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To Serve and To Protect Version 1.0 Vivid Software INTRODUCTION The police chief mused over his current predicament. His city had been on the edge of riots for weeks which had started when a failed police assault on an innocent building sent the city into riots. Currently, all his available units were being sent back to base where they could be outfitted with riot gear. Meanwhile, helicopters flew over the city keeping watch on the rioters and the occasional looting. It was going to be a long winter, and if the rioters did not stop soon, he was going to have to use the heavy weapons. He also knew he would never reach the goal of a moderate public opinion and crime rate. This situation could not only happen in real life but also in this game, To Serve and To Protect. You will do many of the tasks of a police dispatcher like deploying units and responding to crimes. You will also, during the course of the game, perform police chief duties like budgeting and personnel. Finally, you can also do many things neither does, like deciding to build new buildings, judging crimes, and taxing citizens. PLEASE REGISTER! This version of To Serve and To Protect is shareware. This means that you are free to play TSTP in order to test it and to see if you like it. If you continue to play it, you should register. In return for $20, we will send you the registered version which allows the following neat stuff: ∙ Variants which allow you to change opening settings like crime rate, money, personnel, and rioting on or off. ∙ Cheats to help you through the game. ∙ 4 new police vehicles: fastcars, unmarked cars, helicopters, and vans. See ORDER.FRM for details. HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL There are four areas to this manual. The first shows how to to set up a new game. The second chapter is a tutorial which will help you get used to concepts of the game. The third chapter shows how to do various tasks in the game. The third chapter shows how to play the game and gives various hints and tips. If you wish to just jump right in and play, you can probably just skim over chapter two and use it as a reference to the various icons in the game. Chapter three will probably have to be read in depth, however. CHAPTER 1 SETTING A UP NEW GAME Changing and Setting the Sound Setup After you have performed the initial installation, or if this is your first time playing To Serve and To Protect, you can change to sound card setup. To change the setup, follow this step: 1. Go to the To Serve and To Protect subdirectory. For instance, if you installed To Serve and To Protect in the \TSTP subdirectory, you would type CD\TSTP and press Enter. Then, type the following: DEL SOUND.CFG. If this is your first time playing, follow these steps: 2. Type TSTP and press Enter. 3. The Sound Setup screen will appear. Click on the sound card that you have and then click on Continue. Your sound card setup is now changed. Welcome to To Serve and To Protect! Notice that there is no music in the game. If you want to have music, copy your favorite MT-32 songs and rename them SONG1.DAT, SONG2.DAT, SONG3.DAT or SONG4.dat. Then, during the game, you can use Z, X, C and V to play them. In the beginning, an introduction will show. To abort the introduction, just hit any key. The Main Menu will appear. The Main Menu The main menu consists of four "buttons": Load Game, New Game, Configuration, and Exit to Dos. Click on any of them to do their respective task. Loading A Game Loading a game is simple. Just click on one of the saved games in the middle of the screen (only games in use will appear). Then click on done and the game will be loaded. Starting A New Game Starting a new game can be very simple or it can be complicated. In the new game area, there are several areas where options can be set. These include Scenario, Map, Difficulty, and Variants. In order to start a game, a scenario and a difficulty level must be set. To start the game, click on "Start". To cancel and return to the main menu, click on "Cancel". Scenarios Scenarios set the victory conditions of the game. In some scenarios, the victory conditions include having a certain level of public opinion. In others, the victory condition may be to stop rioting. Scenarios also set some beginning factors in the game like rioting. Below is a description of each of the seven scenarios included with To Serve and To Protect. Each scenario last one month long. Scenario 1, Normalcy: This scenario is simple. Maintain a public opinion of 50% or higher and a crime rate of 50% or lower. Use whatever methods at your disposal to achieve these goals. End Public Opinion: 50% End Crime Rate: 50% Scenario 2, Shortage: The city in which you control has always had problems recruiting people to serve as police personnel. Therefore, you are limited to a maximum of 30 officers and 50 patrolmen. Because of these limits, no officers and patrolmen are assigned at the beginning of the game and you must assign them yourself. End Public Opinion: 50% End Crime Rate: 50% (REG. VERSION ONLY) Scenario 3, Martial Law: The city has been declared for various reasons to be in a state of martial law. As a result, only an aggressive posture is allowed. A description of the aggressive posture and its effects is on page 10. End Public Opinion: 50% End Crime Rate: 50% (REG. VERSION ONLY) Scenario 4, Riot Recovery: The last police chief who controlled the city was a bumbling idiot. By the time the political leaders finally pressured him out of office, the city was in the middle of heavy riots. As the newly appointed police chief, it is your job to stop the riots and get the city back under control. The Riot and Public Opinion variants have no effect on this scenario. End Public Opinion: 50% End Crime Rate: 50% (REG. VERSION ONLY) Scenario 5, New Force: The city in which you control had always used a volunteer police force. But because of the recent influx of drugs, a large professional police force is needed. Therefore, at the start, you will have no police related buildings and you will have no vehicles. You are essentially helpless until you start building. The map municipal settings and the vehicle stock variants have no effect on this scenario. End Public Opinion: 50% End Crime Rate: 50% (REG. VERSION ONLY) Scenario 6, Beverly Hills: As a top socialite in Beverly Hills, you are appointed police chief because of your connections. Your job is mainly concerned with having a high public opinion so that you can impress your friends. Maintaining a decent crime rate is not a priority. End Public Opinion: 90% End Crime Rate: 20% (REG. VERSION ONLY) Scenario 7, Drug Hideout: The city you control has become a haven for the drug lords. You must destroy at least five drug HQs. To accomplish this, build a force of highly trained assault vans and a large number of detectives and informants. End Public Opinion: 50% End Crime Rate: 50% (REG. VERSION ONLY) Map Generator Setup (REGISTERED VERSION ONLY) The map section of the New Game area sets the random map generator. The map generator can be set to three modes: random, manual and user-made. To change the mode from the default random mode, click on the Random button. When the map generator is set to manual, you can change the percentages of five areas in the random map generator. A description of the five areas follows: Residential: Residential areas on the map include mainly houses and town houses. Unlike