Howdy guys, Bachus here--

I humbly accept your requests to draft this formal petition to CA. I think it is a tad bit early to collect signatures since we don't have a final product to sign-- but this outpouring of support shows me that my efforts in drafting the petition will be supported by the community at large--and it spurs me on to action.

Prom, thanks for the input on priorities--I will consider it closely.

For those of you who dont know (and I'm not trying to brag), I am an attorney in real life so I have some experience in writing what we call "demand letters" that ask for action to be taken to resolve problems.

Zeus, it is very important that we don't go off "half-cocked" so before we formalize the petition and submit the final draft for final signatures, I think we should have a solid plan--which is something we are missing so far (my proposed plan is below).I recognize your passion for the game, but I think so far you have moved a little too fast. Lets slow it down just a tad bit and make it clear this is a community wide effort--make sure the final petition is polished, and then and only then, send it to CA.

Also, Elmo (Elmarko) has some connections at the .com since he used to admin there--and we should be able to get someting directly to the .com "Shogun"--which is where I suggest we send our petition once we are done. We might also send it to Activision and to CA. I can find business addresses for CA's president and Activisions president and we can even send it to them too! But it has to be 100% polished before we do, so here is my plan:

PLAN FOR SUBMITTING PETITION TO CA/ACTIVISION:

1) By Tomorrow Oct. 8th I will have a full formal draft of the petition, and I will post it in a new thread entitled "Formal Petition to Developers of RTW from the Community".

2) at the same time we send out a squad of volunteers (lead by Zeus) to go around to all the clansites and tell them about the petition and ask them to sign it.

3) It will be open for signature for 5 days

4) If there are people who "signed" this current thread who forget to sign the final formal petition, we will also add their names to the final formal petition since they all know this is not the complete draft and by signing this they are consenting to adding their names to the final draft.

5) Then we will submit the final formal petition to:

A) The "Shogun" at the .com
B) CA customer support, via email
C) Activision customer support, via email
D) The president of CA, via regular mail
E) The president of Activision, via regular mail

I will even throw in a bonus-- in the regular mail petitions I will send this on my firm letterhead so it WILL get opened and it WILL get read by the presidents of both companies! I can not represent the "community" as an attorney, but the letterhead will get their attention.

So-- to all of you who have concerns about moving too quickly (or moving too slowly) let me assure you that by the end of next week we will have a well drafted, polished, formal petition signed by the community at large sent directly to the presidents of both companies on attorney letterhead!

Thanks for all your support in this, and thanks to Zeus for spurring us all to action.