Messages and the dispatch board

Messages

Press M, or click the speech bubble in the header. Pick who it is for (a unit, All units or Dispatch), type and press Enter. A red number on the bubble counts what you have not read, and new messages play a sound.

From the command line it is one line: m 1A-10 meet me at postal 210. Right-click a unit on the board and choose Message to start a message to them.

In-game delivery

Messages to a unit, or to all units, also reach them in ER:LC as a private message from the bot, like [CAD] Dispatch: what's your 20?. So do:

• being assigned a call, attaching yourself to one, or being handed a stacked one;
• being detached from a call by a dispatcher;
• backup requests and panics from other units;
• status checks;
• dispatch board notices, when the dispatcher ticks Also send it in-game.

Only units in the game at that moment get them. ER:LC allows one command every 5 seconds per server, so a message to many units arrives one unit at a time. Admins can turn in-game delivery off on the Settings page.

The dispatch board

A notice across the top of every CAD on the server: a Signal 100, a closed road, a change of policy for the night. Open CtrlK and choose Post a dispatch board notice. A Notice is quiet. An Alert plays a tone on every CAD. It stays until a dispatcher clears it.