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Today I have dug up how the start of a mid-life crisis works.
It turns out that when your sim is an adult, being in the following emotions will help to trigger it (the ones with + have a higher chance of triggering it):
- Angry + (the chance isn't increased when it's due to Werebies)
- Sad +
- Tense + (the chance isn't increased when it's due to Werebies)
- Uncomfortable
- Embarrassed
In addition, sim not being part of the household and sim already having had a mid-life crisis (aka having this trait: trait_Hidden_MidlifeCrisis_HadACrisis) will also prevent mid-life crisis from starting.
At first, I thought that witnessing death helps mid-life crisis to come about faster. Well, it was just a coincidence as witnessing death gives your sim a strong Sad moodlet, which in turn has a higher chance of starting it. And yup, there is a file called loot_MidlifeCrisis_SimDeath, but it's for removing all the mid-life crisis stuff once the sim having it dies.