This Grand Life 2 news & patch notes

• Fix Birthday window adolescent mood swing reversal cost is higher if saving/reloading the game before accepting the birthday change

As discussed in the previous announcement, the Board Of Directors update is now on the default branch.

Version 1.03.08

Board Of Directors

• Add Board Of Directors feature for stock market listed companies

• Add help button for Board Of Directors

• Rival clans now have individual members. If the clan owns shares in a listed company, they will support their members for board of director seats

• Listed company's performance no longer affected by management skill until Board Of Directors are unlocked

• Removed Management rating from researched stock information (replaced by new Board Of Directors rating)

Other stuff

• Most UI windows stay open at end of month instead of auto-closing (unless someone dies or household is bankrupted)

• Overhauled how spreadsheets are handled to be similar to charts

• Spreadsheets now update numbers live

• Add interest per month display to Savings Account window and Assets List window

• When depositing or withdrawing from savings account, leave window open until player closes it manually

• Add checkbox for disabling animations to Options menu

• Add tooltip when hovering over charts showing exact values (works for all charts)

• Add chart showing net worth changes over time (new button on Asset List window)

• Reworked open chart buttons for more consistent behaviour (clicking button when related chart is already open will close it)

• Other minor improvements to chart display

• Add debug button for qualified for jobs from hours worked

• Home Building related activities now generate XP for character when appropriate

• ESC key closes the birthday window

• Add list of active policies to Rivals window Current Policy Effects tab

• Remove household asset level display

• Opening Household Financial Statement does not close some other windows automatically any more

• Fix missing sound effect when unlocking Rivals

• Fix loading game with expanded Socials window not using correct background image

• Fix alignment issues on Monthly Summary screen when using non-default UI scaling

• Fix able to add auto actions for purchasing capital assets for player businesses even though it does nothing

• Fix inconsistent "XP:" spacing in Chinese, German and Japanese translations

• Fix cash not included in net worth history tracking

• Fix charts not drawing lines sometimes when numbers are very large

This update overhauls the management system for companies listed on the stock market. There are quite a few interconnected parts to this change so it will be on the Experimental Branch for a while before releasing to the main branch.

To access the Experimental Branch:

Right-click the game in your Steam library -> "Properties" -> "Game Versions & Betas" select "experimental".

Board Of Directors

The Board Of Directors guide a company's direction and will affect its performance over time. It's comprised of up to 5 members from either rival families or from your household. These members are elected every 2 years.

You can nominate your household characters to the board if you own enough of the company's shares. If elected, your character will passively generate influence points. Their skills will also contribute positively or negatively to the board's overall performance.

During election months, board nominees are ranked according to a variety of factors - their related experience, personal popularity, household or rival support, and share price performance since the last election.

This means it's not always the most competent people elected to the board! As an example, if the economy crashes leading to a stock price collapse, the current board will have a negative offset to their ranking at the next election. Perhaps that means it's a good time to nominate your own less experienced family member, and use your owned shares to push them higher up the rankings.

Other Changes

There are other changes too, like some UI windows staying open at end of month instead of auto-closing. This is a bit of a risky one since I originally coded things assuming all windows would be closed at the end of the month, please let me know if you see any inconsistencies.

Charts now have a tooltip when you hover over them showing exact values:

And there is a new chart on the Assets List for examining your net worth changes over time:

• Fix performance review popup's minimum performance not matching job site's minimum performance at start of month

• Fix performance review popup not accounting for increased minimum performance when asking for a pay raise

• Fix missing Homegrown Tomato asset

• Fix German translation for real estate sale popup

• Fix bankruptcy proceedings not clearing taxable income on earnings before the bankruptcy occurred

• Add modifier for contract payouts to partially account for expected long term inflation

• Add Thai font support

• Fix missing default English translations when using incomplete or unsupported language

This Grand Life 2 is now available in 4 more languages.

===Version 1.02.05===

• French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Korean translations added

• Add mustache placeholder tags support for phrase translations

• Add Vietnamese font support

• Fix small errors in various existing translations

• Fix unable to use assets that don't have tags

• If asset does not have tags, don't show users in tooltip

• Change personality generation so you are much more likely to meet Dull/Normal strangers and much less likely to meet Quirky/Unhinged strangers

• Optimise asset usage calculations (should see 10-20% speed improvement when owning lots of assets and have lots of characters working in player businesses)

• Squeeze Socials window to fit more characters per page and add button to expand display

• Shrink all map file sizes for compatibility

• Fix player business window's income statement button incorrect tooltip

• Fix Stockholm dimensions listed incorrectly on setup screen

• Add pay all debts button to Debts window

• Add debug button for spawning policy changes

• Fix industry policy invest/defund not applying multiple stacks properly

• Fix potential source of crash when player business asset disappears while being used with business window open

Business assets now group together when there are too many:

