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

2. - Hello and Welcome back to another episode of Instant City – a BaMC Challenge! Last time, we made the Instant City
Space station really fly – also, stuff happened. Enough of that… -
‘You’re not even giving the mess a moment of lip service…!’
- Not true, I said ‘stuff happened’… okay, Professor Disc is a vampire now – happy? –
‘That’s not what I meant…!’
- Annd we’re off…!-

3. -… starting by welcoming 25th Great-Grandson-3 aka Daniel and 25th Great-Granddaughter-1 aka Lashana to the not-at-all-
secret-spies Servo and Serva H-2… -
‘Um… hi, you two… here, your… not-spy-friend…?... gave me the deed for this not-at-all-secret-hideout lot called City man
tailors… wanna have it?’
‘We don’t know, what you’re talking about…’
‘But he…’
*gun noise*
‘…Ooookay, guess I’ll keep it to myself then, like the 20+ other ones…’

4. -… and then we spawn babies…-
‘WooOooOoo… make no mistake, we are just as angry as anyone else about this stupefying rinse-and-repeat-treatment, this
is just the standard animation of… oOooOoooh…!’

5. -… first we have Lashana’s 26th Great-Grandson-1…-

6. -… then Daniel follows with a twin spawning…-

7. -… first 26th Great-Granddaughter-1…-

8. -… then her brother 26th Great-Grandson-2…-

9. -… and finally, Lashana adds 26th Great-Grandson-3 to the mix…-

10. -… and while the new family then spends some quality time with bricks and lullabies…-

11. -… our servos embark on mission ‘friendship’…-
‘…Seriously? This again?’
- Well, excuse me for realizing, that you intelligence people… -
*gun noise*
-… *cough*… you ‘intelligent’ people have so few friends, so we need to do some socializing – oh, and NO gun noises this
time, we don’t force people into relationships, that’s an order!!!... -

12. ‘... Okay, but WE choose, where we go…!’
-… … the oil rig platform at Coral Island? Oh, you…! –
‘ Hehe… yeah, we know how much it bugs you – you always wanted to something big with this thing, but never figured out
how to do it…’
-… shut up, and socialize…-

13. -… and so they did, taking turns with meditation to preserve energy…-

14. -… having a date in between…-

15. -… and finally managed to get 10 more friends together… mission accomplished, I dare say…-
‘… okay, putting the knife in the ‘oil rig stain’ was worth it…’
- … -

16. -… oh well, another day, another Llama Chance card, another 2000 Simoleons for donating them…-

17. -… and another promotion…-

18. -… and another creepy invite to the non existent hobby lot for the brick playing toddlers…-

19. -… and another promotion…-

20. -… and then once again comes a day, where everyone needs to go to work, because all the vacation days are used up…-

21. -… so a nanny is needed… well, tolerated…-
‘ *whine* there are no toilets anywhere once again, right? ‘
-… mhmmm…-
‘What have we nannies done to deserve this? What have I done?!’
-… toilets are expensive and toddlers love to play in puddles? –
*cries*
-…-

22. -… anyway, chance card – stay with microscotch, earn 5000…-

23. -… and get a handyman to fix the company microwave and invite him home…-

24. -… and finally telling everyone – again - that secret agents torturing prisoners is bad, earns another 30.000…-

25. *Sniff*
-… took care of your… business? –
‘… I hate you so much…!’
-… Okay, okay, joke aside, now where did you make the puddle….? -

26. -… wait…. What the heck???.... How did you….?... And what the… are YOU ALL doing there, how…???!!!... Okay, so here we
witness a problem with this lot – it has a big open space in the middle, which is technically inaccessible, buuut – the single
staircase leading to the upper apartments is so often prone to having Sims blocking each other, that the game decides to
teleport them through the walls to the next tile on this floor…. Also, apparently it teleports nanny puddles…-
*Cries*
-… oh, shut up… -

27. -… luckily nanny isn’t needed anymore, as it’s time to grow up…-

28. -… and its personality time again: 26th Great-Grandson-1 is looking into the Science of muscular swimmers that are so into
swimming they wear their swim trunks instead of normal underwear underneath all the time… ew….-

29. -… 26th Great-Grandson-2 on the other hand doesn’t look into the science but business plans for muscular people who tint
their hair while not wearing any swim trunks… okay, that doesn’t really make sense…-

30. -… lets see, what our sole girl of the litter is up to… so 26th Great-Granddaughter like to party around with chess masters in
their underwear, as long as they don’t dress like clowns…. What kind of underwear do clowns actually wear…?....-

31. -… and finally, 26th Great-Grandson-3 wants to romance rich, artistic people who don’t wear hats…meh, I got nothing…-

