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for realism there has to be a fire chief. Every station has a chief. Please add it.

I don't know where you're from, but not every station has a chief. In a major city, a chief may be responsible for numerous stations which make up his battalion or division. Even in a volunteer setting, there might not be a chief for every station. Considering that this map is modeled after Los Angeles, I would expect to see a battalion chief and MAYBE a division chief.

I've got some goofy issues with this mod. All the apparatus go to the stations okay, except for a few minor bugs:

The EMS car is a gigantic heavy rescue.

The Battalion chief vehicle is actually a Squad.

Units get lost or disappear off the map

Cosres, it's totally because you double posted instead of just editing your first post.

See in my town the say we cant run POV, but Colorado state law says any volunteer can. So state over rules most towns and HOLY HELL, some POV's look christmas trees that could been seen from space!!

A lot of fire departments have that, it keeps the dingers and blownuts from clogging the street so apparatus can actually get to the scene. We have similar rules. It's rather annoying to see a fellow volunteer decked out that bad. It's a courtesey light, it means nothing. More of them doesn't mean people have to yield any more than usual.

Not anymore, Our state senate said "F*** it!" and got rid of that law (Although, if they where illegal before, how did volunteers get away with it? )

This is incorrect. Emergency vehicles still cannot have forward-facing blue lights, and are limited to a single rear-facing light with the exception of police vehicles, which may have multiple rear blues.

Volunteer firefighters are limited to a single, 25 candlepower blue light visable from 360 degrees, and volunteer ambulance workers are to use the same, except in green. That's straight from the V&T law, but a little outdated. Good luck trying to find a 25 candlepower blue trouble bubble. Most volunteers use a Code 3 dashlaser or similar, or small light bars/led windshield lights. A cop can actually pull you over and revoke your blue light card for excessive lighting.

So, the unit confirmations ("It's Okay", "Central, I'm 10-51...") are a hodgepodge of generic UK and Los Angeles accents; will there eventually be a switch to either pre-recorded chatter from a live dispatch, or voice acting? It's been a while since I've heard a lot of FDNY chatter, so I'm not sure what they use, but where I'm from (6hrs from NYC), our chatter would be things like "Responding", "In Service, Returning to Quarters" etc.

Thanks dude, and 200 pages! Woop! Expect something for y'alls support ;D

And looking like ladder 15, bt it aint over yet

I believe the correct term is "all y'alls"... but since we're talking about a FDNY mod, maybe it should be "youse guys".

That Downtown Ambulance is an awesome Type I.

@Whoever mentioned generic units...

I did originally plan on this and mentioned doing it, however when in gameplay I have got a maximum of 2 fire calls at once, the already available units were enough. Remember we have 3x Ladder Trucks (although one does not function ) 3 (maybe 4) x Engines, 1 Satellite, 1 Battalion (with ems batt too).

OK. The only reason I asked is because I try to stick to actual dispatch SOP's, and a box alarm is going to send 2+2, and a 10-75 is going to send 4 engines, 3 trucks, 2 battalion, rescue & squad.

Engine Companies

7 - all purpose w/hose connectors

9 - all purpose

10 - all purpose w/ hose connectors

Ladder Companies

1 - Ladder not yet useable so just used as an engine basically until we animate it and script it in later versions

6 - Tiller, fully useable

10 - Aerial fully useable

Special Unit

Rescue 1 - USAR type response

Squad 18 - To avoid having two of the same units (R1 and S18) the squad will act as hazmat response.

If I may, I'd like to interject a bit on the apparatus selection - will you have any generic units to call from off the map? I know a lot of times when playing other mods, I'll have 2-3 fires going at the same time, and it looks stupid if you have the same trucks at all the fires. This way, obviously your current apparatus would function as a battalion, providing coverage for this fictional section of the city; any additional fires in this map would call the next closest battalion. So essentially, all you'd need to do is add a generic battalion car, engine, and truck, and we could call as many as we need without duplicating actual companies on the map.

Post Script: Will there be a HAZMAT/Decon unit? And RAC, HAZ Tac ambulances, etc?