other areas, the more Residential areas there are in a map, the more citizens there are in the city, and the more taxes you can get. Commercial: Commercial areas contain mainly stores, restaurants, billboards, and gas stations. Municipal: This includes pre-built police stations, training centers, community centers, courthouses, police academies, prisons, and rehabilitation centers. This has no effect in the scenario number 5, "New Force". Undeveloped: Undeveloped areas include abandoned buildings and empty slots which are suitable for building new police buildings. Other: Other includes parks, community swimming pools, and trailer parks. There are some rules for setting the random map generator. These include: ∙ Commercial area percentages may not exceed 50%. ∙ The sum of municipal and undeveloped areas may not be lower than 2%. ∙ The sum of municipal and undeveloped areas may not be higher than 10%. ∙ The sum of all areas may be lower than 100%, but it may not be higher than 100%. The other option is User-Made. Here, a map that was made with the TSTP map designer can be used. Five choices can be selected: MAP1.DAT through MAP5.DAT. Difficulty There are 12 difficulty levels. They range from level one which is the easiest and level twelve which is the hardest. The difficulty levels not only effect things such as starting money, starting personnel, starting crime rate and public opinion, but many other factors. A description of the differences between the difficulty levels is in Appendix B: The Difficulty Levels. Variants (REGISTERED VERSION ONLY) The six areas in the variants area changes factors at the beginning the game that would otherwise be set by the difficulty levels. So, for example, if you want a challenge but don't want to have to worry about money, you can set the difficulty to level 12 and the money variant to +2000. This allows the game to be more suited to doing what you enjoy. No variants need to be set in order to start a game. The six areas of variants are described below. Money: In the money section you can change the amount of money you start with. The amounts of +500, +1000, +2000 is the amount of money you will get in addition to whatever the difficulty level gives you. To see the amount of money a particular difficulty level gives, see Appendix B: Difficulty Levels. The money option "No Money" will set the amount of money that you start with to 0 regardless of difficulty level. Personnel: Here you can change the amount of personnel you start with. The +5O, +15P selection adds 5 officers and 15 patrolmen to whatever the difficulty level gives you. The +10O, +20P and +15O, +30P also do the same, but in respective amounts. To see the amount of personnel each particular difficulty level gives you, see Appendix B: Difficulty Levels. The personnel option "No Extra" will set the amount of personnel that you start with to 0 officers, 0 patrolmen regardless of difficulty level. The personnel option has no effect when Scenario 2, "Shortage" is selected. Riots: There are two choices in the riots area: no change and rioting. When the rioting option is set, the public opinion is automatically set to 15%. Public Opinion: There are 4 choices in the public opinion area: No change, High, Medium and Low. High sets the public opinion to 80%, Medium sets the public opinion to 50%, and Low sets the public opinion to 20%. This option has no effect in Scenario 4, "Riot Recovery", or when the Riots variant is set to Rioting. Crime Rate: There are 4 choices in the crime rate area: No change, High, Medium and Low. High sets the crime rate to 80%, Medium sets the crime rate to 50%, and Low sets the crime rate to 20%. Vehicle Stock: The vehicle stock is the amount of vehicles that are already in pre-built buildings. This option changes the default number of vehicles assigned to a police station. To see the number of default vehicles for a particular difficulty level, see Appendix B: Difficulty Levels. Random Events: Near the start button are is the random event button, or Rd. Ev. When toggled on, random events happen sporadically through the game and can do random good things and random bad things to the police. Configuration The configuration area is where you can change certain options to fit your liking. On the bottom of the screen are three buttons labeled Cancel, Done, and Save. Cancel exits out of the configuration menu without changing any options. Done exits out of the menu with the currently selected options. Save saves these options so that the next time To Serve and To Protect is run you do not have to set them again. Above these three buttons are the options. Clicking on them will toggle them on and off. Below is a list of the options and what they do when toggled on. Weather: With weather toggled on, occasional rain and snow storms will occur. Also, the differences between day and night will be shown. Stoplights: When stoplights are toggled on, vehicles will stop at red lights and stop signs. Limited Vision: Limited vision means that only cars that are within range of a police vehicle or building can be seen. With limited vision off, every vehicle can be seen. Border Scrolling: When border scrolling is on, the large map during the game will scroll when the mouse is at the extreme edges of the screen. Music: When this is on, music will play during the game. CHAPTER 2 TUTORIAL This chapter will give an example as to how to play the game. Since events happen randomly, an example of dealing one cannot be given in this chapter. For tips on how to deal with events, see chapter 4. The first step is to load the tutorial. At the main menu, click on "Load Game". Then click on saved game number one and Load. This will load the tutorial. When the game starts several general areas can be seen. One is the big map which shows your city enlarged. This takes up the majority of the screen. On top of this is the icon bar and above the icon bar is the menu bar. To the right of the big map is a empty blue rectangle. This area is where cars will be controlled. Below the big map is two other blue rectangles. The left rectangle is where various miscellaneous items are controlled and the other rectangle is where information is displayed and can be reacted to. Notice the small map in the lower right corner. The dark and light gray areas are the city street map and buildings. The brown squares on the map are empty areas and the green squares are your police related buildings except for police stations, which are represented by blue squares. The white dots are civilian vehicles. Finally, the white square shows where your big map is centered on in your city. Notice that this square is centered on a police station. If you look in the center of the big map, you will see the police station. It is a blue building with "PD" on the roof and a parking lot next to it. Click on it. This will display the police station in the miscellaneous rectangle in the lower left hand corner. This is how you control police-related buildings. This display contains a lot of information: notice that it is police station 1. To the left is the personnel that the police station uses (4 patrolmen and 1 officer). Below this are three squares that show each police vehicle in the station, its unit ID, the weapons each car uses, and the personnel assigned to each vehicle. Below it are two upgrade icons. Click on the left one which has a computer on it. This gives the station a crime lab. Since this will clear the miscellaneous