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Woot, this modder managed mounted officers! Is this still available to download?

In that case, no hard feelings. Maybe I read too much into it, sorry for doing so My statement was made in the LA Mod forum, not Emergency 4 General so I assumed that's what we're talking about. And while it is true that LA has custom missions I considered the freeplay mode the heart and soul of the mod. But you are right, I should have mentioned that seperately, sorry about that. But this is in no way disrespectful towards modders or the game itself. I play the game and I play the mods and have a lot of fun doing so. And I never even touched the subject that mods would be easy to make, I actually said the exact opposite earlier. The point of view that a simple game equals a bad game is your interpretation alone, I never said anything about that. I do stand by that the core gameplay of Emergency is rather simple - that does in no way mean I devalue the games' development or the mods' creation in any way, shape or form. After all I enjoy the game and the mods and I registred here and create topics in the forum to partake in the community. I don't prefer to play that way, I just know how to "trick" or play the actual core gameplay to get things done very fast because I played the vanilla game long before I knew there were mods at all to great extend. At some point I think it's natural you begin to "take apart" the game. When playing LA I actually like to play it slow and "RP", be it single or multiplayer. You also misinterpreted my whole intend. I did not suggest something and waited for someone else to pick it up. I was interested about the issue and asked a question. And now the topic is rolling I find it interesting to share thoughts and simply engage in a "what if" or "how could one" debate. Because its interesting and fun. I don't think a forum is just there to make requests and either dismissing or accepting those. Yes, I am fully aware of that. See above, my point wasn't to ask for anyone to perform any kind of work on something I'd like to see, merely engage in a discussion about it. If this forum is just a place to drop requests and have them dismissed with words written in bold followed by exclamation points I did join the wrong community, that's for sure. But this was neither my intend not how I understand this platform. Yes, it's much effort and uncharted territory. Still we can talk about it

I may misread that, but your posting comes over as rather hostile to me. What did I do to deserve that? You are right that I generalized to make a point however in terms of the LA Mod I am of course only talking about free-play events. The missions are designed to specifically use certain units and use timers that require you to use more units to save time. However, no police action actually requires more than the regular patrol car, except stopping a getaway car as it requires you to use caltrops to stop the car which only come with the Mannschaftswagen. But the SEK units (SWAT) are not required unless a mission is scripted for you to use them. Any kind of arrest is actually faster and easier with just rushing the car up to the target and let the officer arrest it. Indoors, the perpetrator cannot shoot either a hostage or the officer before he's arrested. Riots, if not scripted to start with large groups, are broken up by driving up, using the car to make a wall and arrest the first three persons. Granted, you may need a second officer for that as one can only endure two, maybe three fights before getting injured. Casaulty events can be completed with one RTW you just have to use quite a lot of dancing around. The Notarzt (FF/EM) just has to dance around the victims, stabilizing them a little bit to keep the casaulties alive. The ambulance takes the victims form the scene and then, of course, has to return. The default fire engine should have access to all essential items - it's not comfortable to play this way, I just wanted to make a point. And yes, the HAZMAT is also essential, I forgot about that one. Or, to translate it to the LA mod - all units that are not the basic vanilla units do not have a purpose. You don't need four kinds of ambulance or fire engines, you don't need unmarked patrol cars, swat vans or K9 units. But they are there because it's fun. So yes, you are right that you literally need more basic units but as I said I was making a point to comment on "a mounted unit would serve no purpose" and I am baffled that your posting feels so heated. If that wasn't your intention and it was just me interpreting it that way I apologize, of course.

I understand that's a lot of work, hence my question if anybody ever tried that. I'm just one of those smelly end-users without much knowledge in the complex modding tools. If I ever find some spare time though it'd be fun to get into it and see what's necessary to make the horse model that's already in-game work. But I'd like to comment on the "serves little purpose" part - technically, at least three quarters of units in the game serve no actual purpose if we're honest. What makes this mod and scene thrive is to add little details and then play it somewhat realistic for our own pleasure. To complete the missions the game throws at you you never need more than one police vehicle with one officer, one ambulance and one kind of fire truck - every emergency in "Emergency" is solveable by those (and yes, a tow truck probably ).

Are there any modifications, released, WIP or planned ones, that let us use officers on horseback? I'm not really sure myself how they would work. Maybe similiar to the motor patrol, a bit slower but with a build-in ability to keep civilians at a distance. It would, in any case, be very cool to catch all those shooters, thieves, arsonists and other evil guys on horseback Heya!

I would like to change some of the w00d map 4x4 vehicles to LA mod 2.1 ones because the new ones give me trouble. For isntance I'd like the vintage ambulance back - is there a way to do that?

The second downloadlink for the required coronas doesn't seem to work, it just forwards me to a blank page Other than that I really like the new map. It's fascinating what little detail work you have done (patrols, the soldiers at the base etc.). Is the map compatible with all events, also the easter egg ones? (new year and zombies)? LA Mod vanilla seems to crash on the zombie event for me.