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 H-3
Fall 2
Instant City
Household H-3,
Fall 2

2. - Hello and welcome back, to another episode of Instant City – a BaMC Challenge. Last time… is a secret…-
‘No, it isn’t – nothing happened, that’s all…’
- That’s not true! A lot of stuff happened, like… like….-
‘…well…?’

3. -… like… like I made this space on the apartment lot accessible and decorated it! –
‘… okay, so something happened, I’ll give you that… still, except for the fence, all the other crap, like the grill, the banks and
the telescope have disappeared…’
-… yeah… so apparently except the fences, everything done in the other apartments doesn’t carry over to the other
apartments…-

4. -… but no matter, we just add it all as well here…-

5. -… and then lets finally start with the introduction: Servo H-3 and Serva H-3, meet 26th Great-Granddaughter-1 aka Coline
and 26th Great-Grandson-1 aka Roland…-
‘Hi – oh, I see – you own a lot a of community buildings…’
‘…yes?’
‘May I have a look? I like to have some inspiration for my architectural machinations…’
‘… oh, you mean your not-secret-spy-work, got it… please don’t shoot me…’
‘No, she really is a City builder, not a member of the SCIA… just like me… *gun noise*…’
‘Whatever… okay, Cuz, show your friend over there your deeds, I’m off on a date….’

6. ‘… with this lovely thing…. Where have you been all my life?’
-….Considering, that he’s 3 days old and has never seen a telescope before, this is not just such a bizarre statement as you
might think….-

7. -… and apparently, the love is reciprocated…-
‘AAAAH… no, my love, I’ll never gonna leave youuuuuuuuu….*abducted*’
-… Tsk, Tsk, lying to your partner on the first date… though I wonder, how heavy such a telescope is, after all, the aliens can
lift an entire Sim up, but he can grab the telescope and it stays on the ground is it glued on the ground or what?.... -

8. -… what do you say to that, Coline….?... Oh, already spawning I see… -

9. -… and hello, 27th Great-Granddaughter-1…-

10. -…. and 27th Great-Granddaughter-2…-

11. -… and…-
‘Sorry, little break – need a drink, the disappearance of my dear Cousin has made me thirsty…’
-… -
‘… okay, so my ride to work goes in a few minutes, plus the way I know you, you do want alien twins, perv….’
-… I resent perv, but you’ve got a point…-

12. -… and so Coline leaves for work…-

13. -… while Roland sure takes it sweet time to get back…-
‘AAAAAUGH… HEEEEELP!!!!!’
‘EEK! UFO! RUN AWAY!!! I’m not getting paid enough money for this newspaper gig for witnessing this crap…!’
-… kid, you carry out papers in Instant City – this is just Tuesday….-
*lullaby*

14. - … so eventually, Roland gets up on his feet and…. Awww, too late, you couldn’t spawn enough plantbabies to prevent
alien probing babies…which is totally possible, because I say so…*cough*…-
‘…. Drat….’
-…. And also say hello to 27th Great-Grandson-1, who by default will now move out to the next household…-
‘Nuuuu… don wanna gwoooo…!’
-… Awww, his first words….! Don’t worry, you still have some time left…. -

15. -… now let’s see, whether or not you can still get to work and get a promotion….-

16. -… and while Servo H-3 goes to work too, Serva H-3, our city planner, who has her day off, takes care of teaching the kids
lullabies…-
‘Scoop, Muck and Dizzy, and Rolly too
Lofty and Wendy join the crew
Serva H-3 and the gang have so much fun
Working together, they get the job done…’
-… I feel a copyright infringement approaching… *shudder* -

17. -… drat… no promotion for you today….-
‘I’ve been violated by beings from outer space, and that’s all you care about?’
- ….Do you want to become paranoid, thinking that Professor Disc and the aliens are in cahoot to get you…? No seriously,
that’s a thing….–
‘… nope, I’m good – literally, I’m infallibly good….and I guess, I can live with the thought of a few more green kids….’
- See, that wasn’t so hard… Congrats on your Promo by the way, Coline…-

18. -… and the very next day, everyone went to work, so you know, what that means….-
‘ *Whine* whyyyyyyyyyyy…. *sob* ‘
‘Sheesh – that crybaby is supposed to take care of the young ones? Better lock the door….’
- Aw, come one, both of you…-

