Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Missions
Types of Missions
Transport
Medial
Rescue
Criminal
Fire
Traffic Jams
cHAPTER 3
Levels
Making Levels for your city
CHAPTER 4
Support
Chapter 1 |
Introduction
A remake of a popular emergency flight simulator
Maxis created a wonderful
program called SimCopter. It placed the player in a helicopter flying around
the cities made with Maxis SimCity. As a career pilot you had to fly around the
simcities completing several missions before advancing to the next city. These
missions included; transport a sim from one place to another place, medial
transporting of injured sim to the hospital, aiding police, fire and ambulance
to find criminals, fires and injured sims, and rescue operation. In SimCopter
you would earn money for each completed mission and loose money for missions
not completed. This money would be used to buy additional equipment and more
advanced helicopter. As you completed each level the missions would increase in
amount and difficulty. Faster flying would be needed to keep up with all the
missions given to you. Not getting to a fire in time would result in a building
being destroyed, not getting to an injured sim in time result in a sim death.
Timing is everything and could result in a level not getting completed. The
game would become very addictive and you could find yourself flying for hours.
Maxis no longer make SimCopter but you can still find copies of it at www.amazon.com for
under $5.00 dollars and it will run on Windows XP. There is a bug in the
program, which causes the program to crash after running for a period of time,
but I found that if you saved the game after each mission is completed the
program will run fine.
I
made this remake of SimCopter as a dedication to this wonderful program. I used
the sound file that came with the SimCopter version I purchase from amazon.com
I used FSX mission building to create several mission in a city. The first city is Westerly in Rhode
Island. You as the copter pilot must complete all mission assigned to you in
order to advance to the next level. At the completion of each level you will be
instructed to return to the hanger. When you land you must be facing the hanger
were a Certificate of Completion will appear inside the hanger. Write down the
code number and keep it in a safe place. You will need this code number to
unzip the next level.
Chapter 2 |
MISSIONS
What are missions
There
are six different types of missions in FSX SIMCOPTER
1.
Transports
2.
Medical
3.
Rescue
4.
Criminal
5.
Fire
6.
Traffic Jams
All missions must be completed in order to
complete a level. Missions will start off easy in the first level and increase
in amount, time and difficulty with each additional level. There is no timing
for how long a level will take to complete only for how much time certain
missions have to complete. This will be explained in each mission types below.
As you progress through each level, the time between each mission will shorten. For example, in the first level after you complete a mission a short amount of time will pass before you are dispatched to the next mission, as you reach a higher level you will be dispatched to another mission before you even reach the first target of the mission you are on, and with each additional level you will be dispatch to several other mission while still flying to a mission target.
You will need to determine which
mission is the most important to complete and pick which mission to go to and
select it in your mission compass using the key number that you had selected to
change mission targets.
B. Mission Types
There
are two types of transport calls
A. Normal Transport
B. State Level Transport
This
is a simple sim transport mission. Locate the sim to be transported using the
mission compass and take him/her to the location shown on the mission compass,
which will appear after the sim is on board.
This is high priority
mission, which has a time limit to pick up and transport a state representative
to an important meeting. This is a timed mission.
There are two types of medical calls
1.
Medical
Evac Requested
2.
Victims
seemed to be injured
You are called for an emergency medical
transport to the hospital. An injured sim is in serious condition and must get
advance medical care ASP. This is a time mission
You are called for an injured sim(s). Locate the
injured sim(s), when the menu bar appears you will need to determine if you
should call an ambulance to transport him/her or to transport the injured
sim(s) to the hospital.
There are two type of rescue
1.
Overturned
Boat
2. Tenant on Roof
A sim has overturned his/her boat and needs to
be picked up and transported to land. You must get your copter close enough for
the boated to climb on board.
A sim has got stuck on top of a roof and needs
help getting down. You must land on the roof or get your copter close enough
for the sim to climb on board. Then transport him/her to the ground.
