ECON103 - Realistic Economic Progression

ECON103 — a cargo economy that makes sense

Motor Town's freight economy pays for showing up. ECON103 changes what a job is

worth: payment follows the distance you actually drive, the capacity you

actually carry, and the risk you actually take. Bigger trucks earn their price.

Longer runs earn their time. Fragile loads cost you if you drive like they are

It changes 93 cargos, 61 delivery points, 13 vehicle tables, and 20 settings

no other mod can reach.

Which file do I download?

Two questions. Which economy, and whether you want it set up for you.

VANILLA EDITION — the economy on its own. 93 cargos, 61 delivery points.

Needs no other mods.

ALL-IN-ONE EDITION — the same economy plus TheProxy's Oversized Cargo

Expansion: cranes, diggers, military vehicles, boats and heavy plant. 174

cargos, 74 delivery points. 94 MB.

Install one edition or the other, never both.

If you are starting out, or you mostly run vans and box trucks, take Vanilla.

It is the same economy without 94 MB of trailers you cannot pull yet.

Then pick how you install it:

WIZARD — run one file, answer one question, done. It finds your game,

copies everything in, sets a dedicated server's config for you, offers a desktop

shortcut, and gives you one file to start the game with that brings the settings

up and takes them down again. This is the one most people want.

MANUAL — you copy the files in yourself. Nothing automated touches your

game folder.

Both files contain the whole mod. Same paks, same settings channel, same

everything — the only difference is who does the copying. A manual install is

three steps: the paks into your Paks folder, the Serve folder in beside them,

and run Start ECON103 Channel.bat before you play. READ ME FIRST.txt in

that download walks through it.

What the manual package leaves out is the setup program itself, and the two

launchers that depend on it.

How to install

Unzip it. Run ECON103 Setup.bat. Answer one question.

It asks whether this PC is one you play on, one that runs a server for other

people, or one that joins somebody else's server. Then it finds your game,

installs the right pieces for that answer, and tells you what to run next. It

offers to put a shortcut on your desktop.

Nothing it takes out of your game folder is deleted. Anything it replaces is

renamed with .bak on the end, where it already sits, so you switch it back on

by deleting four letters.

You can delete the folder you unzipped afterwards. ECON103 copies what it needs

into your Paks folder and works from there.

Prefer to do it by hand? The paks are in the zip root. Drag them in. The install

guide has the details.

What is new in v2. 0

Wizard Installer. The wizard setup asks which of three machines this is

and does the rest.

MTNET framework built-in. ECON103 delivers 20 settings the game will not

take from a mod file by prepackaging and automating the relay server (channel)

designed in qxZap's MTNET. With MTNET, that used to mean manually running the

relay server and closing it when you were done playing. Now, it runs in the

system tray, started and stopped by the launcher. Hover the icon to see whether

the settings arrived.

Capitalist Economy absorbed. ECON103 has fully absorbed Capitalist Economy, while adjusting certain values to better align with the ECON103 design.

The original mod is no longer compatible with ECON103, nor needed, unless you want a different economy feel entirely.

Custom ECON103 Launcher. Play ECON103.bat brings the channel up, launches

Motor Town, and shuts everything down when you quit.

Mod clashes detected — Capitalist Economy, MTNet, Rak's Fragile

Logistics, Proxy's Oversized Cargos — names them, and offers to turn them off.

Saying no is a real answer; it installs anyway and reminds you. (These clash

because their functionality is already built in and/or undermine ECON103's

If you have used the All-in-One edition before, read this

Every All-in-One build up to v2. 0 delivered the base game's cargo numbers by mistake.

The mod replaced the game's cargo table with its own copy. That file turns out