Build A City Challenge - New Alternate Rules for All Expansions and NRAAS Mods

NatashaRasmussen

Feel free to leave tweaks and suggestions in the comments. I will take them into consideration.
These are the expansions that I have fixed the rules for:
The Sims 3, World Adventures, Dream Job, Generations, Showtime, Late Night, Pets, Supernatural, Seasons.

I have not put the rules in categories, so I do not know if you could actually play it functionally without some of the expansions. I have tried to make the careers only have requirements that comes with it's expansion.

I have a spreadsheet that I would be able to upload, for those who wants. Just leave a request below.

Sim Customization:

This is optional, but I feel it adds a bit of spice to the challenge.
Roll a 6 sided dice once;
If the number is even, the sim is normal, if the number is uneven, roll again to determine species.
Roll a 6 sided dice for determination of species;
1,2 is human, 3 is werewolf, 4 is fairy, 5 is witch, 6 is vampire



Roll a 6 sided dice once for lifetimewish determination:
1 is wish 1, 2 is wish 2, 3 is wish 3, 4 is wish 4, 5 is wish 5, 6 is a reroll.



Rules:

Create a new neighborhood and bulldoze all the lots. (You can leave one lot, which is a garden with seeds in, must set type to No Visitors Allowed. Your Founder may get seeds from there every Sunday)

Make eight sims that you will not play (4 males 4 females. Make four of them be in couples - 2 couples 4 singles, no homosexual couples, as these will populate the neighborhood too). These will be your NPCs. Move them into a big house. Your sim may only visit them once, greet them, and then leave. You may first visit them again when you've become best friends with one of them. You have to randomize their traits, and lifetime wish.

They count towards population.

You may not move in NPCs, and then move them out again.

Make your founder. Your founder has to move into an empty lot, and he/she cannot get a job unless you manage to unlock one. You should survive with Fishing or Farming. Your founders purpose is to reproduce.

You play each family one week at a time. You can leave Story Progression on. NRAAS Story Progression mod allows you to choose what can happen in the city with Story Progression, so you game does not get "bugged".

Score and Population Calculation:

Sim Multiplier (SM)
Your sim multiplier starts at 1.

+1 for your first community lot
+1 when you reach a total of 5 community lots
+1 for every 5 additional community lots
+1 when the first Sim invests in a business (see the Investing section)
+3 when 4 businesses have Investors
+5 when all 11 businesses have Investors
+2 when the first Sim owns 1 business outright
+6 when Sims own 4 businesses
+10 when all 11 businesses have owners
+5 for each Airport

Actual Population
# of Playable/NPC sims X Sim Multiplier (SM) = Population
In words: The sims you play combined with the NPC household times the sim multiplier equals the population of the city.

Goal:
Reach 50000 population.

Careers:

A career is never fully unlocked, you just keep unlocking spots for your sims. This is to keep the challenge more "strategic" for longer.

If the career says it requires a certain skill and skill level, only a sim who actually has the skill may join that career.

Job - Position Unlock Requirement
Architectural Design - City hall, every 8 households, architect must have max painting skill
Athletic - Athletic skill challenge, full athletic
Business - A share in 3 business, or 2 lots
Criminal - Pop 100, 1 per top criminal
Culinary - Two cooking challenges, max cooking
Education - Pop 250 or 20 children
Film/Actor - 3 top career, 2 Prolific Writer Challenge
Firefighter - Must have Policeman, 1 every 3 fires
Ghost hunter - Must have graveyard and scientist, 1 every 5 deaths
Police - Pop 500, 3 burglaries, 1 criminal topped
Investigator - Pop 500, 3 burglaries, 1 criminal topped
Medical - 1000 pop, 5000 pop, 10000 pop, etc
Military - Every 3 households
Music - Money Maker Skill Challenge, 3000 pop, two full instrument skills
Politics - 1000 pop but only 1 position, and then 1 every 4000 pop
Science - Sim who becomes adult with max logic, level 10 inventor, 3 electrocutions, 1 alien abduction, unlocked to aliens and sim bots
Stylish - Every 10 households, must have full charisma
Self-Employment - Town hall, must have level 5 in skill
Part Time - Unlocked with buildings, only for teens
Journalism - 4 star celebrity, 2 topped career
Singer - One full instrument skill, one scene
Magician - Full charisma or genie, one scene
Acrobat - Full athletic, one scene
Clairvoyant/Fortune Teller - Unlocked to witches, wizard, genie, or 5 charisma and Supernatural Fan
Daycare - One position per 5 toddlers in the city
Horseman - 5 in Riding and Jumping Skill on sim and horse, or for sim with unicorn

