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 F-1
Fall 1
Instant City
Household F-1,
Fall 1

2. And once again, hello and welcome back to the next household – and in case anybody wonders…. Well who does?... –
- *silence* -
- I know you‘re there, crickets, I‘ll get you… in any case, this will actually be Household F-1, because there will be actually 2
Households F, because… well you‘ll see… The new apartment lot this time is ‚Marwood Terrace‘ by Pgs737 at mts.com. -

3. -… again, I just cleaned out the pre-furnished lot, placed the Servos… -

4. - … activated the first one…. -

5. - … and then the next one …. Hey, another Gold Flower Badge, I just like it when that happens… -

6. -… so Snapdragons it is … -

7. - … Ladies and Gentleman, TCO has left the building… -
‚Ugh, sooo cheesy…‘

8. - … and here is the reason, why there will be 2 households, because this one will have pets! -

9. - … Ollie? I‘m gonna call you Oliver, and will sing ‚Why should I worry?‘ to you from now on… -
‘Oh no… run, kitty cat, run, don’t fall into this madman’s trap!’
- … too late, muahahaha….-

10. - … and Olivers training started immediately, because right now, Show Business is the only possible career for pets, as long
as they‘ve learned all their tricks… After some debate with fellow Simmers, I have the opinion now, that tricks only mean
the commands pets can be actively trained in, while everything else is just learned behavior based on what the pet got
scolded/encouraged for… even several websites refer to the first as ‚tricks‘ and to the second as ‚behavior‘… yea, I‘m such a
rule stickler… -

11. - And after preparing Olivers’ Room… -

12. - … we got our next victi… pet…. -

13. - … Julius. Now, I thought about calling him Dodger, but I like Jules better…. -

14. - Meanwhile, Oliver learned his first command … -

15. - … and immediately fell asleep… -

16. - … just to wake up and find out, that his room was suddenly occupied by a walking flea bag… -

17. - … thankfully, a second food bowl resolved the first tension. -

18. - Now since raising several pets costs money, Servo F-1 got the restaurant guide perk, so that the poor Critters won‘t starve
or not have comfy beds… -

19. - … While Serva F-1 was put in charge of training them… yep, you guys wanna have comfy beds and lotsa food, you gotta
work for it! –
‘ Don’t listen to him Jules… he’s just jealous he couldn’t care for a pet even if his life would depend on it…’
- HEY! -

20. - … these ungrateful… awww, look how peaceful they sleep… -
‚*Purrrrrrrrrrrr* (translation: gonna neuter that flea bag…)‘
‚*wrf* (translation: gonna eat that bi…)‘
- … oookay… -

21. - … lets continue with the training . Here Jules learns how to stay… -

22. - … and here F-1 finishes his first bad restaurant guide for over 2000! Want some golden bowls, guys? –
* MRRRRRRREEEEEEEEOOOOOOWWWWWW*
*BARK! BARK! BARK!*
- Was that now a yes or a no? -

23. *MRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEOOOOOWWWW* *HSSSSSSS*
*RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*
- …I see you‘re busy…. Ehr, Serva F-1, could you separate these guys please? I forgot my claw- and bite-proof underwear...-

24. - … and so the training continued… -

25. - … here Jule learns how to talk… -

26. - …. And here he gets a bath… -
‘*scrub* scrub* scrub*… seriously, did somebody sell your Fleas diving suits, they just wont go away!’

