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My game takes a long time to load the "messages" when I open it up. At first, I thought it was referring to the messages I receive as a GM (trade offers, scouting reports, etc.) so I went through and whittled all that down so that I only have messages from the current year I'm playing. But it was still taking just as long to load.

Then I went to the "League News" and found over 1800 messages in there since the league's inception three years ago. Unfortunately, I don't see a quick and easy way to delete them in-game.

Am I missing something? Is there a good way in-game to cleanup these old "League News" messages, or am I better off deleting the files directly off the computer. I found an old thread that said you should delete everything in the "messages" folder and then delete messages.dat, but I don't want to delete ALL the news stories - just the ones from previous years. Has anyone tackled this problem and come up with an ideal solution?

Thanks!