19. -… and while these two had a discussion about proper child care… okay, to be fair, Servo H-3 has the childcare skill, and all
nannies are elders without family – so yeah, he probably knows waaaay more than her…-
‘*Cries*’
-… the truth hurts, I know…-

20. -… also, Stalker chance card…-

21. ‘*snif*… okay, lets get this over with, I’ll just make another puddle and… wait, wasn’t there a wall before here?...’
-… yeah, I decided to redeco this part…-

22. ‘… *GASP*!! Is… is that…?????’
-… Oh. Of course, totally forgot about that…. I decided, that aside from tables, grills and telescopes we could have…-

23. ‘ *LOUDER Gasp* Oh my… it’s real, It’s really real…!!!!’
- ‘… of course it’s real! What kind of sadist do you think I am, placing a toilet door and no toilet behind it….?....
*cough* D’OH! *cough* -

24. ‘It’s real, it’s real, it’s really real… I never want to leave…!!!’
-… would you mind closing the…?... Ladies and gentlemen: nannies’ paradise…. If you excuse me, I need to wash my eyes
with bleach now….-

25. -… thankfully, work is eventually over, Rolly gets promoted…-
‘Rolly? My nickname isn’t…’
*SPROING!*
-… sorry, I just looked at you and thought of a beach ball…-
‘Infallably good, infallibly good… urge. To. Kill. Rising…-
-…. 10000 Simoleons bone phone….-
‘… drat….’

26. -… anyway, Coline also gets home, also… wait… why aren’t you…?? –
‘Not enough friends?’
- You have… oh, noes, according to the notice, Servo V-1 just stopped being a friend…. One friend missing…. Drat…. –
‘Uhm… I can be a friend, I only want to stay here, near the toilet….!’
- Oh, go away, you crazy nanny… -

27. - … Okay, Servos… ….! –
‘Yeah, yeah, operation/mission ‘friendsy-pansy’ or whatever, we get it… *sigh*, and I’m not even a spy, I want to build
cities….’
-… tell you what, raise our friend count, and we’ll do some building later….-
‘mmmhokay….’

28. -… and so Servo and Serva H-3 started befriending people… thankfully without a *gun noise*…-

29. -… and now for something completely different… PINK GORILLA SONG! –
‘… wait, what…?’

30. [Actual Lyrics Pink Gorilla by White Fence:]
‘Cats are underrated
The power of the sun
If all the heavy falls on me
The player overcomes
We will tow them away
Harness….’

31. ‘…Idle singer
Put her to sleep
Strawberry music
Paying for free
Caught in a zipper on the lips
You can't tell her to work
Bi-transgender
Or skater girl…’

32. ‘Memory mission
Of a water well
(I'm) waving in a rainbow suit
And you jumped over a cow
And it's fired his money
Harness…’
- … okay, I was just looking for a song for these pictures… and THIS one totally fits the craziness… though you probably
appreciate it more if you’re completely high…. okay, back to business, we got a city to build…..-

33. -… and professors to ‘professorify’… -
‘Why? He totally fit that crazy song…’
- Nope, profs need to have little hair and glass to look more dignified and respectable….! –
‘… Can we go back to the gorilla? I already miss things making sense…’
- Sorry, he already left the building…-

34. -… so lets go on a final date quick and… oh, hello Countess… hmm… first time a downtownie has graced the premise of a
neighborhood community lot, nice….-

35. -… okay, so we’re back, once again, Serva H-3 takes care of the kids on her day off…-

36. -… and both Coline and Rollie…-
‘I’M NOT THAT ROUND!’
-… get promoted….-

37. -… just in time, to see the small ones to grow up…-

38. -…and their personalities develop…. Okay, family Sim, likes… big people with makeup without crazy hairstyles…. Peter Griffin
as a transvestite after losing his wig….?....-

39. -… next one… party animal with a like to animalistic smell….ew….. as long as you clean up afterwards – no nerds though…-

40. - …and finally another family, who likes… Spock with earrings not in a tux…?.... Oh well…-

41. -… okay, the usual drill, to the moon – the lots there are just too good to not be used – learn business skills….-

