Implementing this would add very little to the game despite what people think. For one any sense of accomplishment is negated by the fact that the person going first is going to win about 80% of the time between two equally strong players because that’s how big the first move advantage is, so if you are actually trying to figure out who is better you’d have to either play an even number of matches with rotating starts until one person wins by two, which could take a stupid amount of time if the two players are equally strong, or you’d have to put some other arbitary tiebreaker that is likely to be unfair and just going to lead to the loser always complaining (for example, amount of damage done). The time of the matches themselves would be open to abuse for anyone who is losing via stalling tactics if you give any reasonable amount of time for strategy, and if you give people only 10 seconds per turn you might as well have AI play for both players. 10 seconds per turn would make it hard for a player to even select the target for Magnetic Field before the timer runs out. It probably doesn’t harm the game to have it, but it’s not going to be anywhere as useful as people think.
And the community wonders why the forum community is so small and niche. Tsk.
Maybe it’s because these forums see at least 50 spam threads every day? Can’t be that, it must be that obnoxious elitist userbase spearheaded by locked. 