Posts by Alctw10

I am in the process of going through all the medical missions with my suggestions for changes such as vehicle requirements and CC chance. This includes missions added before I became CA.

Cardiac arrest does not have a CC percentage assigned which is why it won't generate.

Once the change was made from HEMS requirement to CC chance required any medical missions following this were added with a CC chance and the missions before were missed out.

In terms of building collapse and firearms attack, I have not been consulted about PT codes or CC chances for these missions (and others alike) and these have more than likely just been filled in by the DEVs.

Now that I have finished the Coastguard content my attention is back towards the medical side.

We obviously can't give timeframes as it relies on the DEVs however I can say it's still in the testing phase

Ambulance advisor here, thanks for the feedback.

In game HART are mostly used for the missions you have mentioned and other much larger ones, for many reasons but mostly because it incorporates the other services and the updates/missions they've received.

There are missions that you're suggesting already in the game for HART:

- Central Penetrating Wound

- Fallen Person

- Serious Head Injury

- Spinal Injury

- Traumatic Limb Amputation

Depending on the mission they will require varying HART resources.

Apart from the Penetrating Wound the others are reliant on POIs placed within the radius that your missions will spawn.

I have also put forward a while back a few other missions requiring HART units which have not yet been implemented.

The CAs and DEVs have been working together to bring new content that has already been released (PSU) and are working on bringing the biggest update to MissionChief (SAR).

Due to this some areas will be on the back bench for a while but I am working on more ambulance content to be released in the future once its the turn of ambulance service again.

If you have any suggestions for the Ambulance side I welcome you to send me a private message with them.

Happy dispatching

This is part of SAR Part 1 but added incorrectly by the DEVs, please do not train staff in this until the content pack is released as the training should then be moved.

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I'll throw my hat into the ring to start.

1) have less of a delay to start them. 3 hours is a lot, so less would be better. 30 minutes, an hour maybe. That means we can get more in as well.

2) have a higher max number. I know it was recently upped, but having let's say 1 spawn for every 50 stations would be quite nice for some variety.

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Starts in 30 minutes or when vehicle requirements met.. Good way to get round it

Not a mistake, put forward by the Fire Service DEV 👍

Yes then the usual light setup for vehicles such as dash, grills etc.

It's what's available at the time of ordering for the best price.

SCOOs have been staying blue but these are obviously different vehicles.

Also some Officer vehicles are white/silver depending on area and use.

No operational difference in colour.

All coastguard rescue vehicles are water/search response.

If you see one with a stretcher on the roof then the team specialises in mud rescue, if no stretcher and its a light bar then they either specialise in rope rescue or they don't have a speciality.

Obviously with the older vehicles the above does not work due to some carrying stretchers on the top with a light bar.. but all the newer vehicles (white) that's how you tell the difference.

With which service?

Quote from SirHiggins

they are also some kind of SAR, arent they?

They are both types of SAR teams yes but not part of this update

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Yes but by having ladders/platforms responding to cats up trees and less 1 truck calls the game is less realistic. I worked out of a station where 75% of the station calls on average would be 1 truck call. I guess the hard thing is not knowing geography, But I am sorry there is no way in the world we would send a ladder truck 50 miles to a cat up a tree, in fact, I am unsure if we still respond anything to those calls anymore.

Nige, you do a bit of complaining don't you.

Us CAs do the best we can to balance realism and progression for players with the content we put together.

While what you're saying is right, you have to remember this is a game and if it was 100% realistic.. it would be really boring and slow.

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Just for clarity HALO =Hospital Ambulance Liaison Officer right?

Yes that's correct

As VICFire says above.

I will keep putting forward the idea together with the HALO that I previously suggested.

I'm currently working on some more ambulance content to put forward including some new buildings.

I personally had over 1,000 patients to deal with in one of my cities at the same time so the hospitals and the way they're used will definitely be a focus point.

IMO

Vehicle auctions and sales have no place in the game, all vehicles are already cheap enough.

There seems to be a back and forth between players wanting realism but then wanting things affordable, if we go with realism then you'll be surprised how the vehicle prices change and it would actually price people out of playing parts for quite some time.

I do like the idea of a storage facility though so that you can keep vehicles that are no longer required however you could easily do this yourself by building another station at an existing site and calling it "Storage", with that in mind I don't see it being implemented.

The QOL was clearly mentioned and talked about on the forums so you must have just missed it, it will be a pinned thread if you can find it, no dramas if you can't because it has already been submitted.

Quote from Morvran

Quick question, with the critical Care, when a patient requires critical care, can that be provided by any unit deployed with critical care personal, such as in an OTL or does it have to be in an ambulance/RRV?

Critical care requirement is for the training and not vehicle, therefore Ambulance, Rapid Response Vehicle or Helicopter will suffice.

I have not tested OTL or Ambulance Officer as I have not seen a need to.

This has been suggested on multiple occasions and we will obviously keep working towards this.

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I have not a lot to add but.

1. Don’t devalue forum posting players vs Facebook players. Some of us don’t want to be posting on Mark Zuckerberg censorhappy network or be members of it at all. A lot of us aren’t members at all.

2. SAR / MR etc. all call on hailing frequencies that police and fire dispatch hear here in Chicago. If you are on Lake Michigan and you call 911 from your cellular phone and say your yacht broke down and two people are having life threatening events? The dispatch center is going to be the one getting coast guard boats moving not you. You don’t directly call on the coast guard usually. If you’re lost hiking in the woods? Do you call 911 or do you call some search and rescue number? Here we call 911 and they dispatch or call out to forest services / SAR.

What you’re saying is tier two and isn’t an emergency IS AN EMERGENCY.

3. Tow trucks and vehicle breakdowns. We already deal with breakdowns of public buses. Throw the tow trucks in as a low priority update. The more you can add onto the simulation the better it is. You can’t make it worse by adding things. Just have ability for people that don’t want such missions to opt out of them in their settings. Put people in control of what they receive instead of deciding for them what they will receive. I frankly find it odd to be receiving calls about a public bus breakdown but never anything about a stalled private vehicle needing a tow, which is a commonality on our roads that the police tend to until the tow truck shows up. They have to sit there sometimes for an hour diverting traffic.

I really don’t see what the gigantic fuss is about. And in my opinion I find a lot of this thread offensive.

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This is for the UK version so how its done in Chicago is irrelevant.

Apologies thought this was on UK section but yes hospitals will allow up to 40 patients as I mentioned.

Forgot to mention clinic's also generate transfer missions to help clarify with what ChiefBoden61 said about transfers.

Clinics do take all patients, they just don't have access to all Expansions like the hospitals.

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what is the difference between a clinic and a hospital?

A hospital allows for extensions and up to 40 patients whereas a clinic can take up to 10 patients however can have space for 2 x vehicles.

I distinctly remember there being a link to a shared drive that had all buildings graphics on there.

Does anyone have this?