#ts4 bacc

[whyeverr]

It's only right, I think, for Tyler to propose where they first met — now the heart of New Promise — with the home they've built together all around them.

No guitar serenades, no spectators, no frills.

Just the promise of a shared life of sweetness.

[melsie-hyperfixates]

New BACC?? Again?? With No CC?? But with tons of storytelling?? This time I mean business!! 👍🏽

Note from future Mel: Sorry this ended up really long... I rambled a lot. Can you tell I'm excited to share this?? Now back to past Mel...

I have something NEW and REALLY exciting coming up in tomorrow's queue! 💚💚💚

I know I've tried multiple BACCs since my original Plumbob Falls, some more successful than others... but this one's gonna be it, I can feel it! (And if it's not... well, sorry to disappoint yet again... I'm really trying!!)

It just feels SO MUCH like my original BACC, the one that had me absolutely OBSESSED with the game for YEARS... until the same face toddler glitch just ruined everything... among other bugs that made the save unbearable to play... but the toddlers all having the same face was really the nail in the coffin of Plumbob Falls.

BUT ANYWAY! No complaining in this post! We're gonna be positive! 🥳

I've played through a full year already (I wanted to make sure I was really into it before posting... and I am!). I've been editing it the same way I did my old old old BACC, doing similar storytelling/dialogue, and it just feels SO nostalgic! The sims are really vibing and it's actually been so much fun! I keep choosing to play that save instead of ANYTHING else (including Sims 2) which says a lot.

Also it's almost vanilla, with only some defaults and a few necessary mods like MCCC and UI Cheats... which means I won't get stressed every month on patch days! Honestly, patches are what have killed all of my other attempts at playing a save so I'm REALLY hopeful this will help me out.

This is my CC-free era and it's been SOOO freeing!

Anyway here's a sneaky look at tomorrow's queue!

[snoopy-sims]

part 1/4 of an introduction to the lake pinelia starters: ashleigh and emmett ✨

[valenthario]

BUILD A CITY CHALLENGE LITE for THE SIMS 4

have you ever wanted to create a bustling community from virtually nothing and see your sims thrive? inspired by various BACC challenges made for the sims 2 & the recent release of businesses & hobbies, i decided to rewrite the beloved challenge to suit my needs and share it with you all!

READ: here (under the cut) OR google docs

WARNING: long read!

INTRODUCTIONS

The Build a City Challenge has existed in the Sims community since The Sims 2. It prompts you as a player to build up a bustling city starting from virtually nothing. If you like rotational gameplay, managing businesses in The Sims and playing rags to riches, this challenge might be for you!

This is a lighter, less complicated approach to the challenge (hence the lite in the title). It doesn’t require you to calculate taxes for your sims or grind your sims’ skills, careers or aspirations to unlock new things. If you’re interested in that kind of gameplay though, these rules for The Sims 4 should satisfy you! You can also get inspired from rulesets made for The Sims 2, such as these: x, x, x.

Please also remember that this is my personal ruleset and you’re welcome to change anything and everything to your heart’s desire!

NOTES BEFORE PLAYING

This challenge heavily relies on retail gameplay, as every Sim you’re starting out with will be owning their own business, thus making this challenge not base game compatible. You will need either Get to Work or Businesses & Hobbies to play (the latter being preferable, as you can start a business from your home lot AND it doesn’t have to be strictly retail). If you’re able to play with mods, I recommend checking out Saleabration Retail System by Ravasheen, which makes it possible to run a store without either of those packs.

RECOMMENDED MODS/DOWNLOADS

Empty Save File by midnitetech (makes the set-up process a breeze)

Venue Changes by zerbu (enables you to build a highschool in any world (make sure to download the High School Years add-on)

No Romantic Satisfaction by lumpinou (rotational gameplay causes the romantic satisfaction to decay overtime in all households you’re currently not playing, so I prefer to turn the whole system off all together)

RESTRICTIONS

At the beginning of the gameplay I like to make it a lot harder for myself than it needs to be. That’s why I choose to play with the Simple Living and Off-The-Grid lot challenges, which later on you can get rid of through gameplay! You can also choose to play with them forever or never play with them. It’s completely up to you!

I also don’t allow myself to Hire Services, such as Maid, Gardener, Repairperson, Babysitter etc., as well as Ordering Delivery. You can also unlock these through gameplay, or choose to omit the restrictions all together.

No purchasing items on the phone/computer as well!

Sims can only Try For Baby when they want to Woohoo before the Doctor role is unlocked.