There are seven types of criminal activities. In
all criminal activity calls a menu bar will appear. You can decide to pick up a
police office and transport him/her to location or go to the location and call
for a police car. If you decide to pick up a police officer you will be
directed to his/her pickup site. If you decide to call for the police car, do
not select anything from the menu bar, fly to the criminal location and
when you spot the suspect then pick call for police and remain in area until
the police car arrives.
1.
Robbery
2.
Robbery
Armed
3.
Robbery
Driving
4.
Arsonist
5.
Mugger
6.
Rioters
7.
Speeder
Robbery
This is an unarmed robber who is no threat to you. Make your decision on picking up a police officer or calling for the police car. Remain with suspect until the suspect is apprehended.
Robbery
Armed.
This is an armed robber. You must remain out of his shooting distance to prevent getting shot down and failing the mission or landing with the police officer to close to the suspect getting the officer killed failing the mission. You must remain with suspect until the suspect is apprehended.
Robbery Driving
The robber is driving a vehicle and you have been given his location. A menu bar will appear, when you locate the speeding car call for police assistant and keep up with the vehicle until the has police stop it. If you loose the suspect vehicle the mission will fail.
Arsonist
An arsonist has been sited. Make your decision on picking up an officer or calling for a police car. You will need to find the arsonist before he starts a fire. If the arsonist starts a fire, the mission will fail. Remain with suspect until the suspect is apprehended. This is timed mission
Mugger
A mugger has been reported. Make your decision on picking up an officer or calling for a police car. You will need to find the mugger before he injures a sim. If the mugger injures a sim, the mission will fail. Remain with suspect until the suspect is apprehended. This is a timed mission.
Rioters
A riot has been reported. Find the rioters. A menu bar will appear. Decide to use you megaphone, call for the police or call for a fire truck, to break up the rioters. Remain in area until rioters have been dispersed.
Speeder
A speeder has been reported. You have been given his/her location. Fly to the area and look for the speeding car. A menu bar will appear. When you spot the speeder call for the police and stay with speeder until the police stop the vehicle.
5.
Fire
A fire has been reported and you have been sent to
locate the fire. Find the fire. A menu
will appear and you must to decide to either get water and put the fire out or
call for a fire truck. Water can only be picked up from a water source such as
a lake. This is a timed mission. If the fire destroys the building, the mission
will fail.
6.
Traffic Jams
A traffic jam may be caused from different types of
actions. A menu will appear with a list of each emergency vehicle, ambulance,
fire truck and police car. You will need to make a decision on which vehicle is
needed to clear the traffic jam.
Chapter 3 |
Levels
WHAT ARE Levels
You must complete all missions to complete a level. After completing a level you will be given a Certification of Completion letter, which will appear between the hanger doors after landing at the hanger. You will need to write down the code number and keep it in a safe place until you download the next level. The download will be in a password protected zip folder. Use the code number to unzip the folder.
Each new level will increase in difficulty and
advance to another city. There may be several levels assigned to one city to be
completed before advancing to the next city. As you progress in your career you
will also be assigned to a new helicopter. Two of the helicopters are already
installed in FSX, other helicopter will be added to the zip folder. Most of
these new helicopters will be provided by www.hovercontrol.com
or from www.avsim.com as a shareware so you
may already have it in your FSX folder.
Making levels for
your city
I
can make FSX SIMCOPTER levels for your city on request. Go to www.fsxmission.com and look in the forum
for my
FSX
SIMCOPTER or e-mail mail me and tell me what city you would like FSX SIMCOPTER
to fly in. These cities will be added to the levels. For best performance
please do not send me large cities, New York City, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles
and other large cities. Such large cities will decrease the frame rates. I have
a pretty good system, but for best flying performance I like to keep the frame
rate above 15fps.
Chapter 4 |
SUPPORT
If
you have any questions or comments, please visit www.fsxmission.com or www.avsim.com
I
will post a forum titled FSX SIMCOPTER. I will monitor these forums at least
once a week. Please post replies here first.
If
you need help with installation and do not get a reply from me at one of these
forums then go ahead and e-mail me. Please only do this if you cannot reach me
at the two web sites posted.