Inno, you have players in beta, Mooingcat, Uber come to mind, both well respected, game savvy and don't mind a challenge. Why can't you have them take a look at these new Rival quests and get their opinion before you launch this impossible or money grab stuff on the beta community. Many beta players, come to see the next event, offer input to help fix things before it goes live. We work together. To introduce a questline that requires crazy costs, NO BUENO, NO BUENO at all.
Hat manager AND flowers manager to L4, both? not an OR? and we would never want to take them to L4, never needed for any town,
Cake AND Drink managers to L4, both? (see above for hat/flower)
I haven't even looked close at the "time skip" quests I saw above. I may not bother spending the time, skip the comment, think others will chime in.
You introduce 3 new tools, time skip, swift-sham (stupid name btw, sounds like card game scam), and quick promotion, then you make us use them when they make no sense at all, ie I started a town, do 4 tasks, "Oh great, seems like Rivals will be ok", then "Use any 2 Time Skips 2 times for instant Shamrocks and speed up your progress" pls add....so we can take all your pots of gold and you can get some lovely L1 trees and an upgrade kit of a building from last year.