Posts by Epsilon

Quote from Aqua

I Mean Yeah Thats Really Good But Think About It You Can Just Manually Put Off The Extra Units By Hitting Cancel Next To Them

Literally not the point of this post at all. I specifically want a button that cancels all units EXCEPT for ambulances so that they can continue patient care while the mission is already done on the incident side. Some missions have requirements of over 50-100 different units, im not going through and clicking 50-100 units, i might as well wait the 2 minutes for a patient to be done and transport them.

We have cancel all and cancel all ambulances, why not have a cancel all except ambulances so that treatment can be done with no other units if theyve finished the mission before all the patients have been treated. Would allow us to free up resources quicker

I think we should be able to set an area on the map that is hydranted vs non-hydranted areas. Pretty simple just 4 points on a map and put them wherever you want to create a square area. Require tankers for fire missions that are not in hydranted areas, not setting up a zone would automatically assume the whole map is hydranted and would not change requirements. This way, it becomes something that is not required to set up, just something some players can choose to set up if they want more realism out of the game

NOTE BEFORE ANYBODY BRINGS THIS UP: I AM NOT SUGGESTING THE ABILITY TO REDUCE MISSION REQUIREMENTS, THAT SHOULD NOT CHANGE

I suggest that we add a feature to add to mission requirements, for example "Unknown Structure Fire" only requires 1 engine, I think that we should have the option to add to a missions requirements to make dispatching more realistic. I know in many places, any structure fire or fire in a building would be something like 3 engines, 2 ladders, heavy rescue, chief, fire marshal, etc. I do not think that we should be able to reduce requirements because then someone could just make everything require 1 engine and complete high payout missions quickly with a single engine, however I do not see much harm in letting us increase requirements beyond what is required.

You can, you just have to have the garage space to hold the unit. If you have 2 extensions on one station you can only have 3 units and cant shift one from another station to that one. You would have to expand your first station again to be able to hold the unit.

I dont think its entirely stupid to see a tanker respond to a fire like that even when there is water supply. One of the reasons I can think of having one in the real world is if you were to have some sort of hydrant failure, that gives you an extra 3000 gallons of water to be able to fix the problem and then go back to supplied water.

Quote from ITfosho

Why is Aircraft Emergency Landing on Road way not an airport mission but an Aircraft Crash in Urban Area is?

I think because it is talking about some sort of small plane like a cessna or whatever that had to land on a highway like they do sometimes. Emergency landing is also very different from a crash. Plus, an aircraft crashing in an urban area would probably elicit a response from nearby airport fire stations as most of the time urban areas also have an airport either in them or very close by.

Quote from JerseyBirds

Do you happen to have the Forestry or Foam Expansions to your Airport Station? And if so, Are they also turned on?

In some cases, This will randomly tamper with the Expansions and no Specialty Missions will spawn.

If not, Then this is a totally different issue that needs resolving.

Thanks

JB

I will run through all 3 of the stations I have that have the airport extension:

1. Airport extension, foam extension, fire investigation extension

2. Airport extension, wildland extension, fire investigation extension

3. Airport extension, foam extension

All of them are turned on. Why would it tamper? Other than spawning other missions instead, shouldnt it be split based on how many extensions i have active?

Quote from JerseyBirds

Okay,

Also another thing to take into perspective. Look at the amount of Stations you have total. Fire, Police, EMS and Specialty. Each Specialty Expansion/Stations holds a Small Percentage of chance that a Specialty Mission will pop up.

Say if you have 100 of each Station but only 10 Airport Expansions. Yes 10 is quite a bit of Expansions to have but in a Larger Set-up that's really not a lot.

In order to even remotely see enough Airport Missions for you to utilize your Crash Tenders you would need like half the amount of Airport Expansions compared to your Fire Stations.

I would say for every 10 Fire Stations, 5 of them would need an Airport Expansion. And to notice them even more, Getting the Airport Specialty will make that Station spawn only Airport Missions itself.

So if you had 10 Fire Stations with 5 Airport Expansions AND the Airport Specialty Expansion, Then you will notice Half of your Missions will be Airport Missions.

In other words, The More The Merrier!

It's taken me years to get things pat down for my expansions. It takes a lot of work. So if you want Airport Missions more often, Go for the gusto!

Hope this helps!

JB

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Also to give you more insight, i have 26 fire stations, 17 ambulance stations (4 of my fire stations count as ambulance), 3 water rescue extensions, 10 police stations, 5 hospitals, 1 MEDEVAC station, 3 police helis, 1 game warden extension, 1 water police extension, 2 federal police stations with 1 of my stations having an extension (so 3), 2 bomb squads extensions, 1 DEA, 1 ATF, 5 forestry extensions, 4 foam extensions, 11 fire marshals offices, 3 airport extensions, 1 wildland MCC, 2 fire boat docks, 1 rescue boat docks, 3 flood control extensions, and 3 disaster management extensions.

You would think that with all of this I would get more of the airport/wildland/foam missions and less large cannabis grow operations (i got at least 5-10 per day for like a week straight once)

The interesting thing is, I had 20 stations for the longest time because I was busy building extensions rather than building new stations, and I would get consistent airport missions with only 1 airport expansion, then one of the updates came out (this was over a year and a half ago) and then i stopped getting those missions. Within the past year i bought the other 2 airport extensions and 4 crash tenders, all 4 of them have 0 miles on them and have never gone out because I havent gotten a mission since i bought them nearly a year ago.

