Scheduling AI trains Options

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The normal way of scheduling AI trains is for the activity author to start an AI train at the opposite end of the player train path. If you wanted to schedule a meet at approximately 1/2 hour out on your run depending on how long the path was in hours, you would maybe start an AI train about 6 or 7 hours before the player train would start. This all works fine if your player train was close to the scheduled time to be at the siding in question. If you took longer time than normal for switching or less time if there was none, then the meet where you wanted it it was straight out the window. Things would eventually work out maybe the meet would happen at another location after you sat with the player rain for 30 minutes or so in a siding. Now with the emergence of Blackfoot 2 which is a dark route, scheduling a meet is quite tricky. Something that I have not yet achieved. Would it be possible to schedule a meet with the AI train starting a mile or two down the track triggered by an event of the player train rather than by normal timing? In other words, the AI train would start when the player train passed a trigger spot. Possibly the mileage post or some other triggering device a certain distance from the AI train. I suppose the tutorial for AI trains that accompanies Blackfoot works fine for a dark route but my thoughts are for any route that has signals or not. That way a meet would happen when it should according to the author's wishes. Then it would not matter if the player train was early or late, the meet would happen.



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