oh shit! That's brutal!

Wow.  Can there be an option for amount of time left to finish your turn after the first player has finished their turn please, for example 10 seconds then multiples of 5 seconds to 60 seconds and also an unlimited option if everyone agrees to it?  *Especially* for co-op games.

Also, a very visible countdown timer so we know where we are at please?

Best regards,
Steven.

... that explains so much.  That perfectly jives with my experience playing multi, except that I'm on the fast end.  This is completely the wrong way to do a multiplayer turn timer for a strategy game.  Actions are not distributed evenly across turns, and some strategies have different timings that require their player input on different turns than other strategies.  And we're not even talking major differences in strategy, here; even a turn's difference in strategic timing makes this turn timer system ridiculous.

Agreed, it's very poor design, making the games too hectic and with possibilities to purposefully annoy other players Hopefully there will be options to choose a set time limit in the future.

Currently, the 10 seconds is ok, but thats only because you can't save/load a game.  Just need an option for the next patch for between 10secs-1min, or no timer at all.

The good thing about when you press end turn, is that you can STILL do stuff, search around your towns, look at kingdom reports.  Most games have you staring at a picture after you press end turn, and i am grateful that is NOT the case here.