Controlling emergency services with zones

[Lightpaws]

Is there a mod or a way to enter a suggestion for a future upgrade where you can control a Fire House, Medical Clinic, Police Building, and Hospitals, where their vehicles will not respond outside the zone/district they are placed in? I constantly see medics or fire engines being sent from one side of the city to the other to a call when there is literally a building with available vehicles just a street away. This causes major problems with a large city and causes other buildings to go inactive.

[MarkJohnson]

It is because you are past the default designed 9-tile city. So you need to add more services to pick up the slack, as now all services will only send out a max of 2-vehicles per service building.

So, if you get a lot of sickness, then the game will send out only two ambulances per building that is nearby. But it will probably be worse and you will have dozens of sick people at once.

so it will call ambulances across the city as sick cims want an ambulance now. not wait for your nearby service to spawn an other ambulance, it will send the nearest ambulance from the nearest station with a free vehicle available.

Luckily the game doesn't have a random sickness mechanic.

Sickness comes from pollution in your residential areas, or in your water supply.

Good news, if you keep pollution out of residential areas, your cims will never get sick.

[Lysia]

Transfer Manager CE has options to limit to specific district(s), or even specific building(s) (such as cemetery only relocating to a specific crematorium). It also has a slider to limit distance of pathing calculation, so like only responding within x kilometres.

You can setup transfer settings for that building, and then additionally apply it to all such types in the district, map, etc. The mod also enhances the algorithms behind the transfers, which seems to help.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2804719780