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 M
Spring 1
Instant City
Household M,
Spring 1

2. - Hello and Welcome back to another chapter of Instant City – a BaMC Challenge – and Numa Key is slowly getting
crowded, as we see… now, in the last chapters we saw several businesses that I count as ‘fake’ clubs, because they don’t
live up to my self-imposed restrictions of what a club is , meaning that it only is a club, if the only means to earn money
are a) bars, b) DJ booths and/or c) music instruments…-
‘That’s a bit narrow, what about a ticket machine or a food stand?’
- I thought about that, but the main reason why I settle for this is that none of the above mentioned objects can help you
build sales badges and the only way to get a customer star from a Sim is if he/she is happy enough to give it freely…also
crème de la crème prices are almost impossible…. so it’s a much harder business than other types of businesses...-

3. -…and now to the household – and again, we clean out the inventory from all the things we don’t need…-

4. -… before we start learning all the things we might need…-

5. -…and maxing the skills is all we need…-

6. -… to max all the skills as our dire need… yeah, we’re needy…-

7. - Okay, skill maxing done, rent is taken care of…-

8. -… just a quick call…-

9. -… and here’s our newest business on Numa Key and – after the unowned club V by ambers-Journey at Instant City and the
Bonfire club over at household G – the third Club that fulfills the requirements by only having bars and a DJ booth. I call it -
Club ‘Gearhead’!-
‘UUuuuUuuuh… LookatallthemetallicstuffIthinkIaminmetallicbeingsparadise *excited*!’
- Now that’s something I’d never thought I’m gonna hear… appreciation?? Wow, will the wonders never end…-

10. -… but first things first, we’ll need some dreamdating and socializing to raise our network credit…-

11. -… and because of all this time being platin from dates, we can also helps add the investment perks to the mix…-

12. -… and just some more, I mean all, additional skills…-

13. -… a bit investment boni…-

14. -…. Then invite Servo N-3 over for handing over our 2 bookcases - we got one from the C household directly originally…-

15. -… and – HEAVY METALL! –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0shUPaoX9T8&list=PL8D471E3B127956B3&spfreload=10

16. -… and the Gearhead really turned out to be a great Club, mostly frequented by Servos, though even Plantsims felt at home
here…-

17. -… though I… took the liberty to spice the place with a little bit of green… okay, mostly, because that way it’s easier to keep
Servos behind the counter before running amok from not having any fun…-

18. -…. Still everything worked fine, Karen even decided to give us a good review, though no price…-

19. -… and our main income these days was again winning dance contests…-

20. -… though over time we received some hard competition – apparently, townies DO learn dancing if in enough dance
contests…-

21. -… aw, who cares, the club was the hoot, we got another good review…-

22. -… some more investment boni…-

23. -… and then level 10 again… aw, already? Because this was definitely a fun club, but hey, show must go on, so lets move
to…-

24. -… to Numa Park and his new Clover Bistro! –
‘Clo…what?’

25. - Oh, it’s just an outdoor restaurant with and a coffee bar, but I placed this green awning over the cooking stove and
podium and suddenly realized it looked like a four-leaved clover…-

26. -… so let’s get started, eh, laddy? –
‘… if you’re starting with using Irish stereotypes, wouldn’t an Irish pub be a bit more …? –
‘Shut up, or I’ll kick you in your pot of gold! –

27. -… okay, okay, no more Irish stereotypes, let’s get this business started…

28. -… and everything worked fine, we earned Bronze badges…-

29. -… until the Alien Space Bunny Invaders came back to nibble on our giant clover! AAAAH…-

30. -… phew, so we successfully defended our clover against the Alien Space Bunny Invaders, and after that, the evil Link was
actually given a free seat at the restaurant, because it’s bad for business if he gets the chance to rain roaches into our Irish
Stew… wait, wouldn’t that improve the quality of Irish…?.. DANG! I’m stereotyping again…!-

31. -… and Not-Komei also made a visit, giving us a price, enjoying the scenery and then turned into a leprechaun, which means
he didn’t change at all…-

32. -… okay all jokes aside, I was quite surprised, how well the restaurant ran, especially the fact, that the trees never got hit by
lightning…. One thing however I noticed was that if a townie sits down at a table, no other Sim would join him eating or
share a seat with him at the place. In other words: 1 table, 1 townie, so if you make a restaurant, only put up single seat and
table installations, because the rest is wasted space…-

33. -… oh well, money was made, we got the lower rent perk, so no need to complain…-

34. -… and silver sales badges and investment boni poured in too…-

35. -… not to forget tips… yeah, you also look like a leprechaun…-
‘Do you actually know what a leprechaun is supposed to look like?’
- Do you know, how presumptuous it is to assign a specific looks to an individual being? Also, he totally looks like a
leprechaun…!-
‘….’

