Please, Please, Please remove the 'National Chat'.
As a proper Nerd/programmer I am sure you have a Quad-core PC overclocked to 4 GHz and with hardwired DirectX 10 built into the graphics card.
Alas, I do not have anything like that. On my single core 2 GHz PC that do most of the Graphics in the CPU, pages loads are pretty slow with links jumping around for quite a while as the next display component loads. And that is WITHOUT a Chat to add further demands to bandwidth, CPU capacity and display.
Please make the chat an option. So those who can handle it can choose to have it on every page, and so those who cannot handle it can at least enjoy a somewhat more responsive chat-free game.
regards Angua Whisper