This Grand Life 2 News

- Fix Painting Supplies missing from Hobby Store

[h3]Economy Changes[/h3]
Some changes to the economic model in this update - the Industry Stability difficulty slider has been replaced by an Economy Stability difficulty slider. This introduces economy-wide crashes that will affect many industries at the same time.



They will occur on average once every 10 years (but could be much shorter or longer!). Changing the difficulty slider affects the severity of the crash. Note a few industries might still grow a little during these crashes so it's not a sign you should immediately sell everything. Also consider the tax implications if your assets have increased in value a lot.


[h3]Partying Passion[/h3]
With normal activities, the chance for your characters to invite friends and build opinion varies depending on their Social preference (25% for allergics and 300% for addicts).

The Partying passion adds special activities that can support many more invites at once and is a great way to build more friendships in less time. Of course, your Social allergic characters will still hate every second of it but your Social addicts will have the best time of their life.



Adopting the passion will make available different party activities at their relevant sites.



[h3]Version 0.64.00[/h3]

• Rework economic model to include sudden crashes (replaces the industry stability difficulty setting)
  
• Increased effect of economic growth on minimum job performance requirement
  
• Decreased chance of public stock company going bankrupt to account for new economy
  
• Add Partying passion and related activities
  
• Activity tooltip now displays number of friends invited to activity
  
• Add functionality for changing number of invited friends to activity based on activity itself
  
• Add more real estate sorting options
  
• Search results filter for shopping item tags includes the items with that tag
  
• Optimised some little icon displays
  
• Fix friends being invitable to Take A Shower (Gym) activity
  
• Fix zero needs highlight for character icons at bottom of screen offset incorrectly
  

The first versions of Chinese (Simplified) and Japanese translations have been added to the game and uploaded to Localizor.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has been added as a new city. It has a relatively large energy industry and an interesting geography to navigate. A high crime rate means going over your floorspace limits is not recommended!



The new Events Management business requires a variety of jobs such as Events Coordinator, Electrician and Digital Artist. This diverse range makes it hard to run as a family business and you'll likely need to hire outside help.



Some quality of life improvements that might be easily missed - switch the order of your characters...



...and add shortcuts for accessing stocks on the character panel



[h3]===Version 0.63.01===[/h3]

• Various changes to accommodate multi-language UI
  
• Add first version of Chinese (Simplified) and Japanese translations
  
• When starting game for first time ever, set game language based on system language
  
• Add Rio de Janeiro city
  
• Add Social Media Manager and Events Director jobs
  
• Add Events Management business
  
• Add arrows for switching positions of people in bottom character display
  
• Add ability to add shortcut to character panel for individual stocks
  
• Add sorting options for Asset List owned and rented real estate
  
• Rearrange home food activities to be closer together in UI
  
• Remove happiness cost for abandoning Marriage and Adoption passions
  
• Job interview success chance is moddable
  
• Fix relation options can be enabled even when greyed out
  

The experimental and main branch are now the same again. In addition to the new Social features discussed in the last announcement, now your characters can gain the Grieving status effect if someone close to them dies. There are different ways they might choose to deal with this grief. If they decide to withdraw from the world, they will feel negatively towards social activities and positively towards sleeping for the duration of the grieving period.



Babies and children now get a bonus to compatibility with others. This effect will decay over time. It should solve the problem where "extreme" parents start hating their babies, but still allow teenagers to become less compatible with their parents.



Finally, I've added in a preliminary German translation to the game and set it up on Localizor for community suggestions on improvements. I'll be taking some time over the next few weeks to add Chinese and Japanese as well.

[h2]v0.62.29[/h2]
[h3]Relationship Changes[/h3]

• Overhaul Socials window and how characters interact with each other
  
• Add biological, legal, romantic and friendship relationships between characters
  
• Add new game character creation UI for setting up relationships
  
• Add gene marker to every character that gets passed on to biological children
  
• Add romantic attraction and functionality for pursuing someone romantically
  
• Add little icons to actions indicating how they affect opinion and romance between characters
  
• Implement functionality for characters on friends list to gain status effects
  
• Characters have a chance to gain different Grieving status effects when someone dies, depending on their relationships to dead character
  
• Split opinions into two - "my opinion of them" and "their opinion of me"
  
• Add Marriage passion and related goals/activities
  
• Add same-sex marriage legality to each city
  
• Allow enabling pregnancy when male selected instead of only when female selected
  
• Open To Meet defaults to turned on for new household members
  
• Add option to disable Open To Meet on popup when someone new is met
  
• Adopted child gets small opinion boost towards adopters
  
• Update help button information for Socials window
  
• Disabled kicking children out of household
  

[h3]Other Changes[/h3]

• Add Thievery passion to TutorialVille map
  
• Add tutorial item for Passions
  
• Add button to change languages on main menu
  
• Add first version of German translation
  
• Change TutorialVille stock market generation to be same as other cities
  
• Change the word "person" to "character" in lots of places for consistency
  
• Limit max characters at new game character creation to 12
  
• Fix some inconsistencies in character creation screen display when deleting people
  
• Fix imported household missing character age display
  
• Fix passion goal action using passion's tooltip hint insted of action's tooltip hint
  
• Fix passion participants completing a goal doesn't reset participants to allow completing another goal in the same month
  
• Fix opinion and attraction values not transferred when importing household from a previous save
  
• Fix on Character Panel status effect tooltip always showing only one plus/minus symbol for needs/points changes regardless of severity of effect