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!
Instant City - a BaMC Challenge: Household G, Summer 2
1. Instant City , a BaMC-Challenge
Household G
Summer 2
Instant City
Household G,
Summer 2
2. - Hello, and welcome back to Instant City – a BaMC Challenge! Let’s take a look back at what happened last time: We
divided the F households up, the Bigfeet took over the Magic District, we got Money perks, Bigfoot Wizards, Balloons,
Sweets you can’t eat, wicker-eating furniture… wait, I think I got something wrong there…oh who cares, certainly not
me! So let’s head over to the next household for another fun filled…-
‘SPOILER: He’s doing the exact same stick all over again!’
-… that’s not a spoiler, that is… I mean: Shut up! -
3. -… so, yeah, we’re back at the household of the rock gods, and after doing the usual inventory sweep…-
4. -…. We go right to purchasing another Business…-
‘ Wow – going from lame to super-lame in less then 5 slides… that’s a record!’
- I told you to shut up! Also, I’d like to inform you, that you actually have the rare privilege of being the first business owners
of an uni… District I worked a long time on…-
5. -… the L’école D’Eiffel! –
‘… and this is a privilege because of what? Because you stole plasticbox hood, placed NEBERQUE223’s Eiffel Uni Lots here,
then changed it from University to… a school thing?’
- … I have you know, that the idea of the Sims 2 Private School having an actual school ground has been on my mind for
quite some time… also, it will remind me, that this hood finally needs some more kids, you non-reproducing smart-
mouths need some serious competition….!-
6. ‘… and that’s why you’re putting us in charge of the school, by buying the administration office?’
-… in hindsight, this might look like a mistake, but… well… it might still be a mistake, but I’m pretty sure, something good will
come out of it… right? –
‘ … how should an administration office for a school work as a business anyway?’
- Oh, that’s easy: people come there, applying their kids respectively future kids to come to school here, they draw a
number…-
‘ Another ticket business?!!’
- NO!... Well, I’d rather interpret it as paying the school fees in advance to show how eager they are…-
7. -… and we will have a lot of school kids for this private school, so we better start working on decent data bank plus raising
some required funds to provide kids with the best education possible to…-
‘… Yes, yes, we get it… financial tips… hooray…’*groan*
- Your lack of enthusiasm for furthering the Sim World’s general standard of education is appalling! –
‘… oh forget it, I’ll just start typing…’
8. -… and so the administering of the school started…-
‘…and your kids will get the best education there ever is if you…!’
‘Dude – I’m a Servo, you’re a Servo – shouldn’t it be pretty clear that…?’
‘ I pretend, that this is the administrative building of a school, I have no choice in this matter, and you just came here to
stare at the ticket machine – what did you expect?!’
‘ Okay, jeez… *Ahem* wow, that sounds great… you’re so convincing, I might actually consider to adopt… where do I sign?’
9. -… of course, not only Servos, but also townies wanted to get a place for their future kids in the new private school…oh, and
Vonnie also made an appearance, hm-hm…-
‘ Oh please, my kids are already grown up, I just came here to see this little charade of yours… well, it’s not Monty Python
silly, but silly nonetheless…’
- Oh you’re no fun anym… oh, loan network perk, thank you, unnamed townie…-
10. -… despite all the bickering we get, the busine… school really picked up, raising from level… ehr, Simschool ranking 1 on a
scale of 10 ….-
11. -… to 5 in less than a day… even Link decided to give his future kids a future in this school…-
12. -… and with the fees paid, we could actually start(!) to build the school, adding a… -
‘Music Academy!’
-… I thought about adding a mess hall or more school dormitories first for all the new pupils… -
‘You know, we once started out as the ‘musicians’ household, and while the distinction between us and everyone else has
dwindled down to probably zero, we would like to keep at least a little bit of identity…’
-… you have a point…-
13. -… so here it is: Music Hall! –
‘… a little 1x1 lot? We wanted an academy, for crying out loud!’
- Well… when I built this as an university, while realizing that we still needed a Music-inclined lot, I couldn’t come up with
a bigger one because I always screw the big ones up… -
‘It looks ugly!’
-… well, no refunds, and true music only needs a soul and an instrument to…-
‘ Spare us the… oh, these are some fine instruments…!’
14. ‘…and even a keyboard! Wow, for being only focused on working stations, that’s really a new one…-
- Oh please, I’m not that stuck up over CC, I just try to keep it down before my game loads longer then 10 hours…-
‘ Yeah, yeah, yeah, nobody cares… let’s hit it, guys!’
15. -… and so sweet music started… or was it rock? Anyway, the Music Hall was very well frequented, with various artists from
all the simworld a.k.a. the usual passerby's, so hopefully all this talent will turn this place into a creative factory and inspire
future pupils…-
16. -… unfortunately the strategy wasn’t completely successful, as the busi…. Individual school institution ranking didn’t want to
go up, no matter what was played…philistines…-
17. -… not even other artistic presentations, while well received by a small audience of selected connoisseurs of the arts, could
raise the ranking…-
18. -… so certain actions were required to keep the audiences entertained…-
‘ You just can’t stop doing this!’
-… and the world shall be ruled by snapdragons, muahahaha…-
19. -… and just for the record, since Serva G-1 needed some time to get her Gold flower badge, we had almost another day to
try and get a ranking, but no success…-
20. -… and even after placing the snapdragons, it didn’t change, until we started to ask visitors to pay for watching such cultural
riches…-
22. -… and now: Burn the Witch! BURN THE WITCH! –
‘EEEK! LIIINK! THAT’S ALL YOU FAULT! STOP DOING THE LIGHTNING! ALSO: you’ve really become lazy, dear writer, if you
exploit cheap laughs at someone else’s misery….!’
-…and that’s different from what I usually do how? –
‘… point… oh well, then… EEK! FIRE! FIRE! I’M DEDUCTING STARS!’
-OH MY – SAVE HER! SAAAVE HER!!!-
24. -… so time once more to pack up and get another site of education running…-
25. -… a Video Game Shop! –
‘Wait – what?!’
- But of course! Never heard of educational videogames? –
‘You want us to believe that this Video game Shop sells anything different than the usual Eaxis games?!’
-… They are kinda educational for a Sim world… in any case, video games train your reflexes and sharpen your view for
details and…-
‘Whatever you say, Nerd, whatever you say…’
26. -… btw, the Video game shop is seated in a former residential house also made by NEBERQUE223 called ‘Virtual Reality’ –
thus the idea of making it a videogame shop…-
28. -… and so the shop opened up, to enlighten people about the educational usefulness of video games…-
29. -…and how to connect and share the experience with other people… wow, first time, I ever saw a Sim buy something from
this thing in a store…-
30. -… and soon we got a ranking of 5 again…-
‘Never mind the fact, that this is still a business with a business level… how would this ridiculous ‘School institution ranking’
and ‘school ranking’ or whatever work if there aren’t any pupils at all…?’
-… the ranking among other things notes the quality of the institution, whether it is the quality of instruments, of the
educational games, the overall satisfaction of the people applying for a place at school for their kids… and the combined
school institution ranking makes up the complete school ranking, so right now we are ranking 5… of course, we want to be
10 eventually… -
‘You seriously spent time on making this up?’
31. -… despite all bickering by the staff – you’re not getting a raise out of this! – we worked hard to make the school even
better, even introducing a special funds program, so even less educated or wealthy families could apply… I mean, look at
this… this woman is seriously undereducated in her fashion and makeup sense…-
32. -… and these guys… have apparently no fashion sense whatsoever…-
‘HEY!’
-… or are you applying for the role of the streaker? Sorry, but this is a school, not a university, in a university, this would be
Uni life, here you’re just a bunch of pervs and molesters…-
‘HEY! I am a Bigfoot, I always go around like that!’
-… note to self: considering to ban all Bigfoot pervs from School…-
‘ HEY!’
