Profile of Jaedrik

We need multiple selection polls.

Hey man, Relic declined our proposal for SNF6 and we accepted it. We weren't happy about it, but we accepted it, and we wanna support the success of ESL in every way we can. I only posted here because Kyle described our response without putting it in context.

I feel what I do has value. Just as it's Relic's right to decline our proposal, it's my right to not cast for ESL while ESL is getting paid and the casters are not. I'd appreciate it if you guys would simply accept that and leave this campaign to smear me and challenge my passion at the door. My passion for this game and this community is undeniable.

I admit that I wrote my response in ignorance. (SNF6? Kyle? Huh?)
From the limited perspective I had, I only saw a few posts on and around page 5-8, and based it off glancing over those.
Perhaps I should be more responsible and know the full (?) story. I felt like I didn't need to in order to get the gist of it. It felt like "these people should be paid by the cash hogs of ESL and Relic, and they should demand it."
Still! I'd stress these virtues to all.
Surely, if we are all humble, all smear campaigns would die in an instant unless well founded.

And, as an aside, more economics!
The law of subjective valuation states, in a market setting, there is no inherent value to anything except the value assigned by the subject which beholds the object. You may feel you have value, and you may in some other way, but in an economic sense it is your subjective valuation you feel, and not an objective valuation.

RTS games are not as suited to grassroots competitive organization and monetization as are fighting games, which have solid monetization models for community contributors because people come physically to the tournament and pay venue / participation fees for a chance at the prize pool, and if a stream is being run commentators are likely to get paid--if the viewership is sufficiently high and they have a money pool to draw from.

There's an obvious party disconnect. Third parties like Relic and ESL have to come in and make ventures on games like RTS games which don't have the ability to support numerous (competing) grassroots tournaments.
Our community doesn't have that sort of viewer base to support sponsors and tournaments all the time. Third parties have to come in and take risks.

There's competition in numbers. We have fewer tournament organizers compared to any living fighting game community. This with a lack of grassroots monetary incentive or financial sustainability means we won't get them.

So, what's left to drive people that organize if their number is above the supply that's demanded?
Passion. This brings out the best and worst in people. On one hand the love for a thing shines through and they glow and positively attract to the community. On the other hand, egos grow. Pride becomes a driving factor. But, pride means an overestimation of one's own worth.

People, the prideful people, in accord with the degree of their pride, feel jipped unjustly because they think they deserve money for some thing. Let's put aside the fact that nobody deserves money for anything except mutually agreed upon exchanges.

They input a lot of time and effort, true, but they do not see the economic reality. They do not see that nobody wants to, as of a given moment, pay them for their efforts or respect their clout and legacy.
They do not see that, perhaps they are replaceable by competition if money becomes a sufficient factor; there are opportunists who are better than they.
They do not see that, perhaps the market, the demand, wasn't there, or isn't there yet, or likely won't be there...

The economic fact is that the third party investors have not deemed it necessary to offer monetary compensation in order to attract the talent they need to accomplish their objective, and they're right.

They don't want what you're selling, or they don't know that they want you yet (your fault for lack of marketing). In that light, this article and many of the sentiments discussed by "community contributors" in the comments are unjustified.

Leave to each man his will and be humble and of good cheer, and you will find peace and harmony everywhere touched.

Shhh, I'll give you advice but don't tell anybody, it's a secret: Units in green cover win against units in building cover.

If they're at least > 10 range away (because cover goes away within 10 range)
WAIT BUT WHERE YOU GET YOUR STATS TELL ME MAGICIAN

Okay I tested it. If you have target priority vehicle on and tell the tank to attack infantry, the next order will cancel the attack infantry and it will focus on tanks. If you turn prioritize vehicle off this wont happen.

That's correct, but that's besides the point. What if, say, I want my infantrymen to pursue or position themselves favorably against a retreating squad that I have a chance to wipe, and they auto-target a squad next to them I didn't want them to?

Edit: Oh, I see what you're saying. No, I didn't mean that at all.