Also the Job Search window now shows the average wage for each job so you don't have to open the City Explorer to find out:

Version 1.01.15

• Player business assets now grouped together by type and displayed with one icon when there are too many items

• Owned and rented real estate list sort by occupant status now lists unoccupied properties at the top

• Job search window shows current average city wage for each job

• Add base game mods "Slow Inflation" and "Redenomination x2"

• Malformed xml data files no longer crash game, instead will print error in the debug log

• New real estate can no longer spawn when public market value of that property type is too low
• Mod menu for creating new mods increase 'File Name' field character limit to 40
• Newly moddable: Player business reputation's effect on income multiplier (reputationIncomeMinXer, reputationIncomeGrowthXer), Theoretical market size of each real estate property type (restateMaxMarketSize), Theoretical market size of each business type (businessMaxMarketSize), Inflation increase when currency revaluation happens (redenominationThreshold)
• Fix DEPRECATED Torn Ligament status effect sometimes appearing on birthdays due to negative health points

• Starting loan mods can set % of loan received as cash
• Long-term average central bank rate (baseInterestRate) is now moddable
• Fix player-owned real estate auto mode rent increases not keeping up when inflation is high
• Fix personal bankruptcy process not using savings account to repay debts

Education changes previously discussed here are now on the default branch.

Version 1.01.02

• Add functionality for selecting part time study to many education courses

• Adjusted many degrees and certificate activity hours from 40 to 30

• Lower DIPLOMA:Logistics minimum monthly study hours from 160 to 120

• Update some education-related tooltips and icons to support part time study

• Update some job-related tooltips and icons for more information

• Increase business contract payout from inventory and utility costs

• Decrease business contract payout from wage costs

• Fix keeping a business Closed while having active contracts not giving Jobs Completed reputation increase

• Fix socials window resetting scroll bar when deleting friend from existence

The Experimental Branch has been updated to v1.01.00. To access this branch, right-click the game on Steam -> Properties -> Betas -> select experimental in the dropdown list.

In this update, enrolling in a degree or certificate creates a popup for choosing between full time and part time study. Part time studying will halve the hours required each month but double the total months required.

To accommodate this new feature, the activity hours for degrees and certificates has been changed from 40 to 30 hours - if you're using the activity limits settings for an education in existing saved games you may have to make adjustments.

Both education and jobs now show the current performance under their respective shortcuts so you can quickly see how things are going.

Also, the site activity windows have been reworked to show important information like remaining education/work hours this month.

• Show money icon for activities even if net worth modifier reduces money to 0
• Adjust Radio Ads image for clarity
• Add checkbox for Mute When Unfocused to Options Menu
• Fix happiness and health not changing from status effects

• Rivals, Influence and Policies button tooltip continues to show networth breakdown after unlocking it
• Disable adding helpless babies to passions
• Disable moving in to live on Empty Residential Land

• Another potential fix for not enough regular hours to complete contract hours (if you have an existing saved game with the problem, please Close/Open the business to fix it)

• Potential fix for incomplete contract hours on the month a contract is finished causing negative foot traffic next month

• Add check for enough hours remaining in month to a bunch of passion-related activities
• Fix player business incomplete contract hours leaking into foot traffic at start of new month

• Add check to disable Cook Food if not enough hours remaining in month to complete it
• Add tooltip to "age and other limits" icon if activity requires enough hours remaining in month to complete it
• Add City Explorer button to Character Sheet
• Attempting to add participant to passion when there are problems now prints notification
• baseTranslate phrases are now moddable (Health Inspector example mod on workshop updated)

• Add popup alert for first time player tries to unpause the game while Auto Mode is disabled
• Add checkbox to disable end of month pause to Monthly Summary window
• Corporate Espionage passion uses legal working age as minimum age
• Fix player business job buttons not greyed out when there are missing items for job

• Add floorspace to main display for available real estate and newly found real estate popup tooltip
• Character displays on Socials and popups add separate gender icon from age icon
• Player business rearrange recruitment and current staff windows

• Auto Actions help button add extra info on characters avoiding actions that cause low/negative needs
• Rearrange tooltip for business contracts and income for clarity on branding impact
• Expired futures contracts show month of expiry (only applies to newly expired contracts after this update)
• Change all assets with Home Makeover tag to LVL 1
• travelSpeedXer is now moddable

• Add popup after buying first vehicle showing how to change transportation mode
• Fix Cook Food not spawning Home Cooked Food when no ingredients available on the last tick
• Fix kicking someone out of the household not removing their passions
• Fix taking too many jobs at the same site makes buttons go outside UI window

• Fix Japanese translation tooltip missing Yen and Pound symbol causing extra line breaks

• Add support for multiple languages in the same mod (Example mod Health Inspector on the workshop updated)
• Fix incorrect display when exporting household after currency redenomination
• Fix some Chinese translations