OpenRCT2 World Park League

World Park League adds the missing meta-game around your park.
You are no longer building in isolation. You are climbing through a global field of rival parks, fighting for people share, reacting to industry events, managing prestige, winning spotlight moments, and dealing with real pressure to stay ahead.

Why this exists

OpenRCT2 already nails the park-building sandbox.
What it often lacks in longer saves is a bigger world reacting to what you do.

World Park League is built to solve that.

It adds:

• a 50-park living league that updates every day
• local rivals that compete directly with you for attention
• difficulty presets from relaxed to punishing
• active target tasks with deadlines, construction goals, rewards, and real penalties
• a first-run guide that explains what matters before the player sees the full economy
• an in-game help window for the core terms and next action
• visible park experience events with real guest waves, named VIP critics, balloons, a People tracker, and review outcomes
• prestige, yearly recaps, achievements, and long-term progression
• a park-cash economy layer with one unified rival portfolio, real payouts, losses, penalties, and pressure
• a management layer with buybacks, governance, and rewards
• rivalry pressure that gives late-game parks something meaningful to fight for

The goal is not to replace OpenRCT2.
It is to make long-running saves feel alive for much longer.

Why players install it

This plugin is for you if you want:

• a reason to care about your rank beyond raw money
• more endgame pressure once your park is already successful
• rival parks that feel like actual competitors instead of background flavor
• visible surges, awards, challenges, and story beats
• a stronger sense that your park exists inside a wider theme park industry

At a glance

Area	What it adds
Global competition	50 simulated parks, daily movement, major world events, mergers, bankruptcies, recoveries, expansion waves
Player pressure	difficulty presets, build objectives, active target tasks, people share, guest-cap pressure, score races, local rivals, spotlight and buzz swings
Park experience	Press Days, School Trips, Influencer Events, Regional Fan Weekends, VIP critics, visual triggers, real guest waves, relevant people tracker
Management layer	park-cash-funded rival portfolio, dividends, exits, negative investment shocks, challenge penalties, buybacks, governance pressure, direct counter-actions
Progression	prestige goals, achievement rewards, yearly recap, records, trend charts, park-finance trend visibility, progress filters
Rival storytelling	first-run guide, primary rivals, watchlist alerts, head-to-head challenges, paced warning popups, analyst guidance, league headlines

What makes it feel different

Instead of a static overlay, World Park League behaves more like a strategy layer running above your save:

• when you climb, rivals react
• when you dominate, the pressure gets stronger
• when you slip, others take your crowd share
• when you win big, the spotlight can flood your park with attention
• when a rival catches fire, you feel it immediately

That is the fantasy: not just a better spreadsheet, but a better story.

Core feature tour

Global league

• 50 simulated parks with different identities and trajectories
• regional market profiles and world mood shifts
• daily league movement with larger event cycles layered on top
• mergers, exits, scandals, recoveries, and industry shakeups

Local rivalry

• direct local rivals that mirror your competitive lane
• head-to-head challenge system with rewards and pressure
• visible warning popups when rivals attack your position
• counter-actions such as Counter Campaign and Local Push
• rivalry tracking in both the main UI and prestige flows
• alerts when a rival surges, weakens, or becomes vulnerable

Difficulty and active objectives

• choose Casual, Normal, Hard, or Tycoon from the main window
• receive timed park tasks such as guest growth, rating recovery, profit pushes, expansion briefs, coaster briefs, or capacity pushes
• see a save-aware difficulty recommendation when the current preset no longer fits the park
• complete objectives for park-cash rewards and temporary momentum
• fail objectives and lose real park cash while board and investor confidence take a hit
• track active objectives and rival pressure in the compact challenge timeline
• use npm run analyze:balance:difficulty during development to compare all difficulty presets across the same scenarios

Park-visible moments

• league boosts can now trigger park events such as Press Day, School Trip, Influencer Event, and Regional Fan Weekend
• these events spawn real OpenRCT2 guests and one-shot visual triggers such as balloons and flare effects
• VIP critics can enter as named guests and later publish a review based on real park quality
• relevant people such as critics, press leads, creators, school leads, and fan-weekend captains are available in a manual People window with a locate button
• strong reviews reward park cash and temporary momentum; bad reviews cost cash and hurt confidence
• active park events appear in the main timeline so the player can see what is happening

Management and economy

• invest park cash into other parks through one unified league portfolio
• receive dividends, handle merger carry-over, forced exits, and negative investment outcomes
• lose real park cash when head-to-head rival challenges fail
• track park cash, portfolio value, league worth, and active pressure in the live UI
• manage equity offers, buybacks, and governance pressure
• use management actions to push for momentum, stability, construction focus, or rival counterplay

Progression and prestige

• prestige goals and achievement rewards with real gameplay impact
• yearly recaps with standout rivals and key moments
• lifetime records and next-unlock guidance
• trend charts, filters, and progression visibility

Install in 30 seconds

1. Open the Releases page
2. Download the latest standalone plugin file:

WorldParkLeague-v<version>.js

3. Place it into:

Documents/OpenRCT2/plugin

4. Start OpenRCT2
5. Open World Park League from the in-game plugin menu

That is the full install.

