You don't have to have multiple dc's and you could technically have one for your entire setup. If you are building realistically, you could have a dc in every county (or one for two if they are a joint county dc). Having one in every area, you can potentially turn on/off call spawns so that you don't have calls spawning in an area while you are building up until you are ready. You can also have the setting turned on where calls will only spawn if there is enough of a certain station under a dc.
You don't have to have multiple dc's and you could technically have one for your entire setup. If you are building realistically, you could have a dc in every county (or one for two if they are a joint county dc). Having one in every area, you can potentially turn on/off call spawns so that you don't have calls spawning in an area while you are building up until you are ready. You can also have the setting turned on where calls will only spawn if there is enough of a certain station under a dc.
Thanks for that input. I am not figured out all the ins/outs of the game and am learning as I go along. I have no clue how to turn stuff on and off like you indicate. I guess my other question is this.. If I have a dispatch center in each jurisdiction and assign those departments to that DC, will they should up as available units in my primary jurisdiction
If they are in range of the call yes they would.
I use to have a DC for each channel for LACounty fire like Blue1, Blue5 Blue8 and so on and 4 LASD DC's for the 4 divisions and a DC for my Hospital net. Hospital and Private Ambo Co. I discovered once I got all my stations under 1 DC I generate much larger runs and higher payouts plus it was much easier to maintain all the stations with out bouncing from DC to DC
1 - It just means you lose some form of control, a lot of the dispatch centre settings are global however. But you wont have the ability to disable those stations, or create a special coverage area, etc.
2 - Units will still show just fine, regardless of which (or no) dispatch centre.
1 - It just means you lose some form of control, a lot of the dispatch centre settings are global however. But you wont have the ability to disable those stations, or create a special coverage area, etc.
2 - Units will still show just fine, regardless of which (or no) dispatch centre.
will they generate missions?
yes but they can mess you up with unit requirements
will they generate missions?
Yup just as normal! 
For the sake of completeness:
Mission generation:
* Generating building is assigned to a dispatch center with its own coverage area => only buildings of this dispatch center count towards the minimum requirements!
* Generating building is not assigned to a dispatch center => all buildings of the entire account (independent of dispatch centers) count towards the minimum requirements.
* Generating building is assigned to a control centre without its own coverage area => All buildings of the entire account (independent of dispatch centers) count towards the minimum requirements.
Important information about patients:
Patients can appear if a rescue station or active ambulance extension is "nearby" (I think it was max. 15km, but haven't found a source on this yet, so no guarantee!). Dispatch centers and coverage areas seem to be irrelevant here.
Disabled dispatch centers:
If a dispatch center is disabled, the buildings assigned to it can no longer generate operations; the above-mentioned cases for minimum requirements are independent of this.
jxn_30 Disabled dispatch centers:
If a dispatch center is disabled, the buildings assigned to it can no longer generate operations; the above-mentioned cases for minimum requirements are independent of this.
I have 8 DC's deactivated and only one activated as a main spawning DC.
I spawn 645 Fire missions as that is how many fire stations I have, disabling the DC's will still generate your total mission count.
You're slightly confused..
You generate (your highest number of stations + 1) missions, but that does not mean each of those stations generate a mission. This wouldn't work as a set up with 200 fire, 100 police, 100 ambulance, can only generate 201 missions, yet will generate a mixture of police/fire/ambulance calls (providing none are disabled).
Only stations in active dispatch centres can generate a mission, however, one station can generate an infinite number of missions. This can be seen by the location that missions spawn, and by viewing a spawned missions info for "generated by", followed by a station.
Theoretically, you can have it so only 1 fire station is enabled, and still spawn 1000 missions. They'd all just spawn within radius of that station, and also be limited to what different missions can spawn.
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