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 N
Summer 2
Instant City
Household N,
Summer 2

2. -… Hello and Welcome back to Instant City – BaMC Challenge! … hmmm… look at that – Our pretty school District… could
watch it for hours…. *5 seconds later* okay, bored now, let’s start pumping muscles and get ready to rumble, it’s time for
the athletics household… hrrg, hrrg… *does showing off nonexistent muscle poses*…-

3. ‘…. Ehrm, we’re actually already promoted all to Hall of famers, we don’t do much of these sports anymore these days…
we’re more about selling marketing ads and doing charity events or opening new stadiums with our names on it…’
-… and that’s why I was never into sports at all… -

4. -… okay, so we do the usual routine, work, chance card: The Mayor has invited Servo N-1 to the opening of the new Sporting
are of an underdeveloped and underprivileged District of Sim City. He questions himself, if a less over-the-top area would
have sufficed, because the money saved on that one could have been given to much more useful things, like additional P.E.
Personal for schools. Then the ceremony starts, and Servo N-1 has to make the decision to either get up and make a speech
or just sit there and smile pretty….-
‘Well, as we said, not really into activeness anymore right now, so we just sit this one out and get our check…’
- Don’t. you dare! -

5. - Servo N-1 enters the stage. He was supposed to hold a speech written by the mayor about all the great athletes of
SimCity. Instead, Servo N-1 starts a flaming speech about the frisky and outrageous financial and social situation of
SimCity, and at the end even the mayors assistants applaud. Servo N-1’s Biography sells like mad, and he gets a bonus of
40.000… See, this wasn’t so hard…-

6. -… and again the hobby chance card: Office Party – should we do the decoration or let the colleague obsessed with it do the
work?...-

7. -… and we decide to team up and raise our arts and craft enthusiasm with it..-

8. -… or lower it, because our colleague is an obsessed control freak…-

9. -… and we open another sport facility…-

10. -… and another rousing speech and another 40.000… will the mayor of SimCity ever learn…? -

11. -… anyway, we reach the end of the workdays this season, so one bill later…-

12. -… and one Lot purchase…-

13. -… It’s time to go to Blank Mesa, our future Science/Space District… -

14. -… and the first player-owned Lot, original a residential lot, The Seeker made by laivine_erunyauve at TSR… a dedicated
installation made to solve the biggest riddle of the universe: are we alone…? -
‘Ehrm…We know that there are aliens in Sims 2, in fact, we have alien Hybrids in Instant City already... ‘
- Uhm… as I was saying, solving the biggest riddle in the universe: are we alone… even when we’re obviously not?! I
mean, we could still be alone, somehow… I feel very alone even on this planet sometimes…-
‘That is a really sad cop-out..’
- Oh, shut up… -

15. -…anyway, as for making money with the lot, it fortunately came with a full blown space souvenir shop, selling everything
from Space lamps and Space toyboxes to – of course - legit moon rocks… -

16. -… and the parking area makes a good car sale spot…-

17. -… so no wonder, we made it to crème de la crème in record time…-

18. -… and level 5 as well…-

19. - So without further ado, on to the next lot…-

20. -… Area 15… a great lot made by eddyg86 at mts.com and actually part of a collection of lots that together form an entire
airport complete with a Secret government lab… now while I really wanted to include the lots, unfortunately, I couldn’t
really find a good way to fit them into Blank Mesa… until I made a mirrored replica of them, with this being the first of the
series…-

21. -… the Secret Government lab, fortified with strong fences, a watch tower to spot intruders from far away, enclosed rooms…
what mysteries will we find here…? -

22. -… well… turns out, that my creativity was a bit low when it came to decorating the interior of the lot, so I just went a simple
yard sale… without the yard….-
‘That is a joke, isn’t it? Isn’t it?!... It isn’t, right? seriously, you suck…!.’
- Awww, come on…-

23. -… Look at least how I solved the problem of how to deal with all this space inside here… these H&M Curtains are a great
way of dividing and hiding the fact that rest of the lot is just for show… told ya, this thing hides mysteries…-
‘… let’s just sell the stuff and be done with it…’

24. ‘… so do you sell any UFOs? I’d like to fly one…’
‘… no?’
‘Oh… how about mysterious alien artifacts?’
‘… look, it’s called area 15, not 51, we don’t even sell weather balloons…’
‘…alien corpses?’
‘…. Please go away…’

