Things You Didn't Know!

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.

It is good to know what emotions can be triggers for adults to start having a mid life crisis @EgonVM It can help in knowing what emotions to try to avoid, or to know why it has occurred at a particular time in their life or day. 

Last Mid-Life crisis fact. I'll move on to other topics for now, but I'll get back to mid-life crisis when the new forums open up.

Anyway, there are 4 desires your sim could have once the early part is over:

• Desire for Adventure (slower energy decay)
• Desire for Creativity (higher quality craftables)
• Desire for Relationships (higher relationship gain)
• Desire for Success (higher career performance gain)

While sims have equal chance of getting one of these desires, certain traits can also cause certain desire to appear less:

Remember, having a certain trait doesn't prevent certain desire from appearing. It simply is rarer than other desires (or equally common if your sim has traits from all of these categories).

Though it seems like The Sims Wiki has info on all of that for now...

Thanks for posting the helpful information about the desires that come with having a midlife crisis @EgonVM It is helpful to know which traits may decrease the chance of certain desires to appear. 

On how good Growing Together is in my opinion, here's another fun fact on one of its features!

Today's topic: Work Rivals.

There's a chance for your sim to get one after a workday. Traits do affect the chance:

In addition, there is a rare chance for sim having 2 workplace rivals. There can't be more than 2 though.

In addition, just getting a job or promotion or just recovering from a burn out will prevent your sim from getting a work rival. There's also a cooldown in getting a work rival.

I like my sims having the cheerful trait @EgonVM so it is good to know that it will help to decrease the chance of them getting a workplace rival 🙂 Also I don’t have sims with the other traits that increase the chances of it so that is good! 

Thanks for letting us know about work rivals. 

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That is so sweet! @simgirl1010 🙂

Today's list: how to get detention in high school!

Your sim has to do the following in the high school or Career Day:

• Being rude to the staff member
• Pranking
• Not being at class
• Not being at any classes during the day and still showing up in school afterwards
• Randomly from chance cards

Getting detention will get your sim closer to being expelled. Your sim can convince the principal to get out of detention, which is more successful if they are friends with them or have Trusting sentiment and less successful when your sim has low relationship with them or have Suspicious sentiment.