AI Traffic behaviour in MSTS Options

[Greenleader]

I am busy compiling a simple activity on the Garden route of South-Africa. The player train starts at Knysna to George and I have three AI trains coming from George to Knysna. Two of them behave like I want them to. Theye start at their given times and the proceed towards their end piont. The third one just show up and wait for the the player train to enter the station and then will start to move. There are 6 stations between them where it can pass. It does not matter if I make passing paths and I did make sure that AI and player trains do not share a platform. I do have the tutorial for Activity Guide by Arnie Lee. This is a very good program, but even it can't sort this out for me.

Any suggestions would be welcome
Thanks

[sgdavis]

I am busy compiling a simple activity on the Garden route of South-Africa. The player train starts at Knysna to George and I have three AI trains coming from George to Knysna. Two of them behave like I want them to. Theye start at their given times and the proceed towards their end piont. The third one just show up and wait for the the player train to enter the station and then will start to move. There are 6 stations between them where it can pass. It does not matter if I make passing paths and I did make sure that AI and player trains do not share a platform. I do have the tutorial for Activity Guide by Arnie Lee. This is a very good program, but even it can't sort this out for me.

Any suggestions would be welcome

Thanks

Martin

Try NOT using "passing paths" but instead always routing the player train down a given track and the AI train it is meeting (I am assuming these are going in opposite directions?) through the other track. Sometimes this helps. AI traffic logic is one of the big known weaknesses/issues with MSTS and creating believable traffic patterns is one of the biggest challenges for our template creators.

On a personal note, I am glad to see you made it to the forum, I apologize for the difficulties. Like I said I now have to restrict new membership because of all the spam and porn we were getting, neither of which I want on my site (and I doubt anyone else here does either).

Thanks,

Steve