area, click on the police station again. The other icon is a helicopter pad. This option is useless in the shareware version as helicopters cannot be bought. To the right of these icons are the foot patrols. Click on plus until the number reaches its maximum (8). This will increase the visual range of the police station. To control the first car in the station (Unit 1/1), click on its box. This will change the bottom row of icons. Click on the second icon from the left. This changes the vehicle's weapon. Click on the third icon to change it back to pistol. Tap the fourth button from the right to assign another officer to the car. You can take it off or assign patrolmen to the car with these buttons. To deploy the car, click on the first button. You will notice that the police car is deployed. It is across the street from the station and situated next to a blue house. Move the mouse over the car and you will notice that the mouse cursor changes. Click now to select this car. You can now control this police car. Notice that it is also possible to click on civilian cars to gain information on them. Notice the information presented in the blue window to the left of the big map. On top it tells the year, make, personnel assigned, and unit designation. Below this are twelve icons that you can control the car with. Below that are its skill, morale, and fatigue ratings. Finally, on the bottom, is the speed of the car which reads "0". To move the car, click on the first button in the second row of icons. Click on northwest corner of the small map. This will change the big screen. Click on one of the streets on the big map. Then, on the small map, change the big map location to the previous location over the police station. You will notice that the car has started to pull out into the street and move. Increase its speed to 60 by clicking on the rightmost "5" in the speed area. To change the speed of the game, click on the plus button next to the "2 sec" on the icon row. This will increase game speed. Increase it to "1 min". To slow it back down, click on the right mouse button. This button defaults the game speed to 8 seconds. Getting back on the police car, click on the stop sign located next to the "move to" button (2nd row, 2nd button). This will stop the car. Then click on the button on the row below the stop sign. This will tell the car to return to its assigned police station. Be aware that it is not necessary to stop the car in order to give it an order to return home. Be sure to read chapter 2 to understand what the other icons do. Now let us build a new police building. To do this, click on the first button from the left on the icon row. This changes the miscellaneous area to a building construction screen. Notice that the seven types of buildings are displayed. We want to build a courthouse, so click on the second building from the left. Next we must choose a building site. Click on the "Site +" button. This will change the big map to center on the construction site. We cannot build the courthouse here because the site is only 4 squares big (it is the abandoned building). We need a site with 9 squares. Click on the "Site +" button again. This new site (a fenced in abandoned lot) is 9 squares big. To begin construction, click on the hammer icon. Notice that the building will not be immediately built. It will be constructed over a two day period. We will now want to buy a new police car. Click on the buy new car icon (second from left). This will again change the miscellaneous area. Click on the motorcycle (first button). Then we must choose a police station to assign the cycle to. Click on number one (there are four police stations). Then click on the "Buy" button. You should man every new vehicle you buy. To do this, go to the police station (it is the one that we deployed a car from). Click on it and you will notice a new car (Unit 1/4). Click on it's box and click on the patrolmen (blue officer) + button. This will assign a person to the bike. Notice that since it is a motorcycle, only one person can be assigned. Now we will change the overall police posture. This button is located to the right of the buy new car icon. You can cycle through the three postures: passive (officer with hand at side), normal (officer with hand over gun), and aggressive (officer with gun drawn). For now, let's leave the posture on normal. The icon next to posture is the car follow lock. To the right of this you can change assigned building personnel much like car personnel. Click on this icon. This will change the big map to a personnel screen that lists all your police buildings. Next to this are control icons, and next to these icons are the assigned personnel. Notice the redlines next to the personnel. This is the required number of personnel in order for a building to function. All your buildings now have the minimum number of people in order to function. Click on the "+ patrolman" button on community center number 1. Since this is over the number of required personnel to operate the building, it will increase the effect of the community center on the community. Now click on the "norm" button next to the community center. This will automatically assign the minimum number of personnel to the station. In this case, it took off the patrolman we just assigned. Now click on "Exit". Next to the personnel icon is the budget icon. Click on it. Budgets are compounded every four days, but here you can change its settings before it compounds. Notice the list of income and expenses. Click on the "Tax -" button. This will decrease the tax rate. This will slow the decrease in public opinion that taxes have on the community. Click on "Exit". The button next to the budget controls the mode the small map mode. You can cycle through map modes. The first is normal, the second displays area crime rate. The third displays visual range of police units and buildings as red diamonds. Any car that is not in a diamond cannot be seen. Cycle the small map back to normal. The button next to this brings up the special assignments screen in the miscellaneous area. Click on the "+ officer" button on the Anti-Drug line. This will increase the number of officers assigned to Anti-Drug programs which help decrease the crime rate. Now click on done. This concludes the tutorial. For more tips on gameplay, see chapter four. CHAPTER 3 HOW TO DO THINGS IN THE GAME The Main Screen After starting a new game, and after loading it, you will be taken to the main screen. Below is a description of the areas in the main screen. Top Line The Top Line is where the two "pull-down" menus are located. To access the pulldown menu, click and hold down the left mouse button on the word File or the word Options. This accesses their respective menus. File Menu In this menu you can do three things: Load files, Save Files, and Exit to Dos. They can be accessed by releasing the mouse button while the option is highlighted. The Load files option acts just like the same option in the main menu; that is, just click on the game you wish to load and then click on done. Save games acts the same. Click on the slot you wish to save at, and then click on Save. Exit to Dos exits the game; a confirmation of the command will be asked. Options This toggles on and off the same options that were also described in chapter 1. To change an option, just release the mouse button when the mouse cursor is on the option you want to toggle. Top Icon Line The top icon