Need to allow users to turn off chat

This is a fun city builder with a lot of depth. But PLEASE give us a way to turn off chat. The game is a resource hog anyway, and constantly using the Internet to keep the chat box up to date only makes that worse. Usually I open the game and am greeted with 2-3 users arguing and cursing each other. Not exactly a great user experience. You can minimize the chat window but it tends to pop back open and get in the way of gameplay.

Fishhook30605 about ANNO: Build an Empire