Civil Designer Career Guide For The Sims 4

Following in the same, green-themed vein as the rest of the expansion pack, the Civil Designer career in The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle offers one of the most hands-on ways to get involved with your community yet, seeking to improve and cleanse it in both branches of the career.


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Choose between Civic Planning, redesigning the city and its energy consumption, or Green Technician, creating and crafting all sorts of eco-friendly gadgets, and make a difference in your neighborhood! In our guide, we’ve got everything you’ll need to excel in both branches of the Civil Designer career in The Sims 4.


Civil Designer Career Overview

civil designer career overview in the sims 4

Improve The Town As A Civic Planner Or Green Technician

When it comes to The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle, the central theme of the pack and, even larger, Evergreen Harbor – the world plagued with various levels of pollution that came with the pack – is all about keeping things clean and green.

And to do that, your Sim can become a Civil Designer, seeking to help renovate, improve, and clean up the neighborhood directly through your green-centric work.

Sims can do this in one of two career paths for the Civil Design career, which are:

  • Civic Planners take direct action in their communities by working closely with its people to renovate the town for a cleaner tomorrow.
    • Since they spend their time with their neighbors to come up with solutions, Civic Planners need to work on their Charisma and Logic skills.
  • Green Technicians, on the other hand, seek to improve on what’s already here, reusing and upcycling goods to combat pollution from the ground up.
    • Requiring both the brains to invent something and the skill to make it, Green Technicians will build their Fabrication and Logic skills.

Thankfully, this career splits pretty early, allowing you to choose a specialty beginning immediately upon promotion to Level Four.

Helpful Traits And Moods For The Civil Designer Career

Naturally, as a career focused on bettering the environment, the Green Fiend trait exclusive to Eco Lifestyle is a massive help for The Sims 4 Civil Designer career.

Both fairly active careers that require plenty of brainpower to get ahead, giving your Sim the Genius trait will help them gain skill in Logic that much quicker.

However, choose extra traits based on your intended career path, as the paths for the Civil Designer career have quite different requirements past Logic.

  • Civic Planners seeking to go out and work with the community will do well with social traits, like Outgoing or Good.
  • Green Technicians, however, will gain additional perks from the Maker trait, which emphasizes the use of the Fabricator and recycling overall.

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In the tables below, we’ve broken down each level of the Civil Designer career for both the Civic Planner and Green Technician branches.

This includes their working hours, pay scale, daily tasks, and any requirements for promotions.

This is a fairly hands-on career, so be prepared for not only your Sims’ time investment in it, but your own!

General Civil Designer Career (Levels 1-3)

Level

Hours

Rates

Promotional Requirements and Daily Tasks

Junior Draftsperson (1)

Monday-Friday


9 AM – 6 PM

$31/hour ($279/day)

Interview a Homeowner About Utilities

Architectural Apprentice (2)

Monday-Friday


8 AM – 5 PM

$42/hour ($378/day)

Interview a Homeowner About Utilities


Reach Level 2 in the Logic skill


Reach Level 2 in the Handiness skill

Construction Technician (3)

Monday-Friday


10 AM – 7 PM

$57/hour ($513/day)

Interview a Homeowner About Utilities


Reach Level 3 in the Logic skill


Reach Level 3 in the Handiness skill

Blossom from Evergreen Harbor watering plants in the community garden.

Civic Planner Career Path

Level

Hours

Rates

Promotional Requirements and Daily Tasks

Utilities Assistant (4)

Monday-Friday


9 AM – 6 PM

$68/hour ($612/day)

Gain Influence


Reach Level 2 in the Charisma skill


Reach Level 4 in the Logic skill

Urban Surveyor (5)

$76/hour ($684/day)

Gain Influence


Reach Level 3 in the Charisma skill


Reach Level 5 in the Logic skill

Policy Planner (6)

Monday-Friday


10 AM – 6 PM

$112/hour ($896/day)

Gain Influence


Reach Level 4 in the Charisma skill


Reach Level 6 in the Logic skill

Civic Archivist (7)

Monday-Thursday, and Saturday


10 AM – 6 PM

$145/hour ($1,160/day)

Gain Influence


Reach Level 5 in the Charisma skill


​​​​​​​Reach Level 7 in the Logic skill

Neighborhood Improvement Officer (8)