32. -… so lets go to the moon to learn about business…-

33. -…Before learning special skills at the local book shop…-
‘You know, if somebody would read all this out of context, without any pictures or hints that this is about the Sims, he or
she would probably think that this is the work of a mad man… annd the sheer fact that you include this thought into your
writing proves that this assumption is correct….’
- … lets move on, shall we?...-

34. -… anyway, while the kids are busy learning to understand what babies say, the great and powerful Link graces the premise
with his presence… and apparently, he and our Science Sim Lashana actually hit it off quite well…-

35. -… quite understandable with her scientific desire to become a witch with magical powers… -

36. -… though the fact, that instead of a little mean, she immediately starts as atrociously evil, is a bit disturbing…-

37. -… and what does her cousin do?....-
‘Okay, you know the drill – 3 boys, one girl… here….’
‘*Sigh*, thanks, Dad… wait, you are my dad, right?’
- … *flipping slides* Of course he is your Dad, its only been… *flipping slides* … 30 slides since you were introduced, how
could you forget…?...okay, so I sometimes lose track, sue me….-

38. -… anyway, with that sorted out, we’re once again off to Bluewinter Range…-

39. -… and this time, we are going all out – by selling weapons! –
‘Okay, I don’t think that’s a good idea – weapons in a Sims game… we’re supposed to be family friendly and inclusive…’
’10.000 Simoleons per bone phone?’
‘… touché…’

40. -… and as in RL, selling weapons was rolling in quite the moola… -

41. -… and everybody was quite on board buying weapons…-

42. -… thankfully, all the bigger ones are just decoration…-

43. -… so we reached level 5 in no time…-

44. -… time to go for another business, this time it is the former(?) gas station motel, now gas and car repair station(?)..-

45. -… complete with its own dining area for the weary traveler…-

46. -… serving actual Italian pizza with a pizza oven made by Kathy and updated by Rebeccah…-

47. -… and for the people with little time, a small grocery store will take care of their needs…-
‘Ehrrr… didn’t you already show that several households ago? Like, when this thing was placed after messing up the original
hotel design by you?....’
-… do you think, anybody actually remembers after all this time?...-
‘… touché…’

48. -… anyway, so we start selling… wait…. this is the restaurant – why are you standing here, if you bought stuff in the market
next door??!... Seriously, I don’t get it, even with the cash register at the market manned and ready, people just queued up
here… Sims direction routines are weird…-

49. -… and nobody’s even interested in a yummy Italian pizza…-

50. -… oh well, at least we reached level 5 quite fast…-
‘ Of course, you’re dragging out the whole: here is the restaurant, here is the market, and if it comes to Sims standing at the
wrong register you go on and on… and then you compress all our hard work into 3-4 slides… jerk….!’
-… start getting interesting, then we’ll do something about this…-

51. -… so, back at the gun shop we are, selling weapons to people unfit to even choose the right cash register…-

52. -… and from the looks of it, we are selling quite well… even getting a silver restocking badge out of it…-

53. -… and a silver cash register badge… -

54. -… and then… Bigfoot? Seriously? Why would you even need…?.... in fact, you’re more likely to get shot by one of the
customers, being so… animalistic and stuff… -
‘... Which is exactly, why I need one, now that this store exists… heck, I don’t even like people shooting photos of me, I don’t
wanna end up as a fireplace trophy….!’
-… fair point…. So much for the arms race…. -

55. -… anyway, another silver restocking badge…-

56. -… and finally, level 10…-
‘ You know, for somebody disliking weapons, you actually spent an awful lot of time showing this store, compared to
everything else…’
-… … … okay, admittedly, I’m just as much a sucker for guns & action as anybody else – provided, that it stays where it
should be - in fiction! There is a difference between movies, games and everything staged and real gun violence! –
‘… what about hunters and self-defense?...’
-… I never said, it’s an easy topic... Though butchering natural predators and destroy entire ecosystems plus giving into
being jerks all the time still makes the ‘guns are necessary’-argument a petty one… -

57. -… Oh well, back to the gas station…-
‘ Is that an actual Italian pizza? Yummy, I want one…!’
‘… this thing was actually made on Monday, now it’s Wednesday… come to think of it, how do Servos actually eat, having no
mouth whatsoever… ? ‘
‘ Instant disintegration of organic material at impact with lower jaw area… wanna give me a kiss, sugar??’
‘… that is so stupid, even for you, writer…’
-… just sell her the pizza, for crying out loud…-

58. -… and then take care of the bigfoot wizard, please, he’s the first guest ever for this restaurant, we need to make a good
impression…-

59. ‘…*Chomp* *gobble* *burp* *burpmore*…’
‘… great, that you… like it… first customer… now please go away…’
-… yeah… so much for good impression… -

60. -… oh well, he did leave a generous tip after all…-

61. -… and once again, the great and powerful Link graces the premise – and is immediately caught red-handed in the shop…-
‘Ouch… wait, the great and powerful Link didn’t….!’
‘You do realize, the ‘My little pony’ craze has subsided in the last years, so your Trixie impersonation isn’t really funny
anymore….’
‘… the great and powerful Link doesn’t understand….’
‘Yeah, yeah, got it… listen, make me a wizard like my mom, then I forget the shoplifting thing….’
‘But I was only literally playing red hands, not…!....Wait, did you say wizard??...’

