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In most of the turns in a game you dont need the 8/10 min as the time limit gives you, but in the key turns you need it, often you even need more time. So just reducing the time limit isnt an option in my opinion. But there are other ways to get shorter games.

1. Simultaneous turns. Not realistic at the moment, but maybe in the future.

2. Better quick combat. Not realistic at the moment, but maybe in the future.

3. Chess timer that dosent run in combats. By playing fast in the beginning you will have more time in the end. I think this could be a major improvement. Much time is wasted today by people running the clock down or spending 1 to 2 min to double check everything. With this change everybody will end the turn asap, since you never know how much time you will need later. This also means that if you have been fast early you will actually have the time you need in the key turns.

4. Overall timer. A timer that will show how much time each player spent overall. Maybe just revealed after the game. I doubt many players want an image of beeing very slow, so if you can see the actual time spent by each player I think that will motivate many to speed things up.

2 Captain. Call Maretti to Moscow for the championship. 1. He hasn't seen Moscow. 2. He hasn't seen Christmas after the New Year. 3. In the end, he hasn't seen Stinger in person. And Stinger hasn't seen him.

1. Simultaneous turns. Not realistic at the moment, but maybe in the future.

2. Better quick combat. Not realistic at the moment, but maybe in the future.

3. Chess timer that dosent run in combats. By playing fast in the beginning you will have more time in the end. I think this could be a major improvement. Much time is wasted today by people running the clock down or spending 1 to 2 min to double check everything. With this change everybody will end the turn asap, since you never know how much time you will need later. This also means that if you have been fast early you will actually have the time you need in the key turns.

4. Overall timer. A timer that will show how much time each player spent overall. Maybe just revealed after the game. I doubt many players want an image of beeing very slow, so if you can see the actual time spent by each player I think that will motivate many to speed things up.

What about Moscow and Stinger? Maretti didn't even come to Kyiv for Euro 2012 :)
even though I invited him.

If you communicate with him easily, it would be better to help him set up a stream. Because the quality is terrible through TeamViewer, and there are lags :( . Plus, the ability to watch a recording of a strong player's game is a huge plus.

I communicate easily, but I can't help with things I don't know myself :)))
I don't know what a stream is and how to set it up. :)

I only watched one video – I accidentally clicked on a Seven's game – it was awful. 4 minutes of video, and more than 2 minutes of it showed how to turn on the music and navigate Seven's computer – I didn't even get to the heroes :)))
Is it impossible to make a quality video in streams? At least by cutting out the unnecessary parts that are not related to the game...

Question: Do you feel like you don't have enough time to play or to think things through?

I watched a stream and saw something interesting there.
At the beginning, there's a vantage point just a few steps away, visible right from the start.
Turn: Timer at 10:00.
A hero is purchased and takes a couple of steps towards the vantage point.
Then, there's almost FIVE minutes of frantic map scrolling!
The second hero runs to the left side at 5:14.
The third hero runs in another direction at 4:01.
The fourth hero appears by the three-minute mark. In one turn, besides two groups taken by the first hero, nothing else was acquired. The moves of all four heroes were in straight lines in different directions. Question: Do you need 10 minutes for the game or for slow thinking?

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