Portal Manipulation

valbridge said:

Wondering if it is possible for the following...
Using portals. whilst I notice portals can configure trains to exit at desired intervals, [default being 15mins] is it possible to time train exit at varying intervals. As an example...

Portal spawning consists to a Terminal station. Between the points there are a few stations en route to terminus. First train [lets call it train A] will be a stopping service between these points. Next train [lets call that train B] is a fast service to the terminus.

Assuming we wish to spawn train A every 15 minutes but train B every 30 mins. Is there a way this can be achieved. At present I can only see that the spawn interval for both train A and B is identical. Perhaps there is a rule I am not aware of that accomplishes this. Even the Central Portal Control does not offer varying times between trains that I can see.

Help appreciated, if a solution is available.

Cheers,
Val.

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Kennilworth said:

Hi Val

The way that I got round this originally was to have the train appear from the portal and then use a "Wait For Random" command to delay it. This allows a limited amount of variation to be built into the session. Now I also add in Pierre Guy's Mission Code and Timetabling rules combined with Enhanced Interlocking Towers.

Regards

Brian

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pguy said:

Hi Val.

You have a much more simple way to obtain the result expected : use my rule Quick Portal Manager Standard Édition. This rule enables to link to a portal a timetable with several entries where for each entry you set a time for the train emition, if it a only once emition or a recurrent emition (every xx minutes), the consist to emit, the schedule order bar, ...

With two entries linked to your target portal you should be able to set your recurrent emition for both train A and train B.

The only thing you need to take care is to have distinct time of emition for your two entries, as the rule looks every 15 seconds if there are some entries to process for a portal, but will process only the first one found if several entries are eligible.
Sorry, but I don’t think there is already any help file on the wiki, but if you have any problem with the parameters to use let me know either on the forum or by PM and I will give you the explanations needed.

Hope this helps.

Regards.
pierre.

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pguy said:

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Sorry, but I don’t think there is already any help file on the wiki, but if you have any problem with the parameters to use let me know either on the forum or by PM and I will give you the explanations needed.
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valbridge said:

Cheers Pierre, will give it a go and see how I do before troubling you. Seems now the Schedule Rule has stopped working so submitted a bug report on it. Just cannot change the default time from 10:00:00 to anything else. Never happened before and am using the new beta version.

It doesn't rain it pours huh.
Regards
Val.

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ldowns said:

However, the original poster's question does pose a challenge for those with scripting skills--a version of Portal Basic or other standard portal that also offered the option to emit trains at a random interval between parameters set by the user (such as Emit a train at intervals between 6 and 17 minutes, etc.). I've also used the multiple portal trick to create a certain amount of "randomization," but when you get down to it the actual intervals between trains will still be predictable, just a bit more complex.

--Lamont

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ldowns said:

I've also used the multiple portal trick to create a certain amount of "randomization," but when you get down to it the actual intervals between trains will still be predictable, just a bit more complex.

--Lamont

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ecco said:

After your train is emitted give one or more Rand Wait Commands for more unpredictability.

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