Hi All! Just to give anyone a heads up Armstrong Powerhouse have their summer sale on to the 19th of July. I'm fairly new to the game (started last month) but from what I've read their sales are pretty few and far between and quietly announced so I thought i'd give you guys a heads up if anyone didn't know. (I hope this is cool to post on this part of the forum). Was able to get my Class 314/15's cheaper for my Suburban Glasgow routes cheers Stevie (get-geeky)
Can someone explain to me why, even at 40% off, packs like the Class 37 and the Class 50 still cost me more (after conversion to CAD, not even counting the "Paypal tax", just standard conversion) than the brand new Class 43 and SBB RABe 523, which both came out in the last two months and cost me $22.79 apiece? The conversion on those two AP products - at 40 percent off - is over $25 CAD each. What is the reason why it still costs so much more? Not considering the quality of either example train given, is it otherwise really worth it? Someone explain this to me. Note, again, that I cannot actually play any of the scenarios as designed, so the value is extremely lacking since I would have to do a lot of work on them to make them playable for myself. Are they charging for the care taken in creating scenarios that I effectively cannot play as part of this? It's worth noting, for the Class 37, that neither route needed is available, so effectively it's as if NO scenarios are provided. The base price itself needs to be lowered by default based on this consideration (though that might not affect the sale price, they would just use a lighter discount). But again, how does 25 pounds even make sense as a reasonable price and why is 40 percent off considered such a good deal when ANY train on Steam costs less than what I'd be paying for some of these? The 375/377 rereleased enhancement pack is one I'm extremely baffled by; that costs 17 pounds (maybe about $30 CAD now), and it's an enhancement, which requires the original from the route it comes with, but costs more than a loco itself would. So I can enhance a train for $30 or buy one at retail, not even at a special price, for less than $23. Are changes to sounds and liveries THAT important? That said, there are things that look interesting. The 313 is one I've seen utilized in external things. The 90 pack looks interesting. A lot of enhancement packs are more reasonable at the sale prices (except the one above which is not discounted and, IMO, is overpriced to start with even if it had the discount). I see Wherry is down to 15 pounds, which is fairly reasonable, though still more than the $22 CAD I paid on Steam (just slightly), though I need to e-mail and ask what the major differences are and find out if there is a way to "brand" the Steam version, or whether I would have to instead refund that one and buy this one at the higher cost (really not sure I want to go through that hassle since the sale will end before I can do that, for one). I'm sure a free skin exists at the DPSimulation site that would solve the problem, though it would need a little work on my part to place it in the scenarios. Going back to the enhancement packs, though: would these versions work in the official scenarios, or would I have to change them out in the editor? If they don't work in official scenarios as-is, would the originals still load with the enhancements installed, or would the scenarios break? In any case, many enhancements would require the original train, so most are probably not in my realm to even obtain as of yet.
