Building a Metropolis Challenge (BaMC) - based on the original rules for the Build a City Challenge (BaCC) by ClintCasey85, found at: http://boolprop.net/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=45 - Difference: reach a population of 500.000!

1. Instant City , a BaMC-Challenge
Household B
Fall 1
Instant City
Household B,
Fall 1

2. - Hello and Welcome again to Instant City, a BaMC-Challenge – and the next building to move in the next household ‚B‘ has
just arrived, the SimCity Skyscraper by astondb9, also converted in a 4-room apartment… -

3. - … and Servo aka the Chosen One has already rented an apartment and activated the next members of the household
without giving me the time to take pictures first... Jerk.. –
‚How typical of a meatbag to…‘
- Hold it! I already made a deal with Servo A-3 – which by the way is his name, so ‚Servo‘ is not a demeaning statement
here but simply a persons ‚name – that I stop giving you demeaning names and call you people, household members or
whatever, if you stop calling us meatbags… -
‚… you still called me a jerk…‘
- Because you were one, so we‘re even now… -

4. ‚… Well okay… but t I‘m still calling you meatbag if you act like one…‘
- Agreed… and now lets drop this topic already… after all, I‘m also playing this game to get away from all the demeaning
and racist stuff us meatbags constantly throw at each other… -
‚ I suddenly have new respect for you, Me… Mr. Player… okay, moving out now…‘

5. - … and so he moved out and… hey, new Landlord… sooo Mr. Landlord, are you also oblivious to the fact that suddenly
your building is at a completely different place? –
‚W… what? Who is there?! *scared*‘
- Don‘t be afraid, I‘m not really here… well I am, but… -
‚HELP! THE ALIENS ARE HERE! THEY STOLE THE CITY AND THE PEOPLE AND NOW THEY WANT MY BODY TOO! *runsaway*‘
- Hm… I guess we can rule out ‚oblivious‘ and instead file him under ‚gone cuckoo‘… -

6. - … back to the Household: First, everyone gets their Fortune perks – more financial advising & investing…. -

7. - … and hello, Servo B-2: it seems, that you have a Gold Flower Badge upon activation!... –
‚ That is correct!‘
.- Great! So – how about some Snapdragons? –
‚Okay!‘
- … -
‚… Is something the matter?‘
- Well, usually, when I tell a Sim to do something, we start arguing, so it is a bit unusual that you… oh nevermind …-

8. - … Ah, and you B-3, have a Gold Sewing Badge… well, while Snapdragons are much more powerful, Custom clothing is
selling rather well… so, ready for making some clothes? –
‚Okay… wait I mean… ‚No, of course not!‘…
- … -
‚… I‘m arguing?!…‘
- … close enough… -

9. - Okay, so everyone went to work… it‘s getting repetitive, I know … And this was actually the first time I took a look at the
custom clothing option for a Gold Sewing Badge – it‘s some kind of hidden clothing where you can choose from a certain
range of colors to create your individual style. It costs 75 Simoleons to make and sells for 750 if you do it straight from the
Sims inventory … -

10. - … the rest also started to work to make money via the computers… -

11. -… and here is some standard clothing made by Servo B-3 – again, selling for 675 Simoleons Bonus isn‘t too shabby,
compared to Snapdragons for only 180 Simoleons… -

12. -… and unlike clothing, there can be oopsies with Snapdragons… Aw, B-2, that is the first Snapdragon ever that I had in this hood that
produces green motive-depleting mist… -
‚I‘m sorry…. But with just a green aspiration this is unavoidable… I‘ll do better…‘
- No No No, we talked about the arguing thing, so don‘t apologize, if you can criticize… why don‘t you just backlash at me, like….
Like… dang, I got nothing…-
‚Sooo…. If a Sim you want to argue with doesn‘t argue with you, despite the fact, that it is only a fictive character in your mind, so
you‘d be arguing with yourself…. You don‘t know what to argue with yourself if he doesn‘t argue with you….?‘
- Yes, that‘s exactly what I meant! Very good arguing, carry on! –
‚… my positronic brain hurts and wants to go home now…‘

13. - … and then nightfall arrived – and to change strategy compared to Household A, I tried out something else… -
‚Oh my… it‘s full of stars…‘
- Since the Financial Advice perks‘ financial outcome is tied to the Logic Skill, Stargazing at night is a good way to raise it,
and also now and then a Sim will discover a star and get paid for it… -
,It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions…’
- B-3? –
‘For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream…’
- …. Oookay… oh well, the night will end in 3 hours anyway, so nothing to worry… -

14. - … one quick recharge ( and paying the Tuesday bill) in the morning… -
‚See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... ‘

15. - … then back to financial advising ….–
‚The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day..’
- and while B3 might be a little luna-tic right now, I put up some more telescopes, since he‘s the only one who can now
already give financial advice for 125 Simoleons… also, the neighbors don‘t know anything about privacy… we are not a
kickyball arena, people… -

16. - … and at night: -
‘Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!’
‘B3 has been rambling about this tuff all day…’
‘I don’t get it… ‘
‘Me neither… well, let’s take a look through the thing, maybe it answers… answers….’
‘B1?’
‘…The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter….’

17. - … and soon, the others followed…. –
‚ Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars….’
‘We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.‘
‘The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us….’
- etc. -

18. - … again, the Madness is thankfully cut short at dawn and… *ahem* B4, it is not nice spy on the neighbors… even if
there aren‘t any neighbors yet … -
‘I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.’
- …. You know, you should go back to the computer… -
‘I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.’
-WHAT? Okay, personal opinion aside, back to the computer – NOW!
‘Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars….’

19. - Well… apparently all this stargazing had a few side effects… -
‚ Unfortunately yes…‘
- Well, you still seem to be okay, Serva B-1 –
‚ Yes, because we only have 6 telescopes… but eventually I‘ll need to do stargazing too, to keep my aspiration up by getting
a logic point and avoid breakdown… unless I can get a sewing badge now…‘
- Good Luck with that… if only there would be a way to break the others out from constantly quoting ‚brainyquotes‘… -
‚ Why don‘t you buy them a Bowling Alley? Because most of them want one right now…‘

20. - … and so I bought a bowling alley – my startup cheat allows me to place everything diagonal, and while the room was
big enough to place the bowling alley correctly, rearranging all the furniture looked too much of a hassle, sooo… -
‚Whew – a Bowling Alley!‘
‚Now we can do Bowling‘
‚Yay Bowling!‘
- Sims… and of course the alley went into inventory and was never used… -

21. - … and just to make sure… -
‚Wee, a stereo…‘
‚I feel like dancing, dancing…‘
‚Can you feel the music…!‘
- Well at least they aren‘t talking about ‚dancing with the stars‘… -

22. - …Fortunately, in time, their infatuation with the stars became a bit more organized… -
‚ grid 4-3-7 nothing, moving to grid 4-3-8…‘
‚I have something in 5-7-9…‘
‚Negative, that‘s one in the Simsanometry already… but what‘s that in the corner…?‘
‚a new one… must be part of the Simitarius constellation…‘
‚… U75-beta- 3-Sim confirmed…‘

23. - And eventually, it became winter... And I‘m out of ideas what I could write here any further, except, that from now on,
I‘m gonna try a different approach or theme for making money for any household I play from now on… so Household A
will therefore be ‚The Economists‘ and Household B ‚The Astronomers‘ in my mind… makes it easier to distinguish
them…
- Okay, that‘s all – see you!