Okay, It seems I messed everything up when I said an hour goes by in like, 10 minutes. An hour will still take a while, but you could go say, send a unit from London to Dublin, go afk for about thirty minutes, come back and that unit be half way there. 4x speed is really, really fast, you could probably research a light tank in just under a couple hours. In all reality there has to be more speed games for the players that want to play a CoW game in just one sitting (maybe the Premium people can make them if they want to) that would be generated with all the other maps. Idk, That is just my two cents on this 'issue'.
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