I enjoy the images in the game and I rarely ever have any lag issues at all when I am at home on my laptop.

Now on my cell it is a total different story.
It takes forever to load any page, which can be attributed to my cell phone, my cell companies crap coverage and also the amount of information that is sent.

I think the best way to alleviate the problems on the cell would be to have a bare minimum page view but on my laptop it is not needed.
It would be cool to have it as an app for my cell as opposed to having it as an option because I really would not want to switch it off when I was on my cell and switch the option back on when I was on my laptop.
Maybe if the server pinged my connection and based on the result either allowed images or did not automatically.
Like if I ping 65 or under send images, 66 and higher no images.

We use compression techniques at the expense of the server cpu in order to reduce amount transmitted. This means that your cell phone (and any pc, so called client) only transmits what is really necessary for you to play.

If you read my earlier post, I analyze what you experience and what needs to be done from your side.
An solution for mobiles given by us, is withing our planning. You need to know though that such implementations need time. Especially speaking when we already have more than enough other implementations in priority. Add to this the time we dedicate every day to game maintenance and game administration and you will get the full picture.

What we have decided for these and the simulator pics, is to optimize the images and way it is loaded.

Zorg wrote: Especially speaking when we already have more than enough other implementations in priority.

With this being said, I do not understand the reason the images were implemented in the first place. You say there are far more pressing issues to implement - then why put images in fleet screen? This was not broken before and I do not recall this being in the "must fix" thread.

I still think that the images need to be removed or give the player-base the ability to remove them in options.

Torgard wrote:

Zorg wrote: Especially speaking when we already have more than enough other implementations in priority.

With this being said, I do not understand the reason the images were implemented in the first place. You say there are far more pressing issues to implement - then why put images in fleet screen? This was not broken before and I do not recall this being in the "must fix" thread.

I still think that the images need to be removed or give the player-base the ability to remove them in options.

It wouldn't hurt to read my posts earlier:

Zorg wrote:Regarding your suggestion, I won't disapprove it as we are always in favor of adding options. It should remain open till the next update on menu/graphics. We can incorporate this under a more general option for people who have old systems or simply want less bandwidth. It definitely cannot be forwarded right now as there are other far more pressing matters that have a really high priority.

Furthermore, this is not "broken" issue as you claim. These images were added there as part of a graphical update that took place in June 2011, alongside with the graphical update of the battle reports.

As I say in the quote above, what is to be implemented (still undecided, thus why the topic brings no Approved tag) is an option to turn them off for people that want this and not a complete removal.