42. -… learn extra skills… and get nicknames…-
‘already??’
- Yeah… since you’re in a bookstore, I was reminded of that old machinima production by Thuyen Nguyen called
‘bookstore’ – it’s in the internet archive… now the name ‘Richard’ is already given, and there is only one woman, so…
27th Great-Granddaughter-1 is Emily,
27th Great-Granddaughter-2 is Harriet,
and 27th Great-Grandson-1 is Tom... –
‘… well, at least this has something to do with our current activity and Sims 2 for a change…. ‘

43. -… and while our new heirs finish their skilling, Servo H-3 and Serva H-3 date a bit….-
‘*Smoosh* Don’t forget – you promised me city building…!’
‘What, me??’
- She meant me, dude…. And yes, in time….-

44. -… for now, lets get back to the wild respectively Bluewinter Range – this time we’re going to the Hot Springs Spa & Gym….-

45. -… where you can get new clothes, magazines, groceries….-

46. -… take a snack… oh, and there is also something about a spa and gym in there, but nobody uses that anyway….-

47. -… okay, level 5, next lot….-
‘… … no comment, why even bother…?’

48. -…. to the Christmas Museum (Ex-National Museum…)…-

49. -… where we have another food stand…-

50. -… and stuff to look at…. Yeah… okay, I really wish, they had expanded the ‘Look at many things’ routine a bit, there is not
really much happening here….-

51. -… so while the others meditate away in the empty halls of the museum to maintain their platinum…-

52. -… the Servos once again run the show…-

53. -… pushing it to level 5 – time to change lots again…-
‘Why are you doing this? Always these pics….’
- I know, I know…. Should we invite Pink Gorilla over? Should we? –
‘….lets get going…’

54. -… so we’re back at the Gym – oh, hey look, somebody is using the Spa part for a change actually….-

55. -… and level 10 – okay, we only have three kids so this kinda is it already…-
‘… wow, this guy really wastes no time making this as boring as possible….’
‘… well, yeah, but… he promised me city building….!’
‘… while there are still 5 level left on a business? – dream on…. You know, tell you what, go on a vacation, get another one of
us here… with the money gli… *ahem* the secret bigfoot connection, you can earn a lot of moola for your city building….’
‘Wow, thanks for the tip….!’
- Yeah…. Thanks!...*takes note*…-

56. -… moving on: Harriet aka 27th Great-Granddaughter-2 is the one to move out… -
‘Why me???’
- Two family Sims moving out? Easy want fulfillment, talk, tell joke, play red hands….-
‘….That’s not funny, that’s sooo not funny…’

57. -… then we make a quick pit stop at the mall at aunt Caitlin's juice shop to get some badge juice….-

58. -… before we do some more badging at the moon…-

59. -… drink juice…-
‘ *Chug*… don’t forget, you promised her city building….’
-…. *gun noise* ?...-
‘ Gun noise….’
-…. Oookay….-

60. -… and so, with everything said and done, it’s time to go home again…-

61. - … and then it’s time for… city building…-
‘Yay!’
-… done by Harriet, if there are building, she needs to take them with her…-
‘W-W-W-WHAT??!!!!!’
-… never said, you were the one to do it…-
* Machine gun noise*
- EEEK! *runs away*–

62. -… *Hf* *Hf*… phew, lost her…. Oh, how convenient, we’re in Riverfront Downtown already…. Time to show, what new
Buildings were erected here…-

63. -… starting with the Plasma 501 – Vampire Lounge! Looking good, right? Okay short, longwinded explanation: this is
actually a lit-up shell building made by Early Pleasantview , based on the Sims 3-to-2 shell building conversions made by
misty_fluff!… -

64. -… now lets take a closer look: these buildings are basically giant objects(!) – in fact, according to the non-English text
descriptions I read, they were originally Sims 2 street lamps from the lighting category, which apparently had been cloned
via SimPe and their lamp meshes and colors replaced with said Sims 3 Shell building conversion meshes and colors, which
were also made to light up in hood view with Criquettes’ better nightlife mod…-

65. -… and to elaborate the term ‘shell building’: these buildings are totally hollow, all surface, no content, as you can see from
the picture taken from the inside, with the walls becoming invisible and the lighted areas appear as just being bright shining
interior pictures like lamps…!... -

66. - … in fact, every Sim who enters the lot can pass right through the walls of the building! That’s why I added a few fences as
well as a door as an entrance… I’m thinking about what to place inside these non-existent walls later…-

