I thought I'd post it in the case that others were wondering too. I didn't check this for double signs, so just take it as an estimate. I leave it to Alex to do the "official count".
I thought I'd post it in the case that others were wondering too. I didn't check this for double signs, so just take it as an estimate. I leave it to Alex to do the "official count".
Your count was certainly close, MissSpica; although the official count is indeed 612, there were eight double-signatures that I caught, excluding the ones that were back-to-back. Most of the duplicates came from people whose signatures were in the 400's on the main page. I apologize for not updating the official count more quickly, but I generally like to do large updates, and the move to the CAW forum (from the Mac forum) has made those large updates a bit less frequent.
I'd like to ask everyone to do one thing before they sign from now on: In your browser, hit Command/Apple+F (Control+F under Windows,) and in the search box, type your name to see if it shows up on the most recent list of signatures in my most recent post. If it doesn't show up there, please repeat the process on the first page of this petition. If it still doesn't show up there, please sign as you normally would, if it does show up, please don't write "signed" at the top of your post a second time. Thank you for your understanding.
Has anyone tried e-mailing or even calling the headquarters, and simply asking if they will? And also telling them that there are about 600 signatures right on this thread?
Others have supposedly called and gotten non-answer answers from EA; usually "well forward your request to the development team," or something along those lines. Nothing credible has been stated though that can be backed up with additional confirmation.
In the past I asked people to write letters as well, and I'd like to reiterate that. One e-mail is generally worth a thousand petition signatures, one typewritten letter is generally worth a thousand e-mails; one handwritten letter is usually worth a few hundred typewritten letters. I would encourage handwritten letters from everyone possible. If you have bad handwriting, write the letter by hand anyway, and then attach a typewritten copy with a note that says something like "my handwriting is so bad that I'm attaching a typewritten copy of this letter as well." That little bit of extra work can really go a long way, it shows that you
put additional effort into your letter, and believe it or not, that makes a huge difference in the value of your letter. A few hundred really well thought-out, adult, hand written letters to EA would be far more effective then this petition is on its own. Again, I hate to point to EA's competition, but look at what King's Quest fans did to get their fan-game released. They hand wrote letters to Activision, and it actually got Activision to change their stance on that fan-made game. While petition signatures are great, what we really need now are some well thought-out handwritten letters that are sent to EA as well. A few of those would be instrumentally helpful to our cause.
None yet, Gcrssmn, but as soon as I hear anything, I'll definitely let you and everyone else know. As I noted above, we really need to push beyond the petition; new signatures are great, but we really need intelligent letters sent to EA as well. I always felt that this petition would be "step one," with "step two" consisting of intelligently written letters. Like you I was a PC user who switched to a Mac; I skipped TS2 though because I simply couldn't afford the game on two systems, (I had half Windows/half OS X computers at the time,) and didn't want to pour anymore money into Windows software at the time. When EA started messing around with SecuROM and not releasing each EP/SP for WIN/MAC, that's when I stopped thinking about buying TS2. I did by several variations of the TS1 base game though, (e.g. Deluxe, the Mac complete collection, etc.,) as well as the EPs. Naturally, I thought that TS3 was going to be fully WIN/MAC compatible, including all add-on tools, so I'm a bit annoyed that the game is A) inside of a Cider wrapper, rather then coded natively for OS X, and lacking CAW inside of the same Cider wrapper.
I'm glad to see continued support for this petition though, and would like to thank everyone whose signed so far.
I don't remember if I signed this or not. I may have, but my name's not on the signature page. That's probably because I didn't have any other posts at the time, though now I do have a post under my belt.
I'd love to see this for Mac...I switched over earlier this year, and I'd like the chance to create some worlds too! I hope EA takes notice of this issue soon.
Signed!!! i had a crappy pc that couldnt handle the CAW tool and when i got my mac i was so excited to download till i found out i couldnt. please bring the tool to macs!!
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Signed.
I thought I'd post it in the case that others were wondering too. I didn't check this for double signs, so just take it as an estimate. I leave it to Alex to do the "official count".