33. -… additional note: BAN THE EVIL LINK FROM SCHOOL FOREVER! –
‘Ha – looks like you’re the behind of the joke now…’
- Shut up Vonnie witch, you’re not helping… how is that even possible, this is a fountain?! –
34. -… and even after the fire stopped, the tree placed in it wouldn’t stop burning… so yeah, we’re now the school with the
burning tree… I’ll just interpret this as a divine sign of carry on… you know, like a burning bush, except it’s a tree…-
‘ I thought you’re an atheist…’
-… darn…-
35. -… okay, all signs of certain implications not meaning anything at all - unfortunately – aside, the Administration office
reached ranking 10, meaning, we’re now filled to the brim with applications for the future school as well as enough tuition
money, and also the overall school ranking is now …10 plus 5 plus 5 divided by 3… 6,667! –
‘… you really have your insanity down to a mathematical equation… okay, Bigfoot, how about we give you everything you
ever wanted, and you’ll become the school’s permanent streaker which will hopefully close this school for good….’
- HEY! -
36. -… thankfully, school regulations had just passed a new regulation that protects Bigfeet as a minority and their right to go
around nak… natural…-
‘Darn…!’
- And so, with a last blessing by the burning tree that is not a holy sign but simply a glitch I tell you…-
37. -… we make it over to the music hall, where we also got a level 10 ranking….-
‘… and that’s the last time we see a picture of this lot, right?! So much to defining our household through music…’
-… Could we for once set up the lot without complaining? I promise, once we have enough, you can have all the defining
you want!...-
‘When will that ‘enough’ be?’
-… soon…. ish…-
38. -… anyway, we went to the Educational Video Shop… and lo and behold, Daughter-1 was there, by the standards so far the
most child-caring person in the hood… sadly, she works for the other… ehrm, and Plantsim babies aren’t for School either,
because of the baby-to-adult thing… oh well, perhaps later…. In the meantime, I noticed, Son-1 never showed up…-
‘Oh please, my brother couldn’t care less about my niece and nephew, even if he tried… in fact, his untrying is kinda
exceptional… ‘
‘ Um, hello? The whole ‘define Son-1 and Daughter-1’s relationship/personality is nice and such, but if you don’t give us any
characteristics, we‘re kinda not in the mood to develop theirs now… ‘
-… Awwww….-
39. -… okay, so no character development, instead just bronze cash register badge…-
‘H-huh?’
40. -… silver restocking badge…-
‘H-Hey! Just because we said no character development for others in our chapter, we didn’t mean…!’
41. -… and Institution and School Ranking 10! YES! –
‘Aw, come on… a bit of characterization, please?!’
- Oh, okay…-
42. ‘… Uuuh, this video game shop is soooo… cool! It reminds me of the time, where me, my Dad, my Dad’s dad, the illegal Half-
Alien from across the street and my dog Poopy played Pac-Man together. You see, I’m a 80’s girl that…’
‘HEY! STOP! No characterization of other people! We want our own, not just some random townie you just took a picture
off…’
- … okay, so you’ll get a flat screen TV from a random townie, thereby you’re now characterized as ‘Servo Household who
got a TV Flat Screen from a random townie’! –
‘… oh forget it… ‘
43. -… so with establishing our first three buildings for the ‘L’Ecole d’Eiffel’ and getting it a ranking of 10 right from the start…-
52. -… and even three times! How’s that for characterization, you Rock Gods? –
‘That’s not characterization, that’s padding… just get it over with and show the usual ‘it becomes fall’ picture, so we can
close this out…’
-… oh well, worth a try… so we close out another chapter that could have been better and…-
*Burglar music starting to play*
- … Huh? -
54. -…. OH. MY. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Our First Burglar in Instant City! Hell and Lujah! –
‘ YOU JERK! WE’RE GETTING BURGLED AND YOU’RE EXCITED!’
-… you’re a household of 8 Servos, all skills maximized... Also, you own about a million in funds, and your apartment is
unfurnished minus the telephone, desk and comput… THE COMPUTER! QUICK, CALL THE BIGFOOT POLICE!-
55. -… and while the Bigfoot Police was called, the burglar started burgling…. The cheap wall lights… NOOOOOO! Oh, the
Humanity! –
‘ You know, after the first shock… hey, Mr. Burglar – wanna steal some more? Whatever drives the writer to tears is fine
with me…!’
56. -… thankfully the Bigfoot police arrived and… wait… you’re not a Bigfoot Police man…-
‘Stay aside, confused citizen – Help is on the way! I, your friendly NPC Police Officer am here to battle the vile crook…!’
