Yes, you won in the server of newbies where you were one of the few to buy from the Salem shop to ensure you got a stall with great location as soon the stalls were released in Jamestown. Rather than fighting in Plymouth, you escaped.
right, except that the most competitive players in the game today and back then were from jamestown, having tangled with all of the various groups at one point or another i am absolutely 1000% confident a random sampling of rune's, cheena's, methuzelahs, ammabrothers, darknachts, mr niceguys and pirates working together would have defeated plymouths tribe or roanokes candy gang without any involvement at all from me.
Yes, some newbies grow up and become competitive. That shouldn't surprise anyone. That they are competitive now doesn't mean that they were competitive when Jamestown was opened and that they were willing to use store to get quick farm, claim and well-positioned stall : ).