line has many icons that have important functions such as budgeting and personnel. A description of each icon and what it does follows on the next few pages. The first icon, the construction icon, brings up the construction screen in the miscellaneous area. For a description of the construction screen, see page 21. The second icon, the vehicle purchase icon, brings up the vehicle purchase screen in the miscellaneous area. For a description of the vehicle purchase screen, see page 22. The third icon controls the overall police posture. There are three modes: passive (the top icon), normal (the middle icon), and aggressive (the bottom icon). Public opinion between the three postures varies: the public opinion improves during a passive posture, while public opinion erodes during an aggressive opinion. However, crime rate goes up during a passive posture, while the crime rate goes down during an aggressive posture. Also, searches of citizens during blockades and stops is more effective during aggressive postures, but public outrage for stopping someone increased. Finally, during a passive posture only, the police will perform random "goodwill" missions like picking up citizens and driving them places. For every random goodwill mission, public opinion increases. However, this denies use of a vehicle unless you want to dropoff the citizen, in which the public opinion will then go down. This button has no effect in the Martial Law scenario, when posture is always aggressive. The next button is the "lock" button. When it is depressed, the large screen will automatically scroll so that the current unit is in the center of the screen. The next button accesses the main personnel screen. For a description on how to use the main personnel screen, see page 29. The next button controls the mapmode. This is the mode of the small map in the lower right corner. There are three modes: normal (top), crime rate (middle), and visibility (bottom). The normal mode shows the map and visible cars, police vehicles, and police buildings. The crime rate mode shows local area crime rates. In this mode, green is the lowest, yellow and clear is in between and red are the highest crime rate areas. You can use this map to better decide where to deploy your units. Certainly it would be better to heavily patrol a red area than a green area. The last mode, visibility, shows the visible area of all your vehicles and buildings. This is mode is also important deciding where to deploy your units. The next button accesses the main budget screen. For a description on how to use the main budget screen, see page 29. The next button controls the mapmode. This is the mode of the small map in the lower right corner. There are three modes: normal (top), crime rate (middle), and visibility (bottom). The normal mode shows the map and visible cars, police vehicles, and police buildings. The crime rate mode shows local area crime rates. In this mode, green is the lowest, yellow and clear is in between and red are the highest crime rate areas. You can use this map to better decide where to deploy your units. Certainly it would be better to heavily patrol a red area than a green area. The last mode, visibility, shows the visible area of all your vehicles and buildings. This is mode is also important deciding where to deploy your units. The next button accesses the special personnel allocation screen. The special personnel allocation screen is where you can assign informants, detectives, and public relations personnel. For a description on how to use the main personnel screen, see page 28. The next button controls the special option screen. In the special option screen you can do special things like take bribes. For a description on how to use the special option screen, see page 28. The last button is the step button. When the step button is depressed, the time speeds by until a new event happens. You cannot control anything while stepping! To stop "stepping", just click on the step button again. Scale The scale is the pace at which the game runs. Besides "stepping", there are six other speeds. These include 1 second, 2 seconds, 4 seconds, 8 seconds, 30 seconds, and 1 minute. The name of these speeds represents their scale. Therefore, the 1 second speed means that one second of real time is equal to one second of game time. The 1 second speed therefore is the slowest, and the 1 minute speed is the fastest. To increase the speed, click on the plus button. To slow the game speed, click on the minus speed. To set the game to 8 seconds, click on the right mouse button when it is not on the small map. This serves as a useful "panic button". Time This is the current game time and date. The date lets you know how much time until the end of the scenario is reached. The only effect time has in the game is the fact that crime is more likely to happen at night. Unit Control Screen In this area, you can control the police vehicles under your control once they are in the large map. To select a vehicle, click on it. You can also click on civilian vehicles, but only a vehicle type will show plus the vehicle's speed and its passenger number. Each area of the unit control screen will be now described. Vehicle Type At the top is the vehicle's type. If the vehicle is a civilian vehicle, this area will display the model make and year. Current Task This area shows what the vehicle is currently doing. Unit Identification This area displays (you guessed it) the unit's identification. The first number is the vehicle's assigned police station and the second number is the vehicles place. Therefore, a unit with an identification of "Unit 3/4" would be the fourth vehicle at police station number three. Passengers If the car is a passenger car, it will display the number of civilians here. This is important when if you have to arrest the people in the car, for everyone in the car will have to fit into the arresting car. If they cannot fit, they will be released on the street. This makes the van's high carrying capacity much more valuable. If the car is a police vehicle, the number of officers and patrolmen are shown. Left over space in a vehicle is represented with a number of question marks that corresponds to the space left over. Task Icons In this area you can tell the vehicle to do a task. A description of each of the icons as it goes from left to right follows on the next few pages. The top three icons are the patrol icons. They range from a small area patrol (top) to a medium area patrol (medium) to a large area patrol (bottom). When a vehicle is told to patrol, it will randomly move within the specified patrol area. This command is useful for keeping watch over troublesome areas of the city and also having ready-to-use forces already on the street should a problem arise. To change the specified area that unit is patrolling at, click on the large map or click with the right button on the small map on the desired area. The next icon is the general move-to task. By clicking on this button and then clicking with the left button on the large map or with the right button on the small map, you can move a vehicle to any area on the map. When the vehicle reaches the point that you clicked on, the vehicle will stop. The next button tells the vehicle to stop what it is doing. The vehicle, if it is an automobile, will then pull over to the side of the street. The next button tells the unit to train. When you click on this, the unit will proceed to the nearest