Posts by mjkerr

  • RAILWAY CP

    Quote from conchobarsruthan25

    Hello there I was just wondering if there was any chance of maybe getting a whole new station for the rail stuff for engineers I know you can’t use network rail but that is why I have said engineers for various vehicles like there own eiu command units and other vehicles like that similar to the tow truck update

    I spent most of today amending and configuring the BTP
    It now works perfectly

    Build a new Dispatch Centre - BTP
    Build a new Small Police Station, assign to BTP Dispatch Centre
    Amend the IRV to a new category type - BTP
    Purchase / transfer Railway Police staff
    Remove / transfer the existing Police Staff to another Police Station
    Assign two Railway Police per IRV BTP
    As the IRV BTP is not within the ARR it remains available for the upgraded Railway Police missions

    In a few days time I will replicate this with the Network Rail depots, which will use the Small Fire Station
    Again, there are no staff and only the RRU

  • RAILWAY CP

    Quote from dog-r-me2

    using the TFL ERU (emergency response unit) as the RRU
    Then for out of London god knows!

    It has not been loaded yet, but there is a Network Rail RRU
    You can download it as a custom graphic just now

    In the short term I plan to do the same with Network Rail depots as I have for BTP

  • RAILWAY CP

    Quote from mjkerr

    I have assigned one MOM and one Railway Police per vehicle
    This leaves spare staff (oddly this works for normal Police Stations)
    I will add one further vehicle to each station and then compare

    Again, no missions appeared

    I then added a fourth BTP Police Station and missions started to appear, requiring Railway Police
    Oddly this fourth Police Station is not yet completed for active Railway Police missions, but it seems this was the minimum requirement

  • RAILWAY CP

    Quote from conchobarsruthan25

    Hello there I was just wondering if there was any chance of maybe getting a whole new station for the rail stuff for engineers I know you can’t use network rail but that is why I have said engineers for various vehicles like there own eiu command units and other vehicles like that similar to the tow truck update

    I agree this would make more sense for the RRU
    I am going to test with a separate station and compare

    I have separated out BTP, but this is not setup as a specialisation so still mixes with normal missions
    However as I expand the number of BTP Stations this should correct itself

  • RAILWAY CP

    Quote from Alctw10

    You have 3 Railway Police trained staff, this is enough for the missions however they need 4 trained staff to be available in order to generate.

    The missions I looked at in detail showed only four Railway Police had to be available with two Railway Police required

    I assume you mean per station
    I have assigned one MOM and one Railway Police per vehicle
    This leaves spare staff (oddly this works for normal Police Stations)
    I will add one further vehicle to each station and then compare

    What about the Fire station?

  • RAILWAY CP

    Quote from Stone Mane

    Looks like your dispatch centre is turned off. That would cause this issue wouldn't it? (at least on the police side)

    I turn them on for Mission types as and when required
    This then provides missions only from the stations that are active / on

    In this case I wanted BTP Police and Fire Missions, so both were on
    I had about 75 missions, three sets of 25, none Railway related

    This works fine for the Recovery Centres, again the Dispatch Centre is off
    I then receive both Fire and Police which require Recovery vehicles

    Finally, I also have SORT (HART) and again these two buildings work correctly for both Fire and Police

  • RAILWAY CP

    Quote from Alctw10

    Please DM screenshots showing;

    - Dispatch centres have required extensions, units & trained staff (and that they're active).

    - Possible mission list to show that the missions are not showing as criteria met.

    I have done my best with extracts

    BTP Glasgow Central
    BTP Glasgow Queen Street
    Fire Glasgow Cowcaddens

  • RAILWAY CP

    Quote from Alctw10

    This CP is also set to 100% chance, meaning as soon as you have an active extension and/or trained personnel you will only spawn the missions requiring the Railway CP and not the original.

    As is always the case with CPs, there may be teething problems. Please report any issues below.

    I have created a new Dispatch Centre -
    BTP West

    To this I have added -
    BTP West Control Room
    BTP Glasgow Central
    BTP Glasgow Queen Street

    I have removed all the Police Officers and vehicles
    I have then added the required Railway Police and vehicles

    From the Possible Missions I should have five missions
    So far I have had none

    Equally, I have noted that they are all Fire missions
    I have upgraded one Fire Station so far
    From the Possible Missions I should have three missions
    Again, so far I have had none

    When you combine both together the net is two missions

  • Patient Transfer Missions

    I have 40 Urgent Treatment Centre, up to 80 PTS vehicles are available
    The limit is 25% so 10 missions

    I have found the range limit is 10km, so for missions further than 10km I use the PTS from the Ambulance Station instead
    This can then result in another mission from the same Urgent Treatment Centre!

  • Low rewards from tasks for late game players

    Quote from Morvran

    Ambulance stations are far more reasonable as they cost only 100k each and so completing this task for them is the same as buying 4 and getting 1 free.

    I believe this rather strange building cost has been pointed out before
    From memory this is Fire or Police based and so any other building type has a fixed cost
    As a result Fire Stations and Police Stations increase in cost as you build more

    I have nearly completed building all the Ambulance Stations in Scotland
    After which the tasks and incentives become irrelevant...

  • RAILWAY CP

    Quote from Whitchit

    Please see here for further details on some of their specialist teams: https://careers.btp.police.uk/roles/specialist-teams/

    I have checked with BTP and sadly this is not the case
    Specialists are from local police, on request as and when required, BTP have none of these!

    I have checked with BTP Scotland and they too only have PTS certified officers
    DSU in Scotland = zero (16 on call from Police Scotland)
    ARV in Scotland = zero (9 on call from Police Scotland)
    EIV = three (8 on call from Network Rail)

  • RAILWAY CP

    Quote from Alctw10

    The Railway Police education is set like other educations in that you can choose the vehicle for staff.

    Meaning you could have Railway Police IRV, ARV, DSU etc.. similar to IRL.

    Sadly that is not how British Transport Police (BTP) works, there are no special vehicles, they are trained officers only

    If ARV, DSU and so on are required, then local police provide these
    These officers are then escorted by BTP

    However for offences on the railway BTP can detain within the Police Station at the railway station

  • Police units call signs

    Quote from nick.olson2948

    Up to you as to how you want to label your units.

    In Minnesota there are 87 Counties and the County is given a number based on its alphabetical name.

    This is the UK forum
    Police are by constabulary area
    Fire are by brigade area
    Ambulance are by NHS trust (private and some others)

    I am using a flat generic vehicle identifier
    For example
    IRV Glasgow City 001
    DSU Glasgow City 001 (which makes it easier to identify a Dog Handler)
    AMB Glasgow City 001
    RRV Glasgow City 001 (which makes it easier to identify a Critical Care)