End of Summer 1 Summary

And we’ve reached end of another season in Wildwood Heights.

Interesting Tidbits

  • We had 2 fires, 1 electrocution, 1 burglary. Bringing total fires to 4, total electrocutions to 2, and total burglaries to 2. This means we can now have fire alarms and burglar detectors
  • 7 births – Aya and Isabelle Briggs, Gregory Hardy, Kimberly and Tucker Silva, Volorin Tortall, and Volney Tortall

Positions added

  • 1 spot in Law Enforcement opened due to the number of fires.
  • UNMENTIONED IN UPDATES
    • 1 more spot in Show Business is opened due to Tkaa Tortall topping Slacker

Taxes/Money Available for University and Community Lots

  • $447,472 was the starting budget at the beginning of the round
  • $47,966 was brought in from taxes
  • $131 will go out in refunds
  • Budget at the end of the round: $495,307

SM & Population & CAS Sims available & Community Lots

  • Total Playable Sims is 51
  • SM is 3
  • Population is 153
  • CAS Sims: 6 of 5 used.
  • Community Lots: 2 of 2 used. Have 10 residential lots, will need 2 more residential lots to unlock another community funded community lot.

Goals for the Next Round

  • Still need Sharron Montes to top business.
  • Still need Thad Silva to top Natural Science

Summer 1, Group 4

Welcome back to Wildwood Heights BACC! This round consists of two new houses (Allen 2 and Peters 1) and the University Sims. I will also state here that unless I change my University requirements or until I unlock a University for my own usage, that I will not be doing a University Candidates page anymore. For the same reason I’ve moved to doing groups: it’s about the neighborhood, not the individual Sims.

Starting off at the Allen 2 residence, Maxwell looks for his LTW career of being a chef.

He finds it and joins it. He also gives some money to paying back his college tuition loan.

He did not find a significant other in college so I have him greet random townies and see who sticks. Christy Inada has 2 bolts with Maxwell so they started up a relationship.

And they quickly go from lovers to engaged to married.

And it doesn’t take long for them to try for a child. But the child will be born in the next round due to how long it took for Christy to walk by the lot.

Next up was the final residential lot, the Peters.

Violeta Silva and Raisa Peters wasted no time getting married and engaged with Violeta taking Raisa’s last name.

I do some move in/out shenanigans to get the house name in game to say Peters and I eventually get it there and this is their current house.

And Violeta sets the stove on fire when her father was over and it takes both Raisa and Violeta to put it out

It didn’t help that the fire was going still at 8 pm when the werewolf transformation occurs.

But this was the last thing of importance to happen at the house.

Stephen and Uline waste no time picking up where they left off as teenagers and Stephen quickly proposes to Uline and she accepts.

Ulasim greets the various Sims that are at the dorm and visit and finds he has 2 bolts with Anais Paay

And he eventually proposes to Anais and she accepts.

Stephen maxes his logic skill due to wishing to play chess almost every night.

And this is where I’m glad I have ACR’s jealously plug in. Stephen accepted a kiss from Tammie Durao right in front of Uline and fell in love with her. He has 2 bolts with both of them. His one true love however does remain with Uline.

Uline’s jealousy is set to she doesn’t get jealous.

And the last thing of any importance that happened before they all graduated with 4.0’s was that Uline stayed outside in the summer sun for too long and she passed out. The only one home at the time was Stephen but he’s risky to send outside in the sun.

Luckily Ulasim got home from class and was able to douse her awake before she died.

And that is it for this group of updates!

Summer 1, Group 3

Welcome back to Wildwood Heights! If you’ve noticed the title format change, I have changed up how I’m posting my BACC. Sometimes in a period of 5 days, nothing really interesting happens in the scheme of the BACC. This is a challenge about the neighborhood, not individual families.

So at the beginning of each rotation, I will be dividing the neighborhood into smaller chunks. Currently that’s 3 households. The final group will be a bit larger as it will have the University round, the University Candidates post, and the end of rotation summary.

For this round, Group 3 has the following houses: Silva 1, Pangalan 1, and Tortall 1.

At the Silva residence, Josiah is back and has made his moves on Dagmar Bertino.

That night a burglar made the bad mistake of trying to rob them. Werewolves passively get their Body skill maxed so they’re very likely to win fights.

Josiah eventually proposed and got married to Dagmar.