training center. If there are no training centers, the unit will stop. When the unit starts training at a training center, its skill will be slowly increased. This task applies to automobiles only. The next button is the investigate task. By clicking on this button and then clicking on a building in the large map, the unit will go to the building and investigate it. This command also serves as an assault command when detectives or informants discover a crime-related building. The unit will go to the building and assault it. The results of the assault will show in the event screen. This task applies to automobiles only. The next button is the stop car task. By clicking on the button and then clicking on a civilian vehicle in the large map, the unit will proceed to stop and search a vehicle. The results of the initial search will show in the event screen. This task applies to automobiles only. The next button will return the unit to its assigned precinct. The next button will bring up the change police station screen in the miscellaneous area. With it, you can change the unit's assigned police station. The next button will tell the unit stop and set up a blockade. Any civilian cars that pass by will be stopped and searched. This task applies to automobiles only. The next button is the only button you will see if a unit is performing a community service during a passive posture. To stop it from doing community service and return it to your control, click on this button. A public opinion penalty will be incurred for so rudely stopping the community service. Below these buttons are three bars. A description of these bars follows. Skill This shows how effective the unit is at doing things. The automobile will do things like search cars, blockade, and fight better when the skill bar is bigger. Morale This is how enthusiastic the unit is about police work. High salaries can increase morale, while high fatigue or low salaries will decrease morale. When morale gets extremely low, the patrolmen or officers that are assigned to the unit will quit. Fatigue This statistic is how tired the unit is. The more the unit is out on the large map, the more fatigued it will get. When fatigue is high, morale starts to decrease. When a unit is back at its police station, the fatigue will get lower. Below this is the speed. Speed This is the current speed in miles per hour that the unit is traveling at. If the unit is civilian and the speed is over 35 miles per hour, it is speeding. If the unit is a police unit, you can change its speed in increments of one by clicking on the plus and minus buttons. To change its speed in increments of five, click on the plus five and minus five buttons. There are two things the user should be aware of: first, the number displayed is the unit's target speed. When you drastically change a unit's speed, it will take some time for the unit to reach the speed. Second, know that all units have a maximum speed. To see each vehicle's speed, see Appendix A: Vehicles. Large Map The large map is where all the action takes place in the game. Here is where you can see your do their various tasks. You can also see various facets of the city you police. You can also click on police-related buildings so that you can control them. Notice that this area is only a portion of the overall city. Small Map The small map is a view of the whole city. You can change where your large map is positioned at by clicking on the small map. Various elements of the city can be seen in different colors. A description of each color is described below: Light Gray Blocks: These are the normal streets that all automobiles drive on. Dark Gray Blocks: These dark gray blocks represent civilian buildings. Light Blue Blocks: These blocks are police stations. Dark Green Blocks: These blocks are other police-related buildings. Light Brown Blocks: These blocks represent undeveloped areas. Dark Green Dots: These dots are riot areas. Yellow Dots: These dots represent police-controlled Vehicles. White Dots: These dots represent civilian vehicles. Yellow "X": This X is where the current event happened at. Red Dots: Red Dots represent criminal locations as discovered by detectives and informants. Event Screen This game is for displaying events as they happen in the game. These events can range from new 911 calls to the results of investigations to the discovery of new criminal locations. Since events can sometimes happen one after another, the event screen "queues" them, or keeps them available for a time (usually ten game hours). When a new event happens, the event screen automatically switches to it, but you can always change which event you are looking at by clicking on the two arrow keys at the lower right hand of the event screen. A display of the number of events is also available in the lower right hand of the event screen. In the top of the event screen, a description of the event is displayed and any details associated with it. In the lower left hand is a one word description of the type of event. Some events will also have icons in the lower left hand area. Here you can conveniently take action to any event that might happen in the event screen from the event screen. Some icons that have already been described may be showed. A description of some icons that are unique to the event screen follow on the next page. One icon, a white square with three arrows point the same direction, will automatically scroll the large map to the event area so that you can take personal care of the situation. Another icon that is availible when the event is a crime like murder or a discovery of a criminal locations will automatically send the nearest police unit to the event scene. If no police units are displayed, this icon will do nothing. If the event is a 911 call, you can also send a car near the event scene and have the same effect. This button is very useful and should be used often. The icon that shows a officer looking in the back of a trunk is the search button. When a police car is given the order to search a car, the car will do an initial search, and based on skill, report his findings. This button gives the police unit involved permission to completely search the civilian unit involved. Note that if the civilian unit is innocent, public opinion will be decreased. Miscellaneous Area This area is used for tasks that don't fit into other areas. These tasks can include deploying units from police stations, building new police-related buildings, and buying new vehicles. A description of some of the things you can do in the miscellaneous area follows. Building new buildings A description of the buildings you can build, from left to right, follow. Police Station: The police station is the mainstay of any police force. It can hold up to four vehicles. When units are at their police station, their fatigue is reduced. Always make sure to have many strategically placed police stations. Courthouse: The courthouse is where all the judging of criminals takes place. If you get warnings that your courthouses can not handle the criminal load, be sure to build more courthouses. If the courthouses cannot handle the amount of criminals, some criminals will be set free causing a big increase in the crime rate. Prison: The prison is where the criminals are stored for the duration of their sentence. Like the courthouse, always make sure their are enough prisons or else criminals will be set free. Rehab Center: A rehab center, or