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[FD81]

There should be a k9 script.

[mutu]

Police dogs are not possible, i think you can't script it to do K9 roles...sorry.

They ain't impossible to script. Just timeconsuming and hard work. I would like to do it, if I knew how.

[Zallomallo]

Also it would be nice to have the ability to make paramedics take off turn out gear with a small boost to speed or healing. Take it off on way to hospital. Also another thing, I think it is silly that you can heal a casualty simply by having a doctor there, but in an ambulance they are only stabilized. Oh and another thing, can you make it so that all the prices are realistic? Like 500,000 for a fire engine and such? Maybe a daily pay for personal.

[Spaloo]

Here's another idea. Please don't hate me for all these ideas.

As I understand it, station 2 will have a BLS ambulance and an ALS engine. If the simulated patient's health is at a certain level (relatively healthy), can the BLS unit "stabilize" the patient and transport the patient themselves without ALS assessing the patient.

Mike, please correct me if I'm wrong, but in real life, for priority 3, non-emergent patients ("I stubbed my toe." "I've been on an antibiotic for 12 hours and it isn't working." "I've been weak for the past 4 months.") would just be evaluated by a BLS unit and transported BLS (ALS would be cancelled). So for those patients in the game that are found to be relatively healthy, like the ones that just got beat up by a "rioting civilian", could skip the ALS evaluation if the health line is near the top, and the FF/EMT "stabilizes" them early.

My other idea would be to have off-screen resources that you order take a certain amount of time before they appear. For example, if you order engine 2 from off the screen, it takes 30 seconds before it appears since that station is a certain distance away. If you order the water tender, it might take a full minute due to it's simulated location outside the map.

These ideas might make it more realistic, but you guys have already done so much and it's greatly appreciated. Thanks again Mike and Hoppah. Again, if there's anything I can do, let me know. I'm not as good a resource about LAFD as Mike, but I might be able to help on the EMS side of things if you ever decide to work on that.

[station9emt/firefighter]

i would have to agree there. in my old town there were bls and als units.
my station was bls only.. so yea.

[Madman]

Once a patient is stabilized, they can be transported. Whether or not they survive depends on their condition. At least thats the way I think it works? As for real life, I know it depends on what the person calls in. In my area, all we have are ALS units, so they go to everything. But for a simple BLS call like a broken finger or something, its entirely possible only BLS will be dispatched. You don't need a medic to examine someone just to make sure its not an ALS incident. I don't know if LA does things the same way, but I can only imagine its a similar set up.

The default game behaviour is that a paramedic has to heal the person, (to any level passed the helicopter or ambualnce cutoff levels), to be able to take that person to the hospital. In the current game/mod format, you cannot stabilize with a firefighter and then transport with a stretcher team to the hospital.

[billyfromhill]

Replace the command "call a ladder" with "call a light force". That way a ladder and the engine in the bay next to it will respond to the specified location. In the other engine bay you can put a fully staffed engine, effectively creating a Task Force in FS1. Top it off with a USAR truck, a chief, and two RAs you have a station ready to handle just about anything, esp. with HAZMAT and another engine across town.

[Hoppah]

In the current game/mod format, you cannot stabilize with a firefighter and then transport with a stretcher team to the hospital.

Not correct, the Stabilize command checks the patient for its health and sets 'DrainLife' to zero.
If the patient is below a certain health level, you need a paramedic and then transport, otherwise you can transport it immediatly.

[Spaloo]

Really? I thought that I once stabilized someone without having a medic look at them and they were able to transport? Not sure though, but I'll take your word on it. In that case, you'd need a medic on scene certainly. Kind of defeats the purpose of BLS?

Not necessarily. You can use the engine as the ALS unit, and have the BLS ambulance transport. That way your medics are available while the BLS unit transports the patient. If you really want to be realistic, the paramedic would have to go into the BLS unit to transport an "ALS" patient (or a critical patient in the game). Mike, does LAFD have a medic assessment engine follow up to the hospital in an 800 rig if there are no medic RAs available in the area? How does the fire dept get away with having just 1 medic on their "paramedic assessment" engines if the county requires 2 to be an ALS unit?

[Spaloo]

Not correct, the Stabilize command checks the patient for its health and sets 'DrainLife' to zero.
If the patient is below a certain health level, you need a paramedic and then transport, otherwise you can transport it immediatly.

Cool. I never had any luck with transporting without a medic assessing the patient. I'll have to try it on the next relatively healthy patient.

[mutu]

Sorry if this has already been answered. Would it be an idea to have the budget be more realistic? So that to send units to a fire for example cost more than it does.

[Madman]

Not correct, the Stabilize command checks the patient for its health and sets 'DrainLife' to zero.
If the patient is below a certain health level, you need a paramedic and then transport, otherwise you can transport it immediatly.

I did not know that...obviously. I'll try it out next game I play.

Thanks

[Zallomallo]

Mhhhhhm, what about a taco that craps Ice Cream?

And now , I think it should take like 20 seconds for the FFs to come out after the alarm. Not instantaneously.

[Madman]

Thoughts on the new BLS/ALS ambulances:

When you click the "Goto to Hospital" button on a BLS ambulance, the emergency lights and siren should be off for the trip back to the Hospital.

Would this be a typical behaviour Mike?

[Commander Rasseru]

They ain't impossible to script. Just timeconsuming and hard work. I would like to do it, if I knew how.

That means you not wanting to try or don't want to work on it? Some of you other scripters can make the script.
Yes, it will take time. But worth it at the end when its finish. Hoppah maybe use your script if it works well.

I wouldn't give up a idea if no one even try to make the script in full. Their are hardly any easy script to make.
Now than ever the new script is going to be harder because the mod been around a long time. Easy is almost gone...

[MikesPhotos]

I think it should take like 20 seconds for the FFs to come out after the alarm. Not instantaneously.

Please see this post as to why it takes the time it takes.

Thoughts on the new BLS/ALS ambulances:

When you click the "Goto to Hospital" button on a BLS ambulance, the emergency lights and siren should be off for the trip back to the Hospital.

Would this be a typical behaviour Mike?

Depends on the status of the patient. BLS runs can be emergency transports that require no ALS intervention but are time critical . The default is lights and sirens because the behavior of the vehicle is to go around traffic and through lights. The great thing about the mod is that hoppah has made it so you can change the default setting of the lights by turning off the automatic lights and sirens. They will still respond with lights and sirens when dispatched via the BC or PD, but will respond to the hospital with lights and sirens off if you wish.

Nothing that needs to be changed in game, you already have the controls at hand to make it how you want it. Hoppah had the foresight to include that to compensate for everyones wishes.

[james23222000]

An idea for a couple of vehicles (sorry if this has been mentioned before):

1. Swift water rescue vehicle:


This vehicle would be useful for carrying divers quickly to incidents where the are required (thus the word "swift"), i'm not sure what equipment they carry but I assume at least fire extinguishers.

2. LAFD Command Vehicle


It could operate similar to how your FBI Command vehicle works. You can buy FF/EMT, FF/PM, divers and other fire units from it. And when firefighters enter the vehicle it will heal them (so long as the health bar is not in the red). This would be quite useful at large fires where some of your firefighters might have been injured or where you find you need more firefighters and no more vehicles are available.

Regards

James