They are loving the bathroom for life events. Dagmar got pregnant and has given birth to twins Tucker and Kimberly. Both are werewolves.

This was the end of the rotation at the Silva residence.

I also played the Pangalan household. But it appears I didn’t take any pictures. Uwe aged to child and had learned all of his skills. Yvo aged to toddler as well. Nothing else of importance happened here.

They aged up to have the same underwear.

They wasted no time in trying for a baby.

Even beat the getting married part. Had them do it now instead of waiting for a want to roll as Kaia was the one who got pregnant and I want the kid she has to have the Tortall last name.

And this is where I claim I hate ACR and same sex pregnancy mods.

Because they went and tried for another baby. So both Uuosae and Kaia are pregnant.

Two things of importance here in this picture.

First is that Aeryn has come home wit a promotion to Hall of Famer. He’s now completed his lifetime wish.

The second is that the townie in the background is doing the reaction to labor.

Because at that same moment that Aeryn was coming home, Kaia was giving birth to a boy named Volorin.

Volorin is named after Sergeant Volorin. He was member of the King’s Own and was part of the Third Company which was the Company that Squire Keladry was with when she was squired by Lord Sir Raoul.

Later that evening, Uuosae gave birth to Volney.

Volney is named after Volney Rain. He is an artist of the Tortallan Court.

And that’s all that happened at all three houses!

Instead of doing updates here, the updates will now just happen at the end of the summary page.

Summer 1, Montes 1

Welcome back to the Montes family! In the last update the Montes started a restaurant and got it to rank 10.

The Montes are currently digging for treasure to earn enough money to buy a business. Their taxes keep them pretty cash poor.

But they do eventually earn enough money and they have an electronics store.

These are really profitable.

And the eventually get it to rank 10 and it had apparently dipped down to rank 9 before I left the lot that time as when I went back to just earn more money, they got to rank 10 again. Due to how EA counts the number of rank 10 businesses, this also triggered Karl’s LTW to be satisfied. This means that they will not be opening another business unless someone in that family needs a business as that’s my rule for businesses. Your LTW requires a business to be opened for it, you get to open it. I only make an exception if there is someone in the neighborhood with the LTW to get 5 top level businesses like what happened with Karl.

And that’s it for the season!

End of Season Stats:

Businesses:
Green Store – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes
Art Store – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes
Widkova Restaurant – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes
Electronics Store – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes

Careers:
Education: 0/2 – Tempie Everett, Quy Pangalan
Gamer: 0/1 – Roxann Briggs
Law: 0/2 – Faye Hardy, Sean Briggs
Athletic: Unlocked
Business: 2/4 – Sharron Montes, Keith Foley
Natural Science: 0/1 – Thad Silva
Entertainment: 1/1
Slacker – 0/1 – Tkaa Tortall
Artist – 1/3 – Sam Foley, Ivy Pangalan
Show Business – 2/2
Culinary – 1/1

Total Net Worth: $214,275
Taxes: $28,641

Summer 1, Allen 1

Welcome back to the Allen family! In the last update, the twins aged up to teenager and Rhett died of old age.

Codi broke the shower, so she got to fix it.

Neville working on his athletic skill and Rhett is haunting for the first time.

And we end the update with Neville dancing.

End of Season Stats:

Businesses:
Green Store – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes
Art Store – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes
Widkova Restaurant – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes

Careers:
Education: 0/2 – Tempie Everett, Quy Pangalan
Gamer: 0/1 – Roxann Briggs
Law: 0/2 – Faye Hardy, Sean Briggs
Athletic: Unlocked
Business: 2/4 – Sharron Montes, Keith Foley
Natural Science: 0/1 – Thad Silva
Entertainment: 1/1
Slacker – 0/1 – Tkaa Tortall
Artist – 1/3 – Sam Foley, Ivy Pangalan
Show Business – 2/2
Culinary – 1/1

Total Net Worth: $46,861
Taxes: $2,686

Summer 1, Hardy 1

Welcome back to the Hardy family! In the last round Loren, Saul, and Elijah became teenagers and came into their witch and vampire states.

Lance Hardy invited over his fiance Linda Barthelet and promptly married her. And based on this picture, she’s already pregnant with their first child.

Linda came in as a Popularity Sim and rolled Fortune as her secondary aspiration. Her personality is 4/10/4/4/3 and her LTW is to be a Hall of Famer.

And it was an uneventful three days as soon Linda went into labor and gave birth to a baby boy they named Gregory. Gregory is a wizard, we’ll have to wait until he becomes a toddler to find out which type he is.

The pair waste no time in trying for a sibling for Gregory. But I don’t think it was successful.

And we leave off with Linda working towards her Athletic skill.

And that’s it for the season!

End of Season Stats:

Businesses:
Green Store – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes
Art Store – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes
Widkova Restaurant – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes

Careers:
Education: 0/2 – Tempie Everett, Quy Pangalan
Gamer: 0/1 – Roxann Briggs
Law: 0/2 – Faye Hardy, Sean Briggs
Athletic: Unlocked
Business: 2/4 – Sharron Montes, Keith Foley
Natural Science: 0/1 – Thad Silva
Entertainment: 1/1
Slacker – 0/1 – Tkaa Tortall
Artist – 1/3 – Sam Foley, Ivy Pangalan
Show Business – 2/2
Culinary – 1/1

Total Net Worth: $77,569
Taxes: $2,257

Summer 1, Foley 1

Welcome back to the Foley family! In the last update, Bennett Foley died of old age and Sam progressed through the Art career.

Keith invited over a Sim he had some bolts with in Uni. His name is Niek Tsang.

Keith gets his first kiss with Niek.

And first woohoo, which is a successful try for baby as well. I’m following wants on if they will get married or not.

So far no want for engagement or move in, but they are cute flirting with each other.

They even play chess together.

My mod that lets you skill on community lots also lets townies skill when they are over visiting.

Sam brought home a townie from work. I forget her name.

He’s also rolling the fear of growing old without marrying. He’s going to have to deal

Niek is over again and has dinner with the family. Or it could have been the same day as Keith isn’t showing yet.

Keith and Sam play chess later that night.

Keith has gotten a job in the Business career.

Kaia Tran stops by. She’s so getting a new outfit when I get to the Tortalls.

And we end the season with Keith getting his first baby bump.

End of Season Stats:

Businesses:
Green Store – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes
Art Store – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes
Widkova Restaurant – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes

Careers:
Education: 0/2 – Tempie Everett, Quy Pangalan
Gamer: 0/1 – Roxann Briggs
Law: 0/1 – Faye Hardy
Athletic: Unlocked – Aeryn Tortall, Neville Allen
Business: 1/4 – Sharron Montes, Keith Foley
Natural Science: 0/1 – Thad Silva
Entertainment: 1/1
Slacker – 0/1 – Tkaa Tortall
Artist – 1/3 – Sam Foley, Ivy Pangalan
Show Business – 2/2
Culinary – 1/1

Total Net Worth: $45,968
Taxes: $4,597

Summer 1, Briggs 1

Welcome back to the Briggs family! In the last update Roxann spent the season alone working on climbing the Gamer career while Randi was at college.

This is Sean Allen, Randi’s fiance. It was storming when they moved in and Sean got struck by lightning. Electrocution count increase by 1.

The pair wastes no time becoming Randi and Sean Briggs.

Nor do they waste time doing what is needed to start the next generation.

Roxann working on her Creativity.

Randi working on her Charisma.

I have modified my rules to allow for those who have a degree to enter the Medical field.

However, no luck on getting it. Sean is currently in the Law career and Randi is in the Athletic career.

And nothing happened pretty much from that first day until the end when Randi gave birth in the evening to twin girls, Aya and Isabelle. Isabelle is the darker skinned twin.

Aya is a witch. Isabelle is a Werewolf. We’ll have to see which witch Aya is when she ages to toddler and we get to see her personality.

Roxann helping out and doing diaper duty.

The pair ends up in bed again. I do not remember if it they tried or not or if it was successful if they did. We’ll have to wait until next time to see.

Raisa Peters is over. We’ll see more of her later on in the rotation as she is Violeta Silva’s fiance.

And the house got an expansion due to the twins being born.

And that’s it for the season!

