Am I playing this role right?
Hello! I'm a newer player to SS14 as someone who has been interested in SS13 for a while now. So far, the game has been a lot of fun. Most players have been kind and willing to help a newbie learn while keeping things interesting enough for me to be hooked. However, I am a bit curious about a role I've come to enjoy.
I've jumped between a few servers and have been playing mostly the Roboticist role, if there's ben one. Or Research Assistant until it unlocks. I really enjoy building bots and borgs, or the occasional brain surgery or robotic parts if available. But something just feels off.
I picked up science because there was a lack of them in a server I was on. Someone was kind enough to teach me how to build a borg and I really liked it. But other times the role feels a little useless. I thought people would stop by and ask for cleaning bots or med bots, or I could borrow brains for more cyborgs, but lots of shifts have gone by were all I'm doing is waiting for materials. By the time I get materials, someone is rolling into science (because robotics has a desk directly connected to the main hall for some reason) and using a bunch of mats for something random like strength augments or bots I could totally build for them. There's no requests, no RP, just random people stopping in, making what they want and even doing surgeries on themselves without even acknowledging I'm there.
So I'm curious if I'm doing something wrong. Do I need to start welding doors shut or telling people to scram to let me handle it? Is this a low or mid rp issue and I should look into the high rp servers instead? Is there some other part of Robots that I'm missing?
Any help is appreciated. I am going to hop between some other roles to do learning, but I'd like to know how to improve on one I enjoy already. Thank you!