I have 3 airport extensions, all filled, I have the proper POIs (and multiple of them in different areas around the state), and I have not gotten an airport mission in months. I dont know if the spawn rate for those missions is just insanely low but I used to get Large Cargo Plane Fires with Oil Leaks multiple times a day. The missions are all green in the possible missions list but they still dont generate.

Is this a glitch or am i just an idiot and dont know what im doing

Side note and edit: is there a way to see the percentage chance a mission will spawn? In comparison to my 3 airport extensions and POIs where I am not getting a single airport mission, I have 1 DEA extension and somehow I get multiple (sometimes 10 or more) large cannabis grow operation missions that spawn sometimes 20-50 miles away from all of my stations. You would think that with 1 extension you would get a lower chance of a large mission like that spawning but with more extensions and POIs to match you would get more airport missions, even if they are small missions like braking overheats and stuff.

Quote from Fastfrankie

JB no disrespect intended I have been involved in Emergency Services and in ems in particular since 1998 I know they are used in some areas and are functioning well for those agencies. All we are simply asking is to either allow the option to turn off the portion that automatically makes it transport the patient or allow an option for the regular or rescue engine to treat someone to say 50% or treat class A and some B patients fully like a fly car does. Because non transport paramedic engines exist and I would bet outnumber actual engine ambulances 3 to 1 in any area. I can think of a half dozen major cities that run bls or even als staff on every single engine and routinely treat patients on scene. We don’t want the engine ambulances to go away we just want additional realistic options!!!!

Agreed, most engines in my state are ALS level of care or at the very least have the ability to provide ALS care when an ambulance shows up.

Quote from JerseyBirds

The EMS Engine Ambulance is used more than you guys realize. And this is a Realistic Unit as different departments utilize it in multiple states.

How it's used is up to that department. Even though it has a water tank it's mostly used for Transporting Patients.

Some have the Ambulance Cab in place of the Crew Cab while others have it at the rear of the Engine and only a Single "Two Man" Cab at the front.

Same goes for the Rescue Ambulance. It's a Heavy Rescue with Ambulance Transport Capabilities. It may not be entirely popular with most departments but it does get used a lot.

The post of it's release in the EMS Update was to bring Realistic Vehicles to the Game. This is a Realistic Unit.

It's only optional. Players do not have to use it if they don't like it.

To be a little blunt, There's no need to make a fuss about it if you guys don't like it. Just don't use it is all. It's only a Game and the Content Teams do their research first before forwarding ideas for implementation.

Sorry to say, This Unit won't be going anywhere 😉

Thank you,

JB

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I never said it wasnt a realistic unit, it is, however it just doesnt fit right in the game imo, it costs more to use it than to just get a normal ambulance and ends up requiring more units to respond to calls if you actually transport with it, which is why I brought up the idea of a change. Yes players dont have to use it, but is it not better for the game and the community if it is a unit people use regularly? Nobody was making a fuss, I was just stating the fact that its kind of useless for what its intended to do. Yes its only a game, but its also a game with people who do this stuff day in and day out and understand it, this unit has practical applications in the real world, however like you said it is a game and it cannot be 100% realistic, which ends up culminating in this unit which doesnt work well with the way the game is set up and played. it is unfortunate that you guys dont want to change that but such is life.

Quote from Fastfrankie

Has there been anymore thoughts or progress with the developers on this? I know they just released a update and are planning another soon.

with 90% of the other stuff on these threads, it likely wont go anywhere but i hope it does because the EMS engine is completely useless as it stands

I am trying to shift (slowly) into a realistic game with correct vehicles per station, I do not understand the requirement for a minimum of 10 people at a fire station? Some of these stations have 5 or 6 people maximum depending on the station, with others having upwards of 10 or 15 per station which is on the high end. What is the reasoning for requiring the other 4-5 people being at the station just sitting not assigned to trucks? I suggest that we either lower the minimum to 5 or remove it entirely to more properly spread out resources

Quote from Curiosity03

Install LSSM V4. It does this and many other features missing from the game.

I think the issue is the fact that theyre missing from the game, and that we need to use 3rd party apps to get basic features that youd think would be in a game like this

I am not sure if anyone gets this, but I get a ton of sinkhole missions like significantly more than others. ( I have gotten over 15 of them today) and each of them only pay between 1-3k and they eat up a lot of resources (15 pieces of apparatus not including ambulances and not accounting for rescue engines and quints). Considering that many other missions that require up to 15 pieces pay upwards of 5-8k or higher depending on the mission, these need to pay more if they have such a high frequency.

Quote from EMS-Chief

As multiple accounts within the same version are against the ToS, there is no provision for transferring credits to another account.

youre saying I cant have a second account that is completely independent of my primary?

Edit: just read the TOS did not know I couldnt have multiple accounts, they are independent of eachother but I am reading that I can create another game world on the same account? How do I do this? I just started that second account today (not knowing it was against TOS obv) so theres no losses if I just start over.

Is there any way to send money or resources to another account I own? I recently created a new account to make a realistic district in the capital city of my state and don't want to go through the grind of starting all over again, is it possible to send money to that account or somehow send manpower or vehicles?

Edit: Part of the problem with my main account is I have too many resources at each station and I want to make a realism version of my other account. It would cost me a crazy amount of money to build enough stations to spread out enough to be able to make that primary account realistic

There is already a button for dispatch and open next mission, I think it would be nice to see the same thing except it dispatches and goes to the next mission that has requirements that have not been filled.

I would like to see a button called "cancel all PD units" and "cancel all fire units" in addition to cancel all units and cancel all ambulances. Frees up specific groups of resources that are no longer needed for incidents.

I requested this over a year ago, likely wont go anywhere