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 Q
Summer 2
Instant City
Household Q,
Summer 2

2. - Hello and Welcome back to another Episode of Instant City – a BaMC Challenge! By now, we can call this summer season
the season of building Districts – then again, to reach our goal of 500.000 Population, that was to be expected… and servo
Households are admittedly bland, so hopefully we’ll get some children soon…

3. -… for now, let’s take a look at our beachcombers and Trekkies…-
‘Wow, you still remember the ‘Q’ joke… you must be sooo old…’
- Shush – busy cleaning inventories, so…-

4. -… mind your own business and deliver your overdue rose bouquets…-

5. -… and pay your bills…-

6. -… and also – get a job…!-
‘… what is it with you and business?’
- Districts? –
‘… right, that was dumb to ask…’
- Yep.-

7. -… so everyone off to work…-

8. -… and chance card: Serva Q-4's warehouses are reporting a huge overstock of Llarry the Talking Llama. Serva Q-4, on the
advice on her sales team, acquired the rights from AlpacaSoft to be SimCity's distributor of the overstuffed talking toy, as the
fuzzy llama was projected to be all the rage; but actual sales haven't even come close to expected figures. An opportunity
arises to license the toys as the athletic mascot of the SimCity Llamas, but at this point Serva Q-4 wonders if she shouldn't
just donate the stupid toys to the SimCity Children's Home and cut her losses. …well….?-

9. -… tons of Llamas are carried to the children’s home. When the children’s home runs out of space, it donates the Llamas to
other institutions. The generous donation by Serva Q-4 becomes public, and opinions are positive. The donation becomes a
great PR-campaign, and Public Speaker of the Company explains, that this is just the first of several campaigns. Serva Q-4
receives a point of creativity and 2000 Simoleons from the board….aw, sweet… -

10. -… and promotions…actually, that was it already again with the work, as – once again – we left on what was supposed to be
the last day of summer for adding new businesses to Blank Mesa…-

11. -… and this time…-
‘Another Office Building? Wasn’t one enough?’
- Well – after placing the first one, I didn’t really know what to put into the remaining 1x3 space – and the High Rise Office
from Maren from this nice site fitted perfectly with the Blank Mesa Tower…-

12. -… though some changes were needed… for example, while these unreachable flowerbeds would be harmless on
community lots and probably also okay for a while on Community businesses, I just didn’t want them all to wither and die,
and instead removed them…-

13. -… also I changed the exterior look to match with the Blank Mesa Tower… now the High Rise Office has a nice backyard
relaxation area, lots of telephone booths in the front, and… -

14. -… and indoor fountain and more flowers… but since it still looked off on the Outside compared to the Blank mesa Tower,
and tending to flower beds all the time wasn’t that interesting either…-

15. -… I switched the interior to a high priced object that looks as nice and environment friendly as it also doesn’t need any
tending…-

16. -… the backyard got a little café…-

17. -… and the front was made a bit more open with a fountain outside…-

18. -… yep, now it fits…-
‘no it doesn’t… and even if it does, I would say no…’
- Aw, come on, it’s not that bad… also, we’re not finished yet…-

19. -… because this time - let’s try a food stand again…with an invisible recolor by knightguy82, to make it look a bit more like a
canteen…-

20. -… hm, nice, but the rest of the food stand is still visible…-

21. -… okay, a bit better… well, we’re ready to sell then…-
‘Ungh… you’ve mastered the art of really exploiting the heck out of everything…’
- Why, thank you for noticing *smuggrin* -

22. -… so we reached level 5 rather fast again…-

23. -… time for the next business…-

24. -… and it is – a Science Lab! Yeah, as I said, Science Hood, so Science Lab, where science is done…. This thing actually sat in
my Lot catalog for years, so I don’t even know who made it – all credit to the creator of course…-

25. -… who did a great job making this thing look really cool inside too… of course, I…. Just had to make a few changes…-

26. -…Like adding this computer room… well, unlike I thought, I never used it..-

27. -… and adding these microscopes made by Katy76 and remeshed by Nanashi to the lot… actually they are only available on
residential lots, so I had to switch this one back and forth for it…-

28. -… and yes, they do work, and on residential lots, would raise logic… then again, all Servos have maxed Logic so no need
to…set them up for sale instead…-

29. -… and this place, originally probably meant as a playground for baby geniuses, was made into a… shop that… researches
the science of commerce, yeah…!-
‘ I can’t believe you wrote that…’
- Yeah, I’m pretty impressed with myself too…-

30. -… oh, and I also redid this room into a special arts and crafts lab… see the Ice Sculpture Crafting station with the chainsaw
converted from Pet Stories by MATY over there? You can, with this thing, craft an ice swan sculpture, which costs 1
Simoleons, though you can set up the price manually… I just wish, somebody could make some more options for ice
sculptures available with that thing…-

31. -… finally, I made this mechanics room, with a normal robot crafting station, while the other one… is a blacksmith crafting
station made by nixedsims… yeah, we’re kinda researching the history of science as well…-
‘What do you actually mean by using the word ‘science’ all the time???!’
-… we’re throwing science to the wall to see what sticks? –
‘… ‘

32. -… oh and finally, the Science Lab also got a little exterior do-over… removed one entrance door, changed the façade a bit…
and another successful fit for Blank Mesa…-

33. -… now quit playing with the train set I forgot to mention and start selling…-
‘… first: why the train set ?’
-… train science…-
‘… I walked right into that one…’
-… ehrm… yes, yes of course..-

34. -… on a side note: the train set looks really nice once completed, but sometimes I wish, there would be a few more options,
like new train sets for the train in other environment…-

35. -… ehrm… where was I…? Oh right start sell…!... oh, Level 1 already, Thank you, Vonnie White Witch…-

36. -… but now… se...!... Oh, Good Robot Badge, very go… stop distracting me and open the business! –
‘… this is a Lab, where science is done, not a business…’
-… so now you’re using the same explanation for science that I used before…?-
‘… I’ll go switch the sign…’

37. -… and one of our first customers is actually Journalist Karen, who takes an immediate liking to train science…-
‘Stop saying that!’

38. -… and she gives us a science prize for it…-
‘NO!’
-… oh yes, she does – also, look at the nice Ice swan, our newest scientific breakthrough, Ice that doesn’t melt…-

39. -… but it wasn’t the ice swan, but rather the microscopes our customers were interested in… sales of those pushed the Lab
to level 5… so we closed the business again..-

40. -… like chainsaw-on-ice-block science…-

41. -… or magic science…-

42. -… telephone scie…-
‘IT DOESN’T BECOME SCIENCE, JUST BECAUSE YOU PUT THE WORD ‘SCIENCE’ AFTER IT!’
-… yelling science…-
‘§$%&$!!!!’
- Okay, just buy the next lot…-

43. -… this time a library, made by laivine_erunyauve (I’m using a lot of her great buildings, check them out!)… fitting for a
Science Hood… -

44. -… but it’s not just books in here, we even have a restaurant… spiced up with books to se… lent – in a library – this might
actually be profitable…_

45. -… but first, I needed to give this lot a little makeover… ah, much better…-
‘…ugly…’
-… I’m not reacting to these comments anymore, you kn… dang… -

46. -… let’s just open the library… this one has also magazine stands, so selling stuff isn’t that far off then…-

47. -… we also work the restaurant…-

48. -… yep, level 5 came rather fast, so once again, second round, back to the office…-

49. -… sell people more food…-
‘If this is supposed to be some kind office canteen, selling food doesn’t really fit…’
-… but since these people don’t work here…-
‘… this is… why am I even discussing this with you? Might as well try to create an Escher drawing in real life…’

50. -… despite the staff’s bad mood, we even got a prize for best canteen…-

51. -… and with this business finished as well…-

52. -… it’s once again time – for SCIENCE! Also, redecorated the Science Lab a bit more…-

53. -… and it was high time for more cash register gold badge Science…-
‘ *whimper* why can’t he stop with the stupid comments, why can’t he stop …?’

54. -… also, Bronze Restocking Microscope Badge Science…-
‘*noise of internally breaking down*’

55. -… and finally, reaching Level 10 Business Science! –
‘…I don’t want to hear the word science for the rest of my existence…-
- … okay, Sci… I mean Business is over here, lets go to the library…-

56. -… and to be honest, I liked doing the restaurant here…but perhaps just because not many people made it till here…-

57. -… most of them stayed at the lower level and bought magazines from the stand… still, we got another prize…-

58. -… and so, the library reached level 10 as well…-

59. -… so it was time to return home, but everyone went on a last date one more time…-

60. -… and then it was time to move out…-

61. -… and again – remember what I said about what was supposed to be the last day of summer before we left for Blank Mesa?
– yep, one more day passed, so we went one more day for work, getting promoted one more time, before fall happened…-

62. -… and since it was Monday, everyday someone moved in, the same thing happened to the other 3 new households as
well… no chance cards this time though…-

63. -… oh, and just a reminder for everyone who wants an apartment lot with a beach – something weird happens every time,
someone moves in, dragging the landline down and creating glitches like this… 80%-solution: once you move the household
in, save, exit and then grab the lot with the lot moving tool and either place it somewhere else and then place it back, or
cancel the action… that usually solves the problem… for more info, look here…-

64. -… anyway, that marks the end of another household this summer, and once again, we get to place a community lot…-
Households = 71+3
= 1 unowned
Community Lot
unlocked

65. -…now remember Coral Island from Household O and its new plane? Well, time to add another creation to the hood…

66. -… and this time, I went for a boat, again made by laivine_erunyauve, the Seabrook… the boat was made in a way, that
when placed into the hood, the ground will sink underwater… the Seabrook is then also surrounded by palms so that it
looks like it’s anchoring at the coast… I removed those overwater parts and dragged everything down via the lot tool, placed
the boat on another modification of the terrain via hood replacer, so when changing it back, the boat wont be adjacent to
any street anymore… also used the Lot Adjuster to make the lot streetless…-

67. -… which left the boat with this big plot of land under it, visible in neighborhood view…-

68. -…thankfully, I was able to hide this plot, by using the Apartment Life ‘carpet of darkness’ tile on the ground…-

69. -… so it completely became invisible in neighborhood view too… -

70. -… and yes, you can safely access the lot – added a Portal to the boat, people can go and leave there… and use the
accommodations… -

71. -…Like Professor Disc here… Hello Prof – still enjoying the Vacation…-
‘Mmmmh… yes, very relaxing…. No worries at all… in fact, I’m a bit bored now… how long will this season take again?’
- Only 2 more households to go… One of them is S…-
‘…. Oh…. Well, I can relax a bit further then… *relax*’
-… you do that Prof, you do that…-

72. -… so with Coral Island’s further growth – actually didn’t expect that, the topic of the hood was meant to be water, little lots,
not new building placement ideas – we take another look at Blank Mesa, which is also growing… no Population Growth this
season, but we can’t have everything, can we…?-
‘… like a reason to actually read this…’
- ehem: SCIENCE! –
‘AUUUUGHH!!!’
-…. Hehehe, still got it… good bye, see you next chapter with another episode of Instant City – a BaMC Challenge…-
- Happy Simming! -
Population:
Playables = 179
Households = 74
Community Lots = 150+4
Business Districts = 7
SM = 1[Starter] + 1[1st Bus.] + 35[7 BD] + 30[154 Bus.] = 67
= 179 x 67 = 11993