Yes, there are ways of avoiding the problem. This thread is (trying) to discuss ways of addressing the problem.

What problem? Another freemium complaining that he can't take his turns soon enough? "I'd rather play 4 games efficiently." blah - what a joke. I can play 50+ games efficiently if I ...

Why don't we just archive the old Classic games and then just not not have any Classic map at all? We have other sufficient maps to use and, really, classic shapes and art aren't any fun... So if Hasbro says we can't use Classic, then we won't, we'll just continue with our other 100 maps. Why do we ...

Perhaps something to do with when someone is online - but that wouldn't show what you are desiring - as if you are only online for 30 minutes a day - then your time taken would be short...

Perhaps then - a conglomeration of the two...

i.e. something like Percentage of time online - Speed of ...

Shouldn't matter to players who have premium and can play as many games as they want. They'll have constant turns. Only really affects freemium's like you, and there's no incentive to make buying premium less appealing to the freeloaders.

I disagree. I'm not really interested in playing 15 games ...

As has been said before - this stat is unfair as it depends on your opponents. - I'm from the UK - so my playing hours are between 8AM - 10PM GMT/BST.

If I play someone who plays once a day at 10:30 PM GMT - then my average time against that person will be 8 hours.

Also - if I play someone who is ...

Concise description:

⋅  Many players take most of their turns, but only check in once a day. Others also take most of their turns but do it very quickly after they are alerted by e-mail. Enter a game with the first type of player and the game drags on. Play with the second, and it flys ...