RESCUE EXERCISE
During your career, you'll rescue Sims from overturned boats, burning buildings and runaway trains. In this exercise, we'll rescue a few Sims from a fishing trip gone bad.
Open the Settings panel as before, by pressing the Escape key and selecting City Settings.
Set the difficulty and number of rescue missions to suit your level of confidence.
Close the panels.
In a few moments, you'll receive a dispatch that Sims are in trouble and need your help. A line appears on your city map, showing you the location of the accident. Icons show additional rescue missions.
You can fly directly to the scene, or you can land on a hospital roof along the way and pick up a medic. Even though a medic occupies a seat in your helicopter (which could otherwise hold a rescue victim), you can't know in advance how extensive injuries are. A medic can prevent injuries from becoming worse, and is usually worth the time and expense.
For this exercise, when you arrive at the rescue area you should dispatch an ambulance to the area.
Aim your spotlight at a nearby road square and press F3.
Note: Remember, emergency vehicles can only travel on roads.
Search the area until you find the Sims in need.
Help! Help! Help!
When you find them, change to Third Person View and lower your rescue harness.
Note: In Third Person View, the camera follows the rescue harness.
Maneuver your helicopter so the hapless Sims can grab the harness.
Women and children first
Notes: Over water, the wind from your helicopter blades can push the boat away, which make things difficult for you and the Sims.
Sims automatically grab the harness when it's close enough. The harness holds one Sim at a time.
Bring the Sim into your helicopter by raising the harness, then lower it again if there are other Sims to rescue.
The Sim automatically becomes a passenger.
Repeat until there are no more Sims to rescue, or until your helicopter is full.
All aboard, safe and sound
You must now take your Sims to a place of safety:
Take injured Sim to a hospital roof for full payment.
Take healthy Sims to any place in the city for full payment
Healthy Sim
Shaken up Sim. Consider a hospital
A hospital roof is this Sim's only
hope.
Sims leave your copter when you land.
After taking rescued Sims to a place of safety, return to the site for Sims who were left behind, and take them to a safe place. Repeat the rescue process until there are no more Sims to rescue.
When you're done, take the medic back to a hospital roof. It doesn't have to be the same hospital where you got him or her, but it would be nice.