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Username: billgates Comment:

We don't have any rules with those definitions, you probably are posting on the wrong forums / wrong community, double check the name and prefix of your community that you're applying for. Additionally, players are not allowed to give answers in regards to application answers, you'll most likely have to find out on your own.

Username: username1 Comment: LOL

ah a fellow toaster user, I also, am a avid user of a CMS12530 direct toaster chip for a CPU.

Archived.

491 pages in and you guys still haven't gotten to 20? wow.

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KOS all furriers.

The question is; why? The answer in my opinion is bad roleplaying experience. Cause as soon as there's a pager call for something like a hazmat call, or a building fire or anything similar, the numbers spike. Just read my prior replies.

No worries! Here's some more numbers for you! Currently the LSFD has 4 Chief Officers, which is mainly Faction Leadership / Office Positions, it doesn't particularly exclude them from responding from scenes as you do see a Chief Officer at a scene here and then, especially now since we got two Battalion Chiefs, but it isn't as common. Along with the 4 Chiefs, there are 8 Captains, Captains assume Incident Command roles on scenes and organize firefighters giving each of them roles, ensuring safety of the staff and communicating / liaising with other agencies / dispatch (total of 12 command staff / administrative staff) Since I had to count by hand, there's ~60 NCO staff (21 of them are part of the EMT division) [not counting Lifeguards nor Civilian Staff] During peak times, on a good day, we typically have about 8-12 firefighters/EMTs on duty and even with that amount, it's still really hard to keep on-top of all the 911 calls that come in. Whilst EMT staff are only restricted to Medical Duties, Firefighters have both Medical and Firefighting duties, so it's often off-peak that you see firefighters online (about say 3 of them) and an MVA call goes in, now, most people tend to roleplay that a door is jammed or an engine isn't turned off or a car is leaking, a Rescue Ambulance alone isn't gonna be able to solve that and you'd need to also staff an Engine for that, which in this case, also has to be accounted for and is typically when we have people single-staff a Rescue Ambulance. Whilst it isn't practical IRL, sadly, this isn't IRL, you have to work with what you have, hence the reason we also allow people, in certain circumstances, to single-staff RA's.

So same standards as the Fire Department apart from the fact that there'll be 1 less ambulance on the street. Not the most perfect solution but hey, it works.

Talking about in-game, In the US, you are correct, it's a minimum of 2 people. But again, same issue is brought up, what happens if there are an ODD amount of people? What if there's only 1 person on duty?

1 -- it happens when there's nobody else to partner with you (due to other assignments or such), you are required to partner up if you can, which I'd imagine the same standard would be applied to the EMS, otherwise you'd need an even number to be online for the faction to even function properly.

Gonna go ahead and lock this. Refer to Nervous' post here:

I have to say, props for making good points it makes for a good debate, as I said that was my last response and cause we’re both on opposite ends of the spectrum and will probably never meet a middle ground and writing more novels is just gonna take up more of our times going in circles. it’s funny how I apparently can sound burnt out over text without actually ever being a firefighter or EMT but just speaking in representation of the department and I’m kinda proud of myself to be connected with the firefighters like that. On that note let’s just agree to disagree and move on