End of Season Stats:

Businesses:
Green Store – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes
Art Store – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes
Widkova Restaurant – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes

Careers:
Education: 0/2 – Tempie Everett, Quy Pangalan
Gamer: 0/1 – Roxann Briggs
Law: 0/1 – Faye Hardy
Athletic: Unlocked – Aeryn Tortall, Neville Allen
Business: 0/1 – Sharron Montes
Natural Science: 0/1 – Thad Silva
Entertainment: 1/1
Slacker – 0/1 – Tkaa Tortall
Artist – 1/3 – Sam Foley, Ivy Pangalan
Show Business – 2/2
Culinary – 1/1

Total Net Worth: $43,686
Taxes: -$131 (they actually get a refund this time)

Summer 1, Everett 1

Welcome back to the Everett Family! In the last update, Tempie and Gordon had given birth to twins Amina and Keagan!

This is the current overview of the neighborhood. I have added 2 new lots to the neighborhood with Violeta Silva and Maxwell Allen starting their own lots. Maxwell has a house built, Violeta does not, but she does have a phone.

Gordon working on logic.

Tempie now working on logic while Gordon helps with the kids.

Amina and Keagan have aged to toddler.

Amina’s personality is: 9/2/10/8/6

Keagan’s personality is: 9/2/6/6/5

These two are so adorable! Playing with the blocks raising their mechanical skill.

Quy Pangalan came home from work with Tempie.

Gordon greeted walk by Christy Stratton. Tempie needs friends to climb the ranks.

Tempie and Gordon enjoying breakfast together. Seems like Tempie might be worried that her kids might not do well in school.

And we have fire # 3, we now have a position open in Law Enforcement and the Sims can buy fire and burglar alarms now.

And that was the last thing of importance that happened this season

End of Season Stats:

Green Store – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes
Art Store – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes
Widkova Restaurant – Rank 10 – Owner: Karl Montes

Careers:
Education: 0/2 – Tempie Everett, Quy Pangalan
Gamer: 0/1 – Roxann Briggs
Law: 0/1 – Faye Hardy
Athletic: Unlocked – Aeryn Tortall, Neville Allen
Business: 0/1 – Sharron Montes
Natural Science: 0/1 – Thad Silva
Entertainment: 1/1
Slacker – 0/1 – Tkaa Tortall
Artist – 1/3 – Sam Foley, Ivy Pangalan
Show Business – 2/2
Culinary – 1/1

Total Net Worth: $44,985
Taxes: $999

Summer 1 University Candidates

Time for another season to end! Which means going over who is and who is not going to University and who will end up getting any scholarships and what majors will be done.

University Candidates

Stephen Montes

  • Popularity / Fortune
  • Lifetime Want: Ecological Guru
  • SPAT: 29.69
  • EA Scholarships
    • SimCity Scholar’s Grant – $1,000
    • Hogan Award for Athletics – $750
    • Undead Educational Scholarship – $1,500
    • Kaa-Ching Transactional Awareness Fund – $1,250
    • Myzological Institute of Commerce Prize – $1,250
  • Total Tuition he would have to pay: $44,250
  • Total Net Worth: $161,920 – high income tax bracket
  • Not eligible for SimNation Poverty Scholarship Scholarship
    • Not in low income tax bracket

Uline Tortall

  • Romance / Pleasure
  • Lifetime Want: Icon
  • SPAT: 15.15
  • EA Scholarships
    • SimCity Scholar’s Grant – $1,000
  • Total tuition she will have to pay: $49,000
  • Total Net Worth: $52,407 – median income tax bracket
  • Not eligible for SimNation Poverty Scholarship
    • Not in low income tax bracket
    • LTW does not require university

Ulasim Tortall

  • Popularity / Pleasure
  • Lifetime Want: Business Tycoon
  • SPAT: 12.80
  • EA Scholarships
    • SimCity Scholar’s Grant – $1,000
  • Total tuition he will pay: $49,000
  • Total Net Worth: $52,407 – median income tax bracket
  • Not eligible for SimNation Poverty Scholarship
    • Not in low income tax bracket

SimNation Poverty Scholarship Recipients

Since no Sim qualifies for the scholarship this rotation, no Sim gets the scholarship.

Deciding Who Goes and Who Doesn’t

2 of the 3 candidates have lifetime wishes that require university.

Those Sims are Stephen Montes and Ulasim Tortall

Uline Tortall is the only one who does not. Her aspiration is Romance / Pleasure. However, she is in love with Stephen. I also looked at her interests like I did with Keith Foley the last time. She has high interest in school and decent interest in both money and work. She would go to University.

Majors

Now to decide majors.

Stephen Montes – Biology
Ulasim Tortall – Economics
Uline Tortall – Drama