This Grand Life 2 will have a modding system that allows for a variety in gameplay for players, including some built-in mods that I'll talk about today.
Starting loans
Some players might want to only play the trading/investing/business game and not worry about the day-to-day finances of being alive. To accommodate this, you can activate a mod where your parents give you a small loan of $1 million USD with a generously low interest rate.
Alternatively, those looking for more of a challenge can enable a loan from the mafia instead. This comes with an extortionate interest rate but allows you to attempt business activities or stock trading from the beginning, as long as you can keep up with the repayments!
City mods
The new modding system is also used to alter cities based on their local/cultural differences. Some of this is cosmetic, for example in Osaka, Japan the Eat Plain Bread activity would be replaced by Eat Plain Rice.
City-specific mods can be enabled in places they don't belong. For example if you enabled the Canada mod, your fast food options might be slightly different.
This can have gameplay impacts as well. The VAT tax in a Swedish city (or one with the Swedish-specific country mod enabled) would be higher than in a German city, so all your shopping would be more expensive.
Child Workers
This is another gameplay-altering mod where the working age is lowered to 5 years old. It means your children can become income-generators once they reach schooling age. As a consequence, the wages of all workers are also reduced, especially for less skilled jobs.
You can even hire some of these young'uns for your own business!
I've been adding these built-in mods whenever I think of something that sounds interesting (or a little unhinged) so players should have some different setups/scenarios to play out when the game is released.