It's weird how one can watch pretty much everything on the mission screen getting downloaded on the fly, after every client restart. Especially images that are always used, like mission type symbols or mission tags.

Several months ago, when my internet was 2mbit downstream, it took more than ten minutes to download all those images, and some would simply fail to load.

Maybe use the main screen crusader portraits, scaled up, until the mission screen portraits have been downloaded? Or Store those in the client too?