ERS covering the City field

Only thing I've noticed other than randomness in determining how many you get is that the more you click (collect rent, produce, move things, boulders, etc.), the more emergencies you get. I don't know if rent timer factors in, but I would hope so for those that might not want to keep faster buildings around.

 

How many EP should I have (be able to collect) before I activate Street Patrol 200%? (and please don't say none )

 

Well, to be honest the answer is none, but it is up to you to decide at what level you wish to spend your hard earned or bought MM's. I personally have never used the Street Patrol, I am never online for the length of time to make it seem cost effective. I usually sign in for about an hour or so and then am offline for several hours. This makes the Street Patrol and Rent Collector an inefficient use of limited resources for me.

 

I got Lucky using the Cinema - 150 MM for 220 sec - cann't call that 'hard earned MM' - and it does seem to me that it could be fun to spend 99 MM on the ERS - but I only have 670.000 EP (hard earned) and 970 Vitamin-X - and I would like to have more than a couple of hours fun before I use 99 MM.

 

That is the logic I have used.

 

If you still want to see, look at this (from dutch forum)
http://nl.bigpoint.com/risingcities/board/threads/show-hier-je-stad.102/page-5#post-302886

 

Thank you for the link - it's very instructive


You're right - it doesn't seems like the number of alarms depends on the number of buildings which can be hit by an alarm.

.. but it seems to me that

- within 1 hour there most likely will occur 4 alarms
- alarms more often hit power plants, production and commercial buildings
- alarms more often hit the buildings which are placed at the 'edge' of the building-area

(one time I got only 1 alarm within one hour, and when I stayed online for 7 hours I suddenly got 6 alarms within the last 1 hour)

 

emergencies also check if you are active or not in the game, having game in the background does not count, it will enter idle mode and emergencies will not occur, i remember this being said some time ago on a OA or maybe a comment, i'm not sure.

also emergencies have 10 minutes to resolve,so it also depends how much time you wait until you finish/ from my own experience i have about 5-6 emergencies/h when im around and active in main city. but most of my time is spent in other playfields.

 

I'm looking forward to get 5-6 emergecies/h - maybe it depends on your mayor-lv - since I was active and (if I may say so) - is pretty fast (it's my happy smiley ) - to handle the emergencies.

 

to increase the emergencies you can use patrol. i myself find emergencies are to often for my confort. they dont scale with mayor level, but im almost sure they scale with city size.

 

... that I can try out - thanks for the idea.

 

It seems to me that I have more emergencies whenever I am busy moving stuff around, especially ERS devices...which immediately stops me from moving them around until the crisis is solved. I have no idea if this is based on an actual algorithm or if it simply seems that way. Try it! I spent 99 free MMs on Street Patrol, it sure kept me busy and was awarded with a pretty cool building from bronze medals. When I have the time to spend I definitely will use it again.

 

Now I have tried to move ERS-devices around - a lot - and to me it just seems like it tricker an alarm because you are 'busy'

.. but I find it rather funny that none of my buildings less than 30 min are never hit by an alarm so now I have removed all coverage of them

 

You may regret that eventually — mine still have plenty. Though I have observed that some buildings seem to get more or less than others at times. I had one smoothie bar that seemed to always get all the attention in one neighborhood until I moved it. I can't say I have any buildings that never get hit though.

Be careful of those double-negatives. They have a way of entirely changing what you mean.

 

A bit of a follow up. I think my level was around the early 40's in my last post. Already then, my low-level houses it seemed like they got hit less at the time, but I figured it was mostly due to having more buildings in total. Not long after that post, I began to realize that they weren't getting hit at all. Now, it seems that it's almost entirely my manufacturing and commercial buildings that get hit. Even my power plants aren't getting hit, aside from the hydros. Now I'm level 62 and it seems to mostly be my residences above level 17 that get hit, so most of the 3x3s with long timers, though my tenements also get hit regularly and I don't have examples of everything on the main field. I can't really pin it entirely on level though, as my urban high-rises never seem to get hit but my comfy apartments are regularly.

I have removed some substations and moved some other houses to the main field to test and haven't noticed much change. It's really odd, anyway, and I can't help but wonder about the criteria for determining as it doesn't seem to be random. Anyone else notice this trend?