[violet] wrote:Just Guy's page taking 16 seconds to load was good motivation.

As a dial-up/mobile user... It took me 2 minutes to load that page.

I voted against it, because now I have an extra image to load in my nation's page. Ms. Harper is neutral with the resolution concerned, but feels that the rationale for the resolution is a bit too small for consideration. And too small it is. Flags were not the only thing I've tried to optimized in ...

Bears Armed wrote:I think that the player who produced the new set of links happens to be Spanish...

I'm Portuguese. Just made those out of courtesy for my next door neighbors.

Nu Rome wrote:I'm just proud of my old Italian flag. The new one kinda sucks... I like the old vibrant shades.

Your government did that (PDF link). But I'll telegram you later a link to a silky flag with your colors.

Good evening everyone. It's nice to see that you are all enjoying the new flags. The flag bundle that I provided (supposedly) has: ⋅ Every current country (tried to dodge all the states with controversy / limited recognition, with the exception of Kosovo... because I liked the flag) ⋅...

Also the resolution is just factually wrong, Tiago had the flags made for another project (I think), so he didn't bravely volunteered to recast them --at least not for our sake-- he just generously donated them to us. The flags were a "Duke Nukem Forever"-like work specially made for Nati...

Which ordered list are you referring to? The ordered list code provided in the quick button: [list=][/list] Violet, I have been making a collection of PNG flags with exactly 107px width. They're taken from vectorial sources and highly compressed. Their byte-count is much lower than the current JPEG...

dial up needs to be banned, it slows down the whole network I don't think you know how "the whole network" works. South Korea successfully eliminated dial up, they enjoy connection speeds of about 61mb/s You can eliminate what ever you want and spread fiber optical lines and wireless tech...

I access NationStates via dial-up and normally with a text-browser (with image support in X), so I'm usually immune to almost anything you can throw at me. The only thing that matters right now is the byte-count. ⋅ PNG optipng -preserve -zc1-9 -zm1-9 -zs0-3 -f0-5 *.png OptiPNG 0.6.4: Advan...