57. -…. Annnnd so they fight and they fight and they fight and they fight…-
58. -…. And they fight and they fight and they fight and they fight and…-
‘HA-DO-KEN!’
*plummet*
59. ‘Oooow…!’
‘HAHA – Nobody withstands the long arm and hard fist of the Law!’
‘Aw come on, dude – lemme go … see, I stole just a bunch of wall lamps…do you know, how hard it is to survive in this city? I
can’t even get a normal job, these scrap heads are everywhere…!’
60. ‘Silence – I, NPC Cop, are tasked to uphold the law, and the law says, burglars go to jail!’
‘Nooh, not the… wait, the jail in Mosh Spicy Harbour where you can dig all the gold and jewels and…?’
‘ Nope – NPC Jail!’
‘Aw man… can’t we at least take the one in Numa Key? I’d like to shoot some basketball rings…’
‘Silence! From here on out, everything what you say and what you don’t say will be used against you! You have the right to
call a lawyer except we don’t have those as there is no Uni yet…!’
61. ‘… aw man, you’re harsh…why even bother with this city? The guy who owns it is a criminal himself, haven’t you seen the
music video?’
‘… I know that there is a lot of corruption going on in the higher places – and I myself have to deal with the fact, that there
are several Bigfeet just playing Cop, which makes my job difficult… nonetheless, giving in is not an option, so I will uphold
the ideals of truth, justice and…!’
‘Oh, spare me this crap… if I’d given these wall lamps to the orphans, I’d be the hero and you…!’
‘ Silence, evil-doer – onward, to jail!’
62. -… well? –
‘Well what?’
- Well, wouldn’t you say at least thanks to your hero and savior…?-
‘ Ehr, no… see, the burglar has a point – why bother? This city isn’t really a city, it’s more like an Asylum for the mentally
retarded, the NPC Cop is just another facet…’
-… you know what? You’re actually right… *sigh*, if only there would be a way to educate Sims to be a bit smarter and
stuff… like – oh, I know! – a SCHOOL? –
‘… darn, walked right into that one…’
63. - meanwhile –
‘Get In!’
‘… that’s what you said last night too…!’
‘Silence! Using foul or insinuating language in the presence of an officer just adds to the list of crimes you committed…!’
64. ‘… *sigh* Gerard.. Can’t we just stop pretending? See, I always lo…. Liked you… so let’s just get out of here, go to… heck, to
the mountains perhaps… we could become cowboys perhaps and…’
65. ‘I… I’M sorry, Steven, but you’re a burglar, I’m a cop, our love can never be and…’
‘STOOOOOOOOOP!’
66. -… what now? –
‘ No characterization of side characters unless we get some too… by the way, you should really do something about these
deco objects from the neighborhood view being visible in our rooms…’
-… *sigh*, somehow, the deco out button is broken, first disadvantage I’ve seen so far moving to Windows 8… or perhaps
this household is glitched… well, I’ll bother about that later, now…-
67. -… back to work – and hobby chance card, again the give colleague headphones or lie about musical taste one…-
68. -… and we lie, the colleague leaves and not bothered any more by him, get a little bonus…!-
69. -… and with the last hours left, we once more return the ongoing Occupy Instant City theme…-
‘Wonder, how many people still remember the idea of ‘occupy xyz’ from last year…’
-… shush…-
74. - …leaving me with nothing else to do but to calculate the new census… dang, close to 10.000…-
Population:
Playables = 179
Community Lots = 116
Business Districts = 6
SM = 55
= 9845
Households = 41+3
= +1 unowned
Community Lot
unlocked
75. -… and introduce another addition to the so far rather neglected Blank Mesa District: the Apollo Saturn V Rocket made by
Zarathustra at mts.com – because if the earth becomes too small for Instant City, we might go for the stars! –
‘Can we book a flight on it? Because it doesn’t get any further away from you than that…’
76. -… and so another episode of Instant City – a BaCC Challenge comes to an end… this one took again some time, because the
neighborhood showed signs of corruption, resulting in Sims disappearing and me loading from earlier backups… but hey, it
only gets better the second time… so once more thanks for reading this and see you soon when it’s another episode of
Instant City – a BaMC Challenge! -
