Posts by FlyingTrumpetGuy

Mission Name: Unintended Vehicle Acceleration / Unable to Stop

Amount of Credits: 1500

Expansion required (if applicable): N/A

Time to complete: (in minutes): 10

POI: (If needed) N/A

Required Units: 4x patrol car, 2x fire engine, 1x heavy rescue, 1x platform truck

Max Patients: 4

Minimum Patients: 0

Patient Category: (General Internal- Cardiac Surgery) Trauma

Transport Probably: 50

Prisoners: (Max-Min, If applicable) N/A

Upgradable Missions (if applicable): Any vehicle accident

Quote from Boxgamer103

i understand where your coming from but there area also many crew cab units with cranes, and originally I had in mind the heavy wreakers but digging deeper there are many units with large cranes that do the same thing.

See your point 100%- I'd at least not term it a mobile crane, as that implies that the crane is the primary responsibility of the rig IMO- maybe "heavy rescue w/ crane" would be more appropriate.

Just to nitpick, the mobile crane unit should max out at 2 personnel. The unit pictured is really just a squad/heavy rescue that happens to have a 10,000 pound crane on it-- the crane is not the reason for the unit's existence, it's merely a collateral duty and a tool to get the job done. The reason I recommend a max of two is that the actual crane units that I've seen in service are essentially wrecker-type tow trucks with a 2-person cab. Those units really are crane units; the crane is the reason the unit exists. Just a thought.

I'm working on reinforcing my law enforcement setup right now, and in doing so I came across a perfect application for the police MCV-- it's a mobile command unit run by the state transportation authority police. Unfortunately, though, the police MCV can only carry one person, and the real-world unit is a very large truck that carries a number of personnel. Any chance we could bump the capacity of the police MCV to 6 so it would be on par with the fire equivalent?

I just run HAZMAT units as my decons. Not the greatest but it's close.

I’m with you- pretty sure I’ve even brought it up in the past. I’d love to see it in game, it would be really valuable for those of us who play hardcore realism setups. Until we get that, though, I use crew carriers labeled as rehabs and canteens. By putting more firefighters on scene it reduces the overall mission length (like another player mentioned) without adding more engines than are realistically present in my department. I’ve heard of people using mobile air units to fill the same role- I can see why, but personally I’m a bit lukewarm on that idea. To each their own!

I've been doing some thinking about the flow of the game lately. I've come up with the following idea:

What if instead of having calls come in as "drug lab fire" "room fire" "bin fire" etc, we had a progression. Something like "reported fire" (variations could be "reported structure fire", "reported outside fire", "reported vehicle fire") would start it off. The way things tend to flow in the real world, arriving units will see smoke from some way off or they'll arrive on scene with visible fire or they'll make entry and find fire-- then they'll call for a working fire response. The thing that pushed me to post this was the drug lab fire call. The way I interpret "drug lab" I think of an illegal meth lab (maybe it's supposed to be a pharmaceutical manufacturer fire? If so, let me know) and I don't think it's realistic for the reporting party to call it in as such, so I don't think it's realistic for us to know that we need to dispatch a HAZMAT response right off the bat. Just some thoughts.

I've only ever used mine on very large EMS incidents to be able to have ambulances return to a point close to the incident after returning from the hospital. I think some folks who build out west may use them on wildfire incidents (especially now seeing as fire can sort of spread) but I'd be interested to hear how others are using them.

I would absolutely love to see this. No pods in my current jurisdiction but several that I neighbor and plan to eventually build out do have them. I think this would see a lot of success.

The ATV makes me hope we'll see something similar for fire/EMS. Lots of applications for those.

Don't currently have any fire police in the mix (not a thing in my current region) but I think you could achieve the same effect with a utility vehicle-- increases mission completion speed, plus most utilities I've seen are set up fairly similarly to fire police.

Well... it's come quite a way since I last posted here. Still some work to do filling out a few remaining stations and adding apparatus, but it's close!

Stats for those interested:

*ARFF units will be updated shortly-- haven't gotten around to that since the update.

I'd love to see that- after all, we have accurate wildland unit classifications. Regardless, this update is awesome- now I can have realistic RIV capabilities instead of all massive crash trucks.

Mission Name: Aircraft In-Flight Emergency Standby

Amount of Credits: 1000

Expansion required (if applicable): Airport

Time to complete: (in minutes) 10

POI: (If needed) Airport

Required Units: 2x ARFF, 1x fire engine, 1x battalion chief

Max Patients: 0

Minimum Patients: n/a

Patient Category: (General Internal- Cardiac Surgery) n/a

Transport Probably: n/a

Prisoners: (Max-Min, If applicable) n/a

Upgradable Missions (if applicable): smoke in cabin, engine fire, braking overheat, landing gear failure, plane off the runway, bird strike, aircraft leaking fuel, burst tire - aircraft, light aircraft crash, light aircraft crash (airfield), large aircraft crash

Pretty much what the title says. I'm curious because I happen to edit OSM in my free time both for fun and as a volunteer activity, and I made an edit to my local high school several months ago which showed up within minutes on OSM but has yet to show up in Missionchief. I'm assuming MC also pulls a substantial amount of data from OSM tags (the things we use to define characteristics of... pretty much anything- they define buildings as houses, etc) and I think we could have a much more realistic experience if the OSM data was updated more frequently so the tagging data was more up to date. OSM changes for the better every single day and we get a better picture of the world we live in. It's frustrating to see a commercial fire in an area that's all residential- if I'm correct and MC pulls POI data from OSM tags, that issue could become less frequent as tagging is updated to reflect the real-world situation. Sorry for the long-winded ramble- just my curiosity and my 2 cents.

I’d like to see that. Mechanics might have to change, but it would be interesting to see.

Interesting concept, for sure. I’d like to see some way to make it a seasonal station- only in service during the colder months. At least the devs should include an in service/out of service switch.

Quote from ChiefBoden61

I do not believe that you will get them until you have enough stations to get the larger fire missions such as Conflagrations and Tanker Explosions. That is when they pop up for me as a follow up mission. One of the moderators or advisors can jump in there, but that is how they appear for me.

Just figured it out- read it as a unit type at first, but it's really a mission. Gotcha!

Quote from ChiefBoden61

WE already have fire investigations and now environmental impact investigations.. I think more is just too much

Haven't seen environmental impact... could you point me to where those are?

I'm fine with the devs not adding MEs/coroners but I would love to have detectives.

Quote from DalyCityFire

Use ARR. Create your your own category with the units you want to respond. eg. Squad for the engine and HM support for the HM. Create a new ARR with the two units assigned.

This is the way. I've set all my ARRs to send a Tanker Support unit (represented by a type 2 engine) to every call that a tanker responds on.