I don’t see how being a “pride supporter” has any effect on Antonio’s ability to do his job. This is probably why you were blacklisted. You aren’t criticising the department or its leadership, I’m sure they’d accept that they can’t keep everyone happy. I mean calling them inbreds and stuff? That’s just being a dick.
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So if SCFD could do more public and/or internal events with founder/dev support, it would have made it more enjoyable for you?
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This sort of makes sense. With any roblox group you need to get a good balance between realism and making it fun. If everything was as realistic as possible, then obviously hardly anyone would do EMS. If it was oversimplified it might attract more people, but I don’t think many people would enjoy rping with EMTs who don’t know much about what they’re talking about. I personally don’t think simplifying the content would have a significant effect, but I could be wrong.
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Just want to reiterate to people replying to this thread that the reason I made this was primarily to get some ideas for things that Public Information Office can do to improve the departments image and attract more people (which is obviously the objective of the division). You’re all entitled to think FFA and SCFD command are epic and the best people ever, or total morons. This thread’s purpose isn’t to stir shit up or for people to air their grievances against specific people. I know crosslay and SCFD hicomm are reading the replies and it isn’t fair to just publicly insult people. My advice is you just DM them if you have an issue and work with them towards a solution.
TL;DR Please don’t use my thread just to insult people. It’s uncalled for and counter productive.
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The reason I feel SCFD is dying in general is due to an overflow of knowledge within the curriculums, the target demographic, and the typical member of the department will most likely be between the ages of 12 and 16. A younger demographic will clearly be less bright, as it will be more difficult to absorb such sophisticated information, while an older audience will most likely be focused on school/exams. Now, there is no doubt that we want to preserve a sense of realism; nevertheless, I feel that we should pull back on the curriculum little for the time being. We like to talk on how everyone was competent in 2018-2019, why? because the material was simpler to grasp and everyone was on the same page. Now, I get why folks would be upset if their medical RPs had less variety, but I don’t want to stay up till late studying about the top ten left ventricle homologous disease patterns for Lego. I don’t believe that better RP ever made SCFD more enjoyable, but rather a more active department within the county and a sense of community that you just don’t get anymore. Also, if everyone could only comprehend medical or firefighting to the same level, there wouldn’t be so many irritated volly-junkies shouting at 5-year-olds about lego fire.
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Firefighting within firestone is a lot less about remembering things and more about being able to make the right call fast. Paramedicine is way more about remembering things and doing things a certain way. As others have said, SCFD will get more dev support in V3 which I believe means more physical doing things instead of does stuff. If anything you need to remember more for EMT-B than you do for firefighter. If it’s the idea of having to remember lots of information putting you off I’d recommend doing your firefighter tiers. If it’s more having to just say things in chat instead of physically doing things then that’s a dev issue so I can’t really solve that.
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To be clear, I’m not shitting on anyone, I think crosslay has done a great job, and the curriculum is really realistic and accurate, it’s just not what I’d say appeals to the average 13-14 year old.
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I mean I can’t cause of these reasons
- I don’t have a FFA cert nor do I wanna go through the pain that is FFA again
- I’m a criminal
- the things I have heard about SCFD have made me think 2nd thoughts about joining
- you need to be buddy buddy with the command members in order to pretty much get anywhere in the department
- in my opinion, a majority of the members are incompetent. (for legal reasons i am not naming any names)
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I’m not sure. From who I’ve spoken to the youngest person in SCFD is 14 but it seems like a majority of people are really into it and want to pursue fire/ems careers in real life. Out of about 6 or 7 people I was on shift with today, they were all pursuing careers in fire or ems. I suppose what you’re trying to say is SCFD needs to appeal more to people who just want to do fun firefighter stuff on roblox, as opposed to people who are really serious about it and are pursuing it as a career? Correct me if I’m wrong, that’s just how I interpreted it
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To be honest I’ve considered trying to become a JTO-I but in the past when I’ve tried this sort of thing it didn’t go very well. What I want to do is maybe apply to SCFD’s TD first and get some experience with people who’ve already been through FFA. I wouldn’t want to be one of those JTO’s that resigns after a couple of weeks.
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we just finished our last set of curriculum revisions for a while, we are switching over to doing the hospital curriculum revisions now
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I only really think DOH should be so advanced, not SCFD though… Reworking the documents wont help, if only 10% of EMT-Ps actuall yunderstand the curric then you have to cater to the 90% instead, realistcally…
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In the real world nearly all firefighters are trained in the medical field due to the massive medical call volumes compared to fire rescue calls. It’s the same way in Firestone. Tier 2 is easy as hell and it’s just pure laziness if you can’t learn it.
