theparanoid

I noticed they automatically connect to the trucks now idk if that there was before or if its only when a hydrant is not available but i think people had to edit the files to get them to connect. 

no they always connect to the truck if there was no free hydrant near by.  I had up to four fire fighters on one truck on dock fire campagin.  that is till all my save game progress was lost with patch 1.1.0 and i was log out emgerency world.

i know for 1.2 made no difference.    nor has there tech support been any help.  they want me to run some diag that detects stuff not even set on my machine like uac on when it off. and it did not detect my 970M video card.  So At this point i am losing all faith in the company.   three years to release the game. two delays and they still release a bugy game with no real no feature.   Looks like this might just be my last game from them.   

That's completely different to how it is in the UK. But damn!

  Here some links with the story and video

There a video on this link

I thought it was only one tanker run.  turns out it was three.   which explain why they had a separate tanker command.    Basically they found three different place near the fire to draft water and where using tanker to move the water between those three to fire.

Some additional picture here

http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourallekiskivalley/yourallekiskivalleymore/6671564-74/fire-building-penn#axzz3LDzawzOW

http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/star-grill-cabot?select=OGa9YJ3oQLF5DnHKiTS5lw#LI4vPUk5CIwBrLL1lTf3dw

Where do I find the editor? 

http://forum.emergency-planet.com/topic/5851-wheres-my-editor/

Yeah I added a few extra hydrants it did make it abit easier but theres a bit of a challenge there still as not everywhere on the map has the extra hydrants.

We had a restaurant fire here recently and they had no hydrants. They end up having to stop all hand lines and engine fire fighting operations till they could get enough water to run the single tower ladder on site. Then began additional attack once they had enough tankers to support full operations.

They pretty much used every tanker in southern Butler County, ie from the county line all the way North to Butler city(the City has no tankers), and they got additional tankers from Armstrong County. The end using one operational channel just for tanker operations.

Two questions: 1. Could you please add more fire hydrants to the mod? because I don't play the mod for the challenge, I play it because it has really nice units and a really cool map so please add more hydrants.

2. What will animal control do?

The mod design to be what it like to fight fire in rual area. where there not a lot of hydrants or even no hydrants and they have to use tank shuttle runs to fight the fire.  So I doubt they going to add more hydrants.  but it always something you can do if you want.  Just use the editor.  Find a hydrant on map.  Copy it and paste it some where else.  Then keep pasting to you have all the hydrants you want. 

There maybe and issue on thier end since the last patch I am no longer able to login either. That was Tuesday or Wednesday. Before that I was login with no problems. No changes where made to my pc or router. So that leaves only server side issues. I am able to log into the website

Have Sixteen Tons Entertainment had a good track-record on releasing patches in the past games?

And was EM4 this buggy when it first came out and was it supported well?

I played the other versions in German but they where always patch for them before I played. And I always patch up first.

If I recall correctly it one of the number keys then click on the icons that appear in command window

Was that in the UK too? Wow now you make me feel old!!

Hi guys, sorry to revive this post, but I couldn't find anything relevant elsewhere, if something exists please point me in the right direction. I have just upgraded from an XP machine to a Windows 7 32 bit machine. I loaded 911 first responders, but I am having some display problems. I have noticed the vehicle picture problem that was mentioned earlier in this post, as I do have an Intel graphics chipset. But in addition to that, if I have object and ground shadows turned on, everything on screen in gameplay turns black with the exception of the light coronas. Also, some of the vehicles, and all of the user-controllable personnel are either mostly white with only a faint view of their textures, or are an all white outline of the vehicle or object. For example, in the LA mod, the tower ladder is an all white outline, and only the wheels are visible, but all of the other fire units appear as they should. It is almost as if the texture or skin files are corrupted, missing, or just plain not recognized correctly by my machine. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling both the game and the modifications to see if this corrects the problem, but it has not. Any advice to fix this or find a solution would be greatly appreciated.

If it those not work lower the resolution

I am sure they will it just a matter of time and finding the causes. One thing that puzzles me. Is the fact that directx 9 is begin used when they do not support xp. And I I know for fact that the nvidia video card on recomand supports at least directx 10. The min not sure off

Yes, the Xeon has a conscious so its aware when its NOT placed in a business environment and will automatically start failing when you try to boot a game on it. Something designed for the business market doesn't mean it's less useful for the consumers market. Same thing with certain types of cars basically.

 

 

I have the same computer as Stan just without Win 8.1 and I can run any game just as fine.

No but something design to excel at Bussiness aplication may not run all games as well.  I know for fact the Nvidia Quadro video card ccan run game.  But not with the same efficancy of equalive consumer video card.   That said it a video card.  Not a cpu.  But the princes still do apply.  The quadro video card use the same chipset as the consimer video card as well. 

As I said.   It COULD be part of the issue.   I am fairly certian sixton would not nessary think to try a xeon proccessor on there internal checks.

theparaniod you are talking about a Rescue Engine the Hilfeleistungs-Löschgruppenfahrzeug (HLF). Similar to the engine (LF) but with far more rescue equipment (i.e. Jaws of Life and a winch) on board. which is different to an RW..

 

A Rescue truck, the Rüstwagen (RW).Usually either a larger panel truck or a smaller truck, they are equipped with a broad range of rescue gear i.e. Jaws of Life, a winch, saws, cutters or work platforms and does not carry water. .

