time to complete a settlement like mughal settlement = 5 months or 6.
time to complete AF and OF + SCarrier = the same amount of time I think
now the question for innogames: why have you given an useless bonus like "extra special goods" when FoE was designed to be played for years? why do you want to have players rushing through the ages if at the end those players will have nothing to do related to ages?
I already published tons of new bonus ideas for GBuilding, other players too and you don't want to listen to us! , why?! what have we done to you Innogames? what have we done to you?! :/ you hate us so much ? why? :/ can't understand it! :/
Well to be fair, the vast majority of things you ask for, I personally feel would make the game drastically worse. I'd take a useless GB I'll never build over many of them
It's not so simple as just listening to the players. Players often have a very narrow field of view (only what they want now, not what others want, and not longterm consequences). I can certainly think of things I wished for in the game or was excited for at release that later on down the line I wish hadn't come to pass.
Players are good at identifying problems - if you're irritated, not having fun, or burning out that is honest feedback no-one can take away from you. Not so good at coming up with the right way to solve them. You can come up with theories as to why you're not happy and those may have some merit (but what you think is the problem may just be the final straw in a pyramid of problems). You can propose solutions, but there's a good chance those are way off the mark - not taking into account other perspectives, and may not even solve the problem you think you see or cause even worse ones. Game design is hard.
Of course it's not like inno has much of a track record in recent years to go on as for "getting it right". And it's not impossible their internal plans might be that longterm players don't matter and all they need to churn out is chum for new players that will entice them to spend. So they may quite literally not care to do more than the minimum to keep the uproar amongst longterm players to a manageable level. Under this theory the most copy-and-paste of recent eras makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately.