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Game loop

How you play Rescue OPS

Rescue OPS is a real-time emergency-response coordination simulator on the real-world map. You play a commander who builds a network of fire stations, hospitals, police stations and specialized bases, then deploys vehicles to incidents that spawn around them. Every decision — build, hire, specialize, dispatch — impacts response time, progression and economy.

The core cycle

1. Build a facility (fire station, police station, hospital, specialized base) on the map.
2. Buy vehicles compatible with that facility.
3. Wait for incidents to spawn.
4. Analyze the mission (required tags) and dispatch suitable vehicles.
5. Vehicles arrive on scene, resolve the mission or request reinforcements.
6. Vehicles return to their garage and the operator earns rewards: credits and XP.

Spawn zone (250 m² grid)

Incidents are not spawned randomly on the map: they only appear inside the cells of a facility's spawn grid. Each cell measures ~158 m × 158 m (25,000 m²). The number of cells per facility is:

cells = 10 (base)
        + player level
        + 1 per vehicle in the facility
        + 2 × division (alliance) level
        + 20 per non-special facility
        + 40 if special facility (airport, station, port)
        + 2 per vehicle if special facility

By default, each new occupied cell is assigned to the closest free cell to an already-built facility. The special port facility uses cells that contain water.

Analysis and dispatch

Each mission has a list of required tags (INC, SAP, ALS, NRBCe, SR, USAR, CMD, LOG, PMA, MO, INT, PAT, MER-SAR, AIRFIELD-CMD…) whose amount can vary. Initially, not all required tags are shown. The player can dispatch the required vehicles plus any they deem necessary. Sometimes a command vehicle on scene (CMD tag) is required to analyze the mission — analysis reveals the full tag list and unlocks the full dispatch.

Each vehicle provides one or more tags via its type (VSAV = SAP+O2+DEFIB, FPT = INC+EAU+POM+MOUSSE+ARI, etc.).
A mission is only resolved once every required tag is met, within its min–max range, on scene.
Purchasable skills: Analysis Assistant (auto-filters analysis vehicles) and Assignment Assistant (auto-filters compatible vehicles).

Simultaneous departures

When several vehicles leave the same station almost simultaneously, there is a delay between each departure (because two vehicles cannot be in the exact same spot at the same time / leave the same facility at once). Dispatching 10 vehicles from the same facility at once may take up to 30 seconds.