 

I think the Heavy Rescue in EM5 (which is the vehicle that can connect hoses to) is technically incorrect, as it resembles an RW, not a HLF.. The hoses should connect to the Water Tender in the game IMO.

Ok and you get your facts that Ruestwagen have no water from where?

Cause.....let say your right that they want it to be ruestwagen.....

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCstwagen

FahrzeugdatenLand: 	DeutschlandBesatzung: 	0/1/2Löschwasser: 	9 LiterLöschpulver: 	6 KilogrammHilfeleistungssatz: 	vorhandenZul. Gesamtmasse: 	14.000 KilogrammAntrieb: 	Allrad

Ohh look....9 liter tank........well gee look at that......And it a Ruestwagen..... Maybe the guy that talk to a german fire fighter knows what he talking about. 

Note I am not saying ever one has it... or even most.   But I am saying there are German Rustwagen that have water and pumps.   For starts equipment form DDR almost always had it because they did not have as good of hydrant system.

Also not every fire department in Germany is in city with hydrants...... which means all the trucks need to have some ability to fight fires.  Even more so when said department are volunteer departments.    

So those saying german resuce trucks have not water tank?  What are you basing this on?

I ask because that those not jib with what I know.  

1. I have talked with a real german fire fighter, in fact I translated for a Volunter fire fighter from the US and the german fire fighter.   They ask and compared notes on many of topics.  From how departments where staffed, equipment and so on.   It also include a tour of all the fire equipment. 

2. I been to german and have seen fire trucks from germany.

3. I speak and can read german some german.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_fire_services

Rescue engines, the Hilfeleistungs-Löschgruppenfahrzeug (HLF). Similar to the engine (LF) but with far more rescue equipment (i.e. Jaws of Life and a winch) on board.

Which links to

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfeleistungsl%C3%B6schgruppenfahrzeug

FahrzeugdatenAbkürzung: 	HLF 10Land: 	DeutschlandBesatzung: 	0/1/8/9Feuerlöschpumpe: 	FPN 10-1000Löschwasser: 	mind, 1.000 LiterSchaummittel: 	6 x 20 LiterZul. Gesamtmasse: 	12.000 KilogrammAntrieb: 	Straße/Allrad

For those that do not read german.   Löschwasser = extinguishing water or water.   and Feuerlöschpumpe is fire extingiusing pump.....

So Why or why would a German rescue truck of a pump and tank if they do not carry water?     Or perhapes you like to share where you get your knowledge from.....

I can't use it either.

Maybe admin are not staff?

The like button is disabled for normal members, only staff can use it. It would probably get used for too much if it was active.

I would think it be better to have 30 like on thread. then 30 replays that all say.  I like that.     It would at least cut down on clutter.....Of course that my

It appears to be back not set up, if you check my post you see one where I found the file for editor and currently it looking at local host for connection. It might be possible to play with the settings to let two people work but I suspect that feature is currently not active

Also make sure the folder name for mod is the same. It can be the same mod. All the same files but if the folder name is different you will get the error

Confirmed I just bought the swat heli in game.   It comes with 6 swat team member that fast rope or rebel from copter to ground.  These cops also appear to have guns....   I try and get a video up on it tomorrow. 

Looks like the Mod folder tucked in strange location

c:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Promotion Software GmbH\EMERGENCY 5\mods\

Also tucked in near by folder

c:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Promotion Software GmbH\EMERGENCY 5 Offline Editor\

is file called

qsf_editor_qt_settings.ini

In is this bit

[ConnectDialog]Hostname=offlinePort=4242History=offline, offline, localhost:4042

Yes, that's the exact button I was referring to.

I just get a message about reaching the positive quota for the day. I imagine it's probably just a disabled or reserved feature.

i get the same one...that or the feature is current off

My guess is that shot was done with asset from emergency 2014.  If I remember correctly that what the car looked like in 2014.

I must have missed the post somewhere, but is there a reason I can't like posts? I would've saved the forum space and just hit the "Like This" button (only three times!).

 

Excellent post again. I've seen quite a few others mention the same thing in regard to the patching of games these days. I find it rather sad that Emergency 5 has received 48% of its reviews as negative on Steam. I can't help but feel that a large (perhaps not majority, but quite close) amount of the user base is dissapointed. Granted, not all those reviews are soley because of optimization issues, but quite frankly most of them ARE because of the optimization issues and numerous bugs.

have you tried posting the Like this button which appear above the quote botton?

They appear to have taken at least an idea from LA mod.  Remember the repel script for swat office on helicopter.   I am close to unlocking said helicopter last night when I look at the help for in game.....It show swat officer repeling from said helicopter.  

I do wonder if most the people complaining are old enough to remember when the first Emergency game came out! I remember it in a PC Gamer demo CD in 2001 (2000?) I think it was.....

This game has so much potential its unreal. If you buy yourself a descenr gaming rig, and actually pay attention to whats been added. Rather then expecting LA Mod to come prepacked. You'll probably not need to swear in the post like a silly willy.

Actually, you can get FPS checkers that, on your system, would take up literally a few megabytes of ram, less. I think maybe we should have a thread for technical (not practical) problems?

Even a small impact on system adds up with other small impacts.  In addition to a few megabytes of ram, it also needs CPU cycles and likely needs to querry the video card.  Thus putting in my opinion unnecessary strain on my system. and what exactly is the benefit?  Some magical number with no real meaning as far as I am concern.  Perhapes that because in the days I started with computers.  You could only run one program at time. 

I judge a game performance on my system by how it looks and responds.  not by some number that appears on the screen.