25. -… yeah, despite certain confusions as what a secret government lab should or should not contain, we got another crème de
la crème prize…-
‘I have a question, Miss Reporter: Why are you – and all the other reporters - feeding into his addiction of gaining all these
prizes?’
‘The more I give, the more appearances I’m gonna make in the episodes, aren’t I ?’
‘touchè…’

26. -… and so we reached another level 5…-

27. -… moving on to the next part of the Area 15 installation, the Area Hangar, supposed to contain… aircrafts? Space Shuttles –
actually the reason I wanted an airport for Blank mesa and its Space Shuttle installation - ? Or… UFOS? –

28. ‘… you really have no shame, have you?’
- Nonono, look, you got it all wrong – the clothing and barber shop is just a disguise… a disguise to hide the secrets
behind the curtains…-
‘this is so ridiculous… why am I even arguing with you, Mr. No-more-creativity-then-a-rock…’
- Is it a moonrock? –
*sigh*

29. -… of course, level 5 was reached easily as well, so it was time to move to something more difficult…-

30. -…the area runway, complete with a Helipad... –
‘So… where are the curtains?’
- There aren’t any… -
‘Come on, what’s the catch? What do you we sell this time? Another yard sale, but this time – surprise, surprise – really
outside? ‘
- Oh no, the business will happen inside…-
‘There isn’t any insid… oh, no…’

31. ‘… this is… okay, it is okay, but still silly… putting a club right under the helipad…’
- Come on, it’ll be fun, you’ll see…-

32. -… and fun it was indeed… clubs are hard, when it comes to raising stars, it takes a long time [ note: my definition of a club
says: only things allowed in a club to make money are juice and expresso bars, music instruments and DJ booths, no sellable
goods, restaurants, snack machines or venues allowed ] – but it is fun, because you can take a break from micromanaging… -

33. -… and it allows you to watch townies just do stuff and give you stars without doing anything specific… and without you
being able to make them give you stars, which makes it much more interesting to see, whether or not they will do…-

34. -… of course, we still made it to level 5… and yes, the snapdragons are there, because despite what I said, keeping up
motives while bartending and playing DJ is tricky, sooo…-
‘You’re procrastinating, that’s what you do!’
- Snapdragons aren’t cheating… -
‘You’re abusing them.’
- … just… drop it… will ya? -

35. -… for now, let’s take a short look at what Blank Mesa is now: We have a Rocket, a Space Shuttle, a runway that will allow
the shuttle to land later, a big Observational dish and a Space Station… we’re off to a good start…-

36. -… and for the next round of leveling, I gave the Seeker a little makeover… red bricks are nice, but somehow they look off in
the desert environment…-
‘… you seriously have no idea, whether or not brickstone is common in desert communities… ‘
- Must we have this argument? There is a Space Shuttle next door, and we’re debating brickstones in the desert? Go sell a
car or a moon rock or whatever…-

37. -… and so they sold, got prizes…-

38. -… oh, and interestingly, the witches were really interested in buying moon rocks – the one in the background? Vonnie
bought half a dozen of them - …-

39. -… well, they do need moon dust for their spells, so it is understandable…-

40. -… of course, they weren’t the only customers, we tri… persuaded everyone into buying moon souvenirs, reaching level 10
in a jiffy…-

41. -… so we’re back to the secret government lab yard sale, which is inside…-

42. -… oh, and the illustrious professor Disc greeted the lot with a visit as well…-
‘… do you have alien corpses?’
‘ *sigh*… how about an… alien plant? Look how…. alien it looks, no leaves, only these… long protruding fangs that suck your
blood if you get so close to it…’
‘Mmmh… no… see, I need something more… animal-like… to learn something about the genetics of an alien, so I can do a
parenthood test later…’
‘….okay…’

43. ‘…. Alien ant farm?’
‘Perfect! I take 3!’
‘Okay, that would be…’
‘ Can I pay later? The game stills considers me dirtpoor, but I…’
‘Out.’
‘…but – I’m your creator!’
‘ OUT!! We’re level 10, we don’t need anymore customers here anyway…!’

44. - Back to the Area Hangar…-
‘… jeez, is this subplot involving Professor Disc focusing on finding aliens to make them pay child support still going on? I
mean, horray for some diversion from: buy business, raise it, get prizes, get money, rinse and repeat, but this is just sad…’
‘Oookay… well, servofriend, how about this: I find Servo S-4 rather hot…’
‘And? Sorry, but in case you try to get a jealousy story started, not gonna happen – we have 3 bolts with all our
counterparts, so I might as well get another companion too…’
‘… you’re right, stupid idea… wanna make out?’
‘… okay, cool.’

