I have always wanted to start one of these but all the rules I have found are outdated or don’t suit my play style, so I have adapted them from My Sims 2 BACC rules
Goal: To develop a completely empty, rural neighborhood into a bustling, populous city of 50,000
Taxes/City Funds
City Funds/Taxes
City funds start with the funds from each families lot worth, what they paid for it.
Marriage lisense-100 Simolens
Everytime a family buys a new lot , that cost is added to town funds
Property Taxes- 15 percent of lot worth every sim 4 weeks (year) or use snb bills to pay automatically
Income Tax- 10 percent of family funds
Buisness Tax- Depends on buisness worth, Under 50,000- 5%, 50,000- 500,000- 10%, over 500,000- 20%
Setting Up
Bulldoze all Lots and Delete all sims or download a blank save file.
Create your Founder and move them into the Oakenstead lot, this is the mayor. You can choose their looks, aspiration, traits, Likes and Dislikes. They must be a Young Adult.
Create Four more families of three sims max and all sims must be Young Adult or older. You can choose or use the randomiser method listed below.
Roll a number between 1 and 6.
Age:
- 1-2- YA
- 3-4- Adult
- 5-6- Elder
Number of Sims
- 1-2- 1 Sim
- 3-4- 2 sims
- 5-6- 3 Sims
Gender- Even for Females and Odd for Males
Traits- Use in game Randomiser
Aspirations- Use Randomiser- I have one here
If you play with Occults, roll- even for human, odd for occults then reroll for occult type. Reroll if don’t have the pack needed
- Fairies
- Vampires
- Werewolf
- Alien
- Spellcaster
- Mermaid
Create Backstories for your sims
Move your sims into the Willow Creek World and build them a home, there are some restrictions at the start, and they can only use the money they started out with.
Set Seasons to 28 Days
Lot Traits- Each Family must have off the grid and simple living traits.
Restrictions
No Electricity as the Electricity Grid hasn’t been expanded yet so no tv’s, computers, stereos. I also use a mod for Functional Landlines and another one to disable phone calls. Your sim must have off the grid trait, can be removed once a sim has reached the civic planner branch
No Running water, this means you can only pee in a toilet and use a pool filled up with river or lake water, if your lot doesn’t have a nearby source of water, must build a pond on lot. Unlocked- same as above, this also means no showers or pools or fountains.
No traveling to other worlds, All other worlds are locked and cannot be traveled to at the start of the game as no transport is available.
No Delivery services- that includes shopping on your phone
No Service sims and Daycare is also locked, No Burgular or fire alarms until they have been unlocked.
No Townies- You can’t move in or marry them until they are unlocked
No Community lots, Sims can only sell items through a selling table and they must have grown, caught or produced these items themselves. They can also start a buisness with the above restrictions but the ticket koisk is unusable with the off the grid trait so you woule have to use a mod for a off a grid one.
All Careers start out locked apart from The Politics career which only your founder can take as he is going to work through the career to grow the world.
No Birth control until the hospital is unlocked, roll a number between 1 and 4 and if you get 2, must try for baby and get pregnant, or set mc woohoo risky percent to 25. Also can’t buy medication
The Sim Multiplier
The SM is the number that you multiply your number of playable Sims by in order to get the city’s population. Servos count as playable Sims. Pets do not.
+1 for your first community lot
+1 when you reach a total of 5 community lots
+1 for every additional 5 community lots
+5 for your Business District
+5 for your Downtown District
+5 for your University
Unlocking Neighborhood Additions
Community lots are unlocked when your Founder reaches Level 4 of the Politics career and can be placed in three ways and each community lot earns a CAS Sim
A playable sim buys a lot and builds on it
A community lot is bought with City funds
A Free community lot is placed
Community Lots Explained
Sim Owned- Purchased and Built on by Playable sim or Household
City Owned- Money from City funds is used to pay for these, I normally withdrawn money from Sim’s account and then use cheat Ui to remove the money used as I couldn’t find a mod to donate the lots.
Free Lots are earned for every 5 households and can’t be worth more than 50,000 simolens think local park, small bar,
Downtown
Newcrest will be used for this and when it is unlocked you will add 15 community lots to it. These will be three restaurants, a bar, a lounge, a nightclub, a pool, a spa, a clothing store, a recreation centre, a park, an arts centre, a bowling alley, a café and an arts studio.
It is unlocked when the mayor has maxed their career and it costs 250, 000 to start building. Supplies are much easier to come by and the simple living trait can now be removed and Sims can sell items they haven’t crafted,
University
Unlocked when the Education Careers is at level 5 and the mayor has built the University world costing 250,000. The World should consist of Each Town must have a park, a common and two dorms. The town part must have 3 homes , a deans office and a library, Can use for rent to build homes if you want.
