The Sims 4 Island Living: Sulani
Rejuvenating the Island's Ecosystem via Conservationist Activities
A fully improved shot of the Island of Mua Pel'am in Sulani from The Sims 4 Island Living Expansion Pack. This island's ecology is negatively impacted by trash and poor policies. As a regular Sim or Conservationist you can clean it up. Click to Enlarge.
The Sims 4 Island Living includes an Island nation known as Sulani. The island is home to a refuge for wildlife, the Island of Mua Pel'am. Evidently, consumerism and pollution have begun to take hold on your arrival, as the island is quite polluted and in need of a Conservationist to clean things up. Note that both the system and fact that the new Career exists encourage you to play a Conservationist, but it's by no means impossible to clean up the Island while ignoring the new environmentally-conscious Career Track. After all, individuals can make a difference, right?
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The Sims 4 Island Living: Conservationists and Sulani's Environment
Learn about the Conservationist Career and cleaning up Sulani's Ecosystem. The island can be improved twice, for mostly visual effects but the new career is hands-on and offers various ways to make money.
How It Works
A leaf symbol appears when you do something that was positive for the Island ecology.
Island Living features a points system of sorts that scores how polluted the island of Mua Pel'am is at the present time. Initially, it's set at the worst level so it's possible to beautify the island and make it a true paradise, live on a huge lot with no one else around in your own island paradise (heh). Don't get me wrong, the island is not a gunky hellhole at first but there are areas where pollution is present and obvious to the naked eye. There's also not much wildlife and not many flowers.
Improving The Environment
Coral before and after extensive Conservation efforts have been completed. This type of effect only appears on one largely uninhabited island in the Expansion, to be clear, but things you do elsewhere do have an effect on the Island of Mua Pel'am.
Certain actions you take will display a leaf over your Sim's heart, indicating they have made an impact on the island's health. The amount of actions you need to take to clean up the island vary dramatically based upon the points you receive for said action. Combing the beach for trash is useful, sure, but not as useful as stopping litterbugs. However it may be easier to pick up a lot of beach debris than stop litterbugs. All in all searching the beach at Mua Pel'am for larger debris is good for a regular Sim, but Conservationists have it made.
Cleanup and Environment Interaction Scores
Things All Sims Can Do For The Environment
- Free Diving for Treasure (sometimes): 1
- A Few Beach Cave Events: 1, but wholly unreliable
- Digging for Trash (Comb Beach): 1
- Scuba Diving (sometimes): 1
- Clean Up Floating Piles, Ash Piles, and Seaweed: 1
- Clean Up Sulfur Pile (Base of Volcano): 2
- Clean Up Trash Pile: 3
- Assault and Battery on a Litterbug: 3
- Confront a Litterbug Peacefully: 4
Conservationist-Only Ecological Activites
- Analyze Sample (Success Only): 1
- Send Research Data: 1
- Survey Invasive Species: 1
- Write Conservation Article: 3
- Enthuse about Conservation (Social): 1
- Spread Conservation Awareness (Social): 1
- Survey Snorkeling (Marine Biologist only): 5
- Survey Ocean Floor (MB only): 5
- Enthuse About Green Energy: 5
- Enthuse About Eating Organic: 5
- Write Conservation Article (Great Work): 10
- Spray Invasive Species: 10
- Create Environmental Regulation (EM only): 10
- Shoot Nature Documentary: 10
So What Happens When I Clean Up Sulani?
As the Island's Ecology improves, you'll get a notification like this. There's a seocnd one when it reaches the final rank.
Well, the appearance of the Island I mentioned changes quite a bit. Trees grow more green (stage 2) and increase in density (stage 3). Corals grow (stage 3), more butterflies appear (stage 2+3), and there are exponentially more blossoming flowers (stage 2+3). In fact I didn't realize how drab the whole place looked until I did a before and after. The remainder of the islands are in a pristine state, so you can sort of ignore this ecological stuff if you want without it being of issue. You may even like the drab look better, you weirdo you. Either way there are cheats for that, but they do require TwistedMexi's AllCheats Mod to use. You can see the cheats on my page for Island Living Cheats and there is also a link to AllCheats in the section about the Island Conservation Narrative there.
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More to It
There's more to this system. A few events may happen when you've cleaned up the Island. Also, the island's resident Elementals may be more pleased with you if you've done enough to take care of the land. I'm going to get into that with other pages but will list the events here after a time. I don't want to spoil *everything* about the pack, just want to make people aware of systems that exist as the game isn't very direct about announcing this like StrangerVille was.
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