62. ‘… ahahahah – the great and powerful Link has done it again, another member for the evil coven!!’
‘… you’re not really coherent with the evil thing, do you realize that? Also, unlike my mom I have the urge to be a good guy…
well, not so much of an urge, but… you know, kids and parents, the principle of disagreeing over everything…. You get the
idea…’
-… I know, man, I know….-

63. -… and so, 26th Great-Grandson-1 studied away good magic…-

64. -… meanwhile, we reached level 10…-

65. -… just in time as our bookworm turns grey… literally… -

66. -… so, time for a quick walk to aunt Caitlyn’s juice shop…-

67. -… and then we’re off to the moon… -

68. -…. Doing pottery once more….-

69. -… while Lashana learns more about evil magic…-
‘Why don’t I get a bit more of an interesting story arc out of that, when delving into the secret forbidden arts of…?’
- You became a witch, because you threw a want, Link was on the premise, and you had a high enough relationship to
fulfill said want… aside from the fact, that you immediately became atrociously evil, which is either a glitch or result of
certain game mechanics I don’t know about…. Okay, I wrote 3-4 lines about that now, good enough? –
‘No?!’
- Too bad, that’s all you get…! -

70. -… while your kids and nephews/nieces get juice – and nick names… -
‘So what is the ridiculous naming theme for us?’
- Why do you think, I need a theme? I just randomly pick up names, like…. like….26th Greatgranddaughter-1 is Coline,
26th Greatgrandson-1 is Roland,
26th Greatgrandson-2 is Michel,
And 26th Great-Grandson-3 is André… -
‘You did pick a theme! Again! And it doesn’t even have to do anything with…!... Why do we even bother? Lets move on…’

71. -… and so Roland read some moar white magic, Servo and Serva H-2 had a date…-

72. -… and eventually… -
‘Here ya go, ‘Ro’…’
‘Ugh, that’s an awful shortening of a nick name, Mom… you really are evil….’
‘And you are going to move, because you are a wizard too… word of advice, tell your kids to not pick a want the author
wants to fulfill and get something out of it…’
‘ Whatever…, so, when are my Cousin Coline and me going?’
‘Soon…’

73. ‘… right now, she’s busy doing a secret mission or so…’
‘Again with the intelligence stuff? Don’t these Servos know, that we know, that they…?’
‘ Ehem… *mimicked gun noise*’
‘… as I was saying: gosh, what could she be up to?...’
‘Buying a Community business, that’s not a secret…’

74. -… and here it is, right next to the ex-king-now-City man tailors, who have nothing to do with any kind of secret organization
or anything…. so after bulldozing a few deco ruins I had originally carefully arranged… *snif*…-

75. -… the Jambalaya Musee d’arte by Zarathustra was placed… though once again, I had to change and move the lot a bit
around, move the street to the back of the lot via SimPE and then the lot into a corner away from the street to make it fit…
and now I think, that it looks really good in combination… -
‘ Stroking your ego again… ‘
- HEY! –
‘… that was the name of Coline’s mission….’
- … I avoid waiting for the gun noise and just tell you to go home….-

76. -… where the rest of the family starts to meditate away till winter…-

77. -… well, meditate away, after everybody gets a job in business….-

78. -… while Roland and Coline move out and to the next household…-

79. -… and with that it’s another wrap up – thank you and goody bye and see you soon to another…-
‘HOLD IT!’
- What? –
‘Chapter’s not over, my evil ambitions are kicking in, muahaha…’
- Aw, come on, you always complain that I’m drawing this out, and now…-

80. ‘Silence! My son turned out to be not evil, my other son – actually, what does he do? Never mind…so I need to look for
some of my uncles to continue my evil line…’
-… oookay, that is a bit of a big stretch all of a sudden… but okay, mission ‘Hell spawn’ is underway… -

81. -… and grandma Ella is eager to help with finding the right ‘uncle’…-

82. -… alas, no uncle showed all night…-

83. -… in fact, even after we bought a phone and asked some uncles to show up for date, nobody was available, everyone was
told by the esoteric advisors to stay home…-

84. -… so, for no obvious reasons but changing scenery, we went to the Instant City pool side – the professor had just fled the
scenery, because it was still sunlight when we arrived…-

85. -… and decided that if no uncle was to come, we make someone appear…-

86. *POMF*
‘OWWW… Curse you, aliens usurpers…!!’

