Posts by Wings

Thanks!

Never mind, this has been explained now.
Apparently it is now possible to play the game "temporarily" without a sign up. Until a user signs up their username appears as this long string of numbers and letters, once they sign up it changes to their username (or it disappears if they don't create an account).

I'm an admin for an alliance on the Australian version of the game.
Over the last couple of days we have noticed a lot of new members with weird long alpha/numerical usernames, like some sort of code in the background and their username isn't showing. See the picture attached.
I don't think they are fake accounts to farm for coins because people just wouldn't come up with a heap of usernames like that. They seem to be active accounts, earning credits and building stations. The weird thing is that none of them are replying to inbox messages that are sent to them or replying to in game chat.
It seems like the game might have bots to increase activity?
Is anyone else seeing these sorts of usernames in their alliances?

Some examples..

• a203f5ac514883c97d54
• 893104ec69e6b49a00a9
• d5ba93cff38d15f900ee
• f61c70358a9f6aaf74ea
• b1f56c0a5f7f728d9d75

I have messaged the developers through the Xyrality Helpshift FAQ page but haven't heard anything back.

Ok, well even if it wasn't the exact date but perhaps "Online within last week" or "Online within last two weeks".
It would be good to get some sort of visibility within 2 weeks at least. Again should only be visible to main admin.

It would be helpful for the alliance admin only (not co-admin) to be able to view the last login date of all members. I know there is a function already that shows inactive after 60 days however to be able to view the last login date would allow the admin to be able to check how active their admin team are and actively work to cycle members into different roles.

Yeah can't say I've ever heard of that. Seems odd to be combining fire & police - the two are much less alike than ambulance & fire which are often joined together or overlapped in many parts of the world.

I second this! The radius is painfully small at times, I very often see calls generate literally right next door to the station!
I have a network of fire, police and ambulance stations in completely real locations (so not unusually spread out) and I see little clumps of ambulance calls around the ambulance stations and police calls around the police stations, etc.
As well as extending the radius the game should generate all types of calls nearby to all buildings on the same dispatch centre - so a police call could generate anywhere within your playing network, not just right next to a police station.

I have been thinking about this and I believe a good way to solve it would be to allow each vehicle to be assigned to multiple custom categories instead of just one.

@TACRfan Perhaps this is something that could be suggested?

Allowing multiple categories would mean that a Quint, for example, could be assigned to both "Ladder" and "Fire truck" so that way if a call came up nearby the Quint that just requires a fire truck it would still get picked using an ARR. As it works now it wouldn't because the Quint would be locked on a separate category and wouldn't respond to "fire truck" with an ARR.

Same with Rescue Engine.. if that were set to "Heavy Rescue" and "Fire Truck" it could respond to all possible calls.

This would also fix the problem for ambulances. Fly-cars could be given just the category "A". BLS ambulances could be given "A" and "B" and ALS ambulances could be given "A", "B" & "CDE" - so if an ALS ambulance was closer than a fly-car it would still get picked for a cat A call.

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My ARR for major calls will send whatever is the nearest as even though I’ve created a custom type, my ‘light’ pumps can still be sent as a fire engine in the ARR. the only split is for a separate list I have for initial dispatch which separates them out so that I can make sure a call that needs, two heavy rescue units and two fire engines, gets two rescue engines, not a rescue engine and a light pump.

Ok so it looks like you are dispatching units in two stages.. the "initial dispatch" as you put it which is to determine the closest of 'light pumps' or heavy rescues then dispatching the appropriate one, and then you have other ARRs set up for calls that have everything else like chiefs, police, hazmat, etc. Is that right?

I have an ARR set up for each call that requires more than just one unit, so I just hit that button for "Basement fire", "Stuck climber", etc.. Hence why I'm having this issue with the flexible units.

I think i'll just use a fleet of ALS ambulances only and Heavy Rescues only, then I don't have to worry about any of it. I don't really want to be checking the requirements for each call and then looking at the closest units like it seems you are doing.

Quote from Wispa

I gave the type 2 engines their own type of 'Light' and created a separate AAR for them.

Hi Wispa, thank you for the reply

I understand what you are saying, but my point is what if, to use your scenario, there was an available rescue engine closer than the type 2 fire truck when you dispatched to the brush fire/wildfire? Your ARR wouldn't pick it up because I'm assuming you have type 2 fire trucks (or your new "Light" category) set instead?

Or are you saying that you have created 2 ARRs for each call that doesn't require rescue? One set for the rescue engine and one set for the type 2 and you just click whichever is closest at the time? That is a possible solution although it would make an already cluttered ARR screen even worse.
Much easier if the game allowed for OR selections in the ARR settings.

Hi all - sorry for the long post!

Looking for a bit of set up advice with ARR. I started with Missionchief a while ago on the Australian version and have now completed it (by that I mean unlocked all of the calls, there are far fewer than on the US version). I got bored of just churning through the same jobs watching the credits stack up into the millions so I thought I would start again on the US version (but based in Australia with an AU based alliance). So glad I did it's a much more involved game! Although the Aussie alliances on this version are very quiet in comparison obviously because it's the US version.

Anyway.. one thing that is different on this one compared to the AU version is that there are "flexible units". i.e.. some calls can have utility OR heavy rescue and the Heavy Engine covers a fire truck & a rescue.. or the Quint covering a platform & fire truck - there are a few more too. Not to mention the ambulance combinations too: Fly-car, BLS & ALS with some calls being able to be attended by any of those. Whilst I love the unit flexibility, because it resembles real life after all, what I am really struggling with is how to best set that up using ARRs. Looking for any advice if you have found a way that works.

For example, for a call that I know I can use a fly-car for I have that set on the ARRs but often there will be an ALS ambulance sitting much closer that could easily have just done the job. The same scenario happens a lot with the utility/heavy rescue combination. I have tried setting both units on the ARRs but then I end up with both units arriving or I have to remember to cancel the one further away. It seems like what we need is for the ARRs to have an "OR" option. That way we could set 1 utility OR 1 heavy rescue (or fly-car OR BLS OR ALS) and it would just dispatch the closest.

I suspect what a lot of people are doing, which is what I am considering is just not bothering with the different units and just having a fleet of only ALS ambulances (or heavy rescues) - they're the same price anyway and you don't have to worry about it. It's a shame through because I like the realism of the flexible units.

Has anyone found a neat way around it all?

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That's something of LSS Manager

THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I use Tampermonkey already so it was easy.
Makes a huge difference!

Does anyone know how to show the mission requirements & credits on the main despatch screen instead of clicking to change to the second page?
See the screenshot attached from a youtube video.
It would be so helpful!
Thanks.

Yep I'm one of the newbies. Saw it on Instagram a couple of days ago. Loving it so far!