Is there a REQUIRED / MINIMUM staffing limit for specialist Vehicles ?

    Do certain specialist vehicles require a certain staff limit in order to be used?


    I am enquiring about the MCV Mobile Command Vehicle, this is what I already have. It says a MAX of 6 people, but no MINIMUM requirement. If there IS a minimum needed?


    1 * mission: Overturned Tanker.

    • 1 Battalion Chief Vehicle (100%) :thumbup:
    • 1 Mobile Command Vehicle (100%) :thumbup:
    • 1 Heavy Rescue (100%) :thumbup:
    • 1 HazMat (100%) :thumbup:
    • 2 Patrol Cars (100%) :thumbup:
    • 4 Fire Engines (100%) :thumbup:

    1 * Fire Academy / MCV lesson has been finished

    1 * Fire Station ( Large ) with 3 * MCV trained units

    1 * Large Fire Station with 12 * Firemen/Women Capacity is atm 20 staff


    Only 2 Units are currently using this station, 1 * Fire Engine with 3/6 units and the MCV also with 3/6 units ( until I dumped 3 more units into the vehicle ) this left me 6, then later 3 FREE staff.


    Originally I placed ONLY the 3 trained units into the MCV, got the usual "Untrained" "not enough staff" pop-up display. A short time later, dumped the remaining 3 ( UNTRAINED:!:) units into the MCV, again got the "Untrained" "not enough staff" pop-up display. But about 15 minutes later and with ZERO additional staff added to Fire Station, the MCV started working :?:



    Thanks in advance if anyone can clear this up, as I just found this an odd BLIP.:?::?:

    So I'm not seeing you mention assigned personnel. And to clear things up, vehicles like the MCV or Hazmat both don't have a minimum requirement. You can put one MCV trained unit into the MCV and it still works. By adding more personnel into a vehicle it just speeds up the effectiveness when on scene therefore speeding up the mission by just a bit.


    Because you have exactly 12 personnel I am guessing if you didn't "assign personnel" trained units to the MCV so they went on your Engine which left the remaining personel all untrained. You need to assign at least one of your MCV trained units to that vehicle because that's how MC works, it likes to dispatch the trained personnel on a unit you have sent before the MCV.


    Say you have a trash fire and you send that engine to that fire. Mission Chief will send the 3 MCV personnel to that fire just because they have training. The game won't save them for the MCV.



    EDIT: ah I see. Yes the problem is with the assigning ppl. it did exactly what I thought which was you sent the engine before dispatching the MCV so the engine took the personnel to the scene. Then once it came back you dispatched the MCV and/or engine and MC put the personnel in the MCV.

    Thanks WinWin for the quick answer.


    Apologies for the staff bit, YES I did have ALL 3 of my MCV Fire-crew assigned ONLY to the MCV unit. Thankfully I now understand this " Assigning Units " especially the TRAINED units being sent to the Mission 1st.


    I tried this again with another mission, sending the Fire Engine from "SAME" Station my MCV unit is also based in BEFORE the MCV Unit and again got that "untrained" blip / bug. But by sending the MCV out to the mission 1st, then sending other units, it worked as expected. Odd that it should do that, but at least it's teaching me.

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