45. -… and after making out in the clothing booth… of which I respectfully didn’t take any pictures…-
‘You forgot, didn’t you…?’
- Should I have taken them?? –
‘…’
-… we also earned a Million Simoleons for this household… just wanted to point that out…-
‘… next time, please take pictures instead of telling us this…’

46. -… okay, so we then got the Hangar to level 10 too..--

47. -… let’s go to the runway club… oh yeah, snapdragon paaaaarrrrtaaaay! -

48. -… even the Not-Komei was impressed and gave us a good rating… unfortunately, no prize…-

49. -… but hey, everyone enjoyed themselves, even Son-1 made an appearance…-

50. -… dancing the night away… -

51. -… and away…okay, it might be unrelated, but when I took this picture, I remembered this old viral video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09m0B8RRiEE
… yeah, you’d kinda fit the roles, guys…-
‘… I have a question: doesn’t Son-1 have kids? Okay, there are Nanny’s, but considering their child care abilities…’
-… dang, you’re right! Okay, party over, Son-1, go home! -

52. -… of course, the rest of the party continued, so we reached level 10 eventually here too…-

53. -… and so, after a few dates…-

54. -… and earning a second million…-

55. -… it was time to home, time to move out…-

56. -… time to pay the bills one more times…-

57. -… and time to move in… now, since the top athletic career is only 3 days a week, no more work and/or chance cards…-

58. -… so this episode is almost over, but we have one more lot to go… and after much thinking about what I could add…-
Households = 62+3
= 1 unowned
Community Lot
unlocked

59. -… I settled with another idea – another residential-converted-community lot; In fact I’d forgotten, that there was one lot
missing at L’ècole d’Eiffel, also made by NEBERQUE223, the 112 Rue Madora… which I decided to turn into a museum! -

60. -… Okay, to explain the idea of this museum – anybody knows the Goethe-House in Frankfurt [
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe_House ] or the Jaquesmart-Andre-Museum in Paris [
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_Jacquemart-Andr%C3%A9 ] ? Both of these are basically residential homes
you can visit to get a glimpse of what was it like to actually live here… (Note: these are examples from my last vacation –
there are probably countless better, but if you’re ever in the area and have a spare day – visit them!) -

61. -… so here we are: Welcome to the life and times of the founders of the L’école d’Eiffel, Monsieur and Madame D’Eiffel…-
‘WO,wo, wo – wait! Founders? What are you talking about? Nobody founded this school hood, we just placed Business after
Business…!’
- First: It’s institutions, not businesses… also history says, this is the home of the founders of the school, and historians
are always right…-
‘This is so…!’
-… please also acknowledge the rather spare decoration of their home, as they invested all their money to build this
school…-

62. -… in fact, this building is actually a replica of the original house, as they had to sell it to invest into the school… the
Landgrabb Society donating this museum was however able to recover most of the lost furniture…. This is why there is a
Statue of Mr. Landgrabb Senior Senior in honor of the generous donation standing in the bedroom…-

63. -… and a statue of Landgrabb Senior Seniors favorite cat in the garden… there is actually a funny story relating to this: Mr.
Landgrabb had an illicit affair with Madame Eiffel, and almost got caught by Monsieur Eiffel, but thankfully was saved by his
cat meowing outside…-
‘STOP ! STOOOOOOOOOOP !!! THIS IS INSANE! NOTHING OF THAT HAPPENED! YOU’RE PADDING OUT YOUR STUPID IDEA
AND YOU KNOW THAT!’
-… sorry, but you have to admit, it would have been cool if it actually happened…-

64. -… anyway, now L’école D’Eiffel is really finished… another population boost coming right in….-
Population:
Playables = 179
Households = 65
Community Lots = 138+5
Business Districts = 7
SM = 1[Starter] + 1[1st Bus.] + 35[7 BD] +
28[143 Bus.] = 65
= 179 x 65 = 11635

65. -… and Blank Mesa is looking good too…-
‘… the madness won’t stop here, right?’
-… is that a trick question? –
*sigh*
- Oh, mope all you want, but I feel happy about how things are developing… once you get past the ‘fill the district
somehow’ stage, you feel accomplished about placing all these buildings… I think now, that at the end of the summer,
Instant City will look georgeous… so see you next chapter –
- Happy Simming! -