There’s no daycare/babysitter before the Daycare is actually built, so at least 1 parent has to stay with the baby at all times.

GETTING STARTED

Pick any world you want to build the city in. If you want to stick with only one world throughout the whole challenge, I recommend Windenburg since it’s the largest. You can also ‘merge’ multiple worlds into one (for example Willow Creek and Newcrest) and pretend it’s one big city. There’s no limit to how many worlds you can merge together.

If you can’t download the Empty Save File, bulldoze every lot and delete every sim that lives in that world, and preferably your whole savefile.

Roll a number between 2-8 (I like using the random number generator by typing ‘rng’ into Google). This is the number of your starter Sims/founders.

I personally like for my Sims to have roles in the town, and have written them in order of importance to my own taste:

Mayor - without this Sim the town wouldn’t exist. They work in the POLITICS career [City Living] & make sure the residents of the town have everything they need to live good lives. Or they cause absolute chaos and dismay, it’s all up to you! The Mayor owns the TOWN HALL building, which you can run in any way you like (I personally host Charisma Skill Classes & invite “important” Sims over for Important Political Meetings. Or whatever real politicians actually do). If you own Eco Lifestyle, the NAP gameplay comes in handy here! You can pretend the NAPs are your Mayor’s personal plans for the town & you can campaign by asking other residents to vote for them.

Farmer - they grow produce & tend farm animals [Cottage Living], thus providing the community with fresh ingredients. The Farmer owns the GROCERY STORE, in which they sell fruits, vegetables and animal products. It’s quite difficult to run a functioning grocery store in The Sims 4, because of the inability to sell majority of Cottage Living products (such as flour and meat), so I recommend either turning off the Simple Living Lot Challenge as soon as the Grocery Store you build is up to your standard, or downloading the Grocery Store Set by Severinka_ (TSR warning), which makes running the store a little more bearable. Once the Grocery Store is set up and you have at least one non-household employee, the Grocery Store Delivery Service is unlocked!

Handyperson - they work in the HANDYPERSON career [For Rent], as well as UPGRADE all appliances in all residents’ houses with Fuel Cell/Add H2O Siphoner upgrades. Once 10 houses are upgraded, you can turn off the Off-the-Grid lot challenge forever! You unlocked permanent electricity! The Handyperson also unlocks the Repair Service. They don’t have to own a business, but they can host Handiness Skill Classes, for example.

Furniture Store Owner - they own a FURNITURE STORE, which provides Sims with new furniture. Sims don’t necessarily need to buy the furniture from this store to furnish their own house with, but the store needs to at least carry a type of furniture for Sims to buy it for their own house (for example, if the store doesn’t sell beds, Sims can’t buy a new bed for themselves; if the store does sell beds, Sims can buy any bed from the Build/Buy catalogue to furnish their house with).

General Store Owner - they own a GENERAL STORE, which sells alarms, umbrella stands, decoration boxes, entertainment objects, even computers, TV’s and other electronics. Having this store open unlocks the Order ability available on the Computer, as well as the Purchase Gifts interaction on the phone.

Scientist - works in the SCIENTIST career [Get to Work]. Unlocks the ability to have Science Babies, can own a business where they host Logic/Rocket Science/Robotics Skill Classes, can sell Telescopes, Microscopes, Robotics Workstations, Chess Tables etc.

Doctor - works in the DOCTOR career [Get to Work]. Unlocks being able to purchase medicine & the ability to Woohoo. They can own a Business where they sell medicine.

Police - works in the DETECTIVE career [Get to Work]. Unlocks the Police Link Security Upgrade on the burglar alarm, as well as the ability to call the police with the burglar present on the lot.

You can omit any roles you deem unnecessary, merge roles together, as well as create new ones to fit your playstyle.

I like to create every role in a separate household, and randomize their traits, preferences and turn ons/offs. I also use the random number generator to determine things such as:

AGE GROUP (numbers 1-3)

1 = young adult

2 = adult

3 = elder

GENDER PREFERENCE (numbers 1-4)

1 = attracted to female sims

2 = attracted to male sims

3 = attracted to both

4 = attracted to neither

OCCULT STATUS (numbers 1-5)

1-4 = human sim

5 = occult

OCCULT TYPE (numbers 1-5)

1 = alien

2 = vampire

3 = merfolk

4 = spellcaster

5 = werewolf

Of course none of these randomizations are necessary, but it’s nice to start out with a variety of Sims!

Once you have your founders created, move them to their empty home lots, build their houses and/or businesses, and start playing!

