Guide

The living world

Everybody else has a career too. Computer players sign and lose sponsors, change darts, break through, slump, pick up injuries, retire (and now and then come back), fall out with each other and hit milestones. It's all deterministic from the save's seed and cheap enough to run every week.

What happens goes on the player's timeline (their profile page). The best of it makes the news: a few stories a week, weighted by how big a story it is, how big a name, and how close the player is to you (your rivals, your nation, your tier). Some stories get a social post too. The World section's Living world tab shows the rising stars, who's in and out of form, the hottest rivalries, sponsor and darts moves, and the farewells.

Three kinds of content drive it:

• data/world.json: the settings (rates, thresholds, how much news). This page.
• Media lines with world.* slots: the headlines, story text and pundits' takes. See Media lines.
• Social posts with world* triggers: see Social feed.

Who the world follows#

The world follows the top tiers (tracked.tierMax, default 2: Elite Series and Pro Circuit) and the top of the Order of Merit (tracked.rank, default 64). Only they have sponsors, darts, form and rivalries in the world simulation. Retirement, youth and milestone stories reach further (see below).

Settings#

The file holds one object (an array of them also works). Every field except id is optional. A field you leave out keeps the game's default. The core pack's data/world.json lists every field with its default value.

{
  "id": "acme.world",
  "news": { "perWeek": 3, "weights": { "grudgeMatch": 7 } },
  "retirement": { "comebackChance": 0.1 }
}

Chances are per tracked player per month unless the table says otherwise.

Injuries use the same injury types as yours (Injuries and treatment): the weekly chance is form.injuryChance × the same wear factor you have (poor Fitness and age raise it, 1 on average), the injury is picked from the types with "ai": true (weighted by age, and eyesight for the eyes), and they're out for as long as the type and its severity take to rest (at least two weeks: the minor ones they play through).

Nothing is ever invented about a named player's health or staff (injuries, dartitis whispers and coaching changes are for generated players only), and their "first title" and title-count milestones are left out too: the game only knows their record since the career began. Retirement tributes say "since 2026" for the same reason.

Story kinds and weights#

A story's weight is weights[kind] × how big a name (1.8 for the top 4 on the Order of Merit down to 0.5 unranked) × any link to you × a boost some stories carry (a first major, a signature range, a record).

Media lines#

Each kind has a world.<kind>.headline and a world.<kind>.body slot, and each group has a pundit's take (world.take.sponsor, kit, rising, retirement, rivalry (the rivalry and feud stories), form (a hot streak), slump (a slump, dartitis, a new coach, an injury), milestone). The feud lines can use {round}, {event}, {score} and {h2hText} like the rivalry ones, and feudCooled has {since}, the year the feud began. They're ordinary media lines: add your own in data/media/lines/.

• Lines without styles are the neutral copy the story is written with.
• Lines with styles are a writer's own voice: when a journalist with that style gets the story, their line can replace the headline. Takes need a style (the pundit's).
• A line is skipped when one of its placeholders has nothing to fill it, and lines that use a story's particulars ({record}, {names}, {majors}, {oldWeight}, {oldSponsor}, {oldBrand}, {average}, {why}) are preferred when the story has them.

Every line can use {subject} {subjectFirst} {subjectLast} {subjectNick} (who the story is about) and, for stories about two players, {other} {otherLast}. The story's own words:

With no world lines at all (a pack that removes them), stories fall back to plain built-in copy.

Saves#

The settings are copied into a save when the career is created, and follow the installed packs when a save is loaded (like the press pack). A save from before the living world starts it the first time it's loaded: the players it follows get their sponsors and darts quietly, and nothing that happened before is reported. Stories and timelines begin from that week.

Checking the rates#

The schema is the world settings reference.