NRAAS - Position Unlock Requirement
Homeschooling - City hall, and one school
Part Time Careers - Must have building, only for teens
Mobster - Must have a restaurant and 10 criminals/criminal mastermind
Martial Arts Self-Employ - City Hall, must have two martial arts training items, and 5 skill
Athletic Self-Employment - Town hall, must have level 5 in athletic
Collecting Self-Employ - Town hall, 30 items gathered
Chess Self-Employ - Town hall, must have level 5 in chess
Guitar Self-Employ - Town hall, must have level 5 in guitar
Hacking Self-Employ - Town hall, must have 3 computers and be able to hack computers
Handiness Self-Employ - Town hall, must have level 5 in Handiness
Homemaker Self-Employ - Town hall, must have one child, and 3 in cooking skill


Services:

Service - Population/Requirement
Newspaper - 0
Adoption - 0
Babysitter - 0
Repairman - 500 population
Maid - 500 population
Pizza delivery - 3000 and Grocery Store.
Butler - 10000 population
Police - Must be one Policeman in town. Unlocks theif alarm.
Fireman - Must be one Fireman in town. Unlocks firealarm.


Community Lots:

Every fourth (4) community lot unlocks 1 CAS sim.

Building - Population - Other - CAS
Art gallery - 4 brilliant paintings and 4 brilliant sculptures (must be placed there)
Bookstore - 5 skills maxed - 1 CAS
Bus station - 1000 population - 2 CAS
Central Park - A mayor
Chinese Garden - 5 max visas
Consignment Store - Unlocked once 2 sims have maxed a creating skill (Gardening, Inventing, Painting, Sculpting, Writing)
Dive Bar - 10 households
Dance club - 20 households
Dojo/studio - 3 top martial arts skill
Hangout - 100, 1000, 30000 population
Junkyard - 2000, 10000 population (there can only be two)
Lounge/Vampire Bar - One is unlocked for every 3 maxed careers or 5 stared celebrities - 2
Graveyard - 20 deaths
Gyms - 5 max athletic or martial arts
Hospital - 1000 population or 20 ill sims or 40 births - 1 CAS
Spa - 2000 population
Pool - 1000 population
Laundromat - 10 households without washing machines
Library - 15 skills maxed (can be the same skills)
Nectary - 3 maxed nectar brewing
School - 250 population or 20 children at the same time
Subway - 20000 population
Supermarket - 350 fish caught on one sim and 650 fruit harvested on other sim - 1 CAS
Airport - 50000 population or 1000000$ donated
Fortune-Teller Wagon - Unlocked when there is a witch or genie
Supernatural Hangout - 15 supernaturalist
Parks and Beaches - Unlocks on every time there's 3 sims with Likes The Outdoors trait
Festival Grounds - Counts as a park, must have passed 4 seasons, or 28 days, whichever is longer. Must have 3 sims with trait Likes The Outdoor
Animal Park - 5 animals of the animal parks type, if both dog and cat park 10 animals are needed
Horse Ranch - 5 horses and 5 sims with 3 or higher skill in riding
Equestrian Center - 10 horses tamed from the wild, or 20 foals bred
Playground - 10 children or toddlers
Live show venue - 500 population
Private venue - 1500 population
Big show venue - 3500 population
Elixir Consignment - One of each kind supernatural (witch, werewolf, vampire, fairy) or three max level alchemists
Coffee house - 100 population
Pet store - 15 adopted strays
Poolside club - 1500 population
Disco club - 5 max instrument players, cannot be the same sim
Sports bar - 1 maxed athletic career
Fishing spot - 2 Max Fishing skill or 3 Anglers

NatashaRasmussen

Bumb feel free to let me know if you're playing my version of the challenge.

odddude1

A spreadsheet would be really great. I think that I'm going to be playing this version, as I like that you've taken into consideration all expansion packs released to date and Nraas mods (which I also play with).

I don't know if I'll publish it anywhere but I will let you know how these rules work for me!

plainanjelik

I was just about to start a challenge like this in Sunlit Tides (the whole shipwrecked theme and what not). I tried to build off of the older versions of this challenge to determine the rules and will use those in conjunction with yours for the new expansion packs and the mod careers. One rule I added for myself is that the population must pay for any building made. That means that I don't allow any free real estate (the family must have the money to buy the new house or at least afford the plot of land to build one of their own). Also I check the prices of any new commercial lots built in edit town and subtract that amount from the population's account. If as a community they don't have enough money to buy it, then they'll just have to wait . I think I might do a story on my challenge either here or on TSR. Thanks for the update! It was very helpful!

dragonsolgameing

I will play this one for youtube