Script Basics

The script system configures a new game from a plain text file, going well beyond what the New Game Settings menu offers — a game with 15 cities, or a player character whose expertise you set to any values you want.

Creating a script file

A script is a plain text file with a .TXT extension. Save it here, and the game finds it next time you run it:

Documents\My Games\Capitalism Lab\Script

The [HEADER] section

Every script file must start with [HEADER].

Title and description

These appear on the script selection menu.

Title=<1 to 35 characters>
Description=<1 to 200 characters>

Loading a MOD

MOD=<mod file name>

For example, MOD=MyGlobalMOD loads:

<Your Capitalism Lab folder>\MOD\MyGlobalMOD.RES

Survival Mode

With the City Economic Simulation DLC enabled, a script can turn on Survival Mode:

Survival Mode=Yes

Resetting settings first

Reset All Settings=Yes

Clears every game setting before the script’s own lines are applied — so the result depends only on the script, not on whatever was set last time.

Version 12 and later

Initial Game Speed=<0 to 5>

The game speed the game starts at.

Goal Set=None

Skips the dialog that asks the player to choose a goal set at the start.

Regional map

Regional Map=<map file name without extension>

The game loads the map from:

C:\Users\<User name>\Documents\My Games\Capitalism Lab\MAPS

Enabling and disabling DLCs

Enable DLC=<DLC name>
Disable DLC=<DLC name>

The DLC name can be:

• Subsidiary DLC
• City Economic Simulation DLC
• Digital Age DLC
• Banking and Finance DLC
• Service Industry DLC
• Experimental DLC

Using a script file

Click [LOAD SCRIPT]

At the top left of the New Game menu.

Choose which set to browse

Reload it next time in one click

[LOAD SCRIPT] remembers the last script you loaded and saves its name automatically, so starting the same setup again does not mean finding the file in the list.