If you prefer a bundle, each release also includes a ZIP with:

• WorldParkLeague.js
• README.md
• CHANGELOG.md
• LICENSE

In-game UI

The main window is designed around two reading styles:

• Simple: easier to scan while playing
• Advanced: deeper management and analysis

The default view now focuses on the next actionable things: current rank, park cash, profit, active goal, boost state, difficulty, current risk, and the weakest score driver. Deeper finance and rival context lives behind Money, Rivals, and Goals.

If a term is unclear, open Help from the main window. It explains the core metrics and tells the player where to react to rival pressure or active goals.

On the first open, the plugin shows a short quick-start window. Important warning popups are then paced so major rival attacks and failed objectives are visible without spamming the player.

The shipped release UI is the real player-facing design.
Visible debug controls are intentionally removed from the public release experience.

Current release status

The plugin is feature-rich, installable, and publicly releasable today.

The main remaining refinement area is long-run balance, especially:

• top-end snowballing
• long-hold investment ROI
• extended real-save validation across small, midgame, and dominant parks
• deeper challenge and rival-pressure tuning across real saves

So the foundation is strong, but balancing is still being actively improved.

Compatibility

• OpenRCT2 scripting plugin
• developed and tested against modern OpenRCT2 builds
• built with Node.js 20+

If something behaves differently on a specific OpenRCT2 version, please include the exact build when reporting it.

For players who want to go deeper

See:

• Balance review
• Economy design
• Outstanding experience card
• Product vision
• Requirements tracker

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome, especially around:

• real-save balancing feedback
• edge-case and migration testing
• UI clarity and onboarding
• alert tuning and signal-to-noise cleanup
• automated harness improvements

Start here:

• Contributing guide
• Code of Conduct
• Security policy

Development

Requirements - Node.js `20+` - npm - OpenRCT2 Main commands ```powershell npm install npm run typecheck npm run test npm run build npm run check npm run install:plugin ``` Balance and QA commands ```powershell npm run analyze:balance:quick npm run analyze:balance:difficulty npm run analyze:balance npm run analyze:balance:lab npm run analyze:balance:autotune npm run analyze:balance:release ``` - `analyze:balance:quick`: fast everyday balance snapshot for iteration - `analyze:balance`: reproducible baseline balance report - `analyze:balance:lab`: parallel candidate search across major balancing knobs - `analyze:balance:autotune`: runs the candidate search, saves the full report, and tells you whether the current live defaults should be replaced - `analyze:balance:release`: controlled release soak with pragmatic defaults for production-style QA Saved reports: - `dist/balance-quick-latest.json` - `dist/balance-autotune-latest.json` - `dist/balance-release-latest.json` The project now has a real automatic balance loop, but it is intentionally advisory rather than magical. It can search a wide parameter space and recommend stronger live defaults, but real-save QA still matters for final release judgment. Project structure ```text docs/ balance-review.md economy-design.md github-release-template.md implementation-plan.md product-vision.md release-checklist.md requirements-tracker.md scripts/ analyze-balance-quick.mjs analyze-balance-release.mjs analyze-balance-lab.mjs analyze-balance.mjs balance-analysis.ts balance-lab-shared.ts balance-lab.ts balance-shared.ts build.mjs install-plugin.ps1 release-package.mjs src/ config.ts index.ts types.ts domain/ state/ ui/ tests/ *.test.ts ```

Reporting issues

Please use the GitHub templates when possible:

• bug report
• feature request
• balance report

Balance reports are especially useful for this project because many of the most important issues only appear over longer saves.

Open source readiness

This repository includes:

• MIT license
• changelog
• release checklist
• GitHub release template
• contributing guide
• code of conduct
• security policy
• issue templates
• pull request template
• CI workflow

Roadmap

Near-term priorities:

• continue reducing top-end snowballing
• further tune long-term investment returns
• expand real-save QA coverage
• keep widening the automatic anti-dominance tuning space where the lab still finds sticky top-end behavior
• keep improving player guidance and readability

Credits

Built for OpenRCT2 and inspired by the kind of industry-pressure storytelling that management games like Game Dev Tycoon do so well.