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Have a few of my own things that I have suggested in the past that I want to include on that list. Will spell out later.
For the moment, I wanted to clear up your misconception of the job timing issue. There are two sets of job times that people have:
3 mins
15 mins
1 hr
4 hrs
AND
3 mins
30 mins
2 hrs
10 hrs
I live in New York and have the 4 hour version. My own investigating (through asking about 50 or so players) seems to indicate that most players in fact have the 4 hr version, but it's a pretty close split. What version you get has NOTHING to do with where you live. My girlfriend, who I live with, has the 4 hr version, but my sister (who lives one town away) has the 10 hr version.
I must admit, these two sets of times have me baffled. It may be the only thing about this game that I have not figured out. Originally I thought it was linked to WHEN you registered, but asking around proves this not to be the case. I do think originally everybody got the 10 hr feature (as early posts from this forum dating to late Nov almost exclusively address the 10 hr version), but this changed some time ago.
It may be linked to the device you use. For instance, my brother and sister have the 10 hr version and use I-touch. My girlfriend and I have the 4 hr version and use I-phone 4S.
Hard to imagine a purposeful random assignment. IMHO, this is the worst inconsistency in the game.