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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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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You have to clean each pile 3 times for it to disappear.
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