Medic question

[[TC]»Elmo«]

(2012-08-03 07:43)Ras Wrote:  I've been wondering something since this was brought up ages ago. I believe it's for Elmo: What thoughts did you have when making the TC medic skin?, because you kinda must have thought medic units were somewhat beneficial when you decided to implement that.

The original TC medic skin was made back in the CnR (which later became USA) days, before anyone used InSim, when everything was pure roleplay. Back then, LFS had still had a mostly serious sim racing/drifting community and cruising (and the people who give cruising a bad name) didn't really exist. Times change.

(2012-08-03 07:43)Ras Wrote:  Another question that could be asked after the one Elmo posted above, is: What harm can they cause? Would there be any disadvantages to have them?

All i know is that while [MED]'s drove around unofficially with lights and sirens, it never caused any harm or show any disadvantages.

MEDs tend to fall in 3 categories:
Those who do it for the roleplay
Those that have lost their cop rights, but still want to drive fast with sirens.
Those who just want to drive fast (usually with sirens) without being bound to the cop rules.

The first group is good, the second two are the ones who usually cause the problems.
The ones in the second category typically lost their cop rights due to poor driving, so they end up causing chaos as MED instead. The final category typically show very little care to other road users and speed around all the time, because there's nothing really stopping them.

I'd say that a good proportion, if not a majority, of Meds fall into the second categories. We don't really see a huge number of problem cases, because the overall number of Meds is very low, but that doesn't mean that there aren't problems.


As Nitros said, a large part of the problem is creating uncomplicated, enforceable rules, which require properly defined roles before we can even begin seriously thinking about.

(2012-08-03 07:43)Ras Wrote:  I guess the only possible points of having a [MED] is basically to assist at crashes, helping tow if needed, making the scene visible to other road users and securing it by for example parking the marked car a suitable distance before the crash

All of this can already be done by other Tows, Cops, or HwA (if available).

The only thing anyone's thought of that Med/Res can possibly do that's different is to legally get to the scene faster, with lights+siren. Now, lights+siren would (according to Chuck) imply that they have the same priority as Cops in a chase do. Does a tow situation warrant such a high priority? If it can, then they shouldn't be allowed to use sirens when not on acall, but how would this be enforced?