67. -… and now for the rest… note: one problem was, that I often had to look up what the name of the shell building was,
because the objects didn’t always show the correct name, or had a lamp post name instead… so in case, I get one wrong,
feel free to correct me…. Here we have Eugi’s…-

68. -… admittedly though, sometimes I was at a complete loss, so I just invented a name, like here with the Brownstone
Duplex…, because there are enough Brownstone buildings in Sims 3… -

69. -… fortunately, in most cases, it was quite easy to figure those buildings out, like the Beckett theatre…-

70. -… and finally, all the buildings stem from the Sims 3 Bridgeport hood, so it is not that difficult to figure it out, like the One
Leo Center … -

71. -… or the Aquarius (Poolside Club) …-

72. -…. btw, I decided to keep the names the building had in Sims 3, like the Bridgeport Armory here, instead of changing it to
something more fitting for the hood, like ‘Riverfront Armory’… lets say, there are a lot of architect copycats around in
Riverfront…-
‘*approaching machine gun noise*’
-… ulp… lets walk a few streets down the road, shall we…? -

73. -… *Phew*…also noteworthy: unlike community lots like the Brightmore (Disco Club) , many of the sims 3 shells were
originally residential buildings…-

74. -… like the Crescent Bay Pied a Terre…-

75. -…. Or the Hieroglyph Condos…-

76. -… or the Malony Tower….

77. -… or the Simerset…-

78. -… or the Glenview Manor…here, they are all of course community buildings, so we could buy them… lets think about what
to do with them later… -

79. -… anyway, for now…-
‘*automatic gun noise approaching*’
-… lets finish really quick with the Prosper Room (Lounge) …*haste* -

80. -… Old apartments…sorry, no clue where they’re from…-

81. -… another Brownstone…-

82. -… and Old Apartments 2 – yeah, I was out of ideas…-
‘AHA! FOUND YOU!’
-… please, I’m too ugly to die, think of all the Uglacies we could make…!-
‘…and I have to tell you, the architecture of the downtown is sooooo awesome! I’m soooo inspired!’
-…. Really??? –
‘… actually, no, this is horrible, I don’t want anything to do with this and never set a foot into this trash bin again….!’
*leaves*
-… who’d have thought that getting shot would have been more merciful…-

83. -… *sigh* oh well, time for Harriet and Tom to move out…-

84. -… and time for Roland to eat some cheese cake…-
‘Why am I doing this??!’
-… for twins? –
‘… you don’t even bother anymore justifying your actions of knocking up…?’
- A crazy Serva with a machine gun just chased me through the entire downtown, I’m a bit burnt out at this point…-
‘…’

85. -… anyway, another day, another chance card for Roland, while it’s the day of for his Cousin, as she is a level higher then
him..: a complicated machine needs to be set in motion, should Roland try to fix it himself or call the company which built
it?...-

86. -… and calls the company, the machine starts running and everybody is so happy, he gets promoted!...-

87. -… yep, so happy – that’s why he gives birth right at home…-
‘AUUUGH! I HATE YOUUUUUUUUU….!’

88. -… and here are 27th Great-Grandson-2…-

89. -…. And 27th Great-Grandson-3…. Awwww…-

90. -… okay, just realized, you can go right back to work for another promotion, so bye…-
‘You’re leaving them unattended at the road?’
‘Should I call the nanny instead so she can worship the Potty god some more?’
‘… point…’

91. ‘… *sigh*, guess I’ll take them up then…’

92. -…. much later…-
‘*hfff*… how many stairs were those? We live on the third floor, not the threehundreth…’
- That’s what you get for always teleporting up and down…. Now get the other infant… -
‘Oh no…’

93. -… meanwhile, Roland returns, actually promoted to the top, earning us another potential business district…. And now for
leveling the last business…-
Potential
Business
Districts:
63 + 1BD

94. -… lets go on vacation…-

95. -… of course, the kids will be cared for…-

96. -… though not by her obviously…-
‘Potty, potty, potty, pooootty…’
-… Ew …-

97. -… and so the vacation starts and… wait – who is that guy? –
‘Dunno – you invited him!’
-… might have made a wrong click, never mind…-

98. -… okay, lets find a treasure map first, since Tom and Harriet took all the available treasure maps with them…-

99. -… and after finding it, we find the hidden burrow – which is so hidden that you can find treasure maps of it everywhere -
catching some fish, accidentally invited man does Tai-Chi….-

100. -… and Dominik Bigfoot moves in… that was fast…-
‘So – where’s your stack of Bigfoot money?’
‘I beg your pardon?’
‘Well, Bigfeet usually bring all those billions of Simoleons with them, being the Bigfoot mafia or whatever…’
‘… you sure that your totally believable alien birth thing didn’t do something to your brain?...’
‘NO – you cryptozoological camera fake skeptic! Are you coming now or not? We need to level a business! Otherwise the
Author will never stop with this ridiculous subplot!’
‘Okay, okay… sheesh, at least I can leave the wilderness and finally get some civilization to enjoy….’

