Exactly....there is no "cold start map".
Everything is based on one set of mapping and then fudged from there with adders and multipliers. Fun times.
This is why just giving away things makes no sense after spending so much time figuring it out.
I get what your saying about giving tips and secrets away that it's take. You so long to figure out... On the same note it makes no sense to keep them to your self either. How is that helping anything or anyone?
It's kind of like myself and barefoot trimming horses. Over the years I've come a long ways in figuring out the best way to shape and grow a healthy hoof on a horse. I made so many mistakes starting out early in my days because I had to figure out and test different stuff to see what changes it would make. Sometimes it worked out sometimes it didn't. So my point is all these years of testing and trying out things to get to where I am today as a barefoot trimmer would be pointless if I didn't share my findings and my best practices to others that ask or need direction. The few hundred horses I trim would be sound growing healthy rock crushing hooves and the thousands others out there trimmed by folks that don't know the right way (or the best way) I should say and there would be a bunch of soft footed lame on rock horses....
Point is if you don't share your findings with folks there may be a bunch of lame powerstrokes running around! Hahah
But then again not everybody shares the same train of thought on sharing knowledge. To me knowledge should be free and work should cost money.