What you want to see? - Dispatch CAD System
Why should we add it? - Increase RP
What are the advantages of having this? – See Below
Who is it mainly for? Primarily dispatch, but later plans for all Government
Links to any content – See Below
A CAD system has been researched and planned for the Dispatch team for a significant amount of time. We’ve also tested out various web based systems as well, and we discovered that a web based system would be the most practical. This CAD system would allow for better tracking of the various government jobs, ensure that the proper units are assigned to the various calls throughout the server, and significantly increase RP for the dispatch branch. The initial plan is to develop and implement a CAD system for the Dispatch Branch first to prove that it works, and later start to roll it out to branches to better improve all RP across the server.
We have three proposed systems that we believe would be beneficial for our purposes. We would need to work with the developers to customize the system a bit more to work for our purposes, however we believe the end would be well worth the effort.
1. https://opencad.io/
Pro:
- Clean UI (did a dry run with this and it worked nicely)
- Free
Con:
- Requires a website to host it on
2. https://saucecad.com/mdt/login
Pros:
- Free
- Simple UI
Cons:
- Ads are on the page and they are SKETCH (but can be paid to be removed)
3. Develop our own system
Pros:
- Fetch DarkRP job table (either once a few minutes or with a button on the cad to reduce lag)
- Grab the player names and jobs from the government team and send to website
- Website makes table with jobs and splits PD and TAC
- Ability for units to select their status (10-6, 10-8, etc)
- Ability to select various incidents types
- Panic button mode (single button, will automatically sets all units 10-07 with a status of 10-76 to panic)
- Easy to code server addon
- Custom to the community
Cons
- Difficult to make the UI look visually pleasing
- Will take significant work to create and develop the system
- Website needs to be hosted on a Gaminglight web server
Why do we need to build our own?
With most CAD systems being built for other games, they are really heavily dependent on PD cooperation. If PD doesn’t use it, the whole system fails. However, with the automated system grabbing the job table it cuts out PD having to learn a new system and only dispatch will have to learn it.
- Dispatch High Command