27. - … and here we try to get another dog into the household, but alas, the little guy buggered off and was never be seen
again… -
‘ *Phew* - at least this one could save itself …’

28. - … and since F-1 and F-1 needed some recharge too, they went on a date… -
‚Between fleas, hairballs and something I don‘t wanna think about – how romantic!‘

29. - … oh, and Jules finally got his name… totally forgot that he still had his old stray name… -

30. - … and now for a break from our regular family friendly program: townies fighting over who cares … seriously, they were on
it for hours… and when I entered the lot later, headband guy had become glitched, stood for days at the same spot, peeing…
you know, the usual stuff, so perhaps this was a foreshadowing of what came later… -

31. - But first: Ladies and Gentleman, Jules, the first pet in the house that learned all the tricks there are! –

32. -… but Oliver is close on its tail, learning all the skills just 13 Sim-Minutes later! -

33. - … and of course, we also worked on their behavior, like using the pet bed or cleaning them self etc… the learned behaviors
are definitely the more needed abilities for pets, especially cleaning, using the cat litter respectively the yard etc… -

34. -… And while it was still debated the question, whether learned behaviors are ‚tricks‘ according to the rules of the BaCC-
Challenge or not, I decided it was time to move in some more pets, this time of the opposite gender to … well I guess you
get the picture … Now since there haven‘t appeared anymore strays on the lot, we went to the Community base – and
apparently, the Charlatan is terribly afraid of pets and they don‘t like them either… -

35. - … and here we met our newest household member: Crystal (forgot her stray name), who is definitely bigger than Jules,
but after all, guys like girls with long legs ;) -

36. - In fact they hit it off rather fast… the option for making puppies popped up after less than an hour, so I made the kennel
ready, they both went in…. -

37. - … the door closed, everything rumbled, dust flying high annnnnd…. -

38. - ….. CRRRRRRRAAAAAAAASHHHHHHHHH!!!! Yep, that‘s the first Crash that happened in Instant City , and the entire(!)
neighborhood became corrupted as a result! I never had that before, and had to play from an earlier backup – always make
backups, preferably every time you save the game – I made before travelling to the Community lot… -

39. - … where this time, instead of Crystal, Ruby showed up, and so I adopted her instead … but then Crystal showed up again,
and so I ended up with two pets adopted instead of one… -

40. - … and basically, the puppy sequence still happened, so we‘re gonna expect puppies soon… well, not this update anymore,
next time… -

41. - … but now it‘s time for household F-2…. Now since there is a maximum of 6 pets and 10 household members in total, I
decided to split Household F, with Servo F-1 and F-2 and Serva F-1 and F-2 in the first Household, and the others will move
to Household F-2… and I already had an idea what they would do then… -

42. - … by the way, if you have 4 pets and 4 Servos in the household, the household limit is also reached, so it takes some
strategy to actually get 10 members together… -

43. - … but now for what Household F-2 is supposed to do: a Vacation in Three Lakes! Because F-2 only has 4 Servos, so we
can move Bigfoot in! Yep, Household F-2 will be the Hendersons… -
‚Hey!‘
- *grin* just joking… -

44. - … and since we have some spare money, we‘ll already buy the vacation home for F-2, the Copper Ranch Retreat… -

45. -… and then, like TCO, Servo F-3 left the building, three Servos and a vacation home in his inventory… -

46. - … and since at this point, the ‚is behavior a trick?’-question got answered, I finally got both Jules and Oliver in the Show
Business career… -

47. -…. Aaaand, the neighbors are still fighting… also, the Landlord just invited us to a ‘friendly’ neighborhood meeting. …-

48. - … and now, a new challenger enters the battle, respectively Neighbor Nr.3. What is this, the Fight Club? -

49. -…thankfully, the pets didn‘t care… now it was Chrystal turn to get trained, while advancing in her pregnancy and stuff… -

50. -… except when F-1 and F-1 were dating again with the fleas and hairballs… F-2 and F-2, the third and fourth Servo activated
on the other side just stood deactivated in the corner of the room… sorry guys, but pets require so much attention, I can‘t
play you all together… -

51. - … and eventually, it became winter again… and the last thing that happened, was the appearance of the first master wolf
since this neighborhood started… I thought about getting a Wereservo, but then decided against it, as the personality
change to 0 neatness and 0 niceness was what I always hated about werewolves… oh well, that’s household F-1 for now,
we’ll now switch over to Household F-2… see you! -