Let's see. I'm a Goon station player. I first started on Hippie, but I switched over pretty quickly because A. Nothing happens on Hippie and B. Every server has its own controls and systems, so there's no point in practicing on another station.
My first few rounds were no promising. I stuck to the gimmick jobs, and Radio announcer was my favorite. But I was often killed, and not by the antags. I remember my second ever round on Goon another player asked me if I was new to the server, I said yes and he almost beat me to death and threw me out an airlock telling me new players aren't welcome on Goon. I tried complaining to the Admins but they said he hadn't killed me, just threw me out an airlock and that doesn't qualify as trolling or antaging.
Since then I've learned to really stay away from certain parts of any station - Sec, Medical, Cargo, Engineering and Command. I stick to the kitchen, the bar, botany and every once in awhile genetics. Botany is my current favorite because its rarely targeted, and lets you just grow shit. I usually make alcohol of some kind mixed with Rainbow Weed and sell it off. I like to do station wide commercials with reviews from various crew members and promising my miracle drinks will do all sorts of absurd things. I once promised it would cause triple kidney failure and the Powers that Be liked it so much they made it so. Anyone who drank it had double kidney failure, and after a transplant a 3rd kidney would fail too, so another transplant was needed.
Thankfully we had grown a lot of plant-organs.
Am I robust? No, not in the least and I've given up on ever becoming so. There simply is too much, and rounds get too crazy and dying is too common for me to ever learn anything more than one or two roles. And I don't want to antag, because I'm really bad at it, don't know what to do, and usually die within a few minutes. I was a RevHead once, as a Chef. I walked out of the kitchen and a Detective was waiting for me and shot me dead, RevHead down. And this was in the first 3 minutes of the round. It was like he knew who it was and where I would be.
And that's been my experience. If you want to do something fun you kinda have to do it yourself and try not to interact with other players because most of them are griefers or trolls. I still love the game, but for what I can do myself rather than ClownOps or fighting Blobs.
My favorite round I played I was a botanist and I started with a random hat - a Crown. So naturally I declared myself Queen of Botany(My botanist character is named Julia Langford) and set out to make Apple Cider for the entire crew. We had a good thing going and the Cider was flowing. and then the Wizard happened. He summoned space bees and skeletons and wanted my Cider. I welded the doors to Botany shut and rallied the two other botanists to defend the apple cider. We got chainsaws. And I made a station announcement that the Kingdom of Botany was under siege and they were here for the cider. Sec quickly responded but it was too late. The Wizard broke in and we fought. The other botanists were killed and I was Fus Rho Dahed into the corner and he STOLE MY CIDER and left. I was brought to medical and after an auto-mender I was fine.
I called for the Wizard's arrest, I wanted him alive. It took awhile but he was eventually arrested and his hat and staff taken. But he didn't have my cider. A lawyer asked if I wanted to press charges and I told him I wanted the Wizard charged with flimflamming my cider. And he was put on trial for 2nd Degree Filmflamming. And so we held a trial. He was found guilty and thrown from an airlock, but we never got my Cider back and the round ended.