So, I know this is boring, but I don't know a single firefighter that doesn't answer fire alarm activations; this would be a cool type of call to add. The alarm goes off, fire has to respond and investigate (ask people in the building, etc) and then turn the alarm off. Maybe a panel similar to the ones the engineers have by street lights would make an easy alarm panel. And some alarms would obviously turn out to be real fires.

YAY! I'm glad this is still an active project; As a buffalo resident, I WANT TO PLAY THIS! Keep it up, FortErieFireEli!

As far as I know, FDNY runs a driver/operator, lieutenant or captain, and four firefighters per rig.

A lieutenant/captain on every truck would be an interesting idea, similar to the Shane Green mod. I find that feature very useful to call add'l equipment on misc. fires and accidents.

Duhh, Emergency 2012!

It must be true, they made a video game out of it!

That's because the LCPD is based off the NYPD, exactly the same uniforms, except the badges

haha I'm English too it means Autumn, although commonly it's just used to describe the back end of the year, so between now and the end of 2011 we expect to be ready

Good job on your Americanisms, Dyson. You'd blend in here pretty well; we might just mistake you for Canadian in person haha.

I'm kind of a watcher, I don't say much, but I have to say I'm blown away by the progress on this mod. I downloaded your original version, and I knew it had potential, but from what I'm seeing, you and your team might be the next legendary modding team! Great work, and it is well worth the wait.

So, I have a few questions on how to create multiplayer games. I'm trying to create a server on LAN for several people to play on. None of them can find my game. I am using the stock LA Mod, as well as trying other mods. I cannot access the router settings to change ports or anything like that.

Any suggestions? I've clicked private game, public game, and tried with and without passwords. We cannot find the game I create on either web, lan, or direct connect, but I can see other games on the net.

Well, there will only be 2 firehouses in map, the rest will be out of map (so called in).

(Subject to change)

Duane st house

Ten House

Then there will be two precincts, possibly a hospital (although I may do always send to HQ).

The China town engines will be in game, but not stationed (as understandably Ten House and duane street get priority haha)

Thoughts?

Sounds good. Are you thinking something similar to the Random Spawn thing that Hoppah and them did for "the" new york mod?

I.e., Batt. Chief can call an additional alarm, which would bring E55, E6/T9?

Yeah china town is a sweet idea! I'll get onto some of them, reckon you could find some photos? of everything you've mentioned haha

If you do include Chinatown, don't forget to add E9/T6, the Dragonfighters! E9 is a Seagrave pumper, T6 is a Seagrave 100' Tiller. Chinatown is very close to Little Italy (E9/T6 are 2nd due there), so E55 might be nice too. But then you're getting into a lot of apparatus.

I like the idea of calling additional engines with the random spawn technique. I think I read earlier that something like that was in the works. The other thing that might be nice is random parking spots for ambulances. Not sure exactly how they do it in NYC, but most cities don't leave the ambulances just parked at the hospital. They generally have "posts" assigned and the ambulance will sit there while waiting for calls. They're usually major intersections. The ambulance might sit in a nearby parking lot until requested. This would be perfect in addition to a few parking spots at the hospital (since there are always a few rigs at the hospital).

Football or soccer? Isn't that going to take up a ton of the map? The nfl stadium near me would literally take the entire map to draw it to scale.

Dept of Corrections has jurisdiction in prisons, but their vans look just like nysp lol

Hopefully people will be able to use this package (once completed) in other mods, making the illusion of NY troopers passing from mod to mod (or town to town )

I love the looks of the NYSP. However, it would be rare to see them patrolling in a major city with an established police force. The NYSP generally patrol more rural areas, as well as highways. You would, however, see them at the court building, testifying in case, transferring prisioners, etc. Does your map include any government administration buildings such as a courthouse or city hall? That would be the perfect place for them to park!

Well, there are a limited amount of bomb-defusal robot manufacturers... it isn't exactly a booming market.

As a matter of fact, many of them are made by the same company that makes Roomba robotic vacuums.

@dyson: he said it was for "erratic driving", but he didn't ticket me. I think he just wanted to see what the hell I was driving ('87 Bertone, very rare in the States). It didn't help that my trouble bubble was stuck to my roof (I'm a volly ff).