This Grand Life 2 News

The Manage Auto Transfers activity is now available at the Bank:



which allows setting up automatic transfers to deposit/withdraw from the Savings Account, or to buy stocks on the stock market. You can also set whether the amount automatically adjusts with inflation.



In other news, for the next week or two I'm taking some time to work on a new trailer. The current trailer is ~18 months old so it's long overdue!

[h3]Version 0.71.00[/h3]

• Add Manage Auto Transfer activity at Bank
  
• Add Monthly Auto Transfer window for savings and stocks
  
• Add Minimalist Living mod
  
• Change autosave to occur on the last hour of the month instead of the first hour
  
• Reduced time for some banking activities
  
• Remove requirement to not be homeless for researching stocks
  
• Passions embraced and abandoned in the same month don't give happiness penalty
  
• Minor adjustments to real estate and stock UI displays
  

Introducing the Hydroponics Farm business, combining a variety of jobs that leverage existing XP and education courses:



Embrace the Hydroponics passion where you can grow vegetables for home cooking. It may not be very profitable but at least you have a chance to feel a sense of pride and accomplishment:



A new difficulty slider has been added for adjusting the needs decay rate - turn it off completely to become a money printing machine, or double it for a life of extreme struggle:



Finally, the stock market is getting a balance adjustment after the previous overhaul. When researching a stock that is getting close to performing a desperate act, you will see a Liquidity Risk indicator.



If the desperate act is performed, then it changes to the Bankruptcy Risk indicator as normal. So now you have some warning and can decide whether to hodl (and hope) or sell.

[h3]Version 0.70.00[/h3]

• Add jobs Agricultural Scientist, Grower and Facility Technician
  
• Add Hydroponics Farm player business and related items
  
• Add Hydroponics passion, related items and activities
  
• Add functionality for assets to decay into other assets
  
• Rename XP:Gardening to XP:Plant Care
  
• Rename DEGREE:Engineering to DEGREE:Science and Engineering
  
• Remove redundant XP:Plant Care requirement for Gardener job
  
• Passion goal outcome activity impact tooltip shows effect of character skill
  
• Passion goal disable choosing site if goal site is home
  
• Add researched stock Liquidity Risk indicator if company is close to doing a desperate act (also updated Help button information)
  
• Public companies less likely to perform a desperate act in general
  
• Add slider for needs decay rate on difficulty screen (will default to x1.0 for existing saved games unless manually adjusted)
  
• Add job spawns to Community Hall
  
• Increase maximum possible animation rate to 120 FPS
  
• Change overcrowding calculation to be processed after most other end of month calculations
  
• Add animation to Social icon for new friends popup
  
• Auto-fill new baby name popup with random first name and mother's last name
  
• Add vehicle speed modifier to item tooltips where relevant
  
• Fix tooltip for passive utilities industry effect on price using wrong colour to indicate if it's bad or good for player
  
• Fix city explorer for businesses not showing jobs generated from contracts only
  
• Fix researched stock showing current bankruptcy risk instead of last researched value
  
• Fix researched stock missing management rating if management is too terrible
  

Transport mode selection has been overhauled to allow more options - take a Robotaxi if you hate driving but want to travel fast, or use Prestige Driving with a fancy car to satisfy that prestige preference.



To complement the new transport modes, Car Restoration is a new passion that lets you build your own Vintage or Muscle car at home.



You can use your newly restored vehicle with Prestige Driving, but it will lose condition through usage like normal vehicles. So maybe it's better to let the Vintage car sit at home and just admire it.

[h3]Version 0.69.00[/h3]

• Add Car Restoration passion, related activities and items
  
• Overhaul transport mode selection UI
  
• Add Frustration status effect
  
• Change vehicle speed calculation to allow different vehicles to use different networks at different speeds
  
• Add Cycling, Robotaxi, Prestige Driving transport modes
  
• Add Fancy Car item to Car Dealer
  
• Add Robotaxi App item to City Hall
  
• Add Order Vodka, Watch Sports Game and Play Arcade Game activities to Bar site
  
• Add Attend Coffee Tasting activity to Cafe
  
• Add Play Claw Machine activity to Shopping Mall
  
• Character Panel travel action's time estimate slightly more accurate
  
• Adjusted preferences for existing transport modes