Coverage area not limiting unit requirements correctly

  • I recently decided to try to use the "coverage area" setting in the Dispatch centre for handling islands of the coast of the UK. Specically in this case the Isle of Scilly.

    The area has 5x Fire Stations and all of them are assigned to the dispatch centre which has the "create your own coverage area" setting enabled. This should mean that no mission can spawn that require a speciality unit requiring 6 more stations if im understand this setting correctly. In this instance, Fire Offciers which are stated to be required once of you have built 6 stations. However, a mission requiring FOs has been spawned by one of these stations



    So either this dispatch centre setting doesnt override stations else where or it is not functioning correctly or this mission should unlock after 6 fire stations not 3.

    Buying FOs is little more than a minor inconvenience at this time, but if missions start spawning that require more speciality units, it could be a major issue and defeat the entire point of this setting

  • Looks to be operating correctly to me
    The restriction is 3 out of 5 Fire Stations

    This mission requires personnel you do not yet have, so you now require them
    It should not be an issue for extensions / specialization as they should still be ignored (not highlighted)

    You can use the Possible Missions menu and then view each and every mission that is possible to determine the personnel required
    Sadly it may still mean the occasional mission that requires imported resources from nearby Dispatch Areas
    Realistic on the main land, not so for islands!

    As an aside
    I have a template for a Fire Station, based on the number of vehicle doors the building has in real life
    One door - Fire Officer, Water Ladder, CARP
    Two door - Water Ladder, RSU
    This gets round the smaller missions where either a Fire Officer or Aerial vehicle is required

    Edited 2 times, last by mjkerr (November 26, 2025 at 4:52 AM).

  • Looks to be operating correctly to me
    The restriction is 3 out of 5 Fire Stations

    This mission requires personnel you do not yet have, so you now require them

    Except in the fire station itself it lists the requirement has needing FOs after 6 stations, not 3.



    Surely that should override everything else?


    As an aside
    I have a template for a Fire Station, based on the number of vehicle doors the building has in real life
    One door - Fire Officer, Water Ladder, CARP
    Two door - Water Ladder, RSU
    This gets round the smaller missions where either a Fire Officer or Aerial vehicle is required

    My default is normally 1x FO on every station and has worked well for me on the other 100? fire stations, but for this little nugget isolated from my main AO, I was hoping this dispatch centre setting would prevent missions from spawning requiring excessive amounts of specialised units from spawning at these stations.

    Station says FOs only needed after 6, this small AO only has 5. But one has spawned.... Something is not right somewhere

  • Except in the fire station itself it lists the requirement has needing FOs after 6 stations, not 3.

    Surely that should override everything else?

    That too looks to be correct as this is the Building requirement and not the mission requirement
    As the button is active then this suggests you have more than the minimum number of buildings
    Alternatively you can obtain the staff and then move them to the required building

  • My default is normally 1x FO on every station and has worked well for me on the other 100? fire stations, but for this little nugget isolated from my main AO, I was hoping this dispatch centre setting would prevent missions from spawning requiring excessive amounts of specialised units from spawning at these stations.

    Station says FOs only needed after 6, this small AO only has 5. But one has spawned.... Something is not right somewhere

    As above, this is the Building requirement
    You can review this through the Possible missions and selecting the Dispatch Centre
    You can then review every mission and work out the minimum staff and vehicles required

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