Monday-Friday


9 AM – 4 PM

$216/hour ($1,512/day)

Gain Influence


Reach Level 6 in the Charisma skill


​​​​​​​Reach Level 8 in the Logic skill

Municipal Engineer (9)

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday


6 AM – 3 PM

$280/hour ($1,960/day)

Gain Influence


Reach Level 7 in the Charisma skill


​​​​​​​Reach Level 9 in the Logic skill

City Master Planner (10)

Tuesday-Friday


6 AM – 3 PM

$350/hour ($3,150/day)

Gain Influence


Reach Level 8 in the Charisma skill


​​​​​​​Reach Level 10 in the Logic skill

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Green Technician Career Path

Level

Hours

Rates

Promotional Requirements and Daily Tasks

Installation Intern (4)

Tuesday-Saturday


10 AM – 7 PM

$65/hour ($585/day)

Fabricate an Eco-Upgrade Part


Reach Level 2 in the Fabrication skill


Reach Level 4 in the Logic skill

Design Guru (5)

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday-Saturday


10 AM – 7 PM

$70/hour ($630/day)

Fabricate an Eco-Upgrade Part


Reach Level 3 in the Fabrication skill


Reach Level 5 in the Logic skill

Machine Modifier (6)

Tuesday-Saturday


9 AM – 5 PM

$95/hour ($760/day)

Fabricate an Eco-Upgrade Part


Reach Level 4 in the Fabrication skill


Reach Level 6 in the Logic skill

Eco-Tech Scientist (7)

Monday-Friday


10 AM – 6 PM

$101/hour ($808/day)

Fabricate an Eco-Upgrade Part


Reach Level 5 in the Fabrication skill


Reach Level 7 in the Logic skill

Device Savant (8)

Sunday, Monday, Wednesday-Friday


9 AM – 4 PM

$149/hour ($1,194/day)

Fabricate an Eco-Upgrade Part


Reach Level 6 in the Fabrication skill


Reach Level 8 in the Logic skill

Expert Fabricator (9)

Monday-Thursday


11 AM – 5 PM

$199/hour ($1,194/day)

Fabricate an Eco-Upgrade Part


Reach Level 7 in the Fabrication skill


Reach Level 9 in the Logic skill

Master Inventor (10)

Tuesday-Friday


10 AM – 4 PM

$237/hour ($1,422/day)

Fabricate an Eco-Upgrade Part


Reach Level 8 in the Fabrication skill


Reach Level 10 in the Logic skill

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All Rewards And Items Unlocked In The Civil Designer Career

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Finally, we’ve got a complete list of every item, CAS option, and social interaction unlocked as part of the Civil Designer career in The Sims 4.

Everything Unlocked In The Sims 4 Civil Designer Career

Level

Items and Interactions Unlocked

General Civil Designer Career (Levels 1-5)

Junior Draftsperson (1)

N/A

Architectural Apprentice (2)

Electronic Drafting Tablet


“Draft a Municipal Concept”

Construction Technician (3)

Atomized Mist


New accessories in CAS

Civic Planner Career Path

Utilities Assistant (4)

Store No More Home Fabricator


New clothes in CAS


“Interview About Neighborhood Action Plans”

Urban Surveyor (5)

“Rally Voters”

Policy Planner (6)

New accessories in CAS

Civic Archivist (7)

Ground Solar Panel

Neighborhood Improvement Officer (8)

New clothes in CAS

Municipal Engineer (9)

Civic Solace

City Master Planner (10)

Champion of the People

Green Technician Career Path

Installation Intern (4)

Store No More Home Fabricator


New clothes in CAS


“Draft Eco-Invention Concept”

Design Guru (5)

“Grow Cruelty-Free Meat”

Machine Modifier (6)

Fabricator Recipes (Food)

Eco-Tech Scientist (7)

Scrapper’s Dew Collector

Device Savant (8)

New clothes in CAS

Expert Fabricator (9)

New rooms in Build/Buy

Master Inventor (10)

If you don’t want to wait to unlock all the rewards, or you’re interested in grabbing something from the other career track without starting your whole career over, we’ve got a guide to Build/Buy cheats that unlock everything for you.

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