rehabilitation center, is an alternative to the prison. If rehab centers are unfilled, a criminal will automatically be sentenced to one instead of a prison. There they will serve a three day sentence regardless of whatever judgement you may have given them. When they are done with their sentence, they will be released and become positive influences on society. Training Center: A training center is where you can increase your individual units' skill. They will become better investigators, fighters, and interrogators. Community Center: Community centers try to increase public opinion by sponsoring various programs like the Police Athletic League and Neighborhood Watch programs. Police Academy: A police academy is where new officers and patrolmen can be trained. New patrolmen or officers will be enter the force every two weeks. To build a new police building, first click on the building desired. Then select a construction site. Use the two buttons to go through the availible sites. Notice that there are two types of construction sites: large open empty slots, and abandoned buildings. Police stations, community centers, and training centers can be built on either type, but courthouses, prisons, rehab centers, and police academies can be built only on empty slots. To build the building, click on the Build this icon only when the building type fits the right slot. Below is a description of each building and its function. Small buildings, like police stations and community centers, will take one game day to build at a cost of 150 "dollars" per day. Large buildings will take two game days to build at a cost of 150 "dollars" per day. Buying new vehicles The top of this screen is the area and picture of the vehicles you can buy. Below the picture is the cost of each vehicle. Below the selection of vehicles is your current amount of money. Note that you can't buy a vehicle without having the necessary funds. Below your amount of money are the police station numbers. A police station number will be black if it has no helicopter pad, and white if it does. If you want to buy a helicopter, you must place it at a police station with a helicopter pad. It will be shaded over if the police station is currently filled and cannot except more vehicles. If all the police station numbers are shaded over (like above), you cannot buy new vehicles until a new police station is built, or until you lose a vehicle. You must click on an unshaded police station number to assign your new unit before you can click on the Buy This icon. Also, after buying your car, be aware that you must give it at least one patrolmen before you can use it. Below is a description of each vehicle. The first vehicle is the police motorcycle. Although it is a inexpensive unit, it is limited in that it can only carry one personnel member, which makes it less effective at fighting. It can, however, perform effective investigations and other police duties. The second vehicle is the police cruiser. This is the standard police vehicle. When loaded with four personnel, it makes for an effective fighter. Its relatively slow speed makes it a bit too slow for chases. Which brings us to the third car, the Fastcar. Although it can only carry two people, its high speed of 95 miles per hour makes it specially suited to chases. (REGISTERED VERSION ONLY) The fourth car is the unmarked car. It performs almost identically to the cruiser, but it is has a much bigger visual range. This is because people do not know the car is in the area, and won't hide themselves from police. Be advised, however, because the public does not like the feeling of "secret police" that an unmarked patrol force carries with it. (REG. VERSION ONLY) The fifth vehicle is the van. Though slow and expensive, when equipped with eight officers and M-16's it makes a deadly assault force. Always try to keep one or two trained assault vans on hand for attacking any criminal locations. (REG. VERSION ONLY) The final vehicle is the helicopter. Although it can't investigate, assault, or train, it has the best visibility of all other units and, with its speed, is good for tracking possible suspects and keeping watch over the crime ridden areas of the city. (REG. VERSION ONLY) The Police Station Here you can deploy units assigned to a police station. This screen is brought up by clicking on a particular police station in the main screen. You can also recall units that have been deployed or change the large map location to the deployed units position. First, you'll notice the top line in the police station area. This tells the police station's number and its assigned personnel. If there is less than minimum amount of personnel assigned, this area will be shaded over and you will not be able to use the police station. The next area in the police station screen is the four boxes. These represent the assigned vehicles to the station. If only two vehicles are assigned, you will only see two boxes. In each of these boxes are two smaller boxes. One shows if a vehicle is in the police station or not, and the other shows the current weapon the vehicle is using. Below these boxes are is the units identification and the personnel assigned to the individual unit. The area below the boxes is the police station icon row. You will see different icons here based on the boxes above. If you have not clicked on a box, you will see the police station icons. These include the two upgrade icons. When there is a box around the icons, the upgrade is not yet at the police station. The two upgrade icons are as follows: The first button is the crime lab upgrade. When a police station has this upgrade, units assigned to the police station will conduct better searches and investigations. The second button is the helicopter pad upgrade. When a police station has this, it can support helicopters. Next to the upgrade icons is the amount of foot patrols a police station has. Foot patrolling increases a police station's visible range, at the expense of patrolmen. A police station can have from zero to eight patrolmen assigned to foot patrols. By clicking on plus and minus, patrolmen will be assigned from the general patrolmen pool. The police station icon row will be different when a box is clicked on. If the unit is out of the station, you will get two icons: the large map scroll button which will scroll the large map to the unit's position, and the return to station button. If the unit is in the station, the first icon is the deploy button which will deploy a unit out of the police station. The other icons will change the assigned weapon and the number of officers and patrolmen assigned to each unit. A description of each weapon follows on the next page: The first weapon is the standard police baton. While there is not much public outrage for using it, it is ineffective at almost everything except for riots, where it is mediocre. The second weapon is the standard .45 caliber pistol. It is effective at street encounters, but it is not at building assaults. There is some public recourse for using a pistol. Pistols are not effective during riots and there will be tremendous public outcry if a unit tries to silence a riot with a pistol. The third weapon is riot gear. Riot gear is effective only at stopping riots. The fourth weapon, the M-16 rifle, is extremely effective at building assaults, but usage in any other area is opinion damaging to say the least. When M-16's are used during riots, expect a quick end to your