For some reason some people don't understand the difference between "Type 2" and "Type 6".
While those designations are not used in NY I do understand the difference and here is a "Type 2" in yellow 1996 Freightliner FL70/KME 1250/1000 Pumper seating 3, and a "Type 6" in red, 2006 Ford F-350 Super Duty XLT/Reading 250/200 Brush Truck. There is a huge difference between the two, while the difference between a Type 1 and Type 2 is only the crew size, the Type 6 is a Pick-up chassis with a small fire body for fighting brush fires. A Type 2 is a structural fire attack truck, the Type 6 while it can fight a structure fire, is basically useless to do so. It handles grass fires, field fires, trash fires. In the game it would be something to handle the smaller calls leaving the Type 1 and Type 2 structural fire trucks free to respond to larger calls.
Now the Pumper Tanker. The thought process of it will make it easier needs to stop, I have yet to see anyone who plays the game and doesn't recreate the actual departments that they are in the area of. Thus they are not going to purchase trucks that don't exist in their area. Now some in a city might purchase a couple Pumper Tankers because they don't have Tankers for several miles away but it isn't exactly going to make the game easier. The staffing of 3 is wrong though, Pumper Tankers have seating for everything from 2 to 8, 6 maximum is better and then people could have it seat however many the real version does.
Police Type 2, not sure what you mean with that one.
Police Command, just make it so you can buy an MCV at a police station as well since many places the fire dept uses the police command vehicle for larger incidents.
I know the difference between type 1 or 2 and the type 6, here in Portugal we have categories for FD vehicles, all units that end with CI (VUCI, VFCI, VLCI) are firefighting vehicles (used directly to fight fires) another example is all vehicles that begin with VTxx are Tanker (VTTU, VTTF)
Getting back to the engine type, we have VLCI which are light pumpers (VL+CI) they could be used instead of the urban pumper (example) if it is not a "big" fire for example, or sometimes they also send the urban pumper but this light p. gets there faster which leads me back to my other long time idea that vehicles should have different speeds, the Battalion chief should be faster than the Mobile command
Also the idea of police command unit is not for the police command to perform the same calls as the fire command, the police would be used for police calls and fire for fire
I've seen some people say that this is just the US Version of this. But having all of this being recommended into the game i think is too much for right now.. If you ask me i think the way it is now should be fine or whatever.. But the whole Boat thing being added i think its a good idea for that to be in the game..
I think you should give it a read, like I said
I want the devs to focus on the new units but i'm going to set here some units many people have requested before and I think should be added to the game: (in the future)
I would also like to point out that are other ideas I have but since I'm not sure if they exist/ are relevant in the US I decided not include them here (and this is the US version of the game)
I had made a big text here, but let me sum up:
Most of the units above have been mentioned by other players (me included) and I decided to list them here too
Some of the units aboves aren't supposed to be added because they would make a huge difference in the gameplay but because it adds variety of units, since you seem not be informed about the other game versions I can tell you the german version has 8 different engines while we have 2, and as far as I could tell (correct me if I'm wrong) but they all do the same to fires, they also have different police cars, different ambulances
If you have never played the german version just make an account there, go to the graphic packs tab and open a random one. You will be surprised by the amount of units the german version has
I like to hear everyone's opinion but from your comment I can only say that you didn't even bother to read half of what I wrote up there, I said I understood the fact that this is the US version, I also said this is for the future development of the game and wanted the devs to focus on the new upcoming units (boats). I would also like to inform you that if nobody made suggestions for improving the game maybe it would never have reached the state it is now, someone had the idea to add boats and requested it