The paksets update

After exposing my thoughts on paksets on the Simutrans on Steam Roadmap, I went back to dicuss changes with the Simutrans Community. My initial idea of bring every pakset independently with his own store page was not as well received as I thought. Then, I opened a survey with different options, and the result of the survey was clear. A majority of members preferred to bring only current, maintained paksets to the store, and let out old, unmaintained paksets. This was not in contradiction with my main idea of totally avoid bundling paksets, so I agreed.

Over the last week I have been silently doing changes to the store page of the paksets, and today changes are live. This means that your current paksets DLC have been replaced by the new ones. Let's see the list of changes:

Updated list of DLC's

• The "Comic Paksets" bundle has been replaced by "Pak192.Comic" https://store.steampowered.com/app/434632/Simutrans__Pak192Comic/

• The "German Paksets" bundle is now "Pak128.German" (it was already only providing pak128.german) https://store.steampowered.com/app/434633/Simutrans__Pak128German/

• The "Japan Based Paksets" bundle has been replaced by "Pak128.Japan" https://store.steampowered.com/app/435960/Simutrans__Pak128Japan/?snr=1_5_9__405

• The "Miscellaneus Paksets" bundle has been replaces by "Pak64.German" (unofficial version) https://store.steampowered.com/app/435963/Simutrans__Pak64German/?snr=1_5_9__405

• Pak128.Britain and Pak64 are the same

• Unfortunately, I couldn't get rid of "Workshop Tools" DLC. While I have already published a separate tool called "Simutrans SDK" (you can find it in your library), the workshop uploader utility does not work if it is executed from another appid. This change will require to reimplement the workshop uploader, and I need more time for that. In the future, "Workshop Tools" is intended to be replaced by "Pak128.CS" DLC (currently in development).

What happens to previously available paksets?

Don't panic! Old paksets which were bundled previously together are now available standalone via Workshop https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=434520&requiredtags[]=pakset

If you wee playing one of those paksets, you will need to install it from the workshop to keep playing. Your savegames will not be lost.

And what more?

I have to remember that the focus was to improve the store pages (and now also offer better default paksets). I have been updating store pages with new descriptions, translations to Spanish, metadata, etc... But something is still required: New screenshots! In the following days, I will announce a new screenshot contest where everyone can participate... and win! The prize will be to be displayed on the Steam Store Page. More details coming soon. Keep an eye on the announcements!