ok, I’ll take a breather sorry for sounding burnt out via text

I dunno man, if I can't convince you, try it out yourself, least go through the probationary stage as LSFD EMS, if you have fun then that's you, but as far as literally everyone has told LFM, including LSSD EMS, including LSFD, including DMEC, including PHMC, the main reason medical calls aren't fun, is cause they're not fun. I can tell you as an admin, as much as you try to educate someone with a play-to-win mentality, the response you usually get is "lol whatever, lets just get it over with." which is, as I said, 90% of pretty much every single call. I don't know how more people online during peak times would improve response times, especially that if you take due care to educate a patient, you're going to be stuck on calls longer, making people wait longer, essentially not changing anything at all. Point by point; It'd honestly be the same thing for EMS, I am willing to bet 1000 WP that if an EMS faction opens up, at peak times, it'd be about 3-5 people at most. Along with that, it's rare as fuck that LEO needed request are gone unanswered recently, especially since all the new communication divisions that the factions have made, with civilian dispatchers. So for that rare 10% of the time that LEO needed requests aren't answered, and if you make an EMS faction with the basis that LEO requests aren't even made, then I guarantee you that your faction is gonna get reported by every single LEO faction and LFM is gonna have to step in and restrict EMS from going to scenes without calling for LEOs first. Then again, absolutely nothing is stopping LSFD from making a tactical response unit, and I do think that one is in the works. Then.. What's the point? I genuinely don't get it, the argument here is to make a faction that's better but apparently it's not better? Private EMS is apparently not paid a lot, and if you don't pay your staff a lot, your faction isn't gonna go anywhere for the amount of bullshit callouts you're gonna handle. I get the point of competition but what's the hassle when FD is always better then EMS? Already being done, just not common, since we never have time due to the amount of calls. Inner facility transports are fucking rare, never happen, cause right now, for an inner facility transport to happen, you have to a) Get some gang member to roleplay injures without accepting death. b) Have hospital staff online. c) Have the person roleplay realistic recovery. That happens 1% of the time. So, for that 1% of the time, I doubt people would be interested. Literally everything else is PR, which, believe it or not, is not gonna be reality, cause we're still gonna be swarmed with calls, cause 3 more people helping us with calls is literally like asking LSSD ESD for help, it does jack shit to help. Refer to my earlier points; I can tell you as an admin, as much as you try to educate someone with a play-to-win mentality, the response you usually get is "lol whatever, lets just get it over with." which is, as I said, 90% of pretty much every single call. I don't know how more people online during peak times would improve response times, especially that if you take due care to educate a patient, you're going to be stuck on calls longer, making people wait longer, essentially not changing anything at all. ----------------------- I'm not really gonna go back and forward on this thread take it or leave it, it's my final response, as LFM, I can just state that with the factions that promised to be innovative, game changing, super active, all of that, it never turned out that way. PHMC being a really good example, and not bashing PHMC bless them, I understand their pain cause it's shared with LSFD equally.