I also recommend adding at least one community lot, such as the park, so your sims have something to do other than run their businesses all day.

ROTATIONAL GAMEPLAY

To play rotationally, you need to make sure you have the following settings enabled, found in GAME OPTIONS → GAMEPLAY:

Auto Age (Played Households): Only Active Household

Auto Age (Unplayed Households): Off (or On, if you prefer townies to age faster than your sims)

Animal Aging: Off (there’s a bug where farm animals keep aging (and dying) while you’re not playing with the family that owns them, so I just prefer to turn their aging off all together)

Neighbourhood Stories: Off

Then, play every single one of your households for the same amount of time, to keep their ages in sync. For example, start with household one, play with them for 7 days (Sunday 8 am - Sunday 8 am next week) and then switch over to household two, and repeat that process until you’ve played with every household for the rotation! The rotation ends when every single household has been played through.

GROWING THE COMMUNITY

Obviously, starting with 2-8 sims isn’t a lot when we’re trying to build a city. Usually in this challenge you earn the ability to move new sims in as soon as you accomplish some goals, but because I didn’t set any, you’re welcome to move new sims in anytime!

If you don’t want to create new sims, growing the community through marriage and making children is obviously fine too. You can also create Servos, if you want!

The only rule I have for adding newly created sims is to include 1 new sim per rotation. So on rotation number one, after just creating our founders, you can’t add any new sims. But as soon as you’re starting on the second rotation, you can add 1 new sim and play them on the end of the rotation!

The newly created sims have to take on roles too. Once you fill all first 8 roles I’ve provided before, you can create sims such as teachers, vets, daycare / bar / restaurant owners, and whoever else you can come up with!

The roles unlock new services, too. For example, once you have a restaurant, your sims can order pizza, and when you open a daycare, sims can call for a babysitter!

ENDING NOTES

If you have any questions, don’t be afraid to reach out to me either under this post, or in my askbox! Also, I’d love to see everyone’s towns grow, so feel free to post them on tumblr with the tag #ts4 baccl!

Thank you so much for reading :)

[plumbob-pudding]

There's something to be said about change and time and fate: wise words strung together to explain that horrid, yet inescapable destiny that plagues every person as the clock ticks closer and closer to adulthood. Just as the warmth of a nest abandons the baby bird and the softness of her mother's fur leaves the poor kitten, adulthood seems nothing but an empty chasm of loneliness.

The letters brought her comfort, or at least that's what she told herself for lies were all the Germans had spared them nowadays. Seeing that "Dearest sister" when Fraser was feeling sentimental (if a little mocking) or the "To Lorna" when Charlie didn't have the time (for he never did, at least not for her). She was lucky to get that much. Many people didn't.

Still she spent every night wandering the grounds, walking up and down the endless corridors, sinking her bare feet in the mulchy grass, begging to feel anything but this. Longing to be seven again when wars were just scary stories with dragons and knights, something so fantastical that it seemed impossible and Charlie and Fraser, her steadfast knights, seemed forever.

As she read the cramped, barely legible words over and over, fingers blackening at the tips as she stroked the words, she suddenly began to feel a prickling in her neck.

If she weren't a proper sort of girl, a girl that perhaps believed in magic and superstitions-like those circus folk Mother hated- she would have thought it a sign, a harbinger of hell or something of the sort. But she wasn't that sort of girl. Perhaps she ought to have been.

She allowed herself a singular gasp and a much too generous second look at the darkening sky heavy with planes-German planes (and German bombs though she declined to focus on that) before shrugging on the familiar Form captain uniform and marching the other upper sixth girls all down to the shelter. Her face, like any soldier, remained unmoving, uncaring, unafraid, even as Alison kept trying to catch her eye.

It was only when they were all safely hidden at depths even the bombs wouldn't dare dive down to, that she allowed herself to breathe. The silent, dank box provided an unusual comfort. It was so strange how war made everything turn topsy turvy, her bedroom a danger but this basement with the wooden beds they'd nailed together just last week, a safety.

The rest of the girls played as they ought to. They were children and she was not. She couldn't be, not now, not when they all needed her.

Ms. Crumplebottom caught her eye and pulled her to the side.

"The sirens are not working," she said, voice trembling, hands shaking even in the heavy woollen robe she donned. "I must go warn the village, the planes will get to them soon enough."

Lorna nodded without complaint, hearing the implicit instruction to look after the rest of the girls.

