[Joe Forster/STA]

Hi Ghosthacker,

Thank you for your answer very much. However, your "no amount of pleading and begging on the forums will make it happen quicker" sentence is _exactly_ what I was thinking and what my second request would be aimed at.

It annoys me quite a lot that a "reasonable amount of" posts are requests that fall into the category you mentioned and I quoted above. In other words, the signal/noise ratio is getting too low which results in reading too many redundant posts, thus wasting too much time with checking out posts, trying to help people whose problem _is_ genuine and deserves help.

I'm not saying that requesting no-CD patches, trainers and other stuff should be banned completely on the forum - as it is great to be able to request stuff for _really_ old games here! - but some restrictions should be made and those restrictions properly described in the forum rules so that everyone - who reads them at all - may clearly understand them. I have no concrete ideas about this at the moment, though... Thanks for listening,

Joe