ParkStats

A Waterpark Simulator mod that adds a proper stats breakdown to the tablet.

The game's Park Management page shows the ticket price, the age split, a visitor count and eight average need bars. The game tracks much more than that. ParkStats adds a row of tabs to the same page:

The tabs use the game's own card and text style. While one of them is open, the game's own stats on that card are hidden; the Park tab brings them back.

The mod only reads the game's state. It changes nothing in your park or your save.

Status

Early. The data and advice logic is covered by tests. The panel has been run in the game on a small park; large parks, controllers and multiplayer clients are untested.

Things to know:

• Most of the detail exists only on the host. When you join someone else's park, those values show as n/a.
• History starts from the first full day played with the mod installed, and is kept per park name.
• Complaints, and the places they happen, are counted from the moment the park is loaded and start again each day.
• The Money tab counts every change to your balance. The game's own end-of-day report leaves out miscellaneous income such as trash rewards, so the two can differ by that amount.
• While the park is empty the game has no satisfaction readings, so needs show as n/a.
• Advice about the ticket price is switched off until the meaning of the game's target price is confirmed.
• Net earnings per attraction, and the advice to build another, need one full day on record: a morning's takings cannot be set against a whole day's upkeep.
• Staff cost is judged against the income of recent full days, so that advice stays quiet until one day has been recorded.
• "Raised by" lists attractions whose use changes a need directly. An attraction that works another way, such as handing out an item, may be missing from it.

Install

With r2modman: select Waterpark Simulator, install BepInExPack_IL2CPP, then install ParkStats.

By hand: install BepInEx 6 (IL2CPP) for the game, then copy ParkStats.Plugin.dll and ParkStats.Core.dll into BepInEx/plugins/ParkStats/.

Settings

BepInEx/config/com.github.kirby1997.parkstats.cfg:

If the mod misbehaves after a game update, set WriteDiagnostics = true, open the Park Management page once, and attach diagnostics.txt and BepInEx/LogOutput.log to an issue.

Building

Requirements: the .NET SDK 8 or newer, the game, and BepInExPack_IL2CPP installed through r2modman. Start the game once with BepInEx installed so it generates BepInEx/interop.

dotnet test
dotnet build -c Release

The build copies the plugin into the r2modman Default profile. To use another location, create GamePaths.user.props next to GamePaths.props:

<Project>
  <PropertyGroup>
    <ProfileDir>D:\path\to\profile</ProfileDir>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

To build the Thunderstore package into dist/:

dotnet build src/ParkStats.Plugin -c Release -t:PackThunderstore

Layout

• src/ParkStats.Core has no game references: the data model, the advice rules, the history file and the text of every tab. This is where the tests point.
• src/ParkStats.Plugin is the BepInEx plugin: it reads the game, draws the panel and hooks the tablet.
• tests/ParkStats.Tests are the xUnit tests for Core.

License

MIT. Not affiliated with the developers of Waterpark Simulator.

Changelog

0.2.1

• Food stalls were marked automated: the game names their classes "Vending...", which the check took for a vending machine. Only "Machine" now means automated.
• Fixtures guests cannot use, such as the restock shelf, are no longer listed as food and drink.
• The Locked list shows each building once.

0.2.0

• New Build tab. Demand per need: how many of the places that serve it are in use and how many guests wait, rated from "Plenty" to "Short". What one attraction of each kind earned over the last full day against its upkeep. The best building of each type that is unlocked, owned types with a better version unlocked, the visitor limit, and what is still locked.
• Advice on building: more for a need whose places are full, naming the best unlocked option; another of a kind that nets money and has guests waiting, with its payback time; kinds earning less than their upkeep; better versions unlocked; attractions rather than prestige limiting visitors, and too little room to use the next star.
• Food and drink are listed as separate things marked staffed or automated, never as upgrades of one another.
• The Rides tab's price column shows the price alone.
• The visitor cap is computed the way the game does it: the room the open attractions give, limited by prestige.

0.1.0

First version. Adds tabs to the tablet's Park Management page:

• Today: net result, visitors, satisfaction, prestige and the most urgent things to do.
• Money: today's income and expenses by reason, income per visitor, earnings by attraction, balance, lifetime totals, loans, staff cost.
• Rides: attractions by kind with state, uses today, price against ideal price, cleanliness, durability and guests waiting.
• Guests: each need with its average, how many guests are under half and which attractions raise it, what satisfaction does to visitor numbers, complaints, reasons for leaving.
• History: visitors, net result and satisfaction for past days.
• Advice: a ranked list of what is holding the park back, including what the next star needs.