need more stock builders!

[ianh05]

It was a joke... Mr.AS got it at least.

[RedSawn]

123 pretty much nailed it : stock is tedious.

But DSL can be just as tedious as stock, with the constant wedge testing, occasional snapper load, chassis rebuild, The difference is that in DSL you're not contractually obliged to do these things as in stock.

Not to mention the vast improvement on variety and general practicality that is brought by 6x more components. Even if 75% of DSL components are totally useless (which is roughly the same ratio as stock).

No, DSL standard isn't intrinsically harder or easier than stock. Expectations are higher in stock, doesn't make it harder.  IRL DSL is easier, but generally more tedious than standard DSL

This is basically the culmination of the point I tried to make. Nice one guys. (Though I'm not sure about DSL not being easier since stock depends on a lot of counter-intuitive exercises that would be absent in standard or IRL DSL building)

Honestly I would build stock but I don't want to post anything second rate, and I don't want to build yet more popups and rammers (stuff that are hard not to be second rate at comparatively) and I end up not building stock at all.

[Venko]

Honestly I would build stock but I don't want to post anything second rate, and I don't want to build yet more popups and rammers (stuff that are hard not to be second rate at comparatively) and I end up not building stock at all.

Duder, no one wants from You to build top level bots always. Although, I didn't get the impression that You are a bad stock builder... Also, for an example, not all the DSL builders are top level too, but they still build, so...
You can always make other bot types than popups and rammers. And the popups are not a "second rate bots" IMO.