JonMyrlennBailey
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This is a facility for fill steam locomotives by dreddman.
Under the Properties the tank it says: produces every 60 seconds What does this mean?
It also allows for numerical value settings for Rate and Start Amount What does this mean?
I have been playing with this tank and here are some problems I have encountered.
Telling AI to "Drive To" the tank (Water Stop) is useless. They simply do not obey this command.
I then tried placing a track mark for the loco to stop at the tank.
I then tested AI by telling them to drive To or Navigate To the track mark I laid for the tank stopping point.
This is the final command on the schedule with no other command following.
This works, only to some degree, they stop there and the locomotive watering process commences. The spout lowers and water comes out for about 15 seconds.
The water then stops and the spout comes back up again like it should.
This is fine and dandy if stopping for water is the final command on the drive schedule.
However, if I have a command like Drive To (a station up the line or something) immediately following
the Drive To (the tank stop track mark), the AI loco will slow down as it passes the tank but then speed up again,
without ever stopping for water, and head for the second track mark on the schedule.
This AI command strategy is no good.
I then tried using the Wait For (10 seconds or some other amount of time) command immediately following the Drive To (water tank track mark) command
followed by another Drive To command up ahead of the tank.
Ok, now the steam engine stops for water, the spout does its thing and then loco resumes travel after the Wait For command expires but with yet another catch:
the stupid water spout stays in the down position with water continuing to gush out onto the track below even after the loco takes off again.
Ideally, the steam engine should stop for water in the proper position on the track so the water spout comes down in the correct spot on the tender, during an AI schedule in the middle of a trip, the spout should then come down, in some cases, the tender water-fill hatch should open (a feature on some locos), water should pour for some amount of time, the water flow should stop, the tank spout should go back up, the hatch should close (if applicable) AND THE ENGINE SHOULD BE ON ITS MERRY WAY AGAIN, but I have yet to figure out how to make this whole sequence of events happen properly.
The author of this water tank did NOT provide detailed instructions for its proper use.
I am trying to make this water tank work RIGHT in TS12.
Has anybody here been able to incorporate the water tank scenario in an AI schedule successfully?
The steam trains should stop for water along their drive but the water should be shut off when the train leaves the tank.
The UP 0-6-0 Baldwin/USRA #4609 steam locomotive has the self-opening water hatch feature while the UP Big Boy does not.
This is a facility for fill steam locomotives by dreddman.
Under the Properties the tank it says: produces every 60 seconds What does this mean?
It also allows for numerical value settings for Rate and Start Amount What does this mean?
I have been playing with this tank and here are some problems I have encountered.
Telling AI to "Drive To" the tank (Water Stop) is useless. They simply do not obey this command.
I then tried placing a track mark for the loco to stop at the tank.
I then tested AI by telling them to drive To or Navigate To the track mark I laid for the tank stopping point.
This is the final command on the schedule with no other command following.
This works, only to some degree, they stop there and the locomotive watering process commences. The spout lowers and water comes out for about 15 seconds.
The water then stops and the spout comes back up again like it should.
This is fine and dandy if stopping for water is the final command on the drive schedule.
However, if I have a command like Drive To (a station up the line or something) immediately following
the Drive To (the tank stop track mark), the AI loco will slow down as it passes the tank but then speed up again,
without ever stopping for water, and head for the second track mark on the schedule.
This AI command strategy is no good.
I then tried using the Wait For (10 seconds or some other amount of time) command immediately following the Drive To (water tank track mark) command
followed by another Drive To command up ahead of the tank.
Ok, now the steam engine stops for water, the spout does its thing and then loco resumes travel after the Wait For command expires but with yet another catch:
the stupid water spout stays in the down position with water continuing to gush out onto the track below even after the loco takes off again.
Ideally, the steam engine should stop for water in the proper position on the track so the water spout comes down in the correct spot on the tender, during an AI schedule in the middle of a trip, the spout should then come down, in some cases, the tender water-fill hatch should open (a feature on some locos), water should pour for some amount of time, the water flow should stop, the tank spout should go back up, the hatch should close (if applicable) AND THE ENGINE SHOULD BE ON ITS MERRY WAY AGAIN, but I have yet to figure out how to make this whole sequence of events happen properly.
The author of this water tank did NOT provide detailed instructions for its proper use.
I am trying to make this water tank work RIGHT in TS12.
Has anybody here been able to incorporate the water tank scenario in an AI schedule successfully?
The steam trains should stop for water along their drive but the water should be shut off when the train leaves the tank.
The UP 0-6-0 Baldwin/USRA #4609 steam locomotive has the self-opening water hatch feature while the UP Big Boy does not.
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