556. MrCrumplebottom1
557. spoerke
558. IndigoKitteh
559. susols91
560. Ramon28
561. killerrabbit401
562. Supermaddee
563. Stinalina
564. MelanieSimlish
565. hazardousdevil69
566. Shreddeddreams
567. Me491
568. Butterfly_Kika
569. lilkia89
570. Ravishing202
571. atreyough
572. AHENRICHs
573. ImyBlinky
574. YouMeNYC
575. Tenix33
576. Platt57
577. 101random101
578. Cubby_Michael
579. LP100man
580. LawMyLove
581. cheloo22
582. Cswartz9
583. cutie9676
584. masomulves
585. sxc_princess41
586. dudes10101
587. shelwass
588. easilyamusd987
589. XStormyXDayzX
590. Joffrey1
591. estyle36
592. Sarien
593. melelana
594. xXx_ILY_xXx
595. Simsgirl1707
596. gcrssmn
597. dayumm
598. unqua
599. drema_paige
600. apgshorty6
601. kim213
602. annabananabel
603. differentfromyou07
604. pieater
605. J4M35
606. Tutano
607. CherriesJubilee
608. PlexiglassPrism
609. keyx9y
610. Shannachka
611. Illyianna2005
612. laurenxxosim
I'd like to ask everyone to do one thing before they sign from now on: In your browser, hit Command/Apple+F (Control+F under Windows,) and in the search box, type your name to see if it shows up on the most recent list of signatures in my most recent post. If it doesn't show up there, please repeat the process on the first page of this petition. If it still doesn't show up there, please sign as you normally would, if it does show up, please don't write "signed" at the top of your post a second time. Thank you for your understanding.
Others have supposedly called and gotten non-answer answers from EA; usually "well forward your request to the development team," or something along those lines. Nothing credible has been stated though that can be backed up with additional confirmation.
In the past I asked people to write letters as well, and I'd like to reiterate that. One e-mail is generally worth a thousand petition signatures, one typewritten letter is generally worth a thousand e-mails; one handwritten letter is usually worth a few hundred typewritten letters. I would encourage handwritten letters from everyone possible. If you have bad handwriting, write the letter by hand anyway, and then attach a typewritten copy with a note that says something like "my handwriting is so bad that I'm attaching a typewritten copy of this letter as well." That little bit of extra work can really go a long way, it shows that you
put additional effort into your letter, and believe it or not, that makes a huge difference in the value of your letter. A few hundred really well thought-out, adult, hand written letters to EA would be far more effective then this petition is on its own. Again, I hate to point to EA's competition, but look at what King's Quest fans did to get their fan-game released. They hand wrote letters to Activision, and it actually got Activision to change their stance on that fan-made game. While petition signatures are great, what we really need now are some well thought-out handwritten letters that are sent to EA as well. A few of those would be instrumentally helpful to our cause.
None yet, Gcrssmn, but as soon as I hear anything, I'll definitely let you and everyone else know. As I noted above, we really need to push beyond the petition; new signatures are great, but we really need intelligent letters sent to EA as well. I always felt that this petition would be "step one," with "step two" consisting of intelligently written letters. Like you I was a PC user who switched to a Mac; I skipped TS2 though because I simply couldn't afford the game on two systems, (I had half Windows/half OS X computers at the time,) and didn't want to pour anymore money into Windows software at the time. When EA started messing around with SecuROM and not releasing each EP/SP for WIN/MAC, that's when I stopped thinking about buying TS2. I did by several variations of the TS1 base game though, (e.g. Deluxe, the Mac complete collection, etc.,) as well as the EPs. Naturally, I thought that TS3 was going to be fully WIN/MAC compatible, including all add-on tools, so I'm a bit annoyed that the game is A) inside of a Cider wrapper, rather then coded natively for OS X, and
I'm glad to see continued support for this petition though, and would like to thank everyone whose signed so far.
EA BETTER MAKE IT FOR MACs. :evil:
anyways, count me in. : ]
So, signed.
C'mon EA we'd love to be able to create our own towns too!
Come on EA, it's what you do, it's ALL you do, now do it!