I don't expect anyone to read this entire post so here's a TLDR; - A new faction wouldn't work. - Some statistics - Rapid drop in player numbers - People don't like to roleplay medical injuries - 90% of the time, it's people that tab out and watch youtube whilst you have to paste the exact same /do 3 times to ask them for their Blood Pressure - before you even get to the scene, sadly it does happen with gangs mostly, but gang members will just tend to /acceptdeath if you arrive on scene and just /do No pulse. - It's really fucking rare that you get anyone that actually enjoys roleplaying medical calls, so much so that I can say that only 10% of all total calls are overdoses, heart failure, pregnancies, stuff like that. - In short, I honestly thing the main killer of activity here is the reason that people just don't like medical RP, it comes with the play-to-win mentality that exists on this server, I'm sorry, but I genuinely fail to see how making a new faction would fix anything, if anything, it'd probably make it worse in my eyes and I'd have reasonable research to use as arguing points. Let's adapt the best case scenario, we instate EMS as a private company / entity, they have their own faction and they work alongside the LSFD. Whilst, that, in itself, would cause issues similar to how the LSPD Staff and LSSD Staff, but ignoring that, we go with literally the best case scenario, the 1% which is that everything is perfect. The LSFD currently has ~100 members, a little bit less, but it's around that number, with the factor that they have a specialized EMS division that focuses on nothing else but medical callouts. Okay, we put that into perspective; More specific factions with more specific roles that aren't wide ranged, usually have a member count of around 30-50 members, here's my numbers: SFM has 15 members. (Average online during peak time ~2) SAPR has ~50 members. (Average online during peak time ~5) DMEC has ~50 members. (Average online during peak time ~5) PHMC has ~50 members. (Average online during peak time ~2) Hope Health Group has ~30 members (Average online during peak time ~2) So, going with the best case scenario, we say that the private EMS group is a successful launch and they get ~60 members to be generous. That doesn't come without consequences, most likely, in any scenario, there will be a couple, not a lot, but a couple of resignations from the LSFD going to the private EMS group, okay, lets say best case scenario, LSFD looses 10 people and 5 of them were in the EMS division. Now, we have to account for administrative / management roles, usually for character portrayal reasons, management members don't really actively go out on calls, this is mainly high of the highs, CEOs and stuff, people busy with administrative work, so we bust down the numbers a bit ~55 members in EMS. Along with that, activity. SFM, SAPR, DEMC, PHMC have around an average of 30-40% per month activity rate whilst they're on the server, so, being generous, lets give the EMS faction a 50% activity rate. That is, with the people that even go on the server, which 100% of your faction going on the server isn't really a realistic number, so out of lets say a good 3/4 of your faction, going on the server in a month, counting LOAs, general inactivity and all that, we have 3/4th of the faction having a 50% activity rate, so about 40ish members having a 50% activity rate, which means at peak time it'd be around, in the best case scenario, around 20 members online. Whilst it may not seem realistic, let me just emphasize that LSFD, in this current comparison has 50 more members and they rarely reach that number with all staff included, so I just want to emphasize how generous we're being with these numbers. We have 20 people online, at peak times, when there's either zero calls or a fucking waterfall of calls, what now? Everyone would instantly get demotivated and the numbers would drop instantly the same way the LSFD gets demotivated fast, why? People just don't want or don't like to roleplay medical RP. 30ish% of all calls the LSFD has are pretty much MVAs, which means a private EMS company would need an Engine on scene to help with possible entrapments or hazards, which means that FD would pretty much still have to respond to 30% of all callouts, not really giving the FD a change in response time using this example, but still, we're being generous, most of these calls are pretty mediocre at most, whilst some people do really detail their roleplay ability, 90% of the time, it's people that tab out and watch youtube whilst you have to paste the exact same /do 3 times to ask them for their Blood Pressure. What's the rest of the call statistics? About 60ish% of all callouts is shootings, and boy are those not fun at all. Most of the time, it's a result of mass shootings of gang members and/or police officers who have zero interest in roleplaying with the FD, before you even get to the scene, sadly it does happen with gangs mostly, but gang members will just tend to /acceptdeath if you arrive on scene and just /do No pulse. The 10% of other calls are really rare medical calls, such as heart attacks, pregnancies, overdoses, you RARELY get those calls where the person actually wants to roleplay with you. In short, I honestly thing the main killer of activity here is the reason that people just don't like medical RP, it comes with the play-to-win mentality that exists on this server, making a new faction won't fix it, telling people to wait won't fix it, force CKing people that won't roleplay might fix it.. I dunno, I wouldn't want to try due to the backlash... And looking at the statistics, there's absolutely no way the faction would be the magic savior that people claim for it to be, there's no way that the faction would get 20 members online at peak, and if they would, massive amounts would just drop interest as soon as they arrive to the first scene and see how people don't like medical RP.

LSFD has an EMS Division, the hell is that gonna do? It'd just make LSFD less staffed and start a LSPD vs LSSD type war. if you wanna be an EMS, just join the LSFD's EMS division, the issue is numbers and staffing, your suggestion might as well just make it worse, IN MY OPINION of course.

Honestly, here's my suggestion; I'd be so down to see a similar /sendtomorgue request system, where it's just /gotohospital, it sends the request to online firefighters (if any) and once you're sent to the hospital it prints out a /do around you so you don't just... Disappear. The determination if you are getting accepted or not is determined by either admins or on-duty firefighters.

Well folks, I can't believe I'm actually writing this, but it looks like the faction isn't actually archived. Due to some gross mishandling and miscommunication by the previous faction leadership, the faction was archived and then faction leadership of an archived faction was somehow handed off to someone else by the old faction leadership. Along with that, a lot of questionable things had been done by the previous faction leadership when it came to them "disbanding" the faction. Overnight a ton of faction reports were sent to me personally by the people within Holland Private Security not knowing what exactly was happening, where they are suppose to go and how they are suppose to continue with their characters with most wanting to continue the roleplay within the faction with a change of leadership. Nevertheless, Faction Management has fully reviewed the situation and where it stands, has handed out the appropriate warnings and punishments to all involved with the situation, has finalized the transfer of leadership and the roleplay will continue where it has left off.

Archived per request of faction leaders.

Brought back from the dead as requested.

Hey. The last time the government hosted a triathlon event was on February 9th 2020. It didn't peak as much interest back then, but heck, I'd be willing to give it another try.