career as police chief. Special Personnel Allocation Screen There are four special allocation areas where officers and patrolmen can be assigned. Obviously, areas will be more effective when more personnel are assigned, and an area will be more effective when it has ten officers assigned as opposed to ten patrolmen. The four areas are as follows: Anti-Crime: Anti-Crime personnel will generally try to reduce the crime rate through various means like going to schools and talking to schoolchildren about crime. Detective: Detectives are needed to discover hidden criminal locations like crack houses and drug headquarters. Beware, however, detectives will sometime falsely discover a location resulting in a lower public opinion for trying to assault an innocent location. Discoveries will show up in the event screen and as a red dot in the small map. Informants: Informants function exactly like detectives, but they are more effective. Beware, however, because unlike detectives, informants stand a chance of getting killed in the line of duty. PR: Public Relations (or PR) personnel try to increase public opinion. Special Options Screen There are two special options. By clicking on them, you can toggle them on and off. The first option, taking bribes, has the benefit of adding 100 "dollars" to the budget every week in return for an increased crime rate and the chance at getting caught. If you get caught, public opinion will decrease drastically. The second option, appeal for calm, costing 50 "dollars" per week, lowers the chance of rioting when public opinion is low. Be advised, however, this has no effect on public opinion itself. Other Building's Screens As was noted on page 16, you can bring up a police station screen by clicking on a police station in the large map. By clicking on other police-related buildings, you can bring up information about other buildings. On one building, the police academy, you can change how many officers and patrolmen are trained every two weeks. Other Screens Budgeting The budgeting screen, brought up by clicking on the budget icon in the top icon line, is where finances can be controlled. The budget is compounded every 4 days, and it will be brought up automatically after each adjustment. However, you may want to change some figures before the end of the budget period. The main method of finance is the security tax. Since taxing has an obvious effect on public opinion, it is beneficial to try and keep taxes low. By clicking on the salary buttons, you can adjust your officer and patrolmen salaries. Remember, 40 per year is considered the median for officers and 25 per year is considered the median for patrolmen. Anything less than the median will cause morale to drop and anything more will cause morale to increase. Personnel Here is where you can assign your officers and personnel to your police buildings. Notice the top line. The officers and patrolmen numbers are the numbers of leftover policemen. These can be directly assigned to vehicles and to foot patrols in the police station screen. The numbers next to them is the total number of officers and patrolmen. You are responsible for paying each one of them a salary, so it is beneficial to try and keep an efficient number of policemen. To get rid of policemen, click on the Fire Patrolmen or the Fire Officer button. Remember, however, they cannot be rehired if you want them back. The only way to get new officers and patrolmen is through police academies. Notice below these numbers is each individual building and its policemen "draw". Notice the red line in the area where it shows the assigned policemen. This red line, in both the officer and patrolmen areas, is the minimum number of officers and patrolmen a building must have to operate. Certain buildings, like courthouses, training centers, and community centers, will have increased effectiveness when there is a surplus of personnel assigned. CHAPTER 4 HOW TO PLAY THE GAME Overall Objective If you have read Chapter 3, you have probably discovered by now that there are two main elements in this game that will require your attention in order to win. These elements are public opinion and crime rate. The difference between winning and losing a scenario depends solely on the public opinion and crime rate at the end of the scenario's term. Therefore, this chapter will focus on how to better public opinion by raising it and how to better the crime rate by lowering it. At the start of a game After selecting all the options at the beginning of a game, and when you reach the game play area, there are some immediate things you will want to change. First, you will probably want to go to your budget screen and check your finances. Make sure you know how much you can spend safely. Be careful not to go into debt, for if you do, the first casualties will be officers and patrolmen because they will not be paid. As a result, their morale will go down, and if this debt is sustained, you will have mass quitting of the police personnel. Make sure to lower your taxes to as low as possible as high taxes decrease public opinion rapidly. Second, you will want to analyze where your buildings, and especially your police stations, are spread. If this is the "New Force" scenario, or if you selected a low level of pre-built municipal buildings, or if there is a large area devoid of a police station, you will want to consider building new police- related buildings. Try to give police stations the choice construction sites, because except for perhaps training areas, only their position on the map matters. Third, if the vehicle stock (the number of vehicles assigned to each police station before the game) is low, start buying vehicles according to budget. Evaluate your needs and buy accordingly: motorcycles are good cheap units, cruisers are good all around units and in the registered version, helicopters are the best at patrolling areas and keeping track of possible criminals, vans are good at assaulting buildings, and try to throw in a fastcar or two to respond quickly to crimes and chases. If this is the "Shortage" scenario, make sure to go to the personnel screen and assign personnel to only the essential buildings. In any other scenario assign excess personnel to courthouses, training centers, police academies, and community centers. Courthouses will be able to handle more cases. Training centers will train faster. Police academies can train more recruits. Community centers will effect public opinion better. You will probably now want to evaluate your special personnel options. If this is a hard difficulty level, it will probably be your best bet to assign more personnel to detective than to informant because informants are easily killed in the hard difficulty levels. As for Anti-Crime and PR, you will probably want to assign the maximum number of people that you can to these areas. In the other special options screen, you may want to consider taking bribes if your money is low and lots of upgrades to your police force are needed or if you have a high public opinion and can afford the loss of support should you be discovered. Finally, start patrols. First deploy helicopters to strategic areas and use the visual mapmode to try to blanket the map with police visual coverage. This increases the possibility of randomly spotting crimes in progress and increases speed when reacting to 911 calls. Should a crime happen... There are three types of crimes in To Serve and To Protect: 911 calls which include heavy crimes like murder and rape, visual calls which include light crimes like speeding and vandalism plus the heavy crimes, and rare crimes which cannot you cannot control the arresting of but you must judge on. When a 911 call happens, manually take control and send all the nearest units, especially helicopters. Try to track all the civilian vehicles in the immediate area of the crime. Meanwhile, send a car with a high skill to interrogate the victim. If the car has a high skill or is lucky, then it will tell you the exact car that perpetrated the crime. If you find only that the victim escaped by car, stop the most likely cars which you think may have committed the crime. If you find out nothing from the interrogation, try again with the same unit or one with more skill. When it comes to stopping suspect cars, try to stop the car with a unit with a high skill so that a search will be successful. Make sure that the stopping vehicle has enough room to hold any criminals that the civilian vehicle may have. Also, try not to send a motorcycle or another vehicle with few personnel, because should the criminal try to fight it out, the single motorcycle cop will be dead. Try to have a fastcar in the area, because if the criminal tries to escape by speed, you will easily be able to stop him. Finally, make sure the vehicle that is being pursued is kept in sight or else pursuing vehicles will lose their track of the vehicle and stop. Assaulting Criminal Locations At the beginning of the game, depending on your difficulty level, there are a number of "criminal locations" that are hidden to you. These include crack houses, drug labs, and drug HQs. The only way to uncover these locations is by assigning detectives and informants. When the detectives and informants discover a criminal location, plans for an assault should be made. Beware, however, because detectives and informants sometimes give false reports. To an assault a building, always use units that are armed with machine guns. Also, fill the assault vehicles to their personnel capacity. Finally, try to use vehicles with a high skill level. A van with eight officers armed with machine guns makes an excellent assault vehicle. To tell a unit to assault, click on the investigate icon (see page 18) and then click on the building or use the send nearest button on the message that informs you of the location. Judging NOTE: Prison terms will be in days (ie: 5years=5days) for reasons of gameplay. How you judge a criminal depends on your ratio of rehab centers to jails. If there are a lot of jails, try to go for a long prison sentence. If you give the criminal a short sentence that will end before your term as police chief is up, the criminal will be released and almost certainly become a negative effect on society (i.e. crime rate will increase). If you have a lot of rehab centers and they are empty, crime sentences will automatically be set to three days regardless of the sentence you give and the criminal will end up having a positive effect on society. If you have hardly any prison space or do not want to build new jails, give the criminals the smallest sentence possible. No matter what you do, however, if the public is not indifferent to a crime and wants either a heavy or light sentence, do what the public wants. It is not worth the public opinion loss and if you go extremely against the public, public opinion could be lowered enough that riots break out. Just look at what the whole Rodney King affair did to Los Angeles in 1992. Riots Should riots unfortunately break out, immediately send all your units home and outfit them with riot gear. Send them back out and give them the patrol command. During riots, the patrol command will automatically go to the nearest riot area and spend time dispersing it. Posture If your public opinion is low, you should almost always have your posture in passive. Try not to interrupt police units when they are performing community service missions, as this tends to lower public opinion ("Those darned police offered my son a ride home, but dropped him off in the middle of town!"). If you have the public opinion to spare, set the posture to a normal or aggressive posture. The police always work better when they are unconstrained. APPENDIX A VEHICLES Police Vehicles Vehicle Name │ Cost │ Maint. Cost │ Max. Crew │ Max. Speed ──────────────────┼──────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────── Police Motorcycle │ 10 │ 1 per week │ 1 │ 60 mph ──────────────────┼──────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────── Police Cruiser │ 20 │ 2 per week │ 4 │ 60 mph ──────────────────┼──────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────── Police Fastcar │ 30 │ 3 per week │ 2 │ 95 mph ──────────────────┼──────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────── Police Unmarked │ 20 │ 2 per week │ 4 │ 60 mph ──────────────────┼──────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────── Police Van │ 50 │ 2 per week │ 8 │ 50 mph ──────────────────┼──────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────── Police Helicopter │ 100 │ 5 per week │ 2 │ 99 mph ──────────────────┴──────┴─────────────┴─────────────┴──────────── Civilian Vehicles Vehicle Name │ Max. Speed │ │ Vehicle Name │ Max. Speed ──────────────────┼────────────┤ ├─────────────────┼───────────── Ford Taurus │ 60 mph │ │ Toyota Camry │ 60 mph ──────────────────┼────────────┤ ├─────────────────┼───────────── Ford Ranger │ 60 mph │ │ Toyota Tercel │ 50 mph ──────────────────┼────────────┤ ├─────────────────┼───────────── Ford Festiva │ 50 mph │ │ Nissan Sentra │ 50 mph ──────────────────┼────────────┤ ├─────────────────┼───────────── Ford Escort │ 55 mph │ │ Nissan Truck │ 60 mph ──────────────────┼────────────┤ ├─────────────────┼───────────── Ford Mustang │ 90 mph │ │ Buick Skylark │ 60 mph ──────────────────┼────────────┤ ├─────────────────┼───────────── Chevy S-10 │ 60 mph │ │ Cadillac │ 50 mph ──────────────────┼────────────┤ ├─────────────────┼───────────── Chevy Beretta │ 70 mph │ │ Dodge Spirit │ 60 mph ──────────────────┼────────────┤ ├─────────────────┼───────────── Chevy Camaro │ 90 mph │ │ Olds. Cutlass │ 60 mph ──────────────────┼────────────┤ ├─────────────────┼───────────── Chevy Corvette │ 95 mph │ │ Toyota Truck │ 60 mph ──────────────────┴────────────┘ └─────────────────┴───────────── APPENDIX B DIFFICULTY LEVELS Level │ Strt Money* │ Strt Crime Rate* │ Strt Public Opinion* ──────┼──────────────┼────────────────────┼────────────────────── 1 │ 1000 │ 20% │ 80% 2 │ 1000 │ 24% │ 76% 3 │ 900 │ 26% │ 74% 4 │ 850 │ 30% │ 70% 5 │ 800 │ 40% │ 60% 6 │ 750 │ 50% │ 50% 7 │ 700 │ 55% │ 45% 8 │ 600 │ 60% │ 40% 9 │ 500 │ 65% │ 35% 10 │ 400 │ 70% │ 30% 11 │ 250 │ 75% │ 25% 12 │ 200 │ 80% │ 20% ──────┴──────────────┴────────────────────┴────────────────────── Level │ Riot Threshold │ Visibility Factor │ Upgrade Cost ──────┼────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────────────────── 1 │ 2% of p. opin. │ 35 │ 100 2 │ 3% of p. opin. │ 35 │ 100 3 │ 4% of p. opin. │ 30 │ 105 4 │ 5% of p. opin. │ 28 │ 115 5 │ 6% of p. opin. │ 25 │ 125 6 │ 7% of p. opin. │ 24 │ 137 7 │ 8% of p. opin. │ 22 │ 150 8 │ 9% of p. opin. │ 22 │ 175 9 │ 9% of p. opin. │ 20 │ 200 10 │11% of p. opin. │ 18 │ 237 11 │12% of p. opin. │ 16 │ 250 12 │15% of p. opin. │ 15 │ 300 ──────┴────────────────┴────────────────────┴──────────────────── * These numbers are changeable in the variants section.