@OP you  said this 

Also, Why do I have to play the game for ours on end to barely make any progress.  Im cool with a game being different but why is it close to impossible to do anything without having to spend money 

So  I  say back   at you  have you ever played  any  MMOs ?    I  mean I play many of the  top  MMOs  RPG

I  pay once for game  maybe make a  few  micro transactions  in game and  play   for hrs.....and  hrs.....and hrs   grinding my   way to success

all entertainment.  I  am confused  at what I  am missing here  from your  statement - clarify please .

May I add  and  call out all other  CCs  and  players  who complain  about  time =   DO  YOU  PLAY  MMOs?????

Farmvilled was my downfall.  I played 8-10 hours per day and rarely spent any money.  It was the game and community combined that hooked me.  

@OP you  said this 

Also, Why do I have to play the game for ours on end to barely make any progress.  Im cool with a game being different but why is it close to impossible to do anything without having to spend money 

So  I  say back   at you  have you ever played  any  MMOs ?    I  mean I play many of the  top  MMOs  RPG

I  pay once for game  maybe make a  few  micro transactions  in game and  play   for hrs.....and  hrs.....and hrs   grinding my   way to success

all entertainment.  I  am confused  at what I  am missing here  from your  statement - clarify please .

May I add  and  call out all other  CCs  and  players  who complain  about  time =   DO  YOU  PLAY  MMOs?????

The issue is everything they add here is a bigger and bigger time-sink, and it perpetually takes longer just to get dailys done.

You and I are fine with it; in fact I like that it keeps me occupied much of the day, but for people with less free time than us it's a problem. In fact, it's a discouragement. If you know you aren't gonna have enough time to get your dailies done, it's a disincentive to even start.

They really need to add in QB for grinding content. Faction wars hard for instance, Almost every level I've cleared I can do full-auto with 100% success rate, but most take more than 5 minutes,  some of them take upwards of 15 minutes.

Doom tower: ~ 10-15 minutes to climb the floors each day, and another 15-20 to grind silver keys on the boss. No good reason at all to dump half an hour every day into what could and should be 2 minutes of QB

Multi-battles and background battles are helpful, sure, but there's no reason at all they shouldn't just be QBs instead.

The biggest problem is that you aren't even playing for the most part. If all the other nonsense content was autocompleted, I could actually spend some time in areas like grim forest or sintranos, but since I have to waste hours on dungeons or etc, I just have no time to use it in areas that are interesting.

Respect  out  the gate  here  and  its  a  thing  =  How  does  Plarium  please  ALL  players  all  the time  -  They cannot!

I  really  enjoy  sinking  my  teeth  into  a 40  minute secession  of  Grim Forest  -  I  LOVE  IT  and  wish  I  could do  more

I do  not  know  the  complete  answer  to  the  problem  but  I  want  more  RAID  so  I  do  not  go  play  other  video games  the other  10hrs  of  my  day

I  suppose  the answer  is  CHILL  the  F out  to   those who  cannot  play  24/7  and  just accept  you  are  playing  a MMO!!!!  =  You cannot  WIN!  thats  not the point  -  the  point is to  play/enjoy/improve your account/ long term

What  I  will say  is  Raid  has  done a very  fine  job  at  pleasing  the  masses  (IN  general).  I  mean  its  a game  that  allows  all  types  of  players  to  play  THEIR  WAY!.  Only  when  they  try  to  play  Raid  outside of their comfort  zone do  we start  listening  to  H8ers  :(((((

I  keep  looking  for  a  good  farmville  type  MMO  game  to  grow  goods   and  sell  them  and build  things.  Also  a good  city  builder .  If  only  EA  would  release  Build it  for  PC   instead  of  having  to  use  bluestacks  I  would  give  it  a try also

The issue is everything they add here is a bigger and bigger time-sink, and it perpetually takes longer just to get dailys done.

You and I are fine with it; in fact I like that it keeps me occupied much of the day, but for people with less free time than us it's a problem. In fact, it's a discouragement. If you know you aren't gonna have enough time to get your dailies done, it's a disincentive to even start.

They really need to add in QB for grinding content. Faction wars hard for instance, Almost every level I've cleared I can do full-auto with 100% success rate, but most take more than 5 minutes,  some of them take upwards of 15 minutes.

Doom tower: ~ 10-15 minutes to climb the floors each day, and another 15-20 to grind silver keys on the boss. No good reason at all to dump half an hour every day into what could and should be 2 minutes of QB

Multi-battles and background battles are helpful, sure, but there's no reason at all they shouldn't just be QBs instead.

The biggest problem is that you aren't even playing for the most part. If all the other nonsense content was autocompleted, I could actually spend some time in areas like grim forest or sintranos, but since I have to waste hours on dungeons or etc, I just have no time to use it in areas that are interesting.

You dont enjoy "playing" the game for an hour while it auto farms a useless gear dungeon for a fusion? 

I  DO!    Let  me  explain  and  its  why  I  tell  my  friends  who  are  getting  up  there  in  years  and  like  video games  (hey come play Raid  its  an  old  mans  game).  Meaning  not  some stressful  white knuckle  MMO  PVP  shoooter  (which  is  what  I  played  in  my  late  20s ito early 30s)

I  do  enjoy  farming  with  auto  battles   to  complete  a task.  Since  I play  on  PC  ONLY well  I  set  up  my mutli  battles and  close  down  the screen  to  task  bar  and  then  bring  up  YouTube  of  which  I  do  my  own  thing  and  watch  videos/news  otherwise.  I  come  back 1 hr later  and  collect  the rewards.  

No  white knuckle swetty palms holding  a controller.  Just  chill  gaming  and  improving  my  account. 

Same  with  doom  Tower /  but  I  do  enjoy  the balance  of spending  time playing  Cursed city and Grim forest

Here  is  my  thing  if  you  all  want  to  sim  everything  in Raid  then  the  size  of  this  game  needs  to  triple  so  it  will  take  6  hrs  to  sim  everything   :P

Kidding aside, I think you might really enjoy playing multiple alts.

Too late now I suppose, but you should join a cc ftp challenge (did they even do one this year? I don't usually follow them, just look for specific info)