Quote Originally Posted by very deadly View Post
Fortunately I hadn't dreamed of spending at the time I was building and doing the research, that only came when porting became necessary to find targets, so I never had the problem of research to consider when going into holiday. If it is an emergency you would have to consider what is more important. Outside of that if you know you will be going away, you would need to consider whether starting the research was the right thing to do anyway.

220 hours does seem abit long though. Training and levelling the intel hero should drastically shorten research times and is fairly easy, although I would imagine you would need an experienced person to advise you from a previous server if you are not that far into the game.

One more thing you can't have before going into holiday mode is pending orders in the market place. The times I have had to go through every city to find the offending city with the market place order sitting there
I agree, I didn't have the benefit of experienced players when I started out, and some the the upper levels of research took forever, by the time I got an intel hero high enough to matter, most of my research was done lol. A day late and a dollar short.