taming the AI drivers

Not that they are a wild bunch but they do have a lead foot.

In TRS19, the AI controlled trains a receiving a lot of "excessive acceleration" and "rough handling" notices when arriving and leaving stations. They go from line speed to 0 or from 0 to max in a flash. Even if the engine is capable of doing it, how do I moderate the acceleration to more comfortable levels? Do I have to modify the engine specs or is there another way? A rule perhaps?

This sounds like something that needs to be worked out in the program code more than anything else and I would stay away from modifying any engine-specs or mucking around with rules, or placing extra speed limits.

In other words report this as a bug and see what QA Team says...

bug submitted BUT
after further testing with another train, perhaps my test car has a hotrod engine. The new train starts and stops without any daemon speed changes, nice and sedate.

martinvk said:

bug submitted BUT
after further testing with another train, perhaps my test car has a hotrod engine. The new train starts and stops without any daemon speed changes, nice and sedate.

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Mass settings in the config maybe?

There are so many possibilities that can cause this including engine-specs, car/train mass, tractive effort, etc.

You can always email the QA team if you feel that you've submitted the request in error.

I think it says that for everything.
I'll be stopped with a bunch of cars. I put it in notch one and squeak forward and it tells me it was rough handling.
I go though a turn under the speed limit and it says I used excessive curve speed, etc.

stumper66 said:

I think it says that for everything.
I'll be stopped with a bunch of cars. I put it in notch one and squeak forward and it tells me it was rough handling.
I go though a turn under the speed limit and it says I used excessive curve speed, etc.

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Tony mentioned that the developers are aware of the sensitivity of the messaging and they are working on that issue.