Quote Originally Posted by Foz
Sure it could be done, but why should it be a feature? I don't hear people complain that football games should be able to have extra quarters, or baseball should be 15 innings instead of 9. Games have rules people, and those rules are not meant to be changed. They are what give meaning to the game, define the game. If you mess with those rules very much, soon a win becomes meaningless, because you've changed things enough that your win isn't the same as anyone else's win.

Changing the amount of time a turn takes does change how the game plays, and so I agree with the developers on this one: it belongs in the world of modding, and decidedly not as a potentially confusing feature of the vanilla game.
I'm not so sure about the whole "rules" thing, but I'm inclined to agree with the intent there Foz. CA makes a game and designs it a certain way, "balances" it a certain way. Throwing more options into the mix means more balancing, which they may not have time to look seriously at, and it's more work they have to do afterwards if/when people complain. Relegating this to the modding world makes it easier on CA as they have less to fart around with, and people can change that aspect of the game as they personally choose.