New HART Fleet

I hope they’re able to change this to reflect the new changes but I suspect they won’t.

I suppose in the meantime we could just have half of them PRV and half SRV in anticipation for a change. 🤞

I would imagine with THIS FOI RESPONSE that the devs would have enough information to adjust a few of the vehicles. The difficulty lies in what they do about existing vehicles.

In terms of in-game role, I could see the new MAN IRUs being created as a dual-purpose PRV-SRV, at double the cost and with a rank restriction such as "captain" (Why they won't change it to UK firefighter ranks I do not know), to allow players the option of old vs new in terms of the main response vehicles.

For the new 4x4 vehicle, I would like to see a combination vehicle which is ambulance + the fire service 4x4 introduced in the swift water rescue update. The FOI states it has "limited patient carrying capacity" and would NOT be used to replace the Polaris (as per renalmedic 's initial post).

I do not see the need to add a separate covert crew carrier, this can be done using graphics. All other vehicles would be fine to remain the same in regards to this new change in the NARU/HART fleet. I do not see any need to change training as HART training would no doubt cover the use of both new vehicles - however I could see the Devs making a choice to require the 4x4 to require Swift water rescue / technical rescue training as they do like to overcomplicate things - I am against that happening.

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I do not see any mention of crew capacity - at present the PRV & SRV each carry 2 crew members. I have found a video of the new MAN IRU responding which has been incorrectly identified as a SRV. It appears to show a crew of 2 and also a gap where a third seat may have been before the vehicle was converted for use in HART.

I suspect crewing will remain at 2 persons for the vehicle and there may be more use of the crew carriers - perhaps this could be reflected in the game as a requirement for a minimum of 4 HART personnel at incidents requiring both the PRV & SRV, and 8 required at incidents requiring 2 of each.

If they do add the new HART system to the game- I'd appreciate if PRVs and SRVs stayed on a little longer, as SORT in Scotland's rollout is going to be a lot later as we have our own different fleet system which was hard enough to fit within the PRV-SRV constraints

I would like to see hart have water capabilities as they do perform this.

I have requested fire officer ranking several times but mission chief have failed to do this. Or even give an explanation as to why. It is very realistic and every other service has ranking so I don’t see why not.

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I would like to see hart have water capabilities as they do perform this.

I have requested fire officer ranking several times but mission chief have failed to do this. Or even give an explanation as to why. It is very realistic and every other service has ranking so I don’t see why not.

I agree about the water capabilities but this thread isn’t about fire officers - suggest you create a new thread to discuss that unless there is a relevant and recently active one already.

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I agree about the water capabilities but this thread isn’t about fire officers - suggest you create a new thread to discuss that unless there is a relevant and recently active one already.

I was just making the point off I’ve been asking for stuff for years and it’s not happened so they shouldn’t get there hopes up