Portal Train Drops Consist-Can Ai Go Get IT?

boleyd

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Assume a simple route that is mostly a railyard. A train enters via a portal and drops its cars/wagons on a siding. Now how do you program/rule AI to know about this consist of cars/wagons that did not exist at the start of the scenario when the rules were fashioned? Yes you could manually add a couple step to the rule of the next train to enter via a portal when it assigns its driver or do the same thing to a train that was already in the yard.

The problem is that adding to the rules steps during the scenario is not reality. The originally dropped cars/wagons should already be scheduled (rule) for pickup when the scenario was made.
 
Have you tried the "Couple at Trackmark" rule? You place a trackmark on the siding where the cars are to be picked up (and name it), then use a "Couple at Trackmark" command and the AI will couple to cars in that siding.
 
The problem is that the cars do not exist when configuring the rules. They are in the portal. I would guess that you need some rule to deal with cars that might appear an hour after you start your scenario.

However, you made me think that maybe I can go ahead and use a delayed by one hour "couple rule" for cars that will be available after 11am even if the scenario starts at 10am. If that works then all is well.:sleep:

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Well that does not work since when you go to create a couple command, once again, there is nothing to couple to. The cars have yet to leave the portal.
 
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It's look like you will have to put in the command just after the 2nd train leave the portal. This is a good question!
Danny5
 
The problem is that the cars do not exist when configuring the rules..

If you use the "Couple at Trackmark" rule you dont need to say what cars you are coupling to - the loco will just couple to the first raft of cars it finds at or near the trackmark....
 
Yes, after going thru many rules that one looks good. Nice to see it has a 100meter range so you do not have to fiddle. Watching tennis so just getting bak to Trainz
Thanks,;)
 
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