FFA is inactive though with holes in their curricula and inconsistencies with their tests. Only a few TOs seem to care for their jobs (Deo and also Swiss who retired to name a few). Personally, I don’t want to do FFA again even though I know the stuff already. It’s not a smooth process.
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Agreed. Fire & EMS is a really technical field with lots to learn and memorize, so the people who select it over being an LEO genuinely have an interest in it.
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Not when they basically did the same to me.
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Howdy everyone, as a current SCFD Lieutenant I feel that I’ve got to a point in the Fire/EMS community where all the flaws are really starting to show. Overall Firestone is LEO based game, and most of the development occurs around those fields. SCFD however does get some development here and there but really doesn’t catch the public’s attention to draw any members who find it interesting and give them the idea to apply. Now aside from development is just the community surrounding SCFD. The Fire/EMS community is severely dying in Firestone as most people have lost interest in even gaining an FFA certification to apply to SCFD or anything of the liking. Additionally, most do not have the time or commitment to attend the sessions in order to get their certification. Most have said that FFA is falling behind in their duties which is understandable because just like SCFD, they are heavily understaffed due to the lack of people who have an interest in this field of work within the state. Most people around this time are starting school/college, or have a job. This along with the amount of time it takes to gain a certification and then write an application to the department and hopefully pass and finish candidacy really is a struggle when you have a lot of IRL demands. Not only does training and absorbing the knowledge SCFD prefers individuals to have, but they also need to meet the required quota each week. Again this is difficult for most as they have other important things they need to do and have some free time on the side, not sitting on their computer getting their lego quota. In conclusion, the community surrounding all of this is slowly fading and there’s not much that can be done to fix it from what I can see at this point in time, only time will tell. I hope the community will slowly pick up its feet and begin moving in the right direction in the coming months.
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I think the overall census here is: make paramedicine easier but still cater to the people who want to learn the advanced stuff. It’s a great middle-ground but would require a lot of cooperation between FFA and FMA (Firestone Medical Academy).
At the time of writing, FMA isn’t open to ANYONE outside of DOH and I personally don’t blame them, but it would be beneficial if we got some more CCEMT-P’s, RN’s, MD’s, Practitioners, etc. in the community. Currently, there are 8 CCEMT-P’s and if we were to make curriculum easier, that number will need to go WAYYYYY up.
I’d also like to point out that only 1 of those CCEMT-P’s is actually in SCFD. Obviously more CCEMT-P’s should go to DOH for obvious reasons, but it would still be nice to have at least 3 CCEMT-P medics that are active SCFD members (therefore counting that one CCEMT-P member in SCFD obsolete because it’s antonio and, to my candidate knowledge, doesn’t have an activity quota)
Anyways if that was jumbled and my 4 hour of sleep brain confused the fuck out of you here’s a shortened version:
-Curric needs to be easier
-8 CCEMT-P
-1 CCEMT-P in SCFD
-if curric get easier, more CCEMT-P needed or wanted
-FFA and FMA are gonna have to actually do shit together
-FMA is gonna need to open up to SCFD/9th med employees
I’m gonna go to sleep now. Gn
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I totally agree, unfortunately my job isn’t to fix how the curriculum is taught. My job is to ensure people do their jobs properly and that we provide them with the ability to do their job and save the lives of robloxians. We will be making an effort to reduce the amount of people risking their certifications by implementing different methods of action such as expanded training, re-training, written reprimand for action, etc.
The FDOH has no interest in going to take peoples certifications. Within the upcoming months I plan to take action to restore the certifications of those who have had their certifications revoked for non violent crimes.
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FMA is currently undergoing curriculum rewrites similar to what FFA did a few months back. We didn’t do them at the same time all together as we have a different variety of curriculums to make. We however are happy to say FMA will be opening slowly over the next 6 months with hopefully our next RN class being in November.
CCEMT-P however is a very advanced certification for pre-hospital providers. I in no means intend to scare anyone with the level of training provided, however it is a lot of information and I must say I am kinda picky in how I grade things. The FMA will take all possible efforts to ensure our students success including taking the time to break things down in a 1 on 1 environment. We hope in our next CCEMT-P class to have 5-8 students from various departments.
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I don’t think you can entirely blame FFA staff. There are people in the current class who just haven’t bothered trying to attend or arrange tiers.
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