Getting Started
Use this section to move from an empty or early account into a sustainable multi-service network without activating mission pressure faster than the fleet, personnel and geography can absorb it.
Start with the operating loop
Section titled “Start with the operating loop”- Build routine Fire, Police or Ambulance capability in a practical response area.
- Complete the missions already generated before adding another generator.
- Record recurring shortages: quantity, journey time, personnel, training, transport or infrastructure.
- Correct the narrowest measured bottleneck.
- Protect a useful routine reserve.
- Test two representative incidents together.
- Expand one controlled step.
- Observe the changed mission mix before repeating.
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First command route
Section titled “First command route”| Decision | Use this guide or tool |
|---|---|
| Understand mission requirement types | Missions and Dispatching |
| Choose a first or next location | Station Placement and Coverage |
| Decide whether the first expansion is safe | First Expansion |
| Review a service fleet and training chain | Emergency Services |
| Search a specific UK mission | Mission Lookup |
| Test inventory and protected reserve | Account Readiness Planner |
| Compare candidate resources | Resource Comparison |
| Understand buildings and extensions | Buildings and Extensions |
| Use alliance support safely | Alliance Operations |
Foundation readiness
Section titled “Foundation readiness”A foundation network should be able to:
- dispatch its common local incidents;
- leave some useful routine cover after a normal response;
- provide correctly staffed and trained units rather than owned-but-unusable vehicles;
- handle basic patient or prisoner movements where those services are active;
- recover vehicles and personnel to useful geography;
- explain which shortages require local correction and which are temporary alliance contingencies.
Do not count a future purchase, untrained vehicle, unavailable crew or unverified substitution as current capability.
Account archetypes
Section titled “Account archetypes”Dense urban
Section titled “Dense urban”Prioritise short route times, high concurrency, hospital/custody throughput and distributed routine cover. Specialist hubs can work well, but only when ordinary demand remains protected.
Prioritise road topology, bridge and mountain access, relief locations and travel-time resilience. A resource that exists but cannot reach its mission family promptly is not effective coverage.
Coastal
Section titled “Coastal”Separate road response from launch, vessel, trailer, towing and air-rescue chains. Place resources around real access points rather than visual coastline spacing.
Alliance-supported
Section titled “Alliance-supported”Alliance support can defer an expensive specialist capability, but should remain a named contingency with known travel time and donor reserve. It must not hide persistent local routine deficits.
First-session checklist
Section titled “First-session checklist”- Choose a compact operating area with usable road access.
- Build one coherent routine service before scattering stations.
- Learn the distinction between guaranteed, alternative, conditional and probabilistic requirements.
- Keep personnel and training attached to vehicle decisions.
- Check likely hospitals, custody destinations and cross-service partners.
- Record mission pressure before purchasing another specialist.
- Use the readiness planner with blank fields left unknown rather than guessed.
- Expand only after the current network returns to a stable operating state.
Common early mistakes
Section titled “Common early mistakes”- adding buildings because credits are available rather than because capability is ready;
- treating vehicle ownership as proof of trained staffing;
- using alliance assistance as permanent routine cover;
- placing stations by equal map circles instead of routes and destinations;
- activating an extension before its personnel, vehicles and partner services are commissioned;
- filling unknown prices, capacities or unlock rules with assumed values;
- expanding again before patient, custody or recovery cycles have returned resources to service.
Next step
Section titled “Next step”Continue to First Expansion, then use Cross-Service Account Progression as the long-term roadmap.