Shopping District
The shopping district is unlocked when population reaches 25,000 population and your town has 5 player owned businesses. It costs 500,000 and you must add four retail shops to Magnolia Promenade.
Unlocking Careers
Art Critic- 1 position unlocked when Sun Myshuno has been unlocked and unlocked for everyone with a art history degree once it has been maxed and a arts center has been built , worth must be subtracted from city funds
Actress- A position is unlocked when Del Sol Valley is unlocked and when the career is maxed, it is open to everyone once a acting school has been created and worth is subtracted from city funds
Astronaut– A position is unlocked when 5 abductions has happened and it is unlocked for everyone when the career is maxed for anyone with a physics degree once a space exploration centre has been built
Athlete- 1 position avaliable in bodybluilder branch when a player owned gym reaches top rank. Unlocked for everyone when it is maxed
Proffesional Athlete– Downtown must be open to open one position, max it and bluild a stadium, cost subtracted from city funds and then it is open to everyone.
Babysitter– 1 position is open when service sims are available, Once it is maxed and a daycare has been built it is open for everyone, funds must be subtracted from city funds.
Barista– Unlocked when a cafe has been built and worth subtracted from city funds
Business- Unlocked when a player owned business has reached max rank, once they max career it is open for everyone
Conversationist- 1 position when Sulani is unlocked, and a town hall exists,open for everyone when it is maxed
Diver– Unlocked when Sulani is
Fisherman- Unlocked when angling ace aspiration is completed
Lifeguard- unlocked when Sulani is and there is at least 1 beach lot
Civil Designer- 1 position in each branch unlocked when a town hall is unlocked and open for everyone when career is maxed. When A sim is promoted to Civic Planner Branch the town hall lot has all power, water inventions and worth is subtracted from city funds then water and electricity is unlocked. Moving to new towns is now unlocked if there is a sim in the civic planner branch.
Criminal- 1 position when Population reaches 100, Unlocked for everyone when career is maxed and a criminal hideout is built and worth is subtracted from town funds
Culinary- 1 position is unlocked when sim runs a restaurant that they must attend at least once a week, once career is maxed it is open to everyone
Detective– 1 position is opened when there is a burglary and is unlocked for everyone when career is maxed and police station/prison is built and worth is subtracted from town funds
Doctor- 1 position is unlocked when 5 babies have been born, and it is unlocked for everyone with a science degree when the career has been maxed and a medical centre has been built. Once it has been unlocked, the hospital is available and so is birth control and risky woo-hoo can be set back to normal settings or turned off and also medication can be bought.
Education– 1st position in main career when there is a child aged playable sim, once maxed. Copperdale is unlocked and must get a secondry school, primary school and nursery added. Nursery can be attacted to the primary school, worth must then be subtracted from city funds. The branches don’t unlock until a University has been founded, To unlock each branch
Adminstrater- University needs a deans office then unlocked for everyone with a degree,
Proffeser- university needs at least 1 student enrolled, max and unlocked for everyone with a degree.
Engineer- 1st Position unlocked when a sim has maxed programming and robotics and unlocked for everyone once it is maxed but The Computer Engineering Branch needs a computer science degree and the Mechanical Engineering Branch needs a physics degree.
Entertainer– 1st Position unlocked when a Cultural centre is created and worth subtracted from town funds, Must include a music area and a comedy area. Max it to unlock for everyone.
Fast Food- Unlocked when a sim has completed the Market Magnate Aspiration
Food Critic- 1 position when Sun Myshuno is unlocked and unlocked for everyone when career is maxed
For Freelance Careers, Electricty must be unlocked
Freelance Artist– Unlocked when a Sim has completed 15 paintings
Freelance Writer – Unlocked when a Sim has written 10 books
Freelance Programmer– Unlocked when a sim has made a Video game or App
Freelance Fashion Photographer- Unlocked when a sim has maxed photography
Gardener- 1st Position in Botanist when Gardening is maxed, Max it and build allotments and subtract worth from city funds to unlock for everyone. 1st Position in Floral Designer branch is unlocked when flower arranging is maxed and open for everyone when career is maxed and a garden centre is built and worth is subtracted from town funds.
Interior Decorator– 1 position for every 10 lots, unlocked for everyone once downtown is unlocked.
Law- one position avaliable in each branch when the mayor reaches the level that unlocks it, see founders career for anyone with a degree, unlocked for everyone- see below
Judge- Needs city hall
Private Attorntey- Law office must be added to town hall and worth subtracted from city funds.
