Realistic approach

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Hey Everyone,

so I am new to mission chief, I am currently trying to take a realistic approach to it with realistic crewing, locations and vehicles at each station.

I am looking for some assistance as I am not sure whether to keep building stations and then upgrade them and add relevant vehicles to make them realistic or should I just upgrade and finish one station at a time?

thanks in advance everyone!

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Where abouts are you based? Does most of the stations have ambulances in? Are the ambulances in separate stations?

For our alliance, we require (like most I have heard of) All Stations need to be exact location as real life, we require it to be on site of a Current Future or Former Fire station. (when we say Future we mean it is currently being built). We do not require the apparatus in the stations to be exact. due to the nature of calls and locations of them it would be impossible. I get Farm Fires in the middle of a city, I get Industrial Fires in the middle of a farm field. for the most part I keep it real. I do currently have an ambulance or will in the future have an ambulance at every station in Minnesota, that I have built that is. I am undecided if I will build ems outside of the state.

anyway I know in real life there is not an ambulance station at every single station in the state, but it is cheaper to just upgrade each station to house ems.

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I’m based in Western Australia, and only have fire stations where we don’t have ambulances in our stations, I’ve only got 3 stations all with 2 vehicles in them

Welcome, I'm from WA too (although now living in Vic).
I'd recommend 3 vehicles for each station before building another. That's seems the right ratio for most people. 2 fire trucks + 1 other specialist vehicle as needed.
If you have a small station there is no need to fill out all 6 trucks before moving on you can come back to them later - also no need for large stations early on in the game.