Police & Ambulance call radius

What is the default station radius?

Fire Stations -
I have had to disable the Rural Specialisation as missions were too far and without any other of the required stations some missions were taking over one hour
This sadly made the Rural option rather pointless
However the Urban Specialisation works very well

Due to the above, I would not use or recommend such a split

As an aside, if you are covering the UK with Fire, Ambulance and Police then you should have a good spread in the area covered
Sadly I am finding the ratios do not match the theme of the game
However by switching off the smaller stations this creates a good balance

I have graded all the Fire Stations based on how many appliances are allocated (although the game seems to require more)
I have a similar configuration for the Ambulance Stations
The Police Stations are a challenge, so I base this on building size
Where there are two or three buildings nearby the stations are switched on
If there is only one building without any others then I keep it switched off
This seems pretty much essential for the Scottish Islands, until I can find a soluton for that!

I definitely think the devs should incorporate something to help with this.

For example home response locations can spawn missions, or if you put down a POI

Quote from Cyber Girl

HRL don’t spawn missions

Sorry for the confusion, that was an example to overcome this issue as a suggestion as opposed to a statement about what happens currently.

Unfortunately I don’t see Home Response Locations ever spawning missions due to their low cost, but I would be keen to see a settings option to allow police, fire and amb missions to all spawn from police, fire and amb stations. This way, where a town has a fire station but neither police nor amb, you could still get a nice variety and introduce further travel times and realistic mission spread without having calls spawning in the ocean 50km away from a rural fire station.