SAFR

Inquiries — Asking the Public

Ask the people of the city a question about an incident, and read the answers without ever learning who gave them. Useful where a cause is not obvious: who saw the fire start, whether anyone was inside, which way the driver went.

Where it lives

On the incident screen, the middle column switches between Live Activity (the operational log) and Inquiries. Same column, different view.

Asking

Type the question at the bottom and send. Everyone in the community sees it for the length of the answer window — 30 minutes unless your admin changed it.

The line above the box shows what goes out besides your words:

That is the incident title and location, attached so people can tell whether it concerns them. Read it before you send — the title travels with the question.

Opening one also posts a line in the game chat with your call sign, so it stays in the scrollback for anyone who was busy at that moment.

Reading the answers

Answers come back as Respondent A, Respondent B. You never see a name, a character or a player.

Each respondent gets their own branch, because respondents cannot see each other's answers. Read a branch as one private conversation. The letters mean something within this incident and nothing outside it.

The box under a branch — "Ask Respondent B a follow-up…" — goes only to that person.

What an answer is worth

A lead, not a statement. You do not know who gave it, so it does not belong in a cause report as fact — it tells you where to look, and what you confirm on scene is what counts.

That also sets the tone for what to ask. "Did you see flames on the first floor before the smoke?" is a question the public can answer. "Whose fault was this?" is not, and it invites a pile-on you then have to clean up.

Finishing

Close ends the question, and closing the incident does the same. It then disappears for the public; your side keeps it, so a cause investigation stays re-readable afterwards.

The eye icon hides an answer without deleting it, and the hiding is reversible.

Working with LEO on the same call

Inquiries belong to the incident, not to a department. If LEO is on the same call, you both see the same questions and the same answers, and either of you can ask or follow up. Worth a word on the radio first — two officers asking the same crowd the same thing reads badly.