regarding the battle time – there's an idea not to add seconds, but simply make it run slower than the time on the map. for example, twice as slow. I had a similar idea for World Tournament once, but didn't get around to it. still, 90% of battles are a tedious routine that just needs to be clicked through without much thought. Added 2 minutes later

The WT timer doesn't take into account the different game situations for different players. Some have to fight a horde of a hundred zombies with master gremlins in hand-to-hand combat with a lot of maneuvers in the early days, while others just need to poke them a few times with troglodytes.

The random map generator doesn't take into account the different situations for different players. Some have a horde of zombies on the way to the secondary resource, while others have a group of snipers.