87. -.. Yep, it’s our longest pregnancy up to date, Son-1,oldest son of the Professor, who’s convinced his Dad is in cahoots with
the aliens against him…-

88. ‘… and atrociously evil, just like me! Perfect!’
‘Whu… ? Oh… one of my fathers’ respectively sisters’ degenerate offsprings…’
‘HEY!’
‘Oh? Did I hit a nerve? Good – then you can also tell these two, that I’m on to them, and my vengeance will be brutal,
muahahHAH…!’
‘Wooow – you ARE crazy AND evil! I like it! Now – what’s your opinion on children, uncle….?’

89. ‘Excuse me? Look at me! They already put two alien hell spawns in me, and now…!’
‘Awwwwwwwww… must. touch. pregnant. belly…..!!’
‘*Groan* why is every woman always doing that, that is so degrading….!’
‘Actually, it’s kind of shmexy….!’
‘Uuuugh, seriously??! You are beyond degenerate, you are, you are…!’

90. ‘… totally evil and hot…!’
‘Sooo… it’s a date?’

91. -…. Of course it was one…-

92. -… involving first kiss and everything…-

93. -.. And of course… wait, you can make babies away from home? With a non-family member? Okay, so last time this didn’t
work, probably a glitch…-

94. -… anyway…-
‘Wait… was that a lullaby? DID YOU PUT…?!!!’
‘Na – don’t worry uncle, that one’s on me…’
‘But I am…!... Did you even consider the fact, with these landmines inside me, that they could… *shudder* probe you?!!’
‘… If you put it that way…. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH….!!!!!’

95. ‘….EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHH-oh, need to go home, bye, thanks for the date…!’
‘WHAT?! I CAN’T HEAR YOU, I’M DEAF FROM YOUR HORRIBLE SCREAMS…!’
‘Oh, grow up, uncle… also, your alien paranoia? Kind of a turn off, evil or not… ‘

96. -… and with this bizarre date ending, we return home, reward us with some cheesecake…-

97. -… get promoted…-

98. -… get one more promotion and unlock more potential business districts…-
Potential Business
Districts: 61 + 2 BD

99. -… and then our non-spies earn some more money with their non-spy-work…-
‘Yeah, yeah, cut it already…. Admit it, you have no idea what to do with the whole intelligence/spy thing, instead you’re
stringing nonsensical stories together….’
-… Either that… or it’s a clever ploy to avert suspicion for the big secret intelligence mission that’s happening….! –
‘ No. It’s not, because you don’t have one….right?!’
-… maybe…? –
‘No!’
-…. You’re no fun anymore…-

100. -… aaanyway… there is one more thing… looking at this space between the different parts of the apartment, the Servos still
getting teleported to this area due to routing issues at the spiral stairs, the still lingering nanny pee… I finally gave up, took
out the building cheat for apartment building…-

101. -… and made the area accessible, complete with a fence at the borders, a few tables, chairs, a grill – in short, stuff nobody
here needs anyway…-

102. -… oh, and I also put a telescope here, so…-
‘alien babies, right?’
-… well, you can see a lot of stuff through that, like stars, and planets, and… -
‘Aliens babies! Admit it!’
-… if this were a residential lot, nobody would care about placing one… and an apartment doesn’t need to be set in stone….-

103. -… besides, I guess, we can’t have any more alien babies in this household…-

104. -… so instead, we just end up the episode here and now…-
‘HEY! WAIT! I’M STILL…!’
-… pregnant? Yeah, kind of a disappointment, the season just doesn’t have the time anymore for babies to be born…
probably due to fall having shorter days…-
‘But now I have to carry….!’
-… the kids for years? Yeah, so what…?... –
‘… curses… now I get uncle being cranky all the time…’

105. -… annnnd this time, it’s really a wrap, another episode finally ending…. Now, I’m actually already two chapters behind, and
still don’t really have an idea, how to make a compelling spy story out of these… or do I??? Yeah, look at all the hidden clues
through all the chapters, you might find…! –
‘There aren’t any clues, and you know it.’
-…very good, you’re throwing them of just splendidly, but do not fret, dear readers, because really…-
‘*mimicked gun noise*’
-… … there really isn’t a secret… *sigh*… anyway, thanks for reading, see you hopefully at another episode of Instant City – a
BamC Challenge…. Happy Simming! -
Population:
Playables = 331+4
Households = 91
Community Lots = 255+1
Business Districts = 8
University = 1
Downtown unlocked
SM = 1[Starter] + 1[1st. Bus.] + 40[8 BD]
+ 5[1 UN] + 5[DT] + 51 [256 Bus.] = 103
= 335 x 103 = 34505