#sims 4 bacc

[melsie-sims]

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!

[plumbob-pudding]

The girls will play

Submissions closed

Hello historical simblr! Inspired by my deep love for media with an ensemble female cast, non linear narratives and situations no one would want to be stuck in, I have decided to start a sims story with all that set against a backdrop of WWII.

The story will take place in the above named boarding school and will be semi bacc (build a city challenge) inspired, therefore, I am asking for you to offer up your 1940s teenagers in need of a proper English education with no frills and fuss. I will be accepting up to seven sims for now, and there is no deadline- just until I get all seven.

Feel free to let me know exactly who your teenager is: Are there full of airs and in need of their corners being rubbed down? Are they a good sport who loves a trick? Are they the dreaded drawling American? let me know everything!

Submission rules:

seven students allowed

female teenagers only please

maxis match cc only please (disclaimer i may change eyes and skin blend to suit my style). twentiethcenturysims, antiquatedfinds, chereindolente are several of many wonderful 1940s cc resource simblrs.

no occults

likes and dislikes allowed and encouraged

skills will all be set to zero

uniform already selected so feel free to choose their other outfits- one per category please. I have all the packs so don't worry

give your sims as much backstory as you like- you can look to british boarding school stories like enid blyton's malory towers and build on those archetypes or not. Be as creative as you like.

please tag me in your submission!

Disclaimer: this story is set in the time of ww2, as a result, themes of war and the inevitable loss that comes with it will be explored.Also I think it would be remiss not to acknowledge the prejudice towards people from the "colonies" that was endemic at the time so mine is unfortunately not a colour or sex blind world. Still, my story would not be centred on pain and struggle, but rather joy.

[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!!

[sparepartsbacc]

Look at that. Sims taking their seats for a wedding. Haven't seen that in years.

[ethicaltreatmentofcowplants]

Part of the reason why I enjoy Sims BCs so much is because it feels like a collaborative project of the kind that I used to do on Insanejournal. I'd love to do a more long-term save file, as those are what I gravitate towards on others' simblrs, but I always feel bored/burned out pretty quickly.

So I'm wondering: if I did a rebuild a city/midnight sun challenge of a kind, would others be willing to donate Sims for it? I'd really like it to feel collaborative in nature, where we're all playing in a sandbox that I just happen to be hosting.

[oswanily]

Did I make these and forgot to post them? Yes I did.

Template here

[simsofheritagehills]

The Watcher was a very lazy woman.

"I resent that."

Shush. You're just an avatar of me, you have no right to protest.

As I was saying. She had many plans, but she knew that if she did them all, she would quickly become overwhelmed and abandon her sim children. Legacy challenge rulesets were her kryptonite; she wanted to do them all, but she couldn't spend all of her time keeping an eye on the sims under her care.

So she had an idea. She also loved Build a City Challenges, and previously she had done one where neglected founders, spares, and sims from people's libraries got a second chance at life. So why not one where brand new legacy founders could found an entire save file together? They would follow their respective legacies, while also following the rules for a BACC.

And so she sent her avatar to approach each of her chosen beginning founders to tell them what was in store for them, before spiriting them away to a brand new, empty save file.

"Why me?" asked Hibiscus Aster, the final sim the Avatar of the Watcher approached.

"Because I know you will be a perfect mayor, Hibiscus. You already are destined to be a politician according to your legacy, and so you are the perfect one to lead the others. I gave them each an explanation before sending them to their new home, but I will not be able to be in direct contact with them. You are the only one I will be able to contact from here on." said the Watcher.

Hibiscus looked hesitant, but eventually he nodded slowly. "Alright.. I'll do my best." And with that, he faded away, sent along to join the others.

"Next time, make me less glowy. You can't even see me properly in the screenshots."

Yeah, yeah, I will.

[appleburybacc]

Alma had a bit of a makeover and a wardrobe fit for the summer season!

[jenplayssims]

Welcome!

I finally got around to updating links for a navigation post!

Decades Challenge: the Thorpe Legacy

From the Beginning

Most Recent

1890s - founders William and Anna Ruth Thorpe

1900s - heir Frederick Thorpe

1910s - heir Lydia Thorpe Sullivan

1920s - heir Winnie Sullivan Adler

Oregon Trail Challenge

Currently on hiatus

Rules

From the Beginning

Most Recent

Meet the Pioneers: Annie / Pete / Rachel / Charles & Nellie / Jesse / Lottie

Gallery Downloads: (Gallery ID: HawkeyeTARDIS)

No CC Decades Sims: 1890s / 1900s / 1910s / 1920s / 1930s / 1940s / 1950s / 1960s

No CC Townies: #1 / #2 / #3 / #4 / Elder #1

No CC Builds: 1940s house 1950s house

CC American Girl Sims: Kaya / Felicity / Caroline / Josefina / Cecile & Marie-Grace / Kirsten / Addy / Samantha / Rebecca / Kit / Nanea / Molly / Maryellen / Melody / Julie & Ivy / Courtney

[etherealedensims]

However, Isolabella was the only one worried about their current situation. Everyone else still had the excitement at the prospect of starting an entirely new world together, and were getting started exploring their new home already.

Lachlan quickly found the punching bag in front of their house, and thought it would be fun to give it a go.

Gaia, knowing that they were going to need food sooner rather than later, as well as money - as Shayna was sure to tell them all, as their treasurer - got started some of the seeds she had brought over from the garden at her hermit's shack in the woods.

Shayna and Kazuya, meanwhile, got into a heated discussion about their own personal experiences with occults that had brought them to this exact place and time.

