Nuada wrote:
I have very often heard from those coming into Standard from other servers how their hope is to show us how things are done, how to be the proper fleeter some once said, what lessons must be taught - and lo and behold how their means of doing this has been to use what others built for them.

I will find myself impressed when someone shows us up by doing it as the rest of us have, on our own, up from the ground floor, surviving and negotiating the vulnerabilities and challenges involved in actually managing growth from absolutely nothing amidst so many much more powerful.

Rjsturgill wrote:

Nuada wrote:
I have very often heard from those coming into Standard from other servers how their hope is to show us how things are done, how to be the proper fleeter some once said, what lessons must be taught - and lo and behold how their means of doing this has been to use what others built for them.

I will find myself impressed when someone shows us up by doing it as the rest of us have, on our own, up from the ground floor, surviving and negotiating the vulnerabilities and challenges involved in actually managing growth from absolutely nothing amidst so many much more powerful.

I guess we are forgetting the account I originally came to standard on, I built it from nothing, and caused major destruction on it. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, I was one of the major causes of what standard is today.