Midlife crisis

Midlife crisis

An adult who is experiencing a midlife crisis.

A midlife crisis is an event that occurs in The Sims 3: Generations, triggered when a young adult sim transitions to an adult sim, and is shown by a moodlet which lasts 7 days.

There are a few ways to calculate if your sim will experience a midlife crisis through a point system, or an easier option is a tuning mod .

Before a midlife crisis

Point system

This point system determines whether or not your Sim will experience a Midlife crisis. If your Sim experiences enough of these following events for the combined points to be 1, he or she will experience a Midlife crisis.

Low career level or unemployment adds 0.2 points
Getting married early adds 0.1 points
Never getting married adds 0.1 points
Having children early adds 0.1 points
Having skills at level 1 adds 0.1 points
If Sim never moved house, it adds 0.1
For every breakup, 0.05 points are added
For every divorce, 0.1 points are added
For every death experienced, 0.2 points are added
Having a relationship below the mid line adds 0.2 points
Having the Ambitious or Commitment Issues traits add 0.1 points

'Early' means at the beginning of the young adult life stage, any amount of time after that and the points are less)

During a midlife crisis

The moodlets

Moodlet Name	Mood Effect	Time Period	From	Game Dialog/Description
Having A Midlife Crisis	No Mood Effect	7 Days	Transition from Young Adult to Adult	A midlife crisis? No... this can't be! Why, it seemed like just last week that (Sim Name) was still getting a student discount at the movies on his/her looks alone. If you fight to recapture your youth, you can still cling to it, right?? He/She has completely X midlife crisis wishes.
Having A Midlife Crisis	-20	7 Days	Having a Midlife Crisis Wish awaiting fulfillment	The weight of responsibility is heavy on your shoulders. It's time to pull yourself away from checking for wrinkles in the mirror and do something about it. Your youth is out there, you just have to keep living it, right? Then why do you feel like you're right on the edge of a nervous breakdown! (Sim Name) has completed X midlife crisis wishes.
Feeling Alive!	+20	1 Hour	Riding a Motorcycle/§50,000+ Car During Midlife Crisis.	Aww yeah... check out this RIDE! Is it sick or what? That's what the kids are saying these days, right? Sick? Whatever... pedal to the metal baby!

Midlife crisis wishes

An example of a Midlife crisis wish

Once or twice a day your sim will get a midlife crisis wish, you may or may not choose to select it. The wishes look the same as regular wishes, but they have a red background. But beware - once you promise a midlife crisis wish to a sim, it cannot be cancelled, and will disappear after the midlife crisis is over. Moreover, when a midlife crisis wish has been promised, the midlife crisis moodlet will turn negative until the wish is fulfilled. Wishes may vary but some will include getting a divorce, quiting work or moving house.

Post-midlife crisis

Once your Sim's midlife crisis is over, they will get a moodlet depending on how many wishes were fulfilled.

Moodlet Name	Mood Effect	From	Game Dialog/Description	Lifetime Happiness Points Gained
Barely Fulfilled	+10	Fufilling 1 Midlife Crisis Wish.	The past is the past and there's no going back, but that's not to say you got nothing done.	250
Pleasantly Fulfilled	+20	Fufilling 3 Midlife Crisis Wishes.	(Sim Name)'s feeling large and in charge! She may be headed into the latter half of life, but she can always look back on her youth with a smile.	750
Supremely Fulfilled	+30	Fufilling 6 Midlife Crisis Wishes.	40 is the new 20! Midlife crisis? Hah... Regrets are for those who haven't lived their life to the fullest, and you've got your best years ahead of you now!	1250

Avoiding Midlife Crisis

There are currently two known ways to avoid experiencing a Midlife crisis.

Make sure the Sim has less than 1 point from point system.
Sims can also go to the hospital to "Get Therapy" to cure the crisis. The payment in order to be cured is §2,000.