Script – Goal Header

Every goal definition opens with one of two section headers:

[MAIN GOAL]
[SUBGOAL]

The one required line

Goal Title=<1 to 35 characters>

Everything below is optional. Define as much or as little as the goal needs.

Text shown to the player

Goal Description=<1 to 500 characters>

Goal Achieved Text=<1 to 500 characters>

Displayed on the goal screen once the player achieves the goal.

Goal Failed Text=<1 to 500 characters>

Displayed on the goal screen if the player fails it.

When the goal becomes available

Goal Available Date=<yyyy-mm-dd>

Part	Meaning	Example
yyyy	Year	1995
mm	Month	03
dd	Day	08

So Goal Available Date=1995-03-08.

Parent Goal=<Goal title of the parent goal>

The goal only becomes available once the named goal has been completed — which is how you chain goals together. A main goal or a subgoal can both depend on another subgoal this way.

The deadline

Two ways to express it:

Number of Game Years=<1 to 1000>

How long the player is given, from when the goal becomes available.

Deadline=<yyyy-mm-dd>

A fixed date — Deadline=2010-03-08.

Set one or the other, not both. If both are present the game uses Deadline and ignores Number of Game Years — silently, so a goal that seems to expire at the wrong time is worth checking for this.

A goal image

Goal Image=<image file name.PNG>

Displayed on the goal report. Three requirements:

PNG format.
Stored in the script\images subfolder under the Capitalism Lab folder.
No larger than 390×100.

Also see

Script – Goal Values — the target figures a goal is measured against.
Script – Goal Industries and Products
Script – Goal Rewards and Penalties