I was answered in DM which is smart all things considered… Here’s the important text from that message:
Looking at this and testing it internally, looks like the “skipPrepareTime” part is actually required.
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It seems I was just leaving out the “true” at the end there. At least I can’t find a switch called “skipPrepareTime” and the console rejects it as unrecognized. Anyway this worked!
Thank you so much YouKnowWhoAre!