101. -… and with that accomplished, we just stay a bit longer, enjoy the local cuisine, while other visitors enjoy a completely
different cuisine…-

102. -… also learn a new massage technique – haven’t done that in a while…-

103. -… and accidentally invited man sits in the hot spring… yeah… seriously, you could at least try to do some funny crap, if you
get invited without reason…!....-

104. -… oh well, lets go home…-

105. -… and here we are…-
‘… so that’s civilization? Mmh… I’m not convinced, that just feels like several strange apartments lots smashed together…’
- …Work in progress, Mr. Skeptic… now lets transfer that business over to you and get going….-
‘Whatever… can’t be worse than here….’
-… is everybody a critic…? -

106. ‘…Okay, seriously – are you insane? First, you drag me into the wild again, than you claim this to be a museum for –
Christmas?? – and then it turns out that this is full of non-recyclable deco junk, trees included? Ever thought about the
environment??!’
-… you are getting on everyone's’ nerves, Dominik…-
‘Oh, I like him – totally agree with you, I had plans for turning our downtown in a more environmental-friendly place, but
nooo, we just need moar skyscrapers, blablabla…!’
- … -

107. ‘… and you’re right, planes really are a danger to the environment, not to forget the chemtrails….’
- OKAY, Stop! Environment okay, conspiracy no! We had enough of that in recent years, and while it has been fun for a while,
nowadays it is usually high-jacked by propagandists for political reasons, draining all the fun you could once make about it…-
‘What’s his problem?’
‘Ignore him, he’s just the hypocritical ‘I don’t care as long as I don’t like it’ people…’
- Why am I even writing this? –
‘You’re a masochist, plain and simple…’
-… shut up. -

108. -… okay, back to business – we still level the museum, another Prof from Uni who looks totally unprofessional with that
bandana shows up…-

109. -… and gets a professorial makeover… sorry, I’m just a sucker when it comes to that, I haven’t seen that many hippiesque
Profs in my lifetime, and beardy, bald and glasses just come to mind if… never mind…-

110. -… okay, level 10, lets go home, I’ve already embarrassed myself enough…-

111. -… first, we say our nanny good bye…. –
‘Uhm… can I stay? I promise I’ll be good, I just stay near the toilet and…’
‘No – no potty god fetishists allowed here, scram!’
-… thanks that for once we agree on things… -

112. -… and then, since it’s about time, lets grow the kids up…-

113. -…. Hmm, not bad, not bad at all…

114. -… okay, lets try giving them a decent amount of baby skills…-
‘Okay, where did you adopt these skin condition toddlers?’
- They. Are. Aliens. half! –
‘Yeah, right, fake news…’
- NO POLITICS! Also, winter is coming…-

115. -… and with that, time to put the kids to bed and close out this chapter….-

116. -… and with that look at Riverfront downtown, another chapter closes out… okay, so there is not much of a story going on
right now, I just can’t find the motivation to write this longer than only a few pics per week, so it is just a bunch of random
stuff tied together…-
‘PINK GORILLA Song!’
-… whu…?... Oh right, that… Yeah, I’m pretty sure that was a song meant to symbolize being on a trip… okay, I usually don’t
do that, but I encourage you to take drugs while reading this, than it will be an awesome trip! -
‘… yeah, like bubble blowers or snapdragons…’
-… right! Thank you and See you again for another chapter of Instant City – a BaMC Challenge! Happy Simming!
Population:
Playables = 335+6
Households = 91
Community Lots = 256+17
Business Districts = 8
University = 1
Downtown unlocked
SM = 1[Starter] + 1[1st. Bus.] + 40[8 BD]
+ 5[1 UN] + 5[DT] + 54 [273 Bus.] = 106
= 341 x 106 = 36146