Lifeboats and Rescue Hleis

We cannot have units deploy into open water as incidents and units require roads to spawn on and drive on.

POI based inland water is on the list and one I'm keen to see, but PD and EMS work is being done first.

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but my units travel across the water as in the solent to mainland jobs so i dont really see why lifeboats cant be done

They are likely using ferry lanes which the game treats as roads.

The issue is that if boats were added in the fire department capacity they would have to follow a road while they were being towed by a utility/rescue/whatever, THEN transition into operating like a helicopter when they get to the water.

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but why coulnt they have there own thing like the rnli along the coast. this isnt getting wnywhere so ill leave it at that

There is no reason why there couldn't be, the problem would come in defining water as calls would not just spawn in blue areas on the map so they would spawn landslide of the stations as well

Problem 1) It all goes back to the mission spawning; no road = no spawn point. You can use POI's to get around this which then goes onto problem 2..

Problem 2) If you use the concept of the helicopter routing, yes, you could get boats to do this. But you'll have no way of telling it to avoid landmass, islands, rocks etc. So if you're deployment is not a direct through water route and perhaps needs you to travel around land.. it wouldn't and instead would go straight through it.

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Problem 1) It all goes back to the mission spawning; no road = no spawn point. You can use POI's to get around this which then goes onto problem 2..

Problem 2) If you use the concept of the helicopter routing, yes, you could get boats to do this. But you'll have no way of telling it to avoid landmass, islands, rocks etc. So if you're deployment is not a direct through water route and perhaps needs you to travel around land.. it wouldn't and instead would go straight through it.

How is it setup on leitstellenspiel ?

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How is it setup on leitstellenspiel ?

So other than it being in German this video demonstrates how to set up the calls and how they respond to them. Basically the calls spawn as close to the road as possible nearest to the POI, the units such as boats are towed by a units and respond like usual to calls. I currently play leitstellenspiel and have about 3 Lifeboats stations to build which will be fun.

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So other than it being in German this video demonstrates how to set up the calls and how they respond to them. Basically the calls spawn as close to the road as possible nearest to the POI, the units such as boats are towed by a units and respond like usual to calls. I currently play leitstellenspiel and have about 3 Lifeboats stations to build which will be fun.

So why can this not be completed in missionchief, it is the same platform isn't it ?

Nobody has said it can't be done. It's a question of whether or not that is a solution the playerbase would find adequate. It's also a question of the size of the update, the frequency of the update, and the amount of time Sebastian can put into the game.

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Nobody has said it can't be done. It's a question of whether or not that is a solution the playerbase would find adequate. It's also a question of the size of the update, the frequency of the update, and the amount of time Sebastian can put into the game.

Hm, okay. Sounds fair enough, but how close is mission chief gonna be to leitstellenspiel in comparison when it comes to realism, missions and so on in the future ?

My response was in regard to open water such as oceans etc. Inland water rescue is something that's on the list and is all very possible as per Leitstellenspiel. User can choose to try and make that solution work with oceans usnig the POI, however it's impossible to get a unit to travel the ocean other than the same method used in the other game.