Manual Labourer– Unlocked when service sims are unlocked
Military- Unlocked when the city has been unlocked and a military base has been built and worth subtracted from city funds. Only 1 sim can have maxed the career, either branch
Naturopath- 1 position in each branch when a sim has mastered wellness and apothecary and opened for everyone – see below
apothe-curist branch- Career must be maxed and apothetachy shop must be created and worth subtracted from town funds
LIfestyle coaching- Career must be maxed and coaching offices must be created and worth subtracted from town funds
Painter- 2 Positions open when a museum is built for
Master of the Real when painter extraordinaire aspiration has been completed, Max it and build a painting studio to open for everyone. Must subtract worth from town funds. (community lots must be open)
Patron of the Arts– Max career and build arts centre to unlock for everyone
Park Worker- 1 position in each branch opens when Gibbi Point is opened, Camp Counsellor- Open for everyone when it has been maxed and a children’s camp is built . Park Ranger- Opened for everyone when it is maxed and a park is created and it has been maxed. Worth then subtracted from city funds.
Politician- Unlocked for everyone when Mayor has reached Level 6 and built the town hall but only one sim can be Level 10 of the Politician Branch, Charity Branch is only unlocked when San Myshuno is Unlocked but only 1 position and is unlocked for everyone when it is maxed.
Paranormal- 1 position unlocked when medium skill is maxed and unlocked for everyone when career is maxed and a paranormal centre has been built and worth subtracted from town funds
Retail Employee– Unlocked when a business exists
Salary person- 1 Position is unlocked when Mt Koremi is unlocked and unlocked for everyone with an economics degree when it is maxed and a buisness centre is created- Money subtracted from city funds
Scientist– 1 position is unlocked when a sim has completed the curator aspiration, unlocked for everyone with a biology degree once it has been maxed and science labs have been built
Secret Agent– Unlocked when both Military and Detective Careers are unlocked
Simfluencer- Unlocked for everyone once electricity is unlocked
Social media– unlocked when San Myshuno is unlocked
Style Influencer– Unlocked when Downtown has been unlocked
Tech Guru– 1 position in each branch when Electricity is unlocked. Gamer is unlocked for everyone when career has been maxed and an arcade has been built, Programmer is unlocked when it has been maxed and a computer zone has been built , worth must be subtracted from town funds
Author– 1 position when bestselling author aspiration has been completed-Open for everyone once it has been maxed and a library has been built
Journalist– 1 position for every maxed career, fire or burglary. Open for everyone when downtown has been unlocked.
Worth must be subtracted from town funds
Video Game streamer- Unlocked for everyone once electricity is unlocked
Handyperson- unlocked when service sims are unlocked
Romance Consultant- 1 position in each branch when a sim has maxed romance skill
Matchmaker- Open for everyone once it has been maxed and a therapists office has been created
Realsionship Counseller- Open for everyone with a psychology degree once it has been maxed and a therapists office has been created
Reaper- 1 position with first sim death, unlocked for everyone once it has been maxed
Undertaker- 1 position in Funeral direction branch with a Gold Funeral Event and open for everyone once it has been maxed and a place for funerals has been built. Worth must be subtracted from town funds
1 position is unlocked in Mortician branch when the first sim dies and it is unlocked for everyone with a biology degree when it is maxed and a graveyard has been built, worth must be subtracted from town funds
Unlocking Towns
Unlocking Towns
No towns can be unlocked until there is a sim in the Civic Planner career.
Towns are opened when you want but bear in mind, founding a town cost money, there are a few towns that are not included, these are Copperdale, Newcrest, Britechester and Maganolia Promenade.
It costs 250,000 to fund a new town. You get 5 new sims and they can be any age you want and any family structure.
Founders Career
The mayor works to improve the town and charges taxes to support them in doing so. Taxes are 10 percent of the households worth- adding together business funds, household funds and lot worth. Taxes are paid on the first day of the week to the mayor. Must do Political branch
The founder unlocks things at certain levels of his/her career
Level 3- Social Justice worker- The town hall in unlocked and must be built on sage estates as a small buisness, all profits go to the city funds, the Civil Designer career is also unlocked and a sim must get to the branch chooser and choose the Civic Planner branch to unlock electricty, water and the ability to open other towns.
Level 4- Community Organiser- Community lots are now unlocked and sims can start buisnesses, and community lots can be bought. Also service sims and townies are now unlocked but daycare is still locked.
Level 6- Public Offical- The Mayor now has the ability to hire more personel but there can only be one, National Leader at the time. Also only the Politican Branch is Unlocked
Level 8- Representive- The law career is now unlocked and law offices must be built.
Level 10- National Leader- The Mayor now has enough connections to create a downtown, the city is now unlocked.