36. -… and the strays also made a return, being in dire need of getting educated to NOT destroy the furniture…-

37. -… or to behave just in general, not growl or hiss at guests…-

38. -… though there exceptions… Hello Professor…-

39. ‘:.. *Njom*Njom*… mh, that’s some good Irish Stew...’
- Professor, that isn’t …-
‘Oh please, like you know what Irish stew actually is…’
-….-

40. -… meanwhile: water leak! Sorry, but ran out of ideas here….-

41. -… also, Link really enjoyed the restaurant and came here almost every day… wanna hear my suggestion, it’s because he’s..-
‘ If you say ‘green’, I’ll feed you clovers till you burst!’
-…-

42. -… Okay, level 10, one more business to go…-

43. -… but first we’ll all need to get Gold sales badges, because that’s the minimum requirement for every household by now,
and this is actually the only business where we can earn them, because the next one will be a club again…-

44. -… so until we all got Gold Sales Badges, we also go a cheaper furniture perk (also good for furniture businesses…)-

45. -… also tried some digging because a stupid stray had digged a hole into the ground – and apparently, the nice stray had a
good nose and we got an antique vase out of it, which we could sell for buying our most expensive club now…-

46. -… and it’s Club ‘Greco Romanum’, which also is our 75th Community Lot, raising the population to 3500+ and unlocking one
more education…-

47. -…. Annd here’s the club – well, what do you say? –
‘… that’s … some sort of … Pseudo Italian/Greek tavern … or so…’
- No, it IS a club, it has only bars and music instruments, nothing to build sales badges – it IS a club…-
‘ your definition of a club is both ridiculous and silly…also, just for the record, what’s up with this second floor up the stairs?
Do you actually expect someone to go there?’
-… it looked good…-
‘Whatever…. Lets level this thing up and then forget that it ever existed…-

48. -… agreed, now put up the flutes and…-
‘Flutes? Since when is a flute part of the maxis music instruments?’
- Oh the flute is actually a gorgeous new object made by Rebeccah over at Affinity Sims.com …-

49. -… which comes with its own animations….-

50. -… and you earn 20 Simoleons every time you play. I considered that a fair balance, as compared to the maxis instruments,
where you can earn several hundred simoleons by chance every time you’re tipped, it is not such a great way of income…
okay, truth to be told, I relied more on the maxis instruments in the end, and just used the flutes when nothing else
happened…-

51. -… instead I used the power of Ra… of Greco-Romanic Songs to make money…-
‘… I’m not saying anything anymore to the ‘Greco-Romanic’ thing, because the Irish thing was already bad enough, and it’s
you making a fool out of himself…’
- HEY! -

52. -…*grmbl* stupid Sims… okay, so I gave in again and added some snapdragons just to make the musical entertainment a
lasting one…-

53. -… also added an indoor fountain, because it looked nice…-

54. -… and as for the second floor… I actually had this nectar station – because we can’t even have wine as an alcoholic
beverage in a Sims game – placed here, in the hopes, that you can somehow make money with it…-

55. -… okay, so making nectar works…-

56. -… but – aside the fact, that the nectar maker has to be stopped from taking the first drink , the nectar can’t be sold… oh
pooeh… and while with the help of moveobjects I can place the nectar tray elsewhere and Sims can still take a drink from it,
nobody does so autonomously… yeah Maxis, that was a really useless addition… anyone that can still make mods for Sims 2
here, who knows a way how to make nectar trays available for sale?...-

57. -… oh well, back to the bars… also supported by Snapdragons…-

58. -… and the customers seem to be so happy about the Outdoor decoration, that they give us lower rent network perks right
outside… -

59. -… and after some more redecoing inside, I finally got the bar working in a way that doesn’t make customers stomp their
food in dismay, because they always want to look at the wine racks or whatever but can’t because the back space is
bartender land…stupid customers…-

60. -… anyway, we got the club up to level 5, Serva M-1 earns all her money perks…-

61. -… and after a short business transfer, and a final redecoing – sorry, that I drag that out, but it really was a hassle to get bar
working right here without customers throwing a fit…-

62. -… we made our way through the last five levels of the club..-

63. -… though I noticed, that after some time, especially our Servos were more interested into doing Tai-Chi outside than
actually visiting the club…. I had to set up snapdragons outside too, because once they ran out of energy, it lowered their
mood far enough to make us loose stars, so a compensation was need for their fun and Social…-

64. -… still, nothing could stop us, and if our customers don’t wanna enter the club, we come outside to them and bring the
power of greco-romanic songs to them… also, ‘nother investment boni…-

65. -… and while the bars weren’t that frequented… now and then we were lucky, and I even got a shot of a customer one
time… yay me…-

66. -… still, it was the music that propelled us to level 10... So it was once more time to leave…-

67. -… though before leaving, I did one more redecoing, as the shelves the snapdragons sat on, worked so well with the wine
racks, that I left them here but changed from snapdragons to a more clubes-que… *cough*ortavernesqe*cough*
decoration…-

68. -… now, because I was in the mood, we didn’t immediately go home, but stopped for a little fishing…-

69. -… got Gold Fishing badges to our Gold Toy Bages and Gold Sales badges…-

70. -… and at home, the usual ‘deliver tons of roses’ routine played through…-

71. -… and with the last bills coming in and getting paid…-

72. -… this household passed into as well…-

73. -… and that’s it once again for Household M for this season… thank you guys for finally adding a few real clubs to the
neighborhood – only four more to go – and for keeping the complaints to a minimum this time…-
‘Not our fault, if you run out of ideas…’
- … Forget what I just said… in any case, next time, we will first do a lot of pumping and delivering exceptional athletic
display, before going back to clubs and also hybrids…-
‘Hybrids?’
- … you’ll see, you’ll see…. Happy Simming!-