Money income with MED/RES

[McGherkin]

MED and RES have every right to speed as much as a COP.

This is a roleplay server. Saying that MEDs are pointless because nobody dies in LFS is as daft as saying that COPs are pointless because there's no jail in LFS.

It's a roleplay element that a lot of people enjoy doing and a lot of people benefit from. More so, I'd say, than copping. You need someone to help get you unstuck more than you need someone to bust your ass every five minutes.

MEDs should not be penalised for RPing and there are definitely, without dispute, places on the TC layouts where >30% speeding is possible, safely. Even I can manage it so I pity anyone who struggles to do so. Places such as HW1 at Montana and AB come to mind.

You are driving as if someone's life is at risk so you don't just sit a little bit above the speed limit so you don't set speed cameras off - you are going as fast as you can safely manage. Someone said above that ambulances only go 20mph above the limit - that's not out of choice, you try getting a 3 tonne box van to go faster. Rapid Response cars (which is what MED and RES are) can and will drive as quickly as a police car.

In short, the system in its current state unfairly fines MED/RES over COPs, despite all 3 being essentially RP emergency services. TOW is just a municipal towing service, which focuses on 'no danger' tows, whereas MED/RES respond to dangerous tows as quickly as possible in order to get the situation under control before more crashes occur, as well as the implied life saving element.

Personally although it's wrong I'm not overly bothered by it, as I care more about doing my job well and when I'm not on a call I'm effectively km running anyway, but it doesn't mean that it's not wrong. I'm just fed up with the attitude some people show to those people who give up their time and driving freedom to help other players.