@yizhang, I apologize for my extreme delay in responding to you.
Yes, I believe what you’ve outlined here is correct. I initially moved away from the forced system approach (some of which was discussed here). However, while the new modeling approach works, I now realize there are certain assumptions that I’d prefer not to make. Therefore, I’m once more exploring forced systems.
I came across Torsten – the event schedule functionality is precisely what I was (poorly) attempting to describe at the beginning of this thread. I’ve downloaded Torsten, though I hit a bug and created a new issue here (and I see that you are a part of that!).
Anyways, I just wanted to circle back, thank you for your response, and close out this thread.