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Random is random, no compensations. As for your suggestions, they are not bad (as most aren't) but this is the bugs forum, not the suggestions forum. Also, it was already said that this is not a bug, but a random occurrence (or bad luck, whatever you call it).

Expanding the arena is always a slow and costly matter. Whether you expand it by 1 seat or by 1000, the constructors still need to bring all of the necessary machinery and materials, which takes time, of course. We could have reflected this with the price too, but decided the time factor is enough. You get an estimate and the rest is random or luck.

While we are trying to make Utopia as competitive as possible, giving everyone the same starting conditions would mean something completely different. For example, everyone should have the same starting players too, then. We don't want to make Utopia teams completely different from other teams, otherwise we would have taken a different approach on many other things too. Conditions vary a little, just like real life or the rest of BB, it's up to you how you make the best of them.

I'm not asking for you to give away the formulas of how much randomness this could involve, but I am curious at this point if my arena is stuck or if the amount of randomness in the arena building is far greater than I had thought.

I ordered a 50 seat increase in the lower tier seven days ago now. The estimated time on that was 6 days, so of course the fact that it's not complete now is slightly unfortunate but not unreasonable. However, in seven days, the estimated time has only dropped from 6 to 4 days, which means that not only am I not near getting one day's work per day, but I'm not even getting a third of the work done per day.

If it is possible that work can proceed that slowly (or even, with sufficiently bad luck, never progress) then I understand it's not a bug, but it's reached the level where I at least feel like it's time to ask about it.

Ironically this is actually very similar to builidning in real life.

Have you ever built a house before? A work mate of mine just had her house finished after 18 months, yet the initial estimate was 6 months. AND after 6 months they told her 3 more months.

so it does happen in real life. A lot.

Ironically this is actually very similar to builidning in real life.

Have you ever built a house before? A work mate of mine just had her house finished after 18 months, yet the initial estimate was 6 months. AND after 6 months they told her 3 more months.

so it does happen in real life. A lot.

Oh, yeah, in real life definitely it happens. But real life has nothing to do with the game design.

I does heavily involve luck. If you're lucky, it will be close to the estimate or a bit over, but never quicker than the estimate. So, the average is somewhere over the estimate, not the estimate itself.