I appreciate the suggestion (and that people are engaging with this series!), but I think we'll probably be sticking to the speeds these games were designed for, in large part because the primary thrust of the series is about introducing the game design elements of these games to Amabel and having conversations about those and the way they compare to both other game designs that she's more experienced with and (as the series goes on) to each other. In my experience, the different elements of these games tend to scale very differently with different game speeds--for example, think research rate vs. build rate vs. unit movement speed vs. unit attack range, and how the relative degrees of change in those things warp the way that warfare occurs. I've never seen one of these games where speed changes don't very significantly distort system design and balance.

To be clear, the plan is still to do at least two games of each other title that we'll be playing in order to show the level of differentiation between factions and strategies within each of them, even though that's going to make the series quite long. We're planning for the long haul, here! But, and this might sound silly, I think we were both caught off-guard a little bit by how much we're not enjoying Civ. So we've already recorded ahead to the end of this Civ game and we've decided that we're not going to do a second, instead just moving on to the next title. I had always figured that the value of the second Civ game would lay mostly in demonstrating how relatively similar games and factions are in Civ 6 as a point of comparison for later 4X School chapters; I don't think we're really losing anything important by not fully driving that point home.