by TinTIm
Could be that we need more experience with the game. To be fair to the game regarding play time, we have young ones to take care of, sometimes constant care so that tends to slow things down when playing. So pauses here and there and often holding them while directing playmates to do actions for you.I still think that 53 round game might be preferable to say 2x27round game, if you have the time. If temple days are only on every half cycle, and feeding still quarter cycle it could rebalance the game towards building tech instead of having the temples be a dominant strategy, which it seems to be in a regular game. Also allowing for a longer game = more fun. And longer-time strategies.
Then again if you usually build almost everything in a regular game, then there is not much point, I agree. We never had that happen yet tho.