They dont look irl style.

The health bars dont look irl style etiher IMO

No one is upset. If Era wants to look like **** I don't think anyone here who is suggesting something helpful really cares.

What's IMO?

In my opinion. (via internets)

Well if only a few people have access to the news updater, they are the only ones who need it, I think blocks should be removed from anyone who is not an Admin, because anyone else has a way to get there message without lagging the GMAP with ugly as hell laggy as hell blocks.

You guys complain whenever staff members don't inform you about minor updates, and when they do, you still complain :rolleyes:

Also, I highly doubt staff blocks are causing any lag for you...

Idea:

Creat some signs?

Signs wouldn't really be useful for temporarily needed messages

I think the lag might be coming from the army of pinecones.

Create miniature bulletin boards that the graphics say NEWS, but instead of having the text over it, make it a sign that players can touch. It would be created just like a staff-block.

This, along with proper placement(not in the middle of a damn street) would be a huge improvement and just as easily done.

Make the staffblocks invisible! yay.

The load of the image of staff blocks does lag. It used to cause horrid lag on my old pc, and it still causes some on my new pc which is top of the line fallout 3 ultra graphics setting. Seriously its not hard to even just do an invisible npc with drawunderplayer for the blocks..

I have a question for you. Where are all these staff blocks that you're complaining about? There's one on top of the weapon shop which just tells you where to send in your graphics to get uploaded and the format in which to do it in.

Walk around the more secluded areas no one goes to that often.