Goonhub
07-05-2022, 09:28 AM
I want to address my personal issues with this thread.
I never found Robotics to be hard specifically, no harder than Doctoring in general anyways. You're generally not expected to deal with more than Brute damage, Blood loss, and basic limb replacement, and while it's definitely a daunting job, I feel it's a good entry in learning surgery. The wiki is helpful, but it also has a lot of information on any given page and thus it can be very difficult to actually learn what you need at a given time (pretty much anything not involving organs can be done with "Keep a few brute patches per limb on hand, keep a blood bag on hand, helpfully target the limb you want to remove, have a scalpel and bone saw on each hand, alternate hands until limb is off, staple new nerve, make sure target won't die on their way out of medbay" and even half of that is needed if you (intentionally) don't care if the person dies), but actually knowing these things on hand isn't something I expect a new player would just know and I can understand the issues. All I can suggest is ask people around you.
As for people doing your job...Well, if it's the classic server then it's just expected, but on the RP server you should be yelling at people about this, and not just in character either. It's in the rules on RP servers to not but in other peoples lane. Even the captain shouldn't be doing your job for you (after all why are you being paid?), and you should mention it to them. This goes towards sleeping gas as well. Especially on classic, it's generally not used because it takes up time for pretty much no benefit for the patient or the well meaning doctor whatsoever, but it should be mentioned on the RP servers if you want to use it.
People also can't do self-surgeries if they're in the right state of mind for the most part (so they need to be drunk, more or less). I know bullet removal is the exception, but I could see someone dealing with the pain to do that.
I'll also cap this off by mentioning that something that is "From that one server" is probably not going to be added. I know the admins mentioned it more than once.
I never found Robotics to be hard specifically, no harder than Doctoring in general anyways. You're generally not expected to deal with more than Brute damage, Blood loss, and basic limb replacement, and while it's definitely a daunting job, I feel it's a good entry in learning surgery. The wiki is helpful, but it also has a lot of information on any given page and thus it can be very difficult to actually learn what you need at a given time (pretty much anything not involving organs can be done with "Keep a few brute patches per limb on hand, keep a blood bag on hand, helpfully target the limb you want to remove, have a scalpel and bone saw on each hand, alternate hands until limb is off, staple new nerve, make sure target won't die on their way out of medbay" and even half of that is needed if you (intentionally) don't care if the person dies), but actually knowing these things on hand isn't something I expect a new player would just know and I can understand the issues. All I can suggest is ask people around you.
As for people doing your job...Well, if it's the classic server then it's just expected, but on the RP server you should be yelling at people about this, and not just in character either. It's in the rules on RP servers to not but in other peoples lane. Even the captain shouldn't be doing your job for you (after all why are you being paid?), and you should mention it to them. This goes towards sleeping gas as well. Especially on classic, it's generally not used because it takes up time for pretty much no benefit for the patient or the well meaning doctor whatsoever, but it should be mentioned on the RP servers if you want to use it.
People also can't do self-surgeries if they're in the right state of mind for the most part (so they need to be drunk, more or less). I know bullet removal is the exception, but I could see someone dealing with the pain to do that.
I'll also cap this off by mentioning that something that is "From that one server" is probably not going to be added. I know the admins mentioned it more than once.