Civil Should NOT Tow!

[Kayla]

(2013-04-13 15:02)Val Wrote:  But in another point of view, if I'm new to the server and I can be only a TOW/MED/RES, I would be happy to have an emergency call, I'd less bored and I would make new friends for example.
Imagine that on 10 emergency calls and of these 10, there are 8 that were canceled because a civilian helped the man or it was just a fake call.

somehow true point there.

(2013-04-13 15:02)Val Wrote:  Honestly, I am disgusted to be a TOW / MED / RES by those kind of actions.

Civilians can not help the police (which is normal after all) but can help emergency services. I think it is quite unfair.

Civ's can't help COPs during chases or investigations in real life, too. At least they aren't allowed to usually (except of being a witness). You would never see a civilian doing a roadblock or doing a PIT maneuver on a suspect being chased. In difference there are actually quite a lot of people who stop at crashed cars or similar to help. They just don't tow them, because of insurance issues (police has to be there here in germany) or not having the correct utilities to TOW. Since we don't have them either in LFS, a TOW car and a usual civ car aren't different in any way, except of the skin and TOW's got insim commands.

(2013-04-13 15:02)Val Wrote:  Another unfair thing is that emergency services are not really governed by the rules of servers while the cops are.
So anyone can use any means (high speed ram per example) to help the person in danger at the risk of losing his bonus, even the robbers who are in chase, it is quite stupid and unrealistic.

It's a cops & robber server, what do you expect? Chases are often more dangerous and unpredictable in difference to a TOW. the TOW'ing is kinda stationary and local, and you can expect that at least one half of the road is kind of blocked. A chase can block the road at any point due to a PIT maneuver making the suspect spin all over the road, or similar. So there is a protection needed for chases, TOW's are also somehow protected (Rules 1.13, 1.14, 7.x [last one just explains the rules for TOW's])

(2013-04-13 15:02)Val Wrote:  Do not forget the dozen people trying with difficulty to help the person who called the emergency and those units are expecting that peoples who are on the scene leaving their jobs.

I think that putting a bit of equality, by any means, between jobs would make the atmosphere, between civilians and emergency units, better than it is actually.

Same applies to TOW's, RES' and MED's. They have difficulties to TOW people sometimes as well, since they are basically nothing else than civilians with a TOW-/RES-/MED-Skin and a few insim commands. So there basically is no difference. (Except of that some people do try to get experienced in TOWing more than some civilians)