[wusel1811]

Wusel builds a new town: Family Hillinghead / Ashe Part 1

(Originally published on November 7th 2023)

My husband and I have been watching a great show on Netflix called Bodies (go check it out if you haven’t already!) and once more I thought that I should create these characters as Sims and give them much happier lifes than they had on the show.

So here we are with our first two protagonists, Alfred Hillinghead and Henry Ashe. They gave up on life in the year 1890 and travelled to some more or less modern future. Probably around our time 🙂 

I guess it must be really hard to be thrown into a new life like that, so they have a big piece of land in Chestnut Ridge where they live off the grid and with simple living activated, but most of all happily together.

Alfred is a loyal, proper, romantic and domestic guy who wants his lineage to succeed in life.

His husband Henry (sorry, I’m terrible at creating Sims… let’s just imagine he totally looks like Henry) is a good, creative muser who has a photographic eye (cc trait) and wants to become a photo-artist, which is a cc aspiration 🙂

What they have is their love for each other and lots and lots of space… and that’s it for now. But we’ll get there, guys – don’t worry!

I’ve downloaded some mods from BrazenLotus

so they can gather wood and stuff like that. 

I’ll be more or less following these BaCC rules

although they haven’t been updated in a while, so I might make some changes to make up for that or just because.

A few moments later they are proud owners of their own well, a storage for their wood and two woodworking tables… it seems they need to forage wood to build all the new things I downloaded for them.

Henry gets some wood…

… and then makes logs …

… while Alfred is looking for berries. 

I think I like these BrazenLotus mods 🙂

“Henry!!! I saw a scary snake while foraging!”

“Oh no… maybe you should help me with the woodwork instead so we have some furniture for our new home soon!”

“Okay, you make barstools and I make an endtable… I hope we learn new recipes soon!”

Hm… I usually say yes to whatever my Sims want, but I don’t think that’s a good idea, Henry… it will get better, you’re just upset because you pinched your finger! It will be fine!

“Hey, you’ve both pinched your fingers and are uncomfortable… do you want to go fishing for a while so you have something for dinner tonight?”

“Flirt? Oh yes, we definitely want to flirt!” ❤️❤️

Well, okay then…

Chestnut Ridge is so beautiful ❤️

Our first fish – Henry is a natural!

*sigh*

The fish Henry caught disappear after roasting in the fire, so my two adventurers get marshmallows instead – those are not really filling, though!

The disappearing fish is neither mine nor their fault, so after Alfred and Henry have put up their tent and built a campfire I deactivate simple living for a moment so they can have some veggie dogs

So far they have

collected wood

built some furniture

caught fish

collected a mushroom and a berry that Alfred can’t identify yet

planted the mushroom in planter they built themselves

Is that a successful first day or what? 🙂

I think they agree with me and are celebrating 🙂

[melsie-sims]

Welcome to New SimNation!

In this BACC, I'm attempting to go back to my roots by playing the game the way I used to when my Simblr started taking off — minus a lot of mods and almost all of my CC.

I will be following the rules by PurzelSims exactly as they are written here and will be using the spreadsheet they provide here to keep track of my progress.

📌 Table of Contents

PurzelSims' Rules

Challenge Tag (Chrono)

Achievements Unlocked

BACC Census

Family Trees

📆 By Rotation

Year 1 (Chrono)

[plumbob-pudding]

[newdawnsims]

Host: Hello Caleb. I hear you prefer to be called Kai?

Kai: Yeah, that's me. Kai Vance, older brother of our glorious leader, Ellie Vance.

Host: It's a pleasure to meet you, Kai.

Kai: You too, even if I'm not supposed to say your name. Why not, anyway? Doesn't seem like the usual format for a reality competition.

Host: Well, this isn't exactly the normal reality competition show, is it?

Kai: I guess that's true. But I still don't know why you're remaining anonymous.

Host: That is because we want to keep this experience as authentic for the viewers as we can. We want them to feel like you all are truly isolated, building this town on your own.

Kai: That makes sense.

Host: I'm glad. So, Kai, what is role in the town? What were you chosen to be? So far we know that your sister is the mayor, and Rowan is the head of resource management and sustainability, so the viewers and I would like to get to know you a bit better now.

Kai: I'm the head of technology and innovation!

Host: That seems very important. But.. is there much for you to do at the beginning? With there being no electricity, and no perceived way to get electricity yet?

Kai: Oh sure, for now I'll just be helping out where I can. I'm pretty athletic despite being a computer nerd, you know, haha. I'll do whatever the other residents need me to do, do heavy lifting, gardening, caring for animals, whatever. All while figuring out a way to get a power source without getting outside help.

Host: I see, that makes sense. So, now that we know what you'll be in charge of, do you want to tell me any more about yourself? Perhaps a university degree, what you did for work, where you come from? Is there anyone waiting for you back home? Do you have any hobbies?

Kai: I can definitely answer those questions. The easy ones first - I do have hobbies, mostly programming and video games, but those are also my job, so I also play some guitar in my spare time, and go skiing when I can. I have no girlfriend or anything, if that's what you're asking about anyone back home.

Host: That's all good to know, thank you.

Kai: Yeah. As for the other questions, I have a degree in computer science, and I was working for a company that was just a start-up when I was hired, but it's pretty big now. I developed some software for them that really propelled them to the top, but I'm not telling you what it is. That's private, I like to keep it a secret. I might be an arrogant son of a b**** but- oh, can I say that?

Host: It's fine, we'll bleep it out.

Kai: Great, anyway, as I said, I'm an arrogant SOB but I also want to be appreciated for me, not just my software.

Host: I'm sure we all understand that, Kai. Thank you for answering my questions, I'm sure our viewers are happy to have gotten to know you a bit better.

Kai: I'm sure they are, too. See ya!

[sparepartsbacc]

[dreamless-disco]

Alex moved in 😁