"Yes, Headmistress. Will do," she added, trying and failing not to see Charlie and Fraser doing the same. It's funny, she allowed herself to think, they were all living remarkably similar lives yet lives still so very separate.

[ts4-bacc]

Rule update Crystal Creations, Lovestruck, Life and Death and Burglars and other base game updates

The long awaited update! And I hope I can get the next one out earlier! I'll have the spreadsheet up right away but the text on the page I'll do tomorrow! This is all done with the help of the BACC discord! So thank you for helping! Let's start with:

Extra update for older packs

For Rent (FR) New option to unlock the Detective career -Unlock townies AND -Have at least three sims with the evil trait in your town or Have at least ten households or Complete the Seeker of Secrets Aspiration Nifty Knitting (NK) New rule for Plopsy - Have a retail shop or thrift store and 2 worlds unlocks

Crystal Creations (CC)

Mystical Moonlight Charging Grid - Have a Spellcaster be the first to buy and use it or use it while completing the Crystal Crafter aspiration and after that it's fully unlocked New option to unlock the Scientist career -Unlock Townies AND -Reach Level 10 in the Fishing Skill or Complete one of the collections (this requirement is fulfilled when the game considers a collection to be complete; so there is no need to collect additional EP/GP items in the list that aren’t included in the “official” count) or Reach level 10 in the Gemology skill

Lovestruck (L)

Cupid corner app - Can be used after you unlock Townies, Services and 3 worlds. Love hotel - Have Ciudad Enamorada unlocked Attractions are similar to Like and Dislikes. It can be chosen freely Ciudad Enamorada can only be used as the third world or later. It can't de the starting world second world! Otherwise it will be a default world. Romance consultant - Level 10 Romance and the sim taking it must have the Love Bug trait

Life and Death (LD)

Occult sim Ghost is now moved away from the "can't be made in cas" section Favor can only be done when townies are unlocked and by sims living in Ravenwood Give Tarot card Reading have Ravenwood or Glimmerbrook unlocked Inheritance and wills - Have someone in the Law career AND have 4 Elder Sim pass away Wishing well (also for Romantic Garden) to use it Complete the Ghost Historian aspiration or the sim that uses it has Level 5 Gardening and Level 5 Logic. Once used it's unlocked for all. Reaper - be BFF with Grim and have unlocked 2 worlds Undertaker - Level 5 thanatology and cemetery unlocked Ravenwood - Is a special world. You can unlock with a rebirth. Cemetery - A active Sim in the BACC gets a golden Funeral

Other Game updates

Install a Alarm/Call Cops - Have townies and Services unlocked or have a sim in the Detective career New option to unlock the Criminal Career -Level 10 Mischief skill or Complete the Sticky Finger aspiration Science baby - Level 10 logic or have a sim in the Scientist career or have a sim in the Doctor career

[katmk36]

Spring - Everdew Base Camp

For the whole round only one relationship happened.

For fairy Dylan and vampire Davion their relationship in the beginning was very hot and cold. This left them with the unpredictable dynamic.

By the end of the round things got a lot better a little bit hotter.

[newdawnsims]

Good evening everyone, and welcome to a brand new type of reality TV!

Not only is this an entirely new type of show, but we have completely flipped the script.

Eight contestants have been taken to the middle-of-nowhere, Simerica, and dropped in the midst of a desert. There are roads and buildings, but no running water, no electricity, no money, no food, and (mostly) no other sims for miles around. The surrounding area was once a bustling town, but sadly, it has been a ghost town for over 50 years!

They have cell phones to get in contact with us should they need us; during the day, we have a limited camera crew available, but most filming is done voluntarily by the contestants themselves via cell phone camera, camcorders, and drones.

That is what these eight contestants are setting out to change: they must work together, under these difficult circumstances, to build the area up into the start of a bustling town, called Genesis, within a year.

What this means is that by the end of the first year in Genesis, our contestants will need to find a way to get plumbing and electricity into their town, have built up at least 2 separate houses, a museum for future residents to learn about the founders of Genesis, and a renewable source of food.

If they are unsuccessful, they walk away with nothing but an interesting experience to tell their friends and family.

But if they are successful, they will win ownership of the town, and the rights to do with it whatever they please. However, the contestants that choose not to stay in the town and continue to build it up are free to leave, and can each accept a prize of $20k upon returning to their regular lives.

And if enough of the contestants choose to stay in the town, they also have the choice of continuing the filming of the town's development in a spinoff show. (Our viewers will also have a say in that, so be sure to stream every episode!)

Without further ado, let's get to know the contestants!!