Large Missions all in same area?

Quote from Jordie8396

Does anyone else experience this?

It feels like the game constantly clusters resource-intensive major incidents in a relatively small area, forcing me to draw resources from far afield, leaving areas without cover; Meanwhile other areas either get hardly anything, with only the odd small mission which can't be covered bc all the units are in at the MI.

The area the cluster is in seems to rotate at least daily.

Also just had a "Train Station Fire (Large)" in a town that doesn't even have a railway line, nevermind a station smh

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Often for me atleast its the areas with almost entirely just one pump stations and trying to get recources down there is a bog - they never seem to happen in huge cities with several units and able to cover with only a few additional units form sorrounding areas but not leaving those other areas without cover

This inconvenience is to force/encourage you to buy coins and build/create resources. I am in a country that is spread out of about 1400 miles and I get jobs that require specialist equipment that is too far to even dispatch directly to I have to build staging areas halfway to the event to get the equipment on-site, some jobs take about 6 hours real time to complete lol

Quote from Gooochy

Often for me atleast its the areas with almost entirely just one pump stations and trying to get recources down there is a bog - they never seem to happen in huge cities with several units and able to cover with only a few additional units form sorrounding areas but not leaving those other areas without cover

If you add the foam specialty to stations and then have this generate calls will get good industrial jobs in the central city or industrial areas. I worked in our country's largest city and we used to get massive working jobs in the industrial areas, so have foam-equipped extensions with all these stations. Makes it semi real.

You're probably not doing it right (sorry). As you start to expand, you need to look at your set up critically, and start moving your resources around.

For instance, if you start building a city and have 30 stations within a tight cluster, you might have 10 HAZMAT units across them.

Then, you expand out into "the country" and build another 10 stations, but across the same geographical area.

Logically, you now need to move half your HAZMAT units out to these new stations, to have the same coverage (or alternatively, build 10 new HAZMAT units)

I like to play IRL ("in real life") - but there is a limit to that. I built the real-life units at the real-life stations, but then add new units where required.

The heatmap in LSSM is brilliant for this!

EDIT: changed typo of "unit" to "station"

Quote from michaelje

You're probably not doing it right (sorry). As you start to expand, you need to look at your set up critically, and start moving your resources around.

For instance, if you start building a city and have 30 stations within a tight cluster, you might have 10 HAZMAT units across them.

Then, you expand out into "the country" and build another 10 stations, but across the same geographical area.

Logically, you now need to move half your HAZMAT units out to these new stations, to have the same coverage (or alternatively, build 10 new HAZMAT units)

I like to play IRL ("in real life") - but there is a limit to that. I built the real-life units at the real-life units, but then add new units where required.

The heatmap in LSSM is brilliant for this!

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I know I could have more recesources and I know where they are needed but thats no fun in my mind, I prefer to struggle for major calls

Quote from Gooochy

I know I could have more recesources and I know where they are needed but thats no fun in my mind, I prefer to struggle for major calls

i like the challenge of stress testing with the larger calls too. Also shows where you need to add more capability into ya system as you expand

Quote from Gooochy

I know I could have more recesources and I know where they are needed but thats no fun in my mind, I prefer to struggle for major calls

Hey mate. I think you misunderstood I prefer to struggle too - which is why i move the specialist units around once I've added more stations.

I never add more appliances unless I have

a) done all my transports, AND

b) there is a job awaiting a specialist appliance that I don't have free, because all of them are on other jobs.