What are the rules with recreating a city and it's fire department?

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#1

Heya! I’m working to recreate an area of the City of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. I want to recreate the Fire Department, EMS and Police department.

Is this allowed if I am using real-life street names (not including private neighbourhood streets) and realistic recreations of the emergency vehicles?

Also, what would the limits be on simulating medical emergencies for EMS callouts?

Thanks!

#2

Take what I say with a grain of salt, I’m always playing on the safe side.

This is definitely fine.

Nothing too graphic/descriptive, keep it simple e.g. someone broke a leg, having a heart attack, vehicle collision, stuff like that (CS - “Realistic or real-world depictions of extreme gore, graphic violence, or death”).

Try not to give the situations too much context, it’s better to vaguely describe the situation the person is in. Kind of the opposite of what you want for a medical response lol but some stuff may fall against Community Standards, one rule is to not depict “Dangerous physical challenges or stunts in the real world”, and “Roblox prohibits content that recreates specific real-world sensitive events” and “Mass acts of violence against people or property”.

If you’re going to be including crime in your emergencies, I wouldn’t recommend using street names combined with accurate surroundings just in case something can be correlated to the crime.

I’m probably being a bit more strict than the rules here, but only because it’s better to be safe, and because most players likely don’t want to hear something too descriptive anyways.

I’m not 100% sure on this, because the rules only state not to share your own or other’s addresses (however, meaning saying ‘x lives here’, not just having a street that happens to be where they live).
It should be fine though, maybe don’t include house numbers or exactly the same street and building designs, monuments are okay of course.

In conclusion / TL;DR, don’t be too graphic with emergencies, try not to use 100% accurate maps of cities or neighbourhoods (leave out house numbers, different buildings, etc.), and it’s fine to recreate EMS vehicles.

Best of luck with development! :+1:

#3

Thanks so much! I had already planned to specifically not recreate buildings as such in real life other than the Fire Stations and such! Thanks for your help and have a good one!

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#4

No problem, sounds good :smiley: don’t forget to mark a solution

#5

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