I wish...

[Toripony]

...I could use a Trigger Instruction to initiate the movement of AI trains. I wonder if the developers at RSC have considered looking for a way to code this?

Tori

[micaelcorleone]

Yes, we'd really need sth. like this.

[Toripony]

We spend a lot of time re-running scenarios over and over to get the timing of meeting a train just right, but if the player drives slow or fast, the encounter might be missed. Worse yet, if an AI gets too far ahead of the intended player schedule it might block the player train somewhere that the scenario writer never considered. Would be much easier if we could mark a point on the track or a point in time for that AI train to start. That would also significantly shorten the amount of time that an AI train has to "live" between start point and portal exit.

[sleepyto]

Tori:
Maybe I am missing something, but couldn't you put a Portal where you want the AI to start from and then set the time to start when you want.
All that is available now.

[micaelcorleone]

Maybe I am missing something, but couldn't you put a Portal where you want the AI to start from and then set the time to start when you want.

Yes, you're missing sth.
Tori is talking about starting a train by a trigger. E.g. if the player train reaches a certain point on hte route, the AI train will start.

[Hawk]

sth.

I'm just curious. What is that supposed to be? I've seen that in a couple of your posts.

[micaelcorleone]

sth.

I'm just curious. What is that supposed to be? I've seen that in a couple of your posts.

Sorry, I thought this was clear.
An abbreviation for "something" we had learned in our English lessons at school.

[Hawk]

Hmm! Never saw that when I went to school.

[arizonachris]

Hmm! Never saw that when I went to school.

I call it "cell phone shorthand" it's a whole new language. Us old farts may never catch up.

[Hawk]

I'm winded just trying.

[Kali]

I've only just trained my 67 year old mother out of using txt speak...

As for triggered movements, the only way I could think would be if you could somehow put a signal in as a scenario item, and have a scripted trigger point ( that bit is easy ) to turn it green. No idea what you can actually add in a scenario though.