Medic question

[[TC]►Ras◄]

(2012-08-03 16:17)Elmo Wrote:  

(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.

Oh is it that old. But still, you've updated the skin not a very long time ago, along with all the cop skins, so i was just thinking you might have had some thoughts there.

(2012-08-03 16:17)Elmo Wrote:  

(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.

First one: there are quite a few of those who does it for the roleplay, including myself, but most tend to stay away from it these days due to not knowing whats allowed and disallowed as [MED], and that's probably why we mostly see noobs with the [MED] tag. If there were sorted some [MED] rules, im sure you would see more regular proper players with the [MED] tag.

Second one: As mentioned before, that could pretty simply (well its simple to say.. i have no idea how it would be to code) be sorted by attaching the [MED] tag to the [COP] rights.

Third: Shouldn't be much of a problem considering they can get chased as any other civilian. Regarding using siren, that would be sorted as when any other civilian illegally use sirens (admin action)

(2012-08-03 16:17)Elmo Wrote:  

(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

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?

And by getting to the scene faster, it helps prevent further crashes, because people don't notice the crash in time. A [MED] (or two) on scene could make it more visible, as mentioned in my quote. Though that might only be useful on highways and other dangerous places where its more hard to see whats coming ahead, but it's possible to prevent noobs from crashing into the scene at all kind of locations.

IMO it doesnt have to imply that they have the same priority as Cops in a chase do. It could very well be like it unofficially always have been: No priority in traffic, although traffic may move over if they feel like helping the situation.