really didn't know much back when some of the maps were made. Just draw a road over the lumps. Train tracks they wouldn't work at all. Makes you go even more wow at some of the maps people make. You are right you are blowing up almost every road on a base game map from this time frame. But if you look back it looked like everyone else's roads back in the day. Move It is a mod that was such a must have mod. You could fix a lot of it without having to rip everything out at a cost.
First time viewer, really enjoyed the video! Just wanted to leave a quick comment letting you know that I think your microphone gate is a little too aggressive atm. Some of your words trail off for example at 12:34. If you go easier on the gate, then use a compressor after it to push down the loud words and gain to bring up the quieter words it will sound a lot smoother. I really appreciated your video and will look out for more tier list videos!
I actually think the maps with the mor hilly terrain are the most fun, because it forces you to not just use grds
This map I think is a steam workshop map but it's the map that conflict nerd used for his series emerald county but it ended but that map that he was using was phenomenal I adore it
I saw the islands map and my mind immediately went to the tsunami challenge map. That natural border over the sea would be a perfect protection for tsunamis. Are you gonna include the challenge maps from Natural Disaster DLCs? I think all challenges have unique maps.
What I hate in cities is that there are these beautiful tropical maps with white sand beaches and you can't do anything on them. Cims don't swim in the ocean basically. :D
Great video as always, can't wait to watch the next tier list!
Not as much as you think, the tsunamis come right over the small islands and smash into the mainland
I have very found memories of two rivers, as it is where I've build my very first city back in 2015
I feel so bad that I lost its save. Theres so many things I wanted to improve in it now that I know more of the game.
Cliftside Bay is the map I built my best city on.
It’s a challenge with all the steep terrain and I ran out of space earlier than I hoped, but overall I enjoyed the terrain.
It would be cool in new dlc or CS2 that you can place where you want the ore or oil or farming like you can place the forestry. Also allow more things for console like the interchanges. And allow more tiles. I’m thinking of getting this again on steam in the new year.
I waited 2 months for this video, good job
I play on console, I’d like to see a video series about the best tiles/ tile patterns on each map. I’m trying to carefully select my map and what tiles I unlock so I can maximize my resources and build able area. Since I’m new to the game and unfamiliar with the maps I’m having a hard time figuring out what map I want to dedicate my time too.
My goal is to create several small towns that specialize in specific industries, then grow each town until the merge into one large city taking up the entire map.
Imo shady strands isn't super begginer friendly because it's starting tile is really hard to work with.
Of all the base game maps that I've played, and I have played them all, Green Plains is my favorite. I find it the easiest one to create a very, very large city (I got over 200k cims on this map). Yes, the intersections stink. The rail intersection stinks even more. But once you've got to a certain point, making lots of money, it's easy enough to fix those up. I also like how the highway circles the middle of the map. It makes it very easy to create highway intersections at "just" the right spots so cims can easily get on and off but not have so many that it makes the city look ugly. Building around the lake gives you lots and lots of high-priced districts and with the river system, you can setup a ferry system if you so desire. This was also the very first map I ever used in C:S.
Nahhhhhh the egg shaving ad got me crying 😭 I'm laughing so hard you're epic, get that bread
Would love to see all dlcs maps as wel
Not Vanilla but the Industry DLC Map "Green Peaks" is my absolut favorit. Mountains, rivers, coast, 4 train tracks connecting your city to the outside(Helps with avoiding a back up)
Edit: The add was hilarious
One thing that is also really cool about the green plains is it has the northern lights
I'm currently building on Diamond Coast (console) and while I agree it is a very nice map, it is not super friendly to a 9-tile build. The rail line runs through the northernmost tiles while the coast is on the southern side, and the ore reserves are in the mountains to the east and west. The shipping lane is accessible from the bay, but playing Diamond Coast and not actually reaching the coast is rather disappointing.
9 tile is a real struggle :-(
They should release an update allowing to play on 25, or at least a few tiles more
The vanilla maps have some defaults but if you flatten them and improve the highway system first, almost every one of them can be good.
Nice tabs ;)
As a new console player resource access is paramount and connectivity is second ideally being able to build a port as well. Form be damned, I have to get everything functioning first and I've only got 9 tiles to do it.
(commenting before watching) - I can't wait to argue this one, LOL
The one big thing not discussed, and IMO is worth changing ratings on some of these maps for, is that when you play the 9-tile game, not all maps will allow you to have rail AND water connections (or possibly not be able to use all 4 natural resources or a combo of both connections and resources), unless you build some sort of weird unlock shape like snake or something, and I generally feel that would look terrible and most people wouldn't do that. They would build either a square or rectangle, or perhaps a mostly square w/ an offshoot, etc. Perhaps a follow rating for "best maps to play if you want to do X, where X is industry or campus forcused, or big city or small towns, etc
Cliffside is a crap map, don't kid yourself
Diamond Coast is a A / B at best
Islands - while I understand your "high banks" concern - this is THE map to set a dam up on, and if you do so, those banks will (pending where you put it) fill up and not be so obnoxious
River Run - you put it in B, but at the end you mention it being a C tier, LMFAO
Best quote: "This looks like someone has just figured out how to use the elevation step tool and has gone ham..."
I'm poorly in Spain listening to OE's soothing voice and reading Casino's comments.
Long
@@GoldenPancake keep scrollin then champ. No need to point out your inability to read a comment
He does say 81 tile friendly. I don't see how anyone plays on 9 tiles. A big, beautiful map that someone took weeks or months to make and only use 11% of it? No. Then map sizes in Cities should have never been bigger than 9 tiles. On most of the maps the terrible roads you would never see in vanilla being they are outside of 9 tiles anyway.
@@larrylindgren9484 there is definitely a crowd of vanilla pc and console players that are on that limitation
That deep river in _Islands_ is a great place for a big-ass dam, as I recall.
I usually build my own maps using the terrain.party site.
It takes a bit of work, but it's really satisfying once complete.
As always an awesome vid. As a console player I find it very disappointing when maps don't include rail. This always impacts which map I select, in serious thoughts what city doesn't have rail! Also I feel the developers think the cims are stupid; they can build concrete roads but can't do walkways until much later & we're all aware a very important beneficial aspect. As everything in games there's good & bad we just gotta keep doing what we can, happy future building Mr Mayor Egg.
I spent HOURS on a city on Marble canyon from Industries DLC before I discovered there was no ship route X(
@@johndoh6584 what a bummer, this I guess is where the developers wanted to make things a lil more challenging. Happy building, lessoned learned I'd imagine!
@@the_gasolineaddicts Yes, I pay more attention when I will start a new city.
I continue this one anyway, along with a few others, but it won't get the container port I wanted.. Happy building too ;-)
Still have to watch the video, was too busy watching your tabs!
Edit 1: I see what you did with the tower...
19:30 would have been another great opportunity for a sponsor tie-in
Shady Sands has always been my fav map. Glad it was rated high
What did you use to show the maps. I have been looking for something like this for months. One on the complaints I have is that I cannot see maps before choosing them. Whatever you are using would fix this problem
I have to correct you on that last map. That was the first ever map I played with and it DOES have ship connections, via the river. I know this because I HAD both passenger and freight ports with both cruise ships and freighters coming and going via the Northern part of the river, going as far as the big lake in the middle. Beyond the lake, the rivers become unnavigable and you can't get any sea connections upstream from the lake, but you can up until the lake.
Interesting, I've just gone back to check this after your comment but Two Rivers has no sea connection. Are you sure its the same map? Maybe you had had mods on? Currently looking at Two Rivers and no way to connect a sea route along any of the water channels :)
Definitely no ship connection
I can confirm on the last map I did have a Passenger harbour.
Can you this for the DLC maps as well?
I liked Roslyn Peninsula a lot.
Looking forward to the dlcs. Specially the latest releases. Seeing the old maps in detail just shows pretty clearly how far cities skylines entirely has come by now. I mean even the dlc maps and their level of detail by now, and functionalities which are by now adapted and once were steam add-ons... that's quite cool. 😉
I love diamonds coast except the fact that the highway when you start the game doesn’t END AT THE SAME TILE which makes it so annoying when doing a no mod city
I remember my first map was cliffside bay.
The 2nd was 2 rivers.
i practically create my own maps, i only pick certain bases for the terrain, i rip out the trees and the roads and the trains and everything so i build my own highways (i always use infinite cash)
Green plains was the first map I built on last year using the lighthouse as a focal point. But I hate how all the maps start with a freeway spur. Cities generally start along a rail line or a small two lane highway.
12:14 isn't it possible to import the raw products, so you can build oil industry that is a bit more expensive because of importation?
I love the way they retrospectively stole my highway connection designs
My man's voice is smoother than butter
I rmb walling off the islands on islands map with dam and drained the entire place with pumps and my city had an attack on titan vibe
grand river has a massive problem bc if you connnect the two riversides you will get loads of traffic issues
Diamond Coast and Cliffside Bay are by far my favorite Vanilla maps.
I don't understand why the coastal maps don't have ocean currents. If there is no river, sucking in sewage in the water supply is eventually inevitable, and it's fucking disgusting.
I really like Black Woods, it's a nice map for a city.
Thank you.
May I guess that you're from southern England and have never really seen a river of decent size that isn't an estuary? In any case, thanks for the rundown of the maps.
For some reason, i cannot use the vanilla maps to start a city. Not the Mass Transit or Airports DLC maps either.
Forget Cities Skylines, you've missed your calling as a voiceover guy for Manscaped. Genius. Not as good as your original manscaped ad but still pretty hilarious.
Lol at least they're memroable! Thank you!
I can't wait to find out which map gets relegated to the dustbin of "crap map" status first in a future episode!
i build a city in cliffside bay and i was in unlimited money mode but i was getting like -300k a week and it was my first city to reach 100k people
Yes I am still looking at your tabs.
Great video Egg. Does this mean I can start doing vanilla city builds? jk. You're an A-tier creator, keep up the top content :-)
Thank you brother! Of course! I'd love a BBB Vanilla city :) You too mate
Would really like to see a update on all vanilla maps by C.O. Better interchanges, revamped terrain/Landscape. It's really not a lot to ask for, been cashing in on all of us for long enough I think. Great vid.
my first and only city to hit 100k was on black woods.
i don't have the patience to grow cities that big nowadays, just get bored and move on :(
It's not all about size for me, slow, steady and detailed is where I find my enjoyment :)
I have owned the game for years (and most of the DLCs) but for something in some of the vanilla map descriptions maps really threw me off... After watching this I might have to take another look at them. Even though i prefer to stick with 25 tile mod as i really dislike the edge effects on 81 tiles.
Regarding the vanilla infrastructure, I'm guessing the way you'd fix it is to make the train intersections at least 1 train length long to prevent queueing trains blocking the other lines? And cloverleaf intersections should be replaced by stacks?
Definitely longer spacing between each of the train junctions is a must. And basically anything other than a cloverleaf, a stack would work 🙂
@@OVERCHARGEDEGG adding grade separation to the train interchanges would also be good (flying junctions) if maybe overkill for all but the busiest of junctions, though cargo traffic can get pretty intense so it's probably worthwhile.
Cliffside bay is... okay. You can build a massive city with it (mine's at 350K), but you'll struggle to bring the highways and railways up the steep slopes. I've built on this map before, and all infrastructure in general has very steep slopes. However, the mountains make for an excellent place to build rural villages. The highways are sandwiched between mountains, making it difficult to access outside of the flat starting area. Train infrastructure is simple- there are NO intersections. The rail line is not accessible in the starting tile. Nice map for a challenge, but it may be difficult for beginner players. definitely not a problem for intermediate or expert players though. I'd put it in the B tier, as it's an interesting map with a mix of all types of terrain.
I agree. Personally one of my favorite European maps because you can make a big city by the coast.
I was thinking pretty much the same, it's one of the maps I never really looked at, probably because there's no river, but seeing it now it looks fun. The landscape seems quite interesting though challenging, now I'm tempted to start a build there...
So, when can we expect a vanilla series on one of these maps? 😜
I’ve decided that lake is called the phallake
Came for Cities Skylines. Stayed for the tabs.
Is it just me or does logon shore look like Greece?
IMO all the boreal maps are unplayable without mods.
Too much fog, too dark.
Oof, I'm on console and play almost exclusively boreal - but I agree with you to an extent.
100% agree. Temperate